WHAW, thanks for responding. bb

Yeah, the forum, :-(
Hard to believe they keep it this way.

But very inventive work you post, well done.

Hello bb, nice work man.

Question : Most issues with combining is when the light comes from to front, and the shadows go to the rear.
What happens if you put the sunlight in front of the figures, with the shadows extending to the rear. Especially at the "break" between the procedural ground plane and the rest?

Well, as forum traffic certainly will show; Some of us are beyond waiting.

Ebots? Are ramdom now.
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
Half the time I do not get them.

Glitterati3D also has a good point.
Years of work by BB and Snarly and Les, have been washed down the drain.
Instead of making a bundle, and put all the info in the tutorial s ection somewhere. No, gone.
You need a "master degree" to find parts and pieces back.

Did I note it is S L O W ???

Hell, sometimes I can not even find my own stuff back. So? Mostly I stopped posting. (like many others)

This site was very-very active, right up till about december 2010.
From then on it went backwards and downwards.

S L O W.

The forum has become the sowest to respond, the slowest to refresh, the hardest to load.

It takes sometimes minutes to react.

No clue what garbage is running in the background but => PULL THE PLUG.

Copy paste, broken; active links broken, posts dissapearing, search not working,

I write posts, they "dissapear".

No problems, please do not respond. Other forums are recieving us with open arms.

1. Fire the current webmaster, He has no CLUE what he's doing.
2. Restore the forum to december 2012 layout.
3. Done.

Who needs 17 links to a marketplace? On the front page?

Test:
open This page on a 1920x1080 monitor, that is the current default for a monitor, right? (1600x900 for most laptops.)
What do you see?

The top 25% is UNUSED BLANK white grey.
The bottom 75% is UNUSED dark grey-brown.

Now what percentage is actually used?

And when it is used? It is used vertically.

So, that is why I am typing vertically too.

HEY!!!! How many lines and images say; *Welcome to the Poser Forum.

HEy? I know that , I clicked to get here remember?

Ergonomics? What is that??? Ever heard of it?

1. Fire the webmaster
2. Restore december 2012 layout, or better yet, the december 2010 layout.

What worries me most is "who" is going.

Geep, BB, Snarly?

Man, those are the hearts and souls of POSER.

That are  ome of the most motivated and most capable and most helpfull guys around.

Comapred to those? I feel very-very-very small.

Realy, it hurst so see them go.

Earl, a few years back, I also opened this forum every day (Still do)

But a few years back, there where at least 2 pages of new treads "every day". (A single page of new treads was rare)
Now you can be happy to see 2 new treads a day, and a handfull of posts.

if this continues, they can fire half of the staff.

Since the last "downgrade" of this forum, activity has dropped to an all time low.

In brief : The forum is a mess, and more and more members are fed up and leaving.

And as a result? RDNA activity (and others) has grown exeptionally high.

Want to rescue the forum? Restore to december 2010, before the last 3 downgrades.

Just look at the multiple and multiple and multiple headers here consuming . . . . . .
Tony shut up, go elsewhere.
Not a soul is reading any more. . . . . .

Tja, you can Always Google..

"RGB for Steel" 

Steel is one of the most difficult colors.

The metal, the exposure to surroundings, hardened, hammered, grinded, poloshed, rusty.

Unfortunately, something is wrong with the object file, and it is symmetry and UV-map related. (exact reason still unclear)
When I test with a rebuild object flie all is good. To be continued.

Ok, a small update here.
Fabi was so kind to send the obj file and procedure, and the issue is reproducable. See screengrab.
But only the preview is afected, the render is always good.

To reproduce?
Run a default clothsimm.
Then add some morph targets (I added Width1 and Bottom wide)
Then spawn an new Morph target => See my funny name. LOL.

Zero dyanamics, zero the morphs, set your new dial to 1 and testrender.
So far everything is looking GOOD, absolutely NO issues what so ever.

But, then turn your newly spawned dial up or down and you get a preview problem => See screengrab.
Only the preview is afected, the render is always OK.

Hello all, I am following this tread closely, but have not seen this myself.
I always have SubD at "0" and render at SubD "1".

And I realy need a reproducable case to study.