I'm experimenting with environmental light.

This scene uses one IBL in Poser, set to 100% intensity. The image is one of the stock images Poser delivers. Additionally I used one spot with 20% on the figure to get a few highlights. No mangeling done yet with the texture. It's an old one I use sometimes, full with nodes, so it's good for tests here.

What Lux does with environmental light is just fantastic. Rendertime: 3 minutes. Because I reduced the light intensity.

Environmental light works differnt in Poser than in Lux. In Poser we used to use a skydome (or skyglobe) with an image attached. This one is for reflections and highlights. Additionally we have to use an IBL with a small and "blurry" lightsetting of the same image.

Lux needs only one of them, the hires one.

Lux computes the global lighting from this image and diplays the image as it where attached to a skyglobe. So all we need to do in Poser is adding a HDRI to an Image Based Light. Sadly we can't see anything in Poser from the background image.

Anyway. I made it available to get some experience which kind of images work and which not.
To turn the background image use the Y-rotation for the light. Anything other than Y is ignored.

Download Version 1-15c

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