Quote - oooo. mysteriously ambiguous.  i guess i can always hope.

here's a question you can answer: have you done anything at larger scales?  like, scaled your scene up 10 or 100 times?  iirc, Poser's small scale makes problems even in Firefly (or any biased renderer).  there was someone once in the eye industry (optometrist?) at RDNA who wanted to make a physically accurate eye.  they never did get refraction to work properly (P5, i think), but scaling helped.  i was wondering if things like your light-based AO issues and such might work better.

Somebody (pjz99?) recently mentioned that Poser recently changed its internal scale so this problem has gone away. I don't know if that's really the case or not. I know I used to scale it up, but I don't bother too much with that anymore and things seem to work. Now I have the opposite problem. I was trying to make reflective ice on a scale of an ice-skating rink. I got wierd little triangular artifacts that I've never seen before.

But I do know that light-based AO works better now. Not perfect, and I still prefer material based, but better. LBAO produces much fiewer artifacts now, but it makes deep crevices too dark and have uneven edges, IMO.

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