wolfmanjim posted at 9:46PM Tue, 18 February 2020 - #4380974

So, how do I change the 'gravel' texture?

I don't know. Where's it from? Change the diffuse map to get rid of the gravel. But you're going to be right back at the same place with blowout because of the light with a light color. Do you have a dome on the scene? Something smaller than the Construct?

Try lighting it with EZDome sIBL lights for EZDome here

We will need to take a look at the material room with all the nodes uncollapsed to make an assessment. As mentioned, your lighting could be too harsh for the scene. Lower light intensity and a dome might be the answer.

Boni posted at 11:47AM Wed, 19 February 2020 - #4380957

I actually like the graininess on this one. Was working on getting enterestion eye effects.

There are certainly renders where grain actually adds something and this is certainly one such render. It can add to the atmosphere or, in certain cases add some' dirt to a night or dirty scene.

OK, here are the material settings for the two skating renders. The no reflection one is on the left and the reflective one that has the ugl colors is to the right.

The presence of the bump map seems to make no difference.

I used the ice shaders in the Vincebanga Supperfly Shader set from the RM marketplace for them both. One is on the left and two is on the right.

wolfmanjim posted at 3:31PM Wed, 19 February 2020 - #4381017

OK, here are the material settings for the two skating renders. The no reflection one is on the left and the reflective one that has the ugl colors is to the right.

The presence of the bump map seems to make no difference.

I used the ice shaders in the Vincebanga Supperfly Shader set from the RM marketplace for them both. One is on the left and two is on the right.

I am no expert but I doubt much can be gathered from the screen captures you have shown, one help would be to expand the materials to see more details. To do this you would need to click click on the down arrow on the ice panel but posting this expanded material might just breach the usage agreement of the material.

Um, you really shouldn't be posting commercial shaders like that.. that's called copyright violation, unless the creator gave you permission

DreaminGirl posted at 5:27PM Wed, 19 February 2020 - #4381029

Um, you really shouldn't be posting commercial shaders like that.. that's called copyright violation, unless the creator gave you permission

I was uneasy with it but at least the screen captures so far show limited info. I was trying to find a balance between suggesting that what has been posted is not enough to rectify the problems but anything else would probably be too much. I have used the Vince Banga Superfly Shader sets for a year of more and they are great so I would not want to encourage anything that would impact their use and/or sales.

There is a great deal of information supplied with the sets and they encourage users to experiment but to do this you would need to be able to expand the compound node.

For ice 2, if you look into the compound node, you'll see a colorramp and a noise texture. Those are what is causing the mottled look. To get rid of it completely, delete those and adjust the fac on the mix closure they were connected to so that the ice looks like how you want. If you don't mind a little mottle, adjust the colors so they are closer together. Darker colors make it more opaque, lighter more transparent.

A couple of attempts at using the scatter volume node to create lighting effects after many hours of frustrating tweaking. Curious if anyone has mastered this node and if there were any tutorials on the subject?

ironsoul, that 2nd image is especially nice!

Don't know if it's still there, but Bagginsbill did a good tutorial on adding atmosphere to Superfly on the SM Poser forum. It is searchable.

Here's one, though not the one I spoke of above: https://forum.smithmicro.com/topic/913/atmosphere-in-superfly

Many thanks Glitterati3D, very helpful :)

ironsoul posted at 7:12PM Wed, 19 February 2020 - #4381083

Many thanks Glitterati3D, very helpful :)

You're welcome.

V4 in the old Mediterranean Patio from DAZ. Scene is so old it was using gradient bump- now converted to Physical Surface. Lighting is single infinite and skydome.

My default render settings for sub 10 min render

Looks great ypvs. Well, except for the boob poke through and the shoe in the stones. :-)

The bump on the walls, bricks and stones is really good. And I love the lighting.

knyghtmare2021 posted at 8:09AM Thu, 20 February 2020 - #4381106

Wow, knyghtmare! Great render!

Glitterati3D posted at 10:25AM Thu, 20 February 2020 - #4381131

knyghtmare2021 posted at 8:09AM Thu, 20 February 2020 - #4381106

Thanks!

Wow, knyghtmare! Great render!

TR Exit hello.png

A WIP for a project I'm trying to get finished, featuring a tomb and a lady who will need no introduction. The hair needs a movement morph and the jewellery needs a colour boost, as well as the poke thru at the shin.

Having to remove alt diffuse and alt specular I find a real pain

I like the way this one turned out, so I'll go ahead and post.

Credits

AJ - Modern Interior 8 ; 3DC - Adriatic Scenes: Summervilla - Background Hemisphere ; LaFemme & Aryabella Hair ; CHK2033 - Eve Character ; Divabug - Kahlia Texture ; Gordo - Dynamic Kaftan Romper For LaFemme (Freestuff)

bwldrd posted at 3:42PM Sat, 22 February 2020 - #4381438

I like the way this one turned out, so I'll go ahead and post.

