Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser refuses to render shadow maps

cujoe_da_man opened this issue on Jun 17, 2012 · 35 posts


bagginsbill posted Mon, 18 June 2012 at 9:42 PM

I made extensive demonstrations of severely altered shapes back in 2006.

This image, dated June 15, 2006, was one of my showcase images for the feature.

The green pedestal is actually a Poser box. Its shape is the result of procedural displacement.

The brown thing is a Poser cylinder, also displaced using math.

The reflections of these things do not appear to match - because the raytracer is not REYES. The REYES part runs separately. That means micropolygons don't exist for the raytracer in Poser.

But - if there are enough vertices, the difference is small. I confess I never fully worked out what the cutoff is. It just doesn't come up in practice so working it out has never been a priority for me. Knock yourselves out if it really bothers you.


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