Zanzo opened this issue on Aug 12, 2009 · 42 posts
pjz99 posted Wed, 12 August 2009 at 12:54 PM
A good point Bagginsbill made early on that may have fallen in the cracks is that, all materials throughout your scene really ought to have their Diffuse_Value setting reduced from 1.0 to something like 0.8. Practically all Poser content has its materials set with Diffuse_Value at 1.0. The reason is that, in the real world, as light bounces off of some material, some of the illumination is absorbed by the material. With Diffuse_Value left at 1.0, the amount of light bounced is too strong and it doesn't fall off with successive bounces as it ought to. With 0.8 or so, it gradually falls off in a more realistic way.
It's tedious to change all your materials settings on everything but it really should be done. This isn't specific to Poser either.