Aha! Poser 13.3.895 is out, and there's something cool to check:
"Implemented displacement node for SuperFly materials. (App) #2234"

Same opinion: I've replaced my aging 2080Ti by a 4070 OC, which consumes less watts and is at least twice as fast, sometimes three times.

If you click on "Light Controls", you should see a list of lights, example:

That being said, if you set your light's material this way (diffuse and specular color):

it should light the scene only in the preview, not at render time, which can be either useful or confusing

To give you an idea: at the time (2021) I had an RTX 2080 Ti with 11Gb of RAM: 13 Vic4, the card refused the 14th: too many elements to manage.

Just as a reminder: in my case, my old Win10 installation kind of retired definitively a month ago. The motherboard simply refused to start.
I've built a new PC, Win11 this time, and I copy my old Poser stuff (Poser 11 installation folder + the runtimes + the last Poser 13 freshly installed) on a new SSD, the old one was not recognized by my new motherboard.

The result: Poser 11 starts without problem, no re-installation needed. You only need to copy the "Poser Pro\11" folder from your last PC at the corresponding place on a new PC, which means: backup.
I only had to edit and adapt the paths in the "LibraryPrefs.xml" file, using a simple text editor.

Example with one of Wenke's Walking sets:

The only change were a slight one on the shoulders, as it's a Sasha

When it comes to hand poses, Santuziy78 has a bunch of interesting sets, such as this one
https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/134744/stz-everyday-smart-props-v4-g3f-g8f
smart props are included (glasses, cups, mobiles, etc...)

Ilona also has some interesting sets of hand poses, example:
https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/68311/pretty-hands-2-for-v4

Wenke has two interseting walking sets, example:
https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/66809/walking-v4

mr_red posted at 6:58 PM Fri, 25 October 2024 - #4490790

wow! I wasn't expecting this amount of interest in my silly post, thanks peeps. i have notes to take it seems. 

anyhow I thought about it and I think it's better if i just post the link to the comic page, so people can see what im talking about. (hopefully its not breaking rules) but it's not posting the pics on here so dont click the link if you dont want to see k4 kids in the bath (it only shows their shoulders up)

https://thediaryofcassandrablack.thecomicseries.com/comics/18#comment-3850907

it seems i have some reading to do. thanks for the advice peeps.

Rhia474 posted at 6:14 PM Fri, 25 October 2024 - #4490788

YPhil, you renamed two nodes, can you please let us know which ones are those (Gloss Level and Gloss Effect)? Not all of us know the Cycles nodes by heart. Thank you!

And if you don't want to touch the setting of your base layer, you may add a second layer and play with those settings.

Let 0.05 for the MixClosure's Fac setting: too high and the skin turn pale.
Often, I use 0.5 for the Anisotropic's Roughness setting with my lights setups, here with Poser11's "Bright Light", I lowered the value down to 0.2

Deleting the layer lets you go back to your original skin.

When it comes to Vic4's irises, I'm often using those of Jamminwolf's Lucy Zep, as they don't have that weird shadowing on the upper part, as it was often the case at the time.

Hi

In one of Erogenegis' packages, you should find this:

I don't know If it's still in beta, but you'll need it plus the PDF that accompanies the package. The whole process isn't always a success, for a reason that I can't explain, not being techie enough in the inner details of the character model.

Here's an example of Kaylee wearing one of 3D-Age's tops and a mini skirt from Billy-T

The process needs some training, you should first train in relatively simple clothes.

Actually, browsing Renderosity's market place seems a real nightmare (it's not slow, it's sluggish, almost like quicksand), this occurs twice a day, so that I haven't explored a lot using the word "Badlands" but that seems to be an M4 cloth.

Y-Phil, so the sad purple devil indicates you are getting no joy with Poser 11 on Apple Silicon and/or Sonoma?

My Intel MacBook died so now I've got an M3, trying to spend as little as possible re-purchasing functioning software.

Poser 11 did what I needed for making animated elements but I'm getting the feeling I'm going to have to upgrade.

Any other opinions on Poser and Apple Silicon compatibility? 

Thanks

Varnayrah posted at 11:37 AM Sat, 5 October 2024 - #4490007

I hesitate to say it, but the problem in my eyes is not so much lack of support (at least, not only), but that often the offered content for LF/LF2 for example does look a bit outdated quality-wise. I have older gowns for V4 and V3 even with more detail than some things offered for the newer, more modern figures. I find little reason to purchase those, then.The trenchcoat set mentioned earlier is really a good example.

And even if the tghings might be good, the promos often don't show it. D|S promos often look much more sophisticated. An example:

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/165956/prae-gwendolyn-hair-for-g8g9-females

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/165957/prae-gwendolyn-hair-for-la-femme-2-and-dawn-2-poser

The same product, and I really think it's a cute hairstyle which I'm considering to purchase... but had I only the poser promos to go by I might pass it.

Or harem pants...

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/163215/sic-jeanne-harem-pants-for-g8x-f

https://www.renderosity.com/marketplace/products/163376/sic-jeanne-harem-pants-for-la-femme-2

I purchased the La Femme version because of the D|S promos... the poser promos, I'm sorry to say, look like images I might have done in my first poser days like15 years ago. I think it must be hard to make high qhality promos in two such different applications, but there are some light sets and such out there that would help a lot. And little things like nice poses that look natural.

If you're totally new to 3D and go by promos alone you'll certainly get the impression that D|S will make better pictures. So... if the products that are there were more sophisticated or better promoted it might help at least a little.

I'm sorry if I sound harsh, but that's been on my mind for some time now.

Afro, I definetively don't mean your things, those are a light at the end of poser tunnel.

Oh, and I really love dynamics, by the way. Most of my images contain dynamic clothing nowadays. some even borrowed dforce things from Genesiswhatevernumber.I 

Just my two cents: most of the time, as buying something is a matter of personal taste, the LF pose for the harem pants reminds me of the poses used for Vic4 these last 20 years. in my region, we say “it smells like mothballs” 

Even though I find that LF is quite muscular (once again: personal taste), advertising specialists know this well: a customer must either be able to identify with the model, or dream of one. I think a more pinup model, without excess, would be better. 

I'm used to the often poor, sometimes hideous renderings of anything Vic4, so I'm not unaware of this kind of detail, potentially interested in the product itself and not the advert for it. But that's just me, newcomers will be influenced.

As they say: the devil is in the detail.

The only reason I can imagine is that the file has one day been opened and modified using a program that doesn't include the uff-8 management.
Lately, I've seen this by examining a css file generated by an old Visual Basic 5 program, correctly encoded, but upon opening it using Win11's notepad: nada, no accents, only squares.