Does anyone know why a character appears flourescent in preview?  I applied a texture with shader mat to V4.2 and it looks like it is radiating light.  Is this normal?  It's hard to see what's going on this way.  Can I adjust lights or anything else to see the character more normally?

Thanks.

Here's what it looks like.

Render the scene and see if it looks normal.  Some textures are set up incorrectly and will give you that radiating look.  Bagginsbill may have a more detailed explanation.  Tone down your lights and render again to see if there are any improvements.

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This,,, maybe?

OK, here is what is happening.  The top screenshot is the preview, and the bottom is the render.  As you can see, it renders fine, but the preview glows.  It's hard to see what's going on and just seems way overdriven.  This seems to be a function of the shader mat applied.

This is Yuka by Subgraphic applied to V4.2

Any ideas?  Is this just something one must live with when using shaders?

Thanks.

It looks like the ambient node to me. But it doesn't look like it's doing anything in the render. Check it in the material room, it should be black.

Ambient node is black for all skin materials, with value of .2

Renders are fine, but am I the only one who gets this luminous preview?

Thanks.

Only have seconds to post before heading to the airport. So here's the basic scoop: A shader can turn white to black, orange to white, any color, brightness, or hue to any other. A good skin shader does considerable toning and such.

Poser preview doesn't implement any of that.  In fact, it doesn't even pay attention to the Diffuse_Value.

Try this - attach a color map - just a color map - to Diffuse_Color. Set Diffuse_Value = 0, Specular_Value = 0. Look at your preview - still see the skin, right? But render and it is totally completely black.

Talk to Smith Micro. The Preview renderer is not honoring 90% of what shader components related to light do. The newer hardware previews can sometimes mimic the patterns, such as Clouds nodes, but they almost completely ignore any tricky stuff related to lighting.

Bagginsbill:

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