Quote - Just a little reading on Luxrender materials makes a lot of stuff make sense. The Luxrender wiki is worth the read ;).

Laurie

 

The wiki is certainly worth a read perticularly the sections on lights as well as materails.

 

The big plus I find with Reality is the ease I have with the materials.  For example if I want a metal I just select the Metal from the type and within that I can pick the type of metal i want.  It may not be exactly what I am liiking for but it as a very good starting point and the tweaks are easy from that point. The same can be said for glass and minerals/gems which I find difficult to build in Poser. That is not to say that Firefly cannot get close but I am no BB and I need all the help I can get.

Although my knowledge of Posers material room has slowly grown most of my favorite ones have been purchased, Reality looks like it will save me a fortune as I can make my own with ease.  Reality is no magic bullet but it does certainly do a lot of the heavy lifting.

 

I have just started playing with volumes and this shows so much potential, am now going back to a few graveyard scenes I did a year or so ago to add a lot more atmosphere- quite literally.

 

 

 

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.