Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Monthly reminder - you need to gamma correct your renders

bagginsbill opened this issue on Feb 01, 2009 · 207 posts


bagginsbill posted Sat, 18 April 2009 at 5:48 AM

Quote - Hi all, juste a little stupid question, now i have migrated to poserpro, when i load a texture do i need to to load it with the gamma render setup or with a specified gamma value ?

Thx

Whether you use render Gamma Correction built into Poser Pro or material Gamma Correction as I've been distributing, you have Gamma Correction in either. The important thing is not to have double GC by running GC in both.

Poser Pro's built-in GC will have the advantage of fixing up nearly every material you have that was not designed with GC in mind. However, it will a couple of small disadvantages as well.

* It will anti-GC incoming material such as images, even if those images are data not colors we look at. For example, transparency maps and displacement maps are linear data already. You must instruct Poser not to anti-GC these data sources. However, you don't need to do it for every occurence - just once per source file. It will remember your choices even after starting a new scene. And there is a Python script to help with that, disabling GC on all transmaps and displacement maps in your scene.

I suggest you use the Poser Pro built-in GC at 2.2. I do it all the time now and find it very convenient.


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