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   Michael

Quote - Here's a little stocking+skin+toecap anti-demo - by that I mean that it demonstrates they don't work the way I'd hoped they would. ;-)

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Hi,
the right foot seems to be a mesh hickup, the left foot looks good. I'm sure the artifacts can be fixed. (And those would exist for conforming stockings as well, even worse, all along the leg!)

The main issue seems to me, that a seamless-for-the eye transition between the skin+stocking shader to the two separate shaders "stocking only" for the toecap and "skin only" for the feet must be created. 

Best regards,
  Michael

Best regards,
   Michael

Hi,
very last post on this: The C7 results match the Poser results, if in Poser the (inverse) texture gamma correction is enabled.

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   Michael

ooooh, thanks!  I will bookmark that one!

Just as a last P.S. my final C7 results:  I tried 25%light in C7 without gamma:  3,6,15,30,62

And C7 with gamma:

25% light: 7,14,31,62,126

50% light: 10,20,44,88,179

75% light: 12,25,54,108,219

100% light: 15,30,63,126,254  (surprise! Matches Poser  WITHOUT gamma correction)

So Carrara does gamma correction very different compared to Poser. It seems that in C7, the light value is gamma corrected, but the texture RGB values not.

P.P.S.: Here are the Carrara result (C7.2) without gamma (no ambient, no skylight, one sun, same setup)

50% light: 12,25,54,108,219
75% light: 15,30,63,126,254
100% light: 15,30,63,126,254 (did I mix the files?  It's not THAT late. Maybe light intensity is capped)

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  Michael

P.S.: Please find here the results for the wider color ramp (RGB values 16, 32, 64,128,255 in the texture):

50% light: 15,29,56,100,161
75% light: 22,42,80,135,198
100% light: 30,55,101,161,221
 

What can be observed very nicely is, that the values for 50% light and 100% light correspond to each other, i.e. identical values of the product of RGB texture amount and light intensity are still mapped to the same render image color.

This might seem trivial, but i currently have trouble to get even roughly related results with Carrara, no matter if with or without gamma correction.

 Interesting was, that the maximum color value the rendered image had, was much less:

161 for 50% light

198 for 75% light

221 for 100% light

The color values for a darker color (RGB values 128 out of 255) were:

100 for 50% light

135 for 75% light

161 for 100% light

So my conclusion is that the main purpose of tone mapping is to have some stretch for
overly lit images, and therefore it is very different to PoserPro's gamma correction.

Best regards,
  Michael

Quote -
One particular area that is woefully lacking is shoes other than high heels. V4's calves must be killing her. Where are the low heels and flats that most "real" girls wear?

Especially significant because there is only one single figure who's feet does not look weird when bent for high heels: Antonia.
Idler made some nice high quality "casual leisure shoes" without heels for V3 and V4.

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   Michael

 Hi,
with Poser 7 and up you can also show / hide body parts via Body dial without alternate geometry. 
I'm currently travelling without access to my main computer, but I can post the cr2 lines in a few days.

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  Michael

P.S.: The original post where I learned how to do that was buried with the CP forums :-(

Thanks a lot for this figure,  the bends are much better than with any commercial figure,
especially the thumb, which always looked weird with the other figures when grabbing something!

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   Michael

Hello,
Carrara also can do that. It does come close to the 19.95 $ or less price point if you get the DAZ book which includes C6 Pro.

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    Michael
 

Hi,
jerking legs almost ever are caused by "IK on legs". First thing I do after loading a figure is to turn that off (well, sometimes I forget).

However this should be the same also with Poser 7.

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   Michael