Digitell posted at 10:45AM Tue, 04 May 2021 - #4418384

Thank you for the explanation of PBR. I had never heard of it either.

@searchnasaigh-this is very good to hear about the Adaptive Sampling w/Threshold. The long render times can make or break the work flow.

@TwiztedKidd- yeppers! I have a process I use and when I am working with deadlines, messing about with the nodes and all really doesn't work too well for me.

Sure, no problem.

Now where I think it becomes very interesting talking about PBR is when we look at how we use Poser. Doesn't really matter whether you are a content creator or just using the assets for creating art or whatever.

But lets say I create something and I make all the textures etc. and it looks great to me in the scene I have made and I render it in Firefly. However now another content creator also make something, which looks great in their render.

However combining our two works might not look all that good together, because we approached it very differently. Meaning this person might have made metal slightly different than I did, because that worked for them or their glass or whatever.

Meaning that there is not a common guideline for content creators to approach what they are making to make sure that what they make will look correct regardless of what scene they are thrown into.

However if both me and content creator B is both working with the PBR standard, it shouldn't really matter, or at least not as much, which objects or scenes they are used in, as they will react more or less the same. Which to me, would be a huge benefit for everyone. Because people know that whatever they buy will be more or less compatible given they follow the same approach.

For content creators we can remake the textures and turn them into PBR somewhat easy, but for people that just want to make art and have a huge library of stuff, this could be a potential nightmare.

So to me it would be a huge benefit for the community if all content creators would start doing PBR materials rather than Firefly.