Quote - Can someone tell me the large render image you can do in Poser pro 2012, I have a jobs and need to create some images at 10" by 21" in 600 dpi or 6000 by 12600.

so can Poser Pro 2012 do that?

Thanks

Tom

600 ppi is almost certainly overkill for whatever print process is going to be used, so first determine what kind of printer this is for.

Notice also that I used 'ppi' (pixels per inch) instead of 'dpi' (dots per inch). They tend to get used interchangeably and cause a lot of confusion. For example, my large Epson inkjet printer will print at 2880 dots per inch; but feeding it images over 360 pixels per inch is pointless.

Digital presses tend to have a resolution of 600 dpi to 1200 dpi: this does not mean you feed them images at 600 ppi or 1200 ppi. 300 ppi is what they're expecting.

The reason for this is that it takes more than one printer dot to represent each pixel.

There are exceptions to this. Some devices such as digital photo printers (see artbee's post above) and dye-sublimation printers are able to use one 'dot' to represent each pixel: in these cases it's best to use the printer's exact resolution: I'm not aware of any that exceed the Fuji Pictrography's 400 ppi.

It's DS rather than Poser, but this takes a lot of beating.

Screenshots of your shader setup would be a help...

Just tried it - works fine for me. Were you getting error messages? 

Just note that my units are METRES, so convert bump and displacement values if necessary.

Note also that the multiplier is used to adjust the scaling of the turbulence node - in the illustration it's set for a very large body of water.

Like I said earlier, it's a workflow choice, not a magic switch that suddenly produces great quality. 

Once you've made the Linear Workflow choice, it becomes a Linear Workflow commitment:  you have to understand that most bought content and freebies were created & tested in non-linear workflows, and that some work will be required to make them suit your workflow. There are many excellent scripts and utilities (mostly FREE) to help with such chores, but you should really attempt to understand what's being 'fixed' and why.

If you're a 'load and render' type of Poser user, a linear workflow isn't for you. 

A false dichotomy in my opinion.

Gamma correction is a workflow choice: I wouldn't be without it because it makes things simple, consistent and predictable. Others might enjoy pigging around with extra lights, strange shader setups and goodness knows what else - all of which are to compensate for the lack of a gamma corrected, or 'linear' workflow - and achieve really good results.

It has nothing intrinsically to do with 'render quality'. If you switch GC on and your renders look like crap, you have understood nothing of the implications of and requirements imposed by a linear workflow.

If that's the case, in addition to the huge amount of info peppered about here and at RDNA, you head over to this page (designed for LightWave users, but highly relevant), watch the video, download the PDF.

I have no idea why I did this. It's a 'Jubilee' Dalek with an Olympic Torch. In the rain.

Bigger here...

EDIT: the image has stretched for some reason...

Well, there's the atmosphere node: slow as hell to render (why? - it seems mathematically simple) but it'd be interesting to see some of these with atmosphere enabled.

Quote - Do you need IES, or do you simply need interesting lighting?

BB, I would certainly like the IES capability, but if it makes more (commercial or logistical) sense to provide a load of 'interesting' lights, I'd be pretty happy with that.

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My question would be - do you really want IES, specifically, or just some cool designer lighting for Poser?

I've been getting really frustrated with the limitations of Poser's lights recently - IES would be great, something I'd spend money on!

This is nothing to do with Poser so there's no point looking for anything in the manual.

This is about using Photoshop layers. If you have no experience of using them, you have a great deal to learn. Load up Photoshop's help files regarding layers, or buy a decent Photoshop book.

It does use some of Internet Explorer's components to enable different parts of the program to communicate with each other: this has nothing to do with the internet.

And those of us with Poser 8 and above will have checked out Dimension3D's primitives (which ship with the program, in Props > Primitives > Morphing Primitives in P9 and PP2012) - quite a few of which will morph - haven't we?

Incredibly useful, they can be.