I'm back online with a new pc after being off for several months. My old pc won't boot, and everything I had is still on it. All content, bookmarked links, etc.

What I want to know is how to prevent nostril glow in Poser? I know.... been answered here before, but for the life of me I cannot find the thread. Searching turned up nothing....(search features do not like me!)

I know this is a simple thing, but I just can't remember how it's done. I remember someone posting about how to get rid of it, but I just simply can't find it now.

Help? :/

Use Firefly in the render setting.

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Sorry but that's not it. I always use Firefly.

do a search for forum posts by BagginsBill.  He had a way to get rid of it

Thanks, Frank. I'd already tried that, but for some reason got nothing at all. I'll give it another go and see if I have more luck. :)

Are you looking for a specific post or just a hint? Becuase as far as I know, ambient occlusion gets rid of nostril glow, though BB had a huge post involving shadow cam sizes, etc etc. But it was complicated. I just use AO (on the figure OR a light, not both)

-Sarah

Well, had better luck with search this time and found the thread(s). Not a clue as to why it gave me zero results earlier.

Thanks for the reply, elzoejam! I'm afraid I have no idea what ambient occlusion is nor how it's used. Btw, I'm using Poser 5. Can't afford 6 or 7. sniffle

Lower the "shadow min bias" to at least 0.2. Also you could try and experiment with the "shadow map size". Increasing it usually yields better results. Those few things could help.

or if you're really lazy, and the subject is far back enough; go in the material room, find 'nostril', and set to a suitably dark color (works for me...;)

Here you go :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2577132

That's an interesting tutorial from the master.

It's worth noting his last post in that thread from April this year, stating that these days he does not use depth-mapped shadows much, only ray-traced. I've seen other recent posts from him to this effect.

With ray-traced shadows, shadow maps are not created, the shadow cams are (presumably) not used at all, and all you have to worry about is that you have shadows set on any lights that would otherwise shine into the figure's nostrils. Is this about right, in simple terms?

Izi

Nose glow is a symptom of a problem fundamental to depth-mapped shadows, and it's one of many.  Get familiar with ray traced shadows and quit worrying about it, imo depth-mapped shadows are not worth using if you're interested in image quality, just too many things to tweak and fix.  No more artifacts, no more nose glow, no more incorrect shadow blur, etc.

This is how I light anything I render in Poser, sample scene:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrfilelock/download.php?fileid=33527&key=8122

Render at high quality, raytracing on etc.

Alternatively:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1438944

Quote - Alternatively:
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1438944

Ha ha!! I call that thinking outside the light box. Thanks for the giggle!

Have you tried taking your hard disk out of the old computer and putting it your new one, or even buying an inexpensive external case for the hard disk and pull your stuffage off the old drive?

Quote - Have you tried taking your hard disk out of the old computer and putting it your new one, or even buying an inexpensive external case for the hard disk and pull your stuffage off the old drive?

Sounds like an idea, but I'm afraid I wouldn't know how to do that.