ghostship2 posted at 5:30PM Mon, 11 January 2021 - #4409924

I get decent photo-realistic results with the same tools everybody else here has.

Ghost you've been doing some of the nicest work I've seen coming out of Poser for years, and I don't mean to shoot you down because I hold you in very high regard; this is nice but it's short of photorealistic. Even the most casual glance reveals it as a render. The skin lacks depth or detail, the hair is clearly trans mapped billboards. And you're one of the BRIGHTEST we have to offer! The only photo in this thread that I consider photorealistic is the image from caisson.

You talk about Poser's limits, but that's exactly my point. It supposedly has a state of the art PBR engine, and I KNOW that Blender is doing true photorealism with almost the same engine, so why aren't we? I understand why casual users are not succeeding, but there are creators here that make hundreds of thousand s of dollars a year from this, and they STILL haven't succeeded? It's frankly incredible, especially as caisson has demonstrated that it IS possible! What's the x factor in HIS model, and the scans taken by other people? Surely that could be recreated by hand?