Quote - Well it's my understanding that GC in Pro 2010 is just a check box that twiddles the node settings, that's point and click.

It is pretty much point-and-click. That's what makes it worth having.

When Poser 8 loads an image map, it gets gamma-corrected (for accurate display on monitors) which means they become 'non-linear'.  That's not ideal, because all the fancy math shaders that might be applied to the image are 'linear'. Mixing linear with non-linear makes things unpredictable.

 When PoserPro2010 loads an image map, it gets gamma corrected (because Poser uses standard image codecs), but then gets un-corrected. In other words, it is re-linearised. Now everything you work with is completely linear, and it makes setting lighting and designing shaders much simpler and more predictable.  

Quote - I don't mean to be facetious but I get the impression that it's the latest toy and everyone who doesn't buy the toy is lame.....all of a sudden:)

However did we do without it? All the fiddling around with lighting, node values and so on, with numerous test renders each time a change was made, is actually us, the users, getting round the gamma correction thing by trial and error.

It's only since the release of PP2010 that I've abandoned that old way of working so it's all a bit new to me too. Having tried to do GC in Poser 8 I decided it's way too much hassle.

When all's said and done, it's the end result that counts: if you're getting good results without GC, I wouldn't start worrying that you're in any way 'inadequate'. 

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