Just got Poser 11 and tried a render in Superfly with the default settings and got a bunch of "sparkles" which I don't get in Firefly. (Superfly image on top, Firefly image on bottom)

Any idea what's causing it? Thanks!

If it helps, here are the Superfly settings

There is one big difference between firefly and superfly which is that superfly follows the conservation of energy rule. Often firefly shaders do not follow that rule and there is over exposure of the highlights, typically from blin or anisotropic nodes. If you go the the log section in Poser and start to render n superfly you will get a series of warnings where this is happening. Use that as a guide in the material room to correct that. In the material room the invalid connection lines will be dotted lines.

Energy Conservation - see this explanation in the cycles manual: https://www.blender.org/manual/de/render/cycles/materials/introduction.html

It looks like most of the errors are Blinns attached to Blenders (from an SSS mat file setting). But when I disconnect all the blinns from the blenders, colors go away, lips turn white, skin turns black, etc... Is there a decent tutorial or add-on that helps convert Firefly settings to Superfly settings?

For the skin, try Snarly's ezskin3. http://snarlygribbly.org/snarlyspace/ezskin.html

Also, try reducing the Clamp direct and indirect samples to 1.

Hi there

As above for skin I would use EZSkin without the question and regarding the specs/fireflies I would try to render up to 20-50 samples if those specs will stays or go away,you need to render that bit longer and sometimes HDR itself can emit those specs,I remember I've tried like TIFF,HDR,JPEG and OpenEXR and I've got best results with HDR and JPEG,with TIFF and OpenEXR I've got something like you have right now

Second thing check maps too

Hope this helps

Thanks,Jura

DocMatter, those suggested settings seem to be a very good place for us newbies to Superfly to start. I've experimented with those initial settings and so far I've been coming up with some pretty decent results and the rendering is fairly fast on my machine using my CPU to render. I found it is better on my machine to use the CPU (i7, 6 core), because Superfly crashes when I choose to use either of my nVidia graphics accelerator cards or both. Whaddayathink might be happening there with the graphics cards and what results have you gotten when choosing your graphics card as opposed to your i7, as I noticed in your screenshot?

Thanks.