Rhia474 posted at 4:57 PM Sat, 20 January 2024 - #4480622

Please, please, please, give us a decent Superfly displacement that works without subdividing the everloving sn*t out of the mesh. I miss fur and decent brocade. Thank you.

That would have to be implemented in Cycles first, so it's mostly out of the hands of the Poser team.

For fur, I think fiber primitives would be much better than displacement, so that's basically strand-based/dynamic hair territory. I haven't played with that stuff for ages, so I'm not sure how hard it would be with the current Poser to add nice strand-based fur to a character or item of clothing. But anyway, making hair/fur and similar features work better in Poser would be a separate feature request.

For things like brocade, adaptive subdivision might help a bit, which Cycles seems to support, but last I looked it was flagged as an "experimental feature". If I understand correctly, that means the amount of subdivision that's actually applied to an object for rendering will depend on how close it is to the camera.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.