Credits

AJ - Modern Interior 8 ; 3DC - Adriatic Scenes: Summervilla - Background Hemisphere ; LaFemme & Aryabella Hair ; CHK2033 - Eve Character ; Divabug - Kahlia Texture ; Gordo - Dynamic Kaftan Romper For LaFemme (Freestuff)

Great lighting and scene!

ypvs posted at 3:46PM Sat, 22 February 2020 - #4381421

TR Exit hello.png

A WIP for a project I'm trying to get finished, featuring a tomb and a lady who will need no introduction. The hair needs a movement morph and the jewellery needs a colour boost, as well as the poke thru at the shin.

Having to remove alt diffuse and alt specular I find a real pain

Great scene and nice lighting. Always hated that skirt, it was such a PITA to get right.

Streets of Old London by Stonemason (objects imported to Poser and rigged) in Superfly.

Glitterati3D posted at 3:28PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381506

Streets of Old London by Stonemason (objects imported to Poser and rigged) in Superfly.

Great shot! You might try a wide screen aspect ratio with a large FOV setting and ad in DOF blur to make it feel larger.

ghostship2 posted at 6:36PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381608

Glitterati3D posted at 3:28PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381506

Streets of Old London by Stonemason (objects imported to Poser and rigged) in Superfly.

Great shot! You might try a wide screen aspect ratio with a large FOV setting and ad in DOF blur to make it feel larger.

Good idea.......assuming I can get DOF to work for me. For some reason I just don't get along with it.

Glitterati3D posted at 5:40PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381611

ghostship2 posted at 6:36PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381608

Glitterati3D posted at 3:28PM Sun, 23 February 2020 - #4381506

Streets of Old London by Stonemason (objects imported to Poser and rigged) in Superfly.

Great shot! You might try a wide screen aspect ratio with a large FOV setting and ad in DOF blur to make it feel larger.

Good idea.......assuming I can get DOF to work for me. For some reason I just don't get along with it.

it's pretty simple. I don't do any calculations just eyeball it with a couple of rules in mind. The larger the camera focal equals a larger (longer) camera lens in the real world. a smaller lens would be used to get up close and personal with your subject. The camera is physically closer, the focus area is smaller so use a smaller fstop number on the camera controls. just make sure it's large enough to not make the figure look miniature. In your shot here you want a large lens and have the camera set far away and use slightly larger fstop to widen out the area that's in focus otherwise the scene will look like a miniature again. Here is an example where I have the camera pretty close to the subject and the focal set smallish (probably around 50mm) and the fstop just enogh to get her into focus but blur out the back side of the pool prop.

structure posted at 10:26AM Wed, 26 February 2020 - #4381871

What a great set of renders, I love the middle one best.

I'm a sucker for Trek.

The cool Marvin robot made by Dodger. :)

ghostship2 posted at 6:23AM Thu, 05 March 2020 - #4381989

I'm a sucker for Trek.

Nicely done! Been thinking of moving from Daz to Poser since I see its getting a breath of fresh air and the other place is starting to irritate me.

thanks! I've tried to get on with DS but I just can't. Poser is like an old friend to me and using it is like a form of relaxation.

P3Design's Nadia

Very nicely done Red. I'm liking this a lot.

Victoria 4 in Poser looking cute lol

A test render, which came out better than I thought.

After a very long absence, I will be posting images again in the gallery. Here is something I've been working on:

Just a question, is the grain in Superfly controllable at all? I'm looking for grainless render here.

You can start off with increasing the number of pixel samples. The more pixels, the cleaner the render becomes. This will be at the expense of longer rendering.

Now running 11.3

If you remove the background construct and replace it with EZDome or BaginsBill's Envirosphere and use a low res jpg on it for lighting that will cut down on noise as well. Inspired_Art posted at 4:05PM Fri, 03 April 2020 - #4385285

Just a question, is the grain in Superfly controllable at all? I'm looking for grainless render here.

@Hornet: Poser users like to show their work. What I mean by this is that they like to show off the background props when they've spent time setting them up. That's fine except it distracts from the main "focus" of the image. Focus is what you should be using in this image to separate the figure from the background. In Superfly it really doesn't add any render time to check the DOF box and set the camera focus. Even if this is just a background image or the back of the Envirosphere get into the habit of setting up your focus and rendering with DOF on.

I agree with ghostship2, using DoF selectively will add more interest and focus on the scene. The other thing that bothers me is the lack of life in the eyes, there are no highlights to spark interest. A small light source can bring out the sparkles.

hborre posted at 8:55PM Fri, 03 April 2020 - #4385388

I agree with ghostship2, using DoF selectively will add more interest and focus on the scene. The other thing that bothers me is the lack of life in the eyes, there are no highlights to spark interest. A small light source can bring out the sparkles.

Here is an example with a room prop. DOF set so the room is blurred. This image also shows off my other trick for getting life into the eyes. Turn the figure's head away from the camera and then point the eyes back at it so they are looking at you.

Thank you both for your comments, I will rework the render in question incorporating the suggestions you have made.

OK so here's the second attempt.

That looks better! hornet3d posted at 8:04AM Thu, 09 April 2020 - #4385485

OK so here's the second attempt.

mesh lights