Forum: Poser 11 / Poser Pro 11 OFFICIAL Technical


Subject: Why am I get rough ground shadows in Comic Book Preview

mmitchell_houston opened this issue on Jan 26, 2020 ยท 14 posts


mmitchell_houston posted Tue, 28 January 2020 at 12:04 AM

bwldrd posted at 11:59PM Mon, 27 January 2020 - #4377904

Try increasing the shadow blur radius in your light properties, see if that helps. Thank you, but that had zero effect. I suspected as much because this is a Comic Book Preview, not a Firefly or Superfly render.

I did find a workaround, I'm happy to say. I'm going to keep looking at other settings and see if I can do this without completely changing the source material, but for now, this is an excellent fix.

The ground is a high-resolution ground plane without a texture (that is to say, it has the default Poser material applied).

ToonMaterial.jpg

  1. In the Material Room, I select the Ground Plane.
  2. I then click on the button (far right) "Set up Toon Render."
  3. It asks if I want a specular highlight: I said "No."
  4. The render style of this one item is now set to Toon.
  5. I change the DarkColor property to Black.

Now, when I render I get a nice, crisp shadow on the ground.

GroundShadowsToon.jpg

As I said, there are other properties to explore, so I'm going to look at them, too. But for now, this is a solid approacch with which I can work.

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