RedPhantom posted at 5:33 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467154

All this talk of fog and smoke and I decided to try one

RedPhantom posted at 5:31 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467153

Y-Phil posted at 4:19 PM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467150

Ok: two vertical smoke objects, with small differences in their parameters + vertical orientation, a witch, and now I'm happy with the result 

That looks awesome. The original, with the smaller smoke texture made me think of magic pouring out

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George Washington? lol

Another Kitbash

Gorgeous ❤

Another Kitbash

hornet3d posted at 4:26 AM Tue, 6 June 2023 - #4467285

ghostship2 posted at 11:54 PM Mon, 5 June 2023 - #4467266

Another Kitbash

Beautiful.

Budget Wonder Woman (from freestuff here at Rendo)

Wonder Woman Wetsuit

Volumetric smoke exhale

bwldrd posted at 8:34 PM Tue, 6 June 2023 - #4467345

ghostship2 posted at 10:01 AM Sun, 4 June 2023 - #4467112

Volumetric smoke exhale

What units are you using, I made the shader and my clouds preview looks nothing like the one shown here, it's much larger.

but you have to play with the scaling anyway depending on your model. You'll also want to play with the amount of light coming off it. I have it set that way here because it was hard to see the smoke with the lighting in the scene

A party discussion (about bum-rushing a dragon).

After tweaking a number of old space craft and locations to work in Poser 13 and rendered using Superfly I decided to have a go at an outfit.

The outfit in question is Complicated Eve by Uzilite which I purchased way back in April 2010.  It was created as a conforming set of items for V4 and here is used on Dawn SE.

Smoke on the Water... and on the Pinup... 

Definitely, I love those smokes effect 

A party discussion (about bum-rushing a dragon).

Adompha posted at 3:33 PM Thu, 8 June 2023 - #4467435

A party discussion (about bum-rushing a dragon).

I really like this one. They look so animated.

On a whim, I checked the Poser 13 content files at PoserSoftware to see if they had been changed.  They have.

On June 2nd, and June 6th, a total of three files were changed.  P6 James, L'Homme, and La Femme file 1.

As   I hadn't heard anything, I figured no one else had, either.

Thanks for the update Thalek.  Much appreciated.

Thanks for the update Thalek.  Much appreciated.

Antonia and Apollo would like to thank this thread for teaching me about scatter volumes.

Whoa, that's great!!

Antonia and Apollo would like to thank this thread for teaching me about scatter volumes.

Freddy Mercury would probably say something like "Kind of magic" 

Thanks Rhia474 and Y-Phil!

So fun to see everyone experimenting with volumetric lighting! It creates such beautiful effects :D

I love the fact that Poser is now fast enough to use it. You can even use volumetrics and DOF and not have a week-long render.

Not to change the subject from volumetric lighting...

I have been playing around with point style lights in Superfly, and I think the results are pretty good. There are three of these lights in this scene. 2 squares, and a ball.

This is how you do it.

Apply this shader to a prop, and use it as a light. You could think of this as an area light, but it has some major differences.

Value 2 in the Cycles Math node is the cutoff distance of the light. I have no clue what the settings are (metric, imperial, etc) And it does not seem to match any of the default Poser UI settings.

Blackbody is the lights temperature, based on one of Planks Law's. You can substitute a color for this as well. IE: for a specific color light you want that blackbody can not produce.

The transparency node is technically not needed and is more of a place holder if you decide to stack multiple emitters onto the same prop. Still experimenting with that, with questionable results....  Not having the transparency node will still default to zero, which is basically the same thing. It just makes more sense to have the transparency node there.

The lightfalloff node is what controls the distance curve of the emissions, brightness, and smoothness. It doesn't work the way you would first think it does either. Experiment and see for yourself.

Strength is not in watts, lumens or any setting you are used to, it is just a strength output that does not calculate anything based on other settings, sizes, etc... A small emitter may need to be set in the 1000's. A large one may never be set much past 1. Smaller emitters will take far longer to clean up as well. (Still missing light portals to deal with that)...

You can change what type of light falloff you want simply by plugging it into the Emissions Strength. And again, your not going to get what you first might assume.

Smoothness is a double edged sword, and takes some experimenting. Small emitters that use smooth may take far longer to clean up, so leave that at 0 for small ones. On larger emitter lights, smooth will crush the lighting and dull blowout if it is a bright light. It works a bit differently in Cycles, and on a different scale. So you may have to play with that versus what you get in Cycles.

Some of this can be applied to actual Poser lights in Superfly, some of it can not and has to be done this way.

