The problem everything is rendering completely white. When using IBL lights.

Here is a sample image of what I'm talking about, I'll make another post showing my render settings.

If you guys could help me in fixing whatever the problem is I would be most grateful.

Here are the render settings.

you should not use more IBl lights.

tell us what lights you are using

 The render settings doesn't show up?

Could it be that the image is missing on the IBL? So there's no picture to derive the intensity ect from?

Could you please post a screenshot of the material room with the IBL light selected?

Sure I'll post a screen shot of the material room momentarily. both advanced and basic.

The lights I'm using are the City lights 2 from Tabala's free IBL lights here in the Renderosity freestuff.

Quote - Matroom advanced

That is a screen shot of the skin, they would need a screen shot of the light in the material room :m_wink:

In your render settings under options you have shadows only checkmarked. Try unchecking that . 

 laz_61 hit the head on the nail! (or the nail on the head.. as long as you don't hit your nail on your finger...) 

You're making a shadowpass here. With ONLY the shadows and nothing else.

Oh Ok, thanks I'll try unchecking that. I thought checking that meant it would render the shadows too, not just shadows only.

Thanks a bunch guys.

Quote - Oh Ok, thanks I'll try unchecking that. I thought checking that meant it would render the shadows too, not just shadows only.

Thanks a bunch guys.

shadows only.............only  : )

I would also recommend not using 'Texture Filtering'. This generally blurs the fine detail in textures like skin and fabrics.

And you can uncheck the "Smooth Polygons".  All it does is increase your render time with the chance of distorting the figure.

Drop your Raytrace bounces to 2, decrease your Min Shading rate to 0.2 - 0.3.  You can also uncheck the remove backfacing polys; for your image it is not required.  Then show us your result to determine if IBL is still an issue.

What is the intensity of the IBL?  I set mine at 40% or less.

Cheers,

Rod

Quote - What is the intensity of the IBL?  I set mine at 40% or less.

Cheers,

Rod

The answer means nothing unless you're both talking about the same IBL image. A night-time IBL image at 100% will be 10 times darker than a sunny beach IBL at 10%.

Quote - Drop your Raytrace bounces to 2, decrease your Min Shading rate to 0.2 - 0.3.  You can also uncheck the remove backfacing polys; for your image it is not required.  Then show us your result to determine if IBL is still an issue.

IBL is not the issue. It was a shadow only render pass.

Quote - And you can uncheck the "Smooth Polygons".  All it does is increase your render time with the chance of distorting the figure.

That's all it does? Or do you mean to say you find no value in smooth polygons, because you prefer to see the individual polygons in ears and stuff?

p.s. in case nobody mentioned, the shadows-only render is not a total loss.
it may be composited over the nostril-glow (no shadows) render in APS or PSP.

Quote - > Quote - And you can uncheck the "Smooth Polygons".  All it does is increase your render time with the chance of distorting the figure.

That's all it does? Or do you mean to say you find no value in smooth polygons, because you prefer to see the individual polygons in ears and stuff?

THANKS! for a moment I thought I was the only one too ADORE  Smooth Polygons.

If something blows up like a balloon it's because of shoddy modeling OR the fact that the content creator has not bothered to turn off smoothing on the parts. NOT Poser's fault as such. It was never meant for architecture.