factor opened this issue on Aug 28, 2006 · 34 posts
dbowers22 posted Mon, 28 August 2006 at 12:20 PM
Quote - This ALL helped a LOT!
One last question:
Even if i`ve hided all characters except ONE.... the Render takes a long time with your recommended Settings.
The badest Effect is:
I`ve mimimised Poser while it is rendering. Now i tried to maximise it....and get a "Whitescreen".
Yes, sounds rediculous. But i cant see The workspace anymore.
Because the lightset has 28 lights its rendering the shadowmaps, adds objects etc.
But i wonder if i see the Mainwindow again.... or ..... is Poser hanging????
Has anybody EVER had such "Whitescreen" i talk about???
Thanx People!
Ray
I'm in agreement with the rest. 28 lights is about 26 lights too many. I didn't
catch if you have Poser 6, but if you do, all you really need is one set to
Ambient Occlusion and on set for casting shadows.
I suspect what you have is some old light set that was intended to be used
on Poser 4, and they were trying to fake global illumination with lots of
lights surrounding the character.
Also your texture resolution is a rather odd value. Try setting it to 1024 or 2048 or 4096.
It might not show up in the render, but Poser can deal with it better and it might
speed up your render.
The white screen happens when you minimize Poser while it is doing a render
and then maximize it again. The image will come back as soon as it is finished
rendering the block it is working on and gets ready to render the next block.