Quote - > Quote - Another action pic for Antonia, with help from Nyrath, Bill Redfern, and EnglishBob, just to name a few.

Really convincing action, except there's no shadows! You need to get away from using depth-mapped shadows and vendor lights, petal. 1 light, raytraced, and you won't believe the drama!!!

I'm using the one light, sky dome setup BagginsBill suggested.  I realized that I had failed to turn on ray-traced shadows and set the shadows to 0.5 as he suggested after you brought it up.  However, adding in those two settings didn't change anything.  Nor did moving the light to a different angle (using the shadow camera as an aid).

I'm thoroughly puzzled now.

Les, I have similar problems to EnglishBob with the earrings, although I haven't tested as thoroughly as he has.

EnglishBob, your suggestion (with expanded explanation in email) did the trick.  Sent it back to the boss for further testing to see if it's ready to upload.  Maybe I'll have it menace Antonia in a render so I can stay on-topic.  [grin]

As a beginning rigger, I'm having a rigging problem unrelated to Antonia.  I'm trying to get a mechanical arm on a craft to rotate without distorting the hull of the vessel it's on.  Anyone want to advise me in private how I might deal with this?

The weight-mapping version doesn't work in Poser versions below Poser 9, or at least the weight-mapping doesn't, correct?

It'll be awhile before I can join the next generation.

Quote - I just posted an image starring Antonia dedicated to some of you folks...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2253031

Pretty!

I learn more in ten minutes with BagginsBill than I learn with all of the Poser manuals.

That sounds like a good idea, although I confess I've no idea what my preferences would be for lighting.

And to simulate a sun light for this particular scene, does anyone have any recommendations, keeping in mind that the background is a Cyclorama?  (I'm thinking I might need more than one light to make certain it gets lit.  Unless maybe indirect lighting solves that problem . . .)

See what happens when I don't read before I reply?

Quote - personally i'd remove the trees entirely, tall bare trunks like that are kind of wrong for the plains. unless of course they're phone poles....just my opinion; you're the artist

I think I'll keep them, Jancory:  if you look at the background, you'll see trees in the distance, as well.  I live in a rural area that is mostly desert, but in a few places, water is near the surface, and we get trees there.  It IS odd-looking, I'll admit, but if you'd like, I can show you a few pictures.  Dry desert vegetation and even bare ground, and then a small stand of trees.  Weird.

And Bagginsbill has the right of it yet again.  As a newbie, I rely ENTIRELY too much on default settings.  Well, by now, I'm no longer a newbie, so I'll have to side-grade myself to dilettante.  [wry smile]  The ray-traced shadows looked much nicer.

And BB got there again.  [grin]  Yeah, their default lighting system has a skillion lights in it.  (I find that seems to be especially true of the older stuff, or am I imagining it?)  I'll change the blur radius and see how that looks, as well.

Quote - I'd think more basic. Are shadows enabled on all your lights?

Sorry I didn't see your post earlier.

The depth map shadows were turned on.  But when I used Ockham's lighting script to change all the lights to ray-traced, it looked MUCH better.  Now to see if I can change my upload to the new version . . .

Advice on lighting would be greatly appreciated.  I used one of Cyclorama's stock lighting packages.  Adding Ambient Occlusion yielded no detectable results.

The trees look out of place?  Are you suggesting that I remove them entirely, or move them somewhere else in the scene?  (They are part of the default for that particular Cyclorama setup.)

I think you're right.  Maybe if I add ambient occlusion . . . I see that OcclusionMaster just got updated, so that gives me added motivation to try the experiment.

Attached Link: Gallery image

I'll probably post a larger version in my gallery, once I track down everything I used.  Credit where credit is due, and all that.  :-)