WOWEEEEEEEEEE 

Save your rocks and eggs! I'm so used to installing the upgrade and forging ahead using the new version like I did the old one...but with 13 I've had to actually read the new manual! The new rendering process forces me to use the Post features in Superfly in order to get a usable end result for instance. Let's face it. We've got a MAJOR jump in 13.! And one that comes with a BIG LEARNING CURVE! You can send it back if you want to but if you do you will stay stuck in the past. AI is kicking ass in visuals and if we are going to stay relevant we've got to dig in and use our good old HUMAN CREATIVITY! AI can only use the "past". We can leap ahead...or not. I thought I was having problems with Superfly because I kept getting weird results until I stumbled upon the post-effects process. Now, no more black exports of renders, no more half colors on objects I painted gold, and no more glittery skin tones on renders I didn't do post-fx on. And since I mostly do NFTs I'm getting awesome looks! Give it a try. You're welcome!

timeswimmer posted at 1:28 PM Wed, 10 May 2023 - #4464916

Save your rocks and eggs! I'm so used to installing the upgrade and forging ahead using the new version like I did the old one...but with 13 I've had to actually read the new manual! The new rendering process forces me to use the Post features in Superfly in order to get a usable end result for instance. Let's face it. We've got a MAJOR jump in 13.! And one that comes with a BIG LEARNING CURVE! You can send it back if you want to but if you do you will stay stuck in the past. AI is kicking ass in visuals and if we are going to stay relevant we've got to dig in and use our good old HUMAN CREATIVITY! AI can only use the "past". We can leap ahead...or not. I thought I was having problems with Superfly because I kept getting weird results until I stumbled upon the post-effects process. Now, no more black exports of renders, no more half colors on objects I painted gold, and no more glittery skin tones on renders I didn't do post-fx on. And since I mostly do NFTs I'm getting awesome looks! Give it a try. You're welcome!

What a refreshing change to have a post that is so positive about Poser 13, have seen so many stating Poser 13 is unusable (which might be the case for some) but at least posts like this encourage users to give it a try.  I am having great fun with Poser 13 even though, or maybe because, it is a voyage of discovery. 

It seems that developers cannot win in that they are condemned if there are few changes in a upgrade but also condemned if there is so much you need to rethink the way you have been working up until now. 

Just so all of you all know a fix for pixel and gamma shift at the end of renders is in testing. It will be released as soon as it's received an adequate test cycle and as long as it doesn't break something else.

Watch for the update notices in Poser.

nerd posted at 12:28 PM Thu, 11 May 2023 - #4464988

Just so all of you all know a fix for pixel and gamma shift at the end of renders is in testing. It will be released as soon as it's received an adequate test cycle and as long as it doesn't break something else.

Watch for the update notices in Poser.

Thank you, nerd 

I should share with all of you a little part of this saga. The fix for gamma shifting did indeed break something else. That happens a lot and I've come to expect it. So now the fixed fix for the original fix is fixed and in testing, AGAIN Again again a.... .....

It is a vicious cycle.... 

Ouch, sorry, Nerd. It never ends. Thank you for helping so many of us.

It's like going to the doctor.  They fix one thing with pills that breaks something and so forth and so on.  Will this fix also affect the finish smoothing that many have reported Charles?  You know, you do a render and then the last millisecond there is this slight shift to the render as it's smoothed and looks a little duller!  No Post FX is turned on either.