Heheh. I've probably already written the material book in this forum. Deecey just needs to go through all of it and assemble it. Which is what Cooper suggested to me.

Here's the first little nugget - read this.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=2974586&ebot_calc_page#message_2974586

I wrote that May 9, 2007. In there is this paragraph:

Quote - A word of warning about Diffuse in Poser - it is NEVER accurate, because it only calculates for photons coming from light sources, direct illumination. It does not include light bouncing or originating from other objects. Better renders do take this into account for diffuse calculations - this is generally called "global illumination" or GI for short. It is the absence of GI that mostly makes Poser renders fail to look completely real. We work around the issue with Image Base Lights, but that's a cheat and only gets you about half way there.

But now, we have Poser 8 and Poser Pro 2010 and .. we have IDL for GI!!!!!

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