randym77 posted at 10:10AM Tue, 18 May 2021 - #4419421

I think people still don't really know how to get the best of out Superfly. While they've been using Firefly for almost 20 years.

A lot of Superfly renders still look unpleasantly grainy to me. And it seems to be really hard to get hair to look good in Superfly. The renders that really impress me have been ones without humans in them.

Honestly I think that is an issue for all renders or in general 3D, whenever we deal with humans, skin shaders and hair are really not easy to make good.

Even if you take something like Nvidia hairworks, it looks cool, and do believe it is one of the top of line things for making hair in games at least. It still looks slightly off.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IltIVf_TeFg&ab_channel=NVIDIA

Then you have the whole skin shader etc. So in Posers defence, most 3D apps (at least from what I have seen) have a hard time dealing with these things. Especially for us hobbyists, that doesn't have a long career in professional 3D, even in a lot of hollywood movies etc. with huge budgets, the characters still seem to struggle with these issues.

For the most part, the grain is simply because people don't bother waiting for it to render. Not saying that Superfly couldn't improve on it, but PBR rendering just takes slightly longer.