hborre posted at 4:13 PM Thu, 21 December 2023 - #4479435

What is your unit of measure set to in Poser?  Is your bump map also set to a gamma setting of 1?

I don't know about measure units, I just set Marvelous D for @Poser 8ft@.

As for gamma I did some experiments, thank you for the idea

SIDE 1 of the beetle

Preview:

rendered with no bump, just diffuse, nothing else (how come I get some relief?):

Now I take this bump map (the lines are grey and blurry)

rendered with alpha from render settings:

rendered with alpha 1

now I take this bump map (dark lines, sharp)

rendered with alpha to render settings

alpha 1

As you can see they very much the same. I was trying to make the furrows deeper but no luck.