And lastly, yes, that is LaFemme again.....

Woow... and Woow 

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread.  In addition to all the amazing renders there is also much to learn!  Here's my take with the scatter volume using Afrodite-Ohki's cube and lights from the LevelUp expansion.  Flink's sky, ShaaraMuse3D's scenery, Ken _Gilliland's birds used.

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread.  In addition to all the amazing renders there is also much to learn!  Here's my take with the scatter volume using Afrodite-Ohki's cube and lights from the LevelUp expansion.  Flink's sky, ShaaraMuse3D's scenery, Ken _Gilliland's birds used.

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread.  In addition to all the amazing renders there is also much to learn!  Here's my take with the scatter volume using Afrodite-Ohki's cube and lights from the LevelUp expansion.  Flink's sky, ShaaraMuse3D's scenery, Ken _Gilliland's birds used.

Beautiful work!

I wish I'd been feeling better so I, too, could have been experimenting with volumetrics.

More doodles.... Full size is in my gallery....

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread.  In addition to all the amazing renders there is also much to learn!  Here's my take with the scatter volume using Afrodite-Ohki's cube and lights from the LevelUp expansion.  Flink's sky, ShaaraMuse3D's scenery, Ken _Gilliland's birds used.

Wow... awesome scene 🤩❤

More doodles.... Full size is in my gallery....

Great picture as well ❤

From back to front, let's add a studio backdrop, a smokey cube, Poser's one-face square, facing the backdrop, a pinup, a sphere (not visible in the camera), using @shvrdavid's implementation of Firefly's point light kind.

That leads from this:

To the kind of portrait I ignore we could create using Poser: a way to control the quantity of light on only some parts of a character:

Woah.. I'm in love. Thank you so much @shvrdavid

Playing with Superfly Studio from RPublishing and Blackhearted.

Woah.. I'm in love. Thank you so much @shvrdavid

shvrdavid posted at 7:53 PM Tue, 13 June 2023 - #4467861

Awesome.

"Smoky mathematics": AppleJack  + ShvrDavid = gloomy passage 

Looking great!

I don't think I want to go in there alone

Y-Phil posted at 3:14 PM Wed, 14 June 2023 - #4467921

"Smoky mathematics": AppleJack  + ShvrDavid = gloomy passage 

odf posted at 6:35 PM Wed, 14 June 2023 - #4467935

Looking great!

RedPhantom posted at 7:54 PM Wed, 14 June 2023 - #4467942

I don't think I want to go in there alone

shvrdavid posted at 10:02 PM Wed, 14 June 2023 - #4467954

Y-Phil posted at 3:14 PM Wed, 14 June 2023 - #4467921

"Smoky mathematics": AppleJack  + ShvrDavid = gloomy passage 

Shh, someone will hear us......

"Smoky mathematics": AppleJack  + ShvrDavid = gloomy passage 

Wow, fantastic atmosphere, going to try smoke/steam next!  

Y-Phil posted at 3:14 PM Wed, 14 June 2023 - #4467921

"Smoky mathematics": AppleJack  + ShvrDavid = gloomy passage 

Wow, fantastic atmosphere, going to try smoke/steam next!  

Thank you 

My first render with Poser 13. I like the Superfly. I've been using Poser since version 2, and the improved render quality and ability to use the GPU just adore me.

It is a very simple rendering. It doesn't have any mystery, but I think it has a lot of future.

I want to take advantage of asking a question: My computer is an Intel I7 6800 with 32 mb of Ram and an Nvidia GTX 1080.

If I upgraded to an I9 with an Nvida 4090, would render times drop dramatically?

If I upgraded to an I9 with an Nvida 4090, would render times drop dramatically?

Cool render.

A 4090 is far faster than any GTX card, by about 3.5 times in most benchmarks that render. RTX cards can also render in Optix, which can be much faster than CUDA.

Exactly how much faster really depends on what your rendering thou.

I have a 2060 in this system and want to get a 4060ti 16 gig card to render when they come out, just for the memory capacity and the speed it will render in Optix. GPU memory is a bit more important to me than going all the way to a 4090 for the speed advantage that draws 400+ watts and runs me out of the room from the heat output.

You also don't need an I9 to do GPU renders. I went with an I5 13600k processor for the power savings. It has 20 threads and sitting here typing to you the processor is using very little power jumping between 6 and 15 watts. I and drops to 4.3ghtz under full load of about 170 watts.  If you do cpu intensive stuff an I9 is a great processor, but it is also a power hog. 

Speed is great if you need it all the time. But it costs far more to run it in the long run.