Frequency posted at 2:29AM Mon, 23 November 2015 - #4240271

it will take people time to upgrade and then time to learn the new stuff (most Poser users and content creators were not in the beta). So people need to be patient. Superfly is a whole new era with new skillls to be learned.

You're right, and thank you for seeing this and saying so. And yes, your Blender learning and Superfly learning will help each other synergistically.

I'd estimate that 85% of materials can be used as-is in Superfly; eye corneas are one of those which need re-matted, but it ain't rocket science. Folks seem to miss what a big deal it is that the SM developers managed to auto-translate old Firefly nodework and Cycles nodework. This is a huge boost to the user in adapting to using Superfly, and continuing to use Firefly with some new tricks added. Things which don't translate are commonly the old Firefly specular cheats - Superfly, being a physics based renderer, does specular and such effects inherently; it doesn't make sense to use the old cheat. It won't crash; Superfly will simply ignore the cheat node(s) when rendering. It will list node connections in the message log window. You can leave the cheats in place for Firefly, and use a second root node for Superfly, and not connect the cheats to the Superfly root.

Some of us have been working up materials with the express intent of sharing them with everybody buying P11/ P11Pro. Here is a test render of one I just finished, and it fills Misty's request for Aiko 3 renders.

The doll is Aiko 3 with Thorne's sylfie morph/mat. She is backlit by a low morning sun and is standing in the shade of Esha's poseable Forest Trees (you pose the trunk, branches, and roots, to fit a terrain or obstacles). You can see subsurface scattering gently glowing through her ear and fingers. So we've got that adjusted and ready for Superfly. She also has two layers of second-skin coppertone chain mail overlaid on her skin texture. I generated asymmetrical seamless tiles for this, and I have copper, gold, silver, and glossy black versions, along with masking tiles. Because they are seamless tiles, you can get fine detail at little resource cost (in terms of memory), and you can scale the tiling to fit any doll.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5