Hi Guys, time to pick your collective brains again.

I have been rendering my final images using the full default firefly settings.

However having done a search and read some of the posts I found it appears some of you feel these are really not the way to go.

I realise it is very much "Horses for courses" so I have enclosed below the settings I am currently using and a sample picture which is typical of the sort of thing I am rendering.

Could you please advise me on the best settings to achieve the most realistic image.

I am not concerned about time or resources as I have modified my poser.exe to enable the use of RAM over 2 GIG.

Many Thanks

Marv

On a separate topic, Can you please advise how you reconfigured Poser to take advantage of additional RAM. I have 4 GB RAM and would love to use it with Poser....

FYI, I am using windows XP home edition...

relating to your post, I use Poser 4 rendering option in P6 and am afraid can't be much help... :c(

Thank you

vxg139

Hi mate, with regards to the Memory mod, if you go here:

http://www.stewreo.de/poser/3gb.html

It tells you all about it.

Regards

Marv

render looks very good to me, excepting the ambient is too low and cold, shadows too harsh, artifacts on curtain, et al.

Thanks Miss Nancy, I agree with you on all counts and I appreciate you taking the time to help :o)

However I am really looking for advise on render settings as regards the options in the firefly settings window ;o)

For that sort of scene I wouldn't go above 2048 for texture size, my bucket would be set for 32, displacement ticked if using, raytrace bounce at 3, Minumum shading rate at 0.5, Pixel samples at 5, Post filter at 1 and box!  Shadows and raytracing ticked.

That would be my settings for that type of scene!

Thanks Guys, much appreciated, I'll give them a go ;o)

You can probably turn off Raytracing if there's nothing in the scene that doesn't take advantage of it, that might speed things up a bit as well.

Hehe, I'm not trying to speed things up guys, just want to get the best possible quality render settings :op

Still, if you don't have anything that requires it, Raytracing isn't going to make things better, AFAIK.

Quote - Still, if you don't have anything that requires it, Raytracing isn't going to make things better, AFAIK.

Indeed, no argument there ;o)

ray-tracing will actually make things look better, unless there are no objects or lighting in the scene, or it's a toon render. in addition, cutting back on ray-trace bounces is also a bad idea. they added ray- tracing and alotta other features to poser precisely because P4 renders were the laughing stock of the 3D community.

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