I don't know if this has been posted before and if there is a workaround.

Upon closer inspection of rendered images I notice that the mesh is visible in the final renders in some places. I attach an image where thin lines which match the mesh are visible under V4's armpits.

I tried various render settings, it seems not to depend on caching or pixel samples. However if I turn off smoothing (either in render settings or for the affected body parts), the problem is gone. However especially for the figures I would like to have smoothing on, of course.

I had this effect since PoserPro2012 (original release, SR1 and now also SR2). I did not notice it in any earlier Poser release.

The screenshot shows a texture without an image map.

Best regards,

   Michael

Uncheck smoothing for the items where the mesh is visible.

Laurie

Laurie - read the post again. He knows that. He wants smoothing and no artifacts.

You can try increasing your shadow min bias on lights.

fiddle your crease angle in the properties of the body part

turn off AO and/or try crease angle of 90 or 120, although it shouldn't matter for a native poser obj.

I understand BB, but if you uncheck smoothing on the object and keep it checked in the render settings, it still renders smooth. But without the artifacts. I have definitely encountered the problem before going back to Poser 6, but unchecking smoothing on the object normally does it for me.

Definitely try BB's suggestion first.

Laurie

Hello,

thanks a lot, this issue is solved!

BB was right, it is due to a very small shadow min BIAS. (The scene had 2 lights, a spot and one infinite, both with raytraced shadows with min bias of 1 cm.)

I changed the min bias to 1 inch, and the problem is almost invisible. I changed it to 2 inches, and the problem is fully gone!

Before, I had also tried the AO hint (my lights and material did not use AO settings / AO nodes, but I switched off render IDL instead), however that did not change anything.

Thanks a lot for the help!

Best regards,

   Michael