hborre posted at 1:13 PM Mon, 22 August 2022 - #4443142

Those probes have been around for quite a while, HDRShop has been offline for a couple of years now.  I am one of the lucky ones to obtain their software before they discontinued developing it further.  The diffuse plug-in to attenuate the brightness does not work with Superfly, you need a different approach for that render engine.  

Makes sense. Rigid and inflexible. Strictly by the rules. In a sense that does make things easier.

It's just the nature of cg rendering real world model. Me personally, I never wanted my stuff to look any more real than, say, Richard Corben's... and he was considered a hyper realist in comics. The reason I took to Poser is because I hated drawing and painting shadows, and 3d was a way to model ideas since I didn't have a sculpture studio or a kiln immediately available anymore. I was like wow this is pretty cool!  Rendering to me, especially in the Poserverse, is essentially like photographing your finished artwork. You're kind of forced to adopt real world models by the nature of the medium. In this case there's a lot that don't even create the art so it's more like photographing other people's artwork. In all reality, from a wider art world perspective. Well there is the set dressing, lighting, and arrangement. Sort of more like production design I guess. The film correlation, hence the greater emphasis on real world photographic models. Strange time to be an artist... with AI and what have you. They used to say painting is dead, but that was a sort of an academic nerdy mcnerd elitist attitude, now I'm not so sure. Well definitely a different playing field. Even for illustrators. Not sure how I feel about it...

Richard Corben (Oct 1, 1940 - Dec 2, 2020)

Apologies for the OT meandering.