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Beautifull, but ... wich configuration ? wich render settings ?

LOL. Denise Tyler asked the same - she was mystified how I did that render so clean and yet so fast. Here was my answer. You may find this info useful when you get SR1.

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You'll laugh when you learn how easy this is.

 

Hide the ground.

 

Load the studio backdrop. Set the Diffuse_Value on it to .7, and Specular_Value = 0 and both parts of it (backdrop and floor). This makes a not-shiny mildly white area to bounce the light around. I moved it towards the camera a bit, so the figure was more in it than in front of it.

 

The only light needed is a spotlight pointing straight down on the figure. Color it white; Red, Green, and Blue all = 1 on the properties panel. Intensity=100%. Angle Start/End is 0/70.

 

On the light Properties, use ray-traced shadows. Shadow Blur Radius = 10. Shadow Samples=40. Shadow Min Bias = .1 inch. (My Poser display units are in inches - check yours.) Falloff set to Constant.

 

If the shadows are too black for you, add a very weak plain white IBL, maybe around 15% intensity.

 

That's it for lighting and environment. Stupid easy, eh? Something like this should be the default lights, not those old Poser 4 colored lights.

 

Now, for render Quality, I had:

 

Cast shadows: On

Raytracing: On

Raytrace bounces: 3
Irradiance caching: 25

Indirect Light: On

Indirect Light Quality: 6

Pixel samples: 8

Min Shading rate: .5

Max bucket size: 32

 

For Render Options, I had:

 

None of the checkboxes.

Post filter size: 3

Post filter type: sinc

Tone Mapping: HSV Exponential

Exposure: 2.00

 

Now if that doesn't produce results like mine, then you probably need to accept the fact that my shaders are different from anything that comes with Poser. If you haven't tried VSS, you should. VSS skin shaders make a difference. There's a dozen tricks buried in it, and the VSS script will take care of everything.

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