Absolutely!

But it's all sorted now, so I'm back to making my scene :D

That is comforting to know!

I am used to Hair props I have bought either being in the Figure folder, or under the Hair tab... I've never had a prop that came under both. I assumed, incorrectly as it turns out, that Pure Velvet with those morphs for the extra characters behaved like other Hairs I'm used to.

I feel quite foolish now. I didn't realise there was a second version of the hair included. I was using the V4 prop from the Figures folder, I didn't know there was another option under Hair that the K4 fix was designed for.

Thanks for everyone's help. I've got the hair okay now :D

Thanks!

If no one has any ideas in the thread, then I'll shoot off a message to the vendor.

The product page says it works for both DAZ and Poser.

And if the hair doesn't work in Poser, then it shouldn't have worked when I conformed it to V4.

The hair looks normal when I load it; it's only when I try and conform it to K4's head that it goes berserk

For sure! She is looking more like Cousin It from the Addam's family, than the Alma-esque look I'm aiming for. Didn't have a chance to do anything else, before the hair decided "nope, not going to cooperate"

I'm not sure if it's a K4 issue, with hair or not, because this is the first time I've used the model. I tried the hair on V4 and it behaved itself when I confirmed it to V4's head...

The only GC value I editted was in the Render Settings dialogue window. I adjusted it to a value of 1

Quote - Every time we get into a GC understanding discussion, the person I'm dealing with goes off and does hour-long renders. You don't need to do that. Is that what you're doing? While I was waiting for a response, I did 30 renders with GC off, GC=1 and GC=2.2. Want to see some?

Heh, no I wasn't doing hour-long renders. I did a couple of test renders very early this evening (probably about 3 hours ago) before you posted in this topic, and the test renders only took me about 10 minutes at half-size- I was adjusting my lights after dropping the GC in Render Settings down to 1.

In my opinion, they turned out rather nicely- will post one after I shrink it down (3000px is a wee bit big for forums) And after I postworked them, I've been banging my head against Photoshop, trying - and failing - to paint fire.

Your example renders highlight the difference in the settings very clearly. Thankyou :)

Quote - I wrote something in this thread because I saw another person saying "I like gamma = 1" and that is the same as saying "I do not want to use gamma correction".

That was me - commenting on the results I got, with the corrected hair and the brightness on the lights in the next render I did after doing as Robyn suggested with dropping the Gamma Correction in the Render settings scene down to 1.

I think I understand the Gamma Correction a little better now - although I am still a bit confused about it, as it does strike me as a very complex and convoluted thing.

I did understand that the GC value of 1 = GC being nullified... but I still consider the results with GC in Render settings set at 1 when I did my render with the Chrystalline hair and the overall lightness that I plan on doing some more experiments with changing the values in the GC when I do my next renders.

I still feel I should apologise, as after you have offered a long explanation about the GC, and I'm still coming back with saying that I liked the results I had with GC on 1, it seems ignorant of me.

Quote - Should I even bother explaining about enabling GC with gamma=1 everywhere?

I'm going to just not bother unless the readers can follow and understand the difference between the following words:

 

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I am sorry but I didn't know that my query about the hair was related to the Gamma Correction. I'm new to Poser and still getting my head around the settings. The vast majority of the Default settings I leave them alone- only a few I understand enough to change.

Thanks very much!!!

Now I know what the Gamma Correction will do when I play around with it, I'll adjust the settings and see what different results I come up with. Changing the 2.2 in the Render settings window to 1 got me a result I'm very happy with, but there is always room for improvement.

My approach to lighting is still very very basic and amateurish, but with the GC adjustments, I know my lighting will need tweaking because I'm getting different results.

You have referred to information left by Bagginsbill - do you have a link where I could find this information so I can have a read?

I just changed the GC to 1 on another render, using the same character and hair, and it made a MASSIVE improvement! I always thought there was something wrong with my lights, because I wasn't doing something properly with them, not having enough lights in the scene... but I can see now it was the Gamma that was causing problems, not the lights at all.

I didnt understand what the Gamma Correction was in the Render settings, so I left it at Default, which was pretty high at 2.2 (I think). I will have to remember to drop it down to 1 from now on. I prefer the results.

Thankyou again!! I learned something new today big grin

I'm using Poser Pro 2010 - haven't upgraded my Poser program.

Is the Gamma Correction in the Render settings option window? Or do I change the gamma value in the Properties tab, in the main Pose window?

Absolutely! There are a million different ways a project could be made, and we all have our own ways of doing things- that in itself makes every project, while having a common theme, unique :)