The ribs will take a long time to come back to normal. It's hard to explain busted ribs and smashed cartilage to someone. I switched to a lazy boy chair to avoid the horizontal pressure and the inevitable twist or rollover to exit the bed. Keep your legs in shape as you will need them more than ever. My first exit forays were grocery shopping as I could use a cart as a safety guide and still push the legs for some cardio. Office chairs are good for down time. Having a clutch handle or a strong friend nearby really helps getting verticle. Eat smart and get into cooking from scratch. You can kick up your bloodwork by dropping down your salt and meat intake. Stay off bottled juices as they up your triglycerides. Coffee IS good. Study the plant vitamin charts and if you need to,,, you can even try an Esselstyn diet. Just get into it. Be your own health factory.

Change is good.

 truth has surpassed fiction... I give you ... Zlata

Hah! I said Ed Hopper without ever seeing 11AM before in my life so you are onto his style more than you think. I did look it up and this is so close... excellent

I think I would drag everyhing over the objct I want to rotate in Hierachy editor. May take some time though depending on how big your scene is..

D3 was always my favorite. The hands were nice, especially. Definately the figure to evolve from.

Try lowering IDL quality to 8 for draft renders.  No need to wait. D3D settings have more control. Save a low and hi setting to library so you can get what you want...fast or slo mo

I find I can turn  SSS off when using most dark skins. SSS really works best on pale redheads in a dark room with direct sunlight streaming in. mho.. 

I've been using a black (noir) skin to see the reflection better. On indirect inside lighting, I've hacked it (fresnel) down 85% so far. This is of course an approximation. But the results seem waaay better than before.

I appreciate your explanations.

Daniel,

Did you have emitter unchecked? If not, have you rendered any of these in Pro2012? These are great. I wonder why light beams do not seem to penetrate through the hair strands onto the shoulders on (2nd) above?

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Nice one EnglishBob,,, that hits the Ops question and really turned out nice. Perhaps the realism thing has run its course in Poser for a while. I do enjoy images like this one.

i see Zombie flesh most times I look in a mirror. Too much sitting in dark rooms watching renders computing.

^lol   looking in the mirror... nevermind. I'm sure it was a "funhouse" mirror at some point in its life.

Daniel, Are you using the original 240 shader? I meant to ask that earlier.

Maybe something more a long the line of boris vallejo.

Ahhh,,, now I really understand. Earlier versions of Poser did a great job with that kind of light. It was kind of a staged scene with the voluptuous maiden in heaps of trouble... Good stuff. I did a few but they are gone. I thought there was a lot of that. Maybe it has past a bit.

My turkish bath was just a weird study using Poser... I do enjoy that. Especially with 512 megs of ram back then...;)

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...like zombie flesh

That made me smile for some reason,,, probably because I had just read you post...;)

My concern with this color bleed has been in regards to creating a character/skin texture set potentially for the marketplace.

There's your answer. You need to keep it in a pristine studio eviroment. A white room with direct Poser light or emitters. No envsphere unless its a desaturated fill light.

Like a photographer. I think kobaltkween is working on such an enviroment. Oh and sIBLs might give you more predictable results .

In my experiments so far I've found that I get the color bleed from the Envsphere when IDL strength is between .35 and .4. This is a shame because I don't want that much color bleed. It would especially look bad for outdoor scenes using a sky image. Everything gets a blue tinge to it where is in reality our eyes white balance most of the blue out. I'm currently rendering at IDL intensity of .25 to .3. Anyone else's thoughts?

I'd have to see an example but "color bleed" is an art that Poser has just adopted with IDL. Impressionists brought it to light when they began to carry all their color pallette throughout the entire canvas. I would say we need more of that. I struggle with hdr quality, though and results are never predictable at first.. As bb said it's easy to desat them or just lower intensity.

The big issue for me here is where to clip the reflection intensity on EZskin.  I'm doing it one at a time. I was hoping snarly would have jumped in by now. May have to wait untill after the holiday... IDL intensity,, I love the logic. I'm using it but have not done a proper set of tests yet. My range has been 0.15 to 0.3. This is neither here nor there. This is getting us into a better realm for light,,, no doubt. Great stuff.