Quote - the more i read these threads, i think i have come to understand, nobody wants realistic 100%, but almost everyone wants one or more of , realistic skin or realistic eye reflections, or realistic proportions or realistic material shaders, realistic hair, but it seems that the next progression to slap it all into one package makes people recoil and shout "but it wont be art then", or "that will devalue my use of the real hair if the figure looks real".

It's certainly confusing and it seems like people want their cake but are unwilling to eat it.

I am not sure about the other reflections but for me the eye reflections are very important, assuming the render is close enough to see them.  There are many merchant resource eye packs about but almost all have the reflections burnt in.  One recent one pack stated there was a no reflection option yet all of the promos shown were of the burnt in eyes. Is this because the burnt in is easier to use and thus would sell more?  

I have a couple of sets where there is no reflection and I use them all the time, getting any reflection from the lighting in the scene.  I spend time putting the lighting in a position where the highlights are where I want them, much as I would in a photo studio.  Yet for all that, I want the eyes to be believeable not neccessarily real, so if I have a character with alien or cat like eyes I still want the reflections to be believeable. 

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.