Having spent many frustrating hours trying to figure out how to just do a simple render and failing, I would love to find out how one can actually render an image. I understand the settings procedure and so on, and its possible that I may be missing a vital final step, but really all I want to find out is how to do that final click that sets the rendering in motion. It would be nice to find out where the render actually goes on my machine, for instance the file path to the folder where the renders gets sent. Confession here, I am a DAZ user and am pretty proficient at using that, please don't crucify me, but I would love to get to know Poser as well.

Hi.

We have some really good Poser tutorials HERE

One that is specifically for rendering HERE

and part 2 HERE

I hope this helps.

Or: Render menu on the menu ribbon,--click Render.

Or:

I am a bit thick im afraid because I am not sure what your message is. I think that it may be better to just play around and see where I get because all the tutorials I see, and there are plenty, are excellent on the tech detail. but very light of the simple click this and this happens kind of guidance that many dimwits like me need. Two things you need to know, you probably cant break it by clicking around, but if you do break it, you can always re install it if that will let you start again...

Um, I thought you wanted to know how to render. I showed you 3 different ways you can click on Render and get your image that you set up to render.

how to just do a simple render and failing, I would love to find out how one can actually render an image. I understand the settings procedure and so on, and its possible that I may be missing a vital final step, but really all I want to find out is how to do that final click that sets the rendering in motion.

If you meant something else, maybe reword the post?

I'm not sure what you're having problems with. You said you can't render. There is a little camera icon above your scene (see rhia's first post. It's highlighted. or number 1 in mine) or there's a render menu with the top option being "render". Click that. Or you can hit ctrl-r if you like hotkeys. (there are often multiple ways to get to the more common functions.) Your image only is saved to a temporary folder for recent renders. To save the image, once the render is done, click on the arrow and choose" export image". (number 3)

Oh, I forget to explain the number 2 in my image. That is if you want to just do an area render, a portion of the image. That's what happened in my screenshot, which is why a portion of the image is black. Click on it and drag a box around the part of the image you want to render

A proviso: If scene is too complex, Poser may struggle to trash-clear textures etc. And getting your graphics card(s) to play nice can be a struggle. CPU-only renders are a safe, first step. Just don't set both progressive and branched path rendering unless intended... . Also, an 'Oops': if imported set has opaque walls, ceiling etc, Poser's 'studio' lights may be outside, so scene correctly renders black. You may have to groan then move lights 'inside'. I'm learning how to make imported scenes' 'model' lights --fluo'-strips, wall sconces, pendants, desk-lights etc-- glow via 'super-ambient', warily masked to 'naturally' illuminate the set. Often takes some iteration plus lonnnng ray-traced renders but, IMHO, worth the trouble.. .

May I suggest you try simple scenes with just a Poser figure or prop-object stood on ground-plane ? Move the lights about, do a few Superfly test-renders with eg a dozen pixel-samples, progressive. They'll be speckled, yes, but will give you a handle on the work-flow.

Mind the number of retained test-renders does not overflow Poser's 'cache'....

FWIW, I've the inverse problem to you-- I find DS' UI and work-flow as opaque as Blender's. eg DS' unfriendliness to 'Drag & Drop' import makes me squirm...

Rhia474, I have to first apologise because I didn't notice the highlighting which certainly made all the difference. It doesn't help my not having 20/20 vision any longer. Had I noticed the highlights I would not have had to ask for more assistance. Next I have to thank RedPhantom and NikKelly for the clarity of their explanations. I have managed to actually do a render which I pure rubbish, but as its my first ever Poser image, its a kind of Landmark. Thank you all for the help, much appreciated...

Glad you were able to get a render. And don't feel bad about your first render not being the best. I think most of us can say the same thing. I've been using Poser for 15 years and can still say that about a good portion of my images. Don't take that to mean that Poser is that hard. I'm lazy when it comes to learning it.

I come from the exact opposite direction - Poser user now learning to use Daz Studio.

An easy way to render is to get a fully set up scene, and render it. Then, change the settings - camera, lighting, rendering, materials etc, and see how the render turns out. That would pretty much give you a feel for what the Poser knobs and dials do (or do not do).

Then once you've familiarised yourself with how to drive the Poser spaceship better, you can start building your own scene and control the scene elements.

Basically this was my approach when learning how to use DS after more than a decade of using Poser.

Its encouraging to hear from someone doing the same journey in reverse. You obviously know of the difficulty of approaching something thats simple in one format but completely baffling in another. In DS I can simply do whatever I want, so as an example, I put together this image in about 10mins and rendered it in iRay, which took about an hour. To explain my machine does not have Nvidia graphics and could fight its way out of a wet paper bag, so the actual rendering time could be reduced hugely if I spent about a million pounds. One day, maybe I can do something this acceptable in superbly with Poser, I can but hope...