> Quote - DustRider - that picture is how I see Lux should be used for rendering Poser figures. > > You have taken advantage of what Lux is good at (lighting) in this scene. I see too many Reality/Lux renders that have wasted the whole purpose of using it, eg. figures rendered without an environment or a crappy one.

 

Clearly Luxrender is good for scenes as you describe however it is after all a render engine and has many differences to Firefly which can be utilised for all renders.  Also many of the renders being produced via Reality 3 are in many ways 'work in progress' as users start to use and understand both R3 and Luxrender.

Portraits can be enhanced by quality of jewelry which Luxrender is also good at and many other factors.

Anyway here is my last attempt, another figure without a scene but I am playing with skin tones and trying to age my V4 character using the merchant resource for old skin that is on sale here at Rendo.  I was not happy with my first attempt and this one has the 'smooth surface' setting switched off for the bump under modifiers and also uses micro facets.  The setting keep sharp edges is unchecked. 

 

 

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.