Quote - electronicpakrat: For lights, I'd recommend the "Radiance Pro Light System" (Good lightning, easy to start with) along with the "Unimesh Realism Kit" (Adds skin imperfections, etc) complement each other wonderfully.

Best lights set I have I got out of freestuff years ago. Perhaps as early as 2000. I have no idea though who made it... My recommendation on lights is to go to one of Bryce, Carrara, or Vue. Each of these will do more for rendering and lighting that Poser by a large margin. That said, outside of atmospherics Poser is probably catching up with the lagging Bryce... But it isnt the focus of Poser. > Quote - electronicpakrat: Since it seems to have not been mentioned yet... Arduino's Site - www.arduino.net (Gentalia add-ons)

If you mean 'magic perfect-G, this is the set I was referring to when I noted that many of them work by stretching vertices meant to be elsewhere. I find it looks odd. There is an artist in the gallery who does a fantasy series in a world of 'naked women'. Most of the art in it is well done, but everytime there's a crotch in sight of the camera, it looks unreal... The effect is that I find myself looking at an artist who I think has very good composition, morphing, and other skills, but is getting 'held back' by the limits of the chosen figures. > Quote - Phantast: But in most non-porn nude poses detailed genitalia are not needed, so this discussion may be veering off in an unnecessary direction. Two magnets are all you need.

That is a somewhat dishonest attempt to defeat the argument. You're making the presumption that that part of the body has no place being seen outside of porn. If that was a legitimate argument, the male figures would not need any genitals either. I have said already in here that I am not referring to porn, and now this statement tries to claim that I and those who might agree with me are. I am not, I will say that again. In -any- nude where the pubic region of the body can be seen, haired or not, a texture rendition of the anatomy is obvious for its jarring level of unreality. If you want a very realistic look elsewhere, you need it here as well if for not other reason than to prevent it from becoming a distraction. The present state of affairs in a default millinium figure is that if looks like you are looking at a phot of a woman, but then suddenly you notice she has what looks to be something pasted in from the 'naughty patch' of the 'Sims' game - imagine if it was her arm. If in a phot of a woman all of a suddent her arm was a just a rectangle with a jpeg texture like in a 1996-era video game. If that was done, your eye would be locked on the unreality of that arm, whereas you might not have even noticed it there beforehand. It detracts from the realism elsewhere.

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