Quote - I picked up Reality for Poser yesterday and tried rendering a saved Poser image using Lux. It DOES take much longer, and even when I've got the singular light I have in the scene turned down to something ridiculous like 5% intensity, I'm getting hot spots and the image looks way too bright.

So, it's clear that I have some learning to do insofar as managing light is concerned. I read in the documentation that I can adjust light "on the fly," but I've not noticed how that works yet.  More reading and experimentation is in order.

On the positive side, the Reality plug-in works seamlessly inside Poser, and I really LIKE that I can resume a render in Lux whenever it suits me. I may not use Lux for every render because it takes so long, but in instances where I really need the quality, this might be the way to go.

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Just as a test, have you removed all the lights in Poser and then added mesh light from the runtime included with Reality? I tried that last night and the lighting was just about right.  Having read the manual earlier on there is a section on the use of Poser lights which I need to experiment with once work is out of the way once more.

 

 

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.