Hi all,

I have noticed on a couple of my skins that there are seam lines that show up in the renders. Is there a way to correct this?

Thanks!

It depends on the specific texture

Some things to try: turn off texture filtering or set to crisp depending on your version

try rendering at a shadinge rate of .2.'

Sofe of the DAZ elite textures had this problem, I can not remember which ones.

Bill

Which skins and Poser version?

All the best.

LROG

I had it happen with one of the elite Daz M4 textures, and Rio. I have P7. The texture filtering option is in render settings I assume.

Texture filtering is in the matierial room or one of several scripts.

Not sure which ones work with P7

Bill

Will there be a lowering of the quality of the render?

Shadeing rate lower does not lower quality of the render, it raises it.  The render settings you are using would be helpful

Bill

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/freestuff/index.php?username=svdl

TY for all the tips. I am not an expert user so I'll see where I can find those shade settings in the material room. TY Raven for the link, I'll take a look :) I am just curious why that phenomenon happens with certain skins...

It shouldn't happen at all in a final render, if your filtering is off (Poser 6) or adjusted accordingly (later versions).

It usually happens when the texture doesn't have a wide border at the edges, before the background shows. 

The seam lines are an artifact from texture filtering, which reduces the size of the image loaded.

It occurs most often when the texture map size is NOT a power of 2 (like 4000 vs 4096) but it can occur on any size image.

It also happens when your render settings are too low.

Yes, it seems the effect is lessened when you go to max settings...but not totally eliminated. I ran raven's script, but didn't see any difference. I selected the figure in question in the material room, and then selected "quality". Is this the right approach? Thanks guys for all your patience:)

quality is what you do not want.  You want None or Chrisp (P9/2012),  quality  processes the texture and can cause the problem.

Bill

Use "None" instead.

Myself, the only thing I use Texture Filtering on is hair, because it actually does look better with texture filtering.

IMHO, skin looks much more detailed without texture filtering, but that may just be me. ;)

How do you set the quality to crisp or none? I'm using poser 9

Pick up scene fixer fro http://snarlygribbly.org/3d/forum/

Bill

Well, let's be clear: if the settings are to set the filtering to "Quality" there still should be no seams, even if that is not the ideal setting.

What do you have your minimum shading rate set to in your render settings?

The other thing is if something accidentally got changed in the shading rate on your figure Properties tab (even if you render at 0.20 min shading rate in render settings, it's not going to render better than what is set on the element's properties tab).

Texture maps:

Should be:
512x512
1024x1024
2048x2048
4096x4096
8192x8192

For P9/PP2012 the best quality comes from "Crisp." And it allows texture caching.

Poser8/PP2010 the best quality is "quality".

When setting texture filtering to NONE, you loose texture catching.

MSR gives the best result at 0.2 => In render settings and in parameters palette it is the default lowest setting. => Highest quality.
MSR can go lower, but it is rarely worth the extra rendering time.

Another simple and often overlooked cause to the issue you're seeing is that the person or persons who made the texture map did not extend the texture 2 to 4 pixels beyond the border of the UV template. It's a classic mistake.  A simple way to resolve this, would be to load the texture into a image editor, choose a dominant color from the texture, and fill the empty space around the texture with that color. That should make the seam less noticeable.

Exact teyon,

Or use a small clone brush to paint those extra"s over the seams.