Having a ton of fun just playing with anistropic shader nodes on Vicki 2's eyeball material.

No postwork, Firefly renderer. I haven't read the manual yet.. gonna do that next. ;)

Looks cool, how about a closeup of the eye?

"anistropic"? Ouch, is that a big word for procedural shader? :-)

cool! how do you set up the anistropic node? do you connect that to the reflection attributes?

WOW! But then you are a 'real' artist to begin with - you have an incredible eye for the right look at the right moment. The renders you post here are always a feast for the eyes. Your lighting is always perfect for the situation. This one is especially awesome since it's poser 5. I hate you.

Here's a closeup of the eyeball.

Ahah, BillyGoat. Thanks, I think. ;)

anisotropic (adjective) : Having properties that differ according to the direction of measurement. Or in this case, a shader node that allows you to create irregularly-shaped highlights.

Little_Dragon: Too bad I didn't pay attention when I took Latin ;) Thanks for the clarification =)

Looks like the masters are coming back... This is the best P5 render I've seen in this forum yet... and, seeing as how it's your first... they're only getting better. =D Paul P.S.: I play with the damn thing for weeks and can't get anywhere near this level... you play for 5 minutes and beat hell out of everything P4 could do? I'm so jealous it hurts. ;)

One thing I am liking about the Firefly renderer is that anti-aliasing doesn't seem to "blur" the texture like the P4 renderer did. In order to make any P4 render look good, the first thing I did when I got it into Photoshop was sharpen it. The polygon smoothing is hella nice, too.

That clear ball looks so cool, Lunaseas. =) Good job setting that up.. I haven't gotten that far yet.

Your render as a whole is.... "hella nice".... sweet :) Niles

Kiera! WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU HAVEN'T READ THE MANUAL? You must be some kinda Poser savant!

Absolutely stunning Kiera! (I hate you too! ;-) ) I can;t wait to see what you can do after you read the manual! BTW, I'm surprised no one has asked yet, but where is the hair from? You didn't whip that up in hair room too, now did you?? -Tim

I am having so much fun. ;)

That's amazing! It looks just like my brother!

Kiera beautiful Job! Lunaseas,Love it! You two are amazing :)

Go people go... I'm loving this. Q

Installation flawless? No crashes? What kinda system are you running?

Still no crashes. 1.8 GHz Pentium 256MB RAM 64MB nVidea video card Windows XP Home

Firefly render, no post.

Heh... that looks real Kiera. I doubt anyone could have done a pure render that clean and realistic in Poser 4. Paul

Good to finally hit a thread with NO poser 5 whines in it. LOL. Kiera... did you sacrifice a small animal before you installed? Or just get down on your knees? I'm glad SOMEBODY'S getting it on! I was beginning to dread the arrival of my copy, but this gives me hope. Wonderful stuff, both of you. mac

Hmmm...... a little postscript.... It just occurred to me that Kiera is doing something fairly intelligent here. "I decided to start with things I am familiar with.." Now THAT'S the intelligent way to go about it. Not dive into unknown territory from the git-go. mac

The real problem with POSER 5 is that even some of the most experienced artists here are stumbling through the learning process and are in the position of being "NOOBIES" again. Seesm that as people are getting the hang of things, (barring the normals quirks of a new program), the real power of P5 is beginning to emerge.

Finally playing with it, was very depressed until I saw the thread on how to load the old stuffage in and now I am getting very excited. Time to go read and play. Marque

I agree with BillyGoat in the 4th reply. LOL Excellents Renders Kiera! ps I'm a Mac user so all I can do is watch and drool :b