Quote - The only reason I joined this post is, I hate to see newbees bullied into using GC when they hardly understand the basics of Poser to begin with. I think it is a disservice to the new users, but that's simply my opinion, cklearly labeled as such.

Here's where the wheels fall off for me. With all due respect, seriously, where is the bullying? I've asked for evindence before and nobody ever produces it. It's really not fair to keep characterizing honest help as bullying.

It's not like anybody directly responds with a negative assessment of your competence, intelligence, work ethic, or art, just because you don't want to use this technique. What is said over and over is that this technique results in predictable results that avoids having to faff about and guess how a shader is going to respond to each and every different lighting regime. If you think you have no need of this sort of behavior, then great.

Further, this thread isn't about GC. It's about my shader, of which GC is only one part. However, the GC came up here because if you enable render GC and shader GC, you're making a mistake and you will get nasty outcomes. This is not an indictment nor support for GC. It's just a simple fact.

By analogy, if you wear glasses or contacts so you can see better, wearing both does not make you see great. Too much compensation leads to a bad outcome. The concept is "try for just right" not "more is better".

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