Glen opened this issue on Mar 16, 2015 · 13 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 16 March 2015 at 10:09 AM
"What exactly would you need me to show you?"
Aha - the fact that your question exists at all gives me a clue what's wrong. You seem unaware that every image has a gamma value associated with it, and that for transparencies you must ensure that it is 1, not "use render settings".
Part of the Poser bug was they started to automate this, where they look at how you're using an image and try to set the gamma on the image automatically without your involvement. The bug (if I understand it) was that they didn't do it consistently.
I'm not sure what is happening with the automatic setting of per-image gamma anymore. For many years Poser automatically applied the render gamma to all images - which is unfortunately wrong, due to the unexpected effect this has on transparency maps. At least for a while (and maybe still) Poser then tried to figure out which images should be 2.2 and which should b 1.0 and do it for you. People complained because this was undocumented behavior and apparently also was applying and unapplying itself somewhat randomly.
What you need to do is take charge of image gamma.
First step is to know where it is set.
Second step is to know what it should be.
Third step is to familiarize yourself with the various scripts that automate it correctly - you just run them when you're suspicious that image gamma values are messed up.
More to come - but I have to work and will need more time to produce screen shots and explanations of those three steps.
Of course, all of these have been discussed many times in this forum and so you may find threads that give the answers already. I used to find these instantly but now the new search engine is so utterly junk that it's often quicker for me to just type everything over again from what I know in my head.
If others are around and can provide links or images showing where you do the steps I've outlined, please jump in.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)