randym77 posted at 3:33 PM Sat, 22 April 2023 - #4463063

Rhia474 posted at 12:16 PM Wed, 19 April 2023 - #4462762

I honestly  only tried those environments once and found  them way too bright for what i do,

That has been my experience as well. I think including better lighting would be the easiest way to improve Poser for beginners. It's something people really seem to struggle with.

There are any number of environments that are available commercially from the complex environment provided by the likes of the Terra environments from MortemVetus which are completes sets, or similar from Flipmode that includes either a dome or skybox along with props to create a scene and lighting to complement the scene in question.  Another range of possibilities are the HDRI offerings from Sharramuse which recommends the environmental dome by Bagginsbill when used in Poser but will work with any similar dome.  All of these easy to use and to control the level of lighting so that it matches the scene.

A selection using scene props from Shaaramuse with matching HDRI attached to an environmental dome.

  

The above were created in Poser 12 but it all still works in Poser 13.

Or there is the mix, this uses an environment from Flipmode for the external environment and I have added lights from Level up Superfly from Afrodite-Ohki.  Again in Poser 13

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.