Quote - Dammit, I hate refusing.

Not sure if this will help but when the arrow uses the menu for the first time, it's because I'm selecting 'Copy Material' from the Edit menu.  After that, every time I use the menu it's because I'm using 'Paste Material' from the Edit menu.  The plane has a material applied to it that must be used as a base material to work from.

Then when I go into the Materials Lab and change the values it's to ensure their total does not exceed 100.  For example Reflection set to 75 would mean Diffuse/Ambience needs to be reduced to 25 to compensate.  Same rule for transparency, and remember that on transparent objects reflection is controlled by refraction, not reflection.

Diffuse and Ambient colours always need to be the same as each other and for the Sky & Fog settings and any lights you create, shadows need to be black and set to a value of 100.

That just might make the video make a little more sense

Ohhh, now I am beginning to understand the pro rendering secret... And yes, it does make the video a little more sense.  I had tried out a set of robots but am going to re-try them again using this new way of doing things.

I'll post a rendering up here soon.

Thanks!

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OS: Windows 11 64-bit
Poser: Poser 11.3 ...... Units: inches or meters depends on mood
Bryce: Bryce Pro 7.1.074
Image Editing: Corel Paintshop Pro
Renderer: Superfly, Firefly

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