Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Which shadow is better? Ray Trace or Depth?

Zanzo opened this issue on Feb 14, 2008 · 120 posts


bagginsbill posted Thu, 14 May 2009 at 10:51 PM

I loaded that into a Poser one-sided square to render it as is.

I loaded a Poser cylinder. I set up a point light at the same orientation as best as I can guess. This matters - moving the light even two inches changes the terminator a little, but drastically changes where the specular reflections are.

Since paper is not perfectly matte, there are specular reflections here.

I set up a material for my virtual paper cylinder as best as I can do.

I lined up the photo and the Poser cylinder and rendered in Poser Pro with GC on.

Here's what I get.

Not exactly the same - the terminator is just a tad softer in the photo. However, it is so subtle, I can't decide if it is because the paper is a little bit translucent or this is the low-light GC issue we're talking about. If the issue is translucence, then I can't really do anything about that in Poser. Not today's Poser. I need SSS.

What do you think?


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