Attached Link: http://radsite.lbl.gov/deskrad/dradHOME.html

doldridg, I'm playing with VL also. VL works fine but I'm having problems with the Poser exported 3DS files. I get the geometry but the textures, lights and camera aren't going along for the ride. May be something I'm doing wrong though there's much to the export dialog. I've had better luck exporting an obj and converting it to 3DS in another app. I still have to set up lights and camera, but at least the textures work with obj export. With the VL 3ds2vib utility, it seems to work better if I use the -b option to write binary 3ds files. PoseRay is easier and faster to do though the in few tests I've done, the images are distinctly darker than Poser renders. I haven't tried adding any extra lights though, just imported the ones from the Poser PZ3. I think that once you get it working, VL may well have more powerful lighting options than POVray. Great image alamanos. If you did that in PoseRay can you share how you set up the render? Actually, I don't know if I have the patience to really learn to take advantage of any of this high-end lighting stuff, wish it were easier. Still, it's free and fun to play with. If you're really a lighting freak, try Radiance (link) from Lawrence Berkely Labs. It's primarily for realistic architectural lighting so I don't know how Poser figures would look with it and it's a 30-70MB download! I'm actually fairly happy with the way Poser 4 does people with a good fake GI lightset. It's props, sets, etc. where it falls down and could really use some more sophisticated capabilities, but that's just my opinion. There's anothread going about PoseRay, VL, etc. Seems like a number of people are looking for free FireFly killers.

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