hborre posted at 9:08 AM Mon, 10 April 2023 - #4461531

If the tattoo is an overlay, it can be added on a layer.  Frankly, EZSkin may need to be overhauled to accommodate the newer features of Poser 13.  Applying depth of field hasn't changed in this version.

I used Structure's Easy DOF script for Python 3, but not being a photographer, I had to twiddle with the settings a bit.  I'm grateful that I don't have to worry about brightness changing as I change the F-stops, though.  That's one real world complication I don't have to deal with.  [grin]

"My friend will hurt you!"

Somehow, I have managed to remain a beginner for twenty some years now, which is an advantage when I'm beta-testing:  I make all the mistakes a newbie would make that more expert beta testers would not.  You'd be amazed at how many bugs you can find by putting in the wrong inputs . . . .

At any rate, you all have been doing some lovely renders, so I thought I would share one of my Poser 13 renders.  The woman in the foreground used to have a tattoo on her chest, but in superfly, the overlay looked like a black shirt, not a tattoo.  Using EzSkin fixed the skin problem but removed her tattoo.  I also tried some depth of field on the image, but didn't get it right.

Here it is:

My edits don't seem to have made it; I don't see them.

There's an old electronics troubleshooting trick I mentioned in the edit:  Start in the middle.  That tells you which half of the circuitry is failing.  Once you know that, go in the middle of that and see which half the failure is.  If you have a single item with a texture that is failing out of 64 items, you can narrow it down to two choices in only five tries.  Much better than turning off items and then adding them back in one by one.

Again, my apologies for trying to tell the experts how to find the problem. I'm good at playing Captain Hindsight, I'm afraid.

The location is Hostile Surface recently put on the market by Coflek-gnorg but that is not what is creating the issue as Coflek-gnorg has been providing both Firefly and Superfyl textures for his products for some time.  The scene is populated with content from a number of different venders and there is something my graphics cards does not like.

Finally was able to get a render with the fog. I tried all three suggestions made, but it wouldn't render if I was using the hdri on the background. I had to switch to the environsphere.

Okay, that was a bit disappointing.

My work flow was creating a list of 25 figures to test (I forgot that Genesis 2 doesn't import, so I only tested 23.)

I brought each figure into Poser 12, as that was stated to be working. With the figure active, I would scale it to 50% size, usually drop it to the floor, add a pose (no fat puns, please) by first selecting the figure's name as a subset of the items I wanted to store. (I did not select the figure's body, which may or may not be relevant.)  I then requested that it not save the graphs, the morphs channels, or body transformation only scaling.

After making 21 of these poses (I accidentally forgot to save two of them which I didn't realize until testing time), I then put each figure into poser and tried applying the pose.  The figure would then immediately bury itself waist-deep in the ground without any change in size.

Nice!

Thanks, Ambientshade.  I'll have to look into that.

Okay, it offered me the chance to save scales as part of the pose (as well as "graphs", whatever that means in this context), but when I applied the pose to a new copy of the figure, nothing happened. Which I half feared and half expected.

It would only make purchasing products more seamless and efficient for me. I purchase daily. Absolute profit for Renderosity.

I agree that we should be able to set a permanent preference in our account.  In my specific case, my preference would be the exact opposite of yours, but I agree that the basic idea has considerable merit.

Similarly, I would wish to be able to change the default sort settings on both the wishlist and the products purchased list.  In my specific case, I would prefer to be able to set my default on the wishlist to lowest-to-highest prices, and on the products purchased list, I would want to automatically sort on the Updated items.

Hopefully, someone with authority to enact those changes will read this, and consider it.

I spoke with one vendor on an unrelated matter, and they pointed out to me that their Poser products were not selling nearly as well as their Daz Studio products.  The vendors are going where the customers are willing to pay to go.

I don't know why the Daz Studio products look better than the Poser-compatible products, but I can usually tell which is which just by looking at the images before reading the ad copy.

I don't know if Poser 13 will be able to use Daz products again or not, but I think such compatibility might address the current disparity between the two.  If compatibility isn't the issue, then I don't know what can be done to close the gap.  I only know that I don't want to stop using Poser, but if the vendors can't get people to buy Poser-compatible products, then I may have to go where the vendors are going, if I want new items in my Runtime.

Your guess is probably better than mine.  I have no idea why one would work and one wouldn't, especially as I can launch other scripts from the P11 Script Menu.  I was just grateful to learn that there was a workaround, if needed.

[sigh]  And if I'd taken the opportunity to read the manual, I would have known about the Close button being disabled . . . .