Can't wait to see Dawn 2... The last Dawn was alright. However, I remember the Dawn site being shut down. I was disappointed being I bought a lot of stuff from that site (Hivewire). I guess I left her alone when that happened. My idea is to use or enhance a character from Poser that would be equivalent to G8. The only one that gave me play is Antonia and Nova (talking to the photo realism like a G8 or G9).

Hivewire's store shut down, but their forums remain open. That's where they are posting renders of Dawn 2.

My purchases from Hivewire were transferred here. I think you had to request it. If you haven't done that, you should.

Nice renders, but the only thing that reads "real" to me is the textures, which presumably could be done with any figure.

Which reminds me, Cath (Mec4D) is doing amazing stuff with PBR shaders for Dawn 2.

And as a customer, I wouldn't touch it, either.

Aside from her provenance, I don't see what makes her more realistic than other Poser figures. She looks pretty low-res. Does she subdivide better than other figures or something?

I think Project Evolution looks a lot more realistic than Nova.

I still don't get it. She's pretty, but doesn't look very realistic to me. Which is fine, I personally don't like extreme realism in Poser figures. Too easy to fall into the uncanny valley.

You might take a look at Dawn 2, from Hivewire. She will be sold here, when she's finally ready. It's taking them awhile, but things seem to be moving again.

So she really is based off DAZ's Genesis? That seems...risky.

And I don't get the appeal, if you can't use any of the Genesis clothing, textures, or morphs.

Interesting. It does seem like there could be issues with DAZ, if she's a Genesis 8 clone. Can she use Genesis morphs, textures, or clothing?

I don't think I'd heard of Nova before. What do you like about her?

Holy cow. I guess I downloaded it just in time. My old computer died last month, and I'm still reinstalling software on my new computer.

Finally got around to trying a benchmark. I used this one, from the Poser 11 days.

https://www.renderosity.com/freestuff/items/83640/benchmark-test-scene-for-superfly

It took 20 minutes to render the scene in Poser 11, with my old computer. It was just under 14 minutes with Poser 12, also with my old computer.

With my new computer and Poser 13:

15 seconds with Optix

20 seconds with GPU

5 minutes 6 seconds with CPU

If you have a copy of Poser 11 or older, you could install it just to use old scripts that have not been updated.

RedPhantom posted at 7:34 AM Wed, 12 June 2024 - #4486081

I'd go with the Optix option. It is so much faster than anything else. And while I'm no expert, I've always been under the impression you want software to use all the threads if needed. Having it use less than that might be for if you want to multitask.

I will give Optix a try. I bought Poser 13 awhile ago, but was still mostly using Poser 11. I had no idea Optix was a thing.

mmitchell_houston posted at 6:02 AM Wed, 12 June 2024 - #4486076

I cannot answer all of your questions, but I can say that if you are trying for realistic renders, under Render Settings you select the Nvidia GeForce option. CPU should almost never be selected.

I went looking for information on how to get my old version of Vue Infinite to install on my new computer, and found it's not necessary. Wow. The end of an era indeed.

Very decent of Bentley to make the software free. I'm an engineer in my day job, and have been using Bentley's Microstation since it was Intergraph Microstation. Always had good experiences with Bentley. Best of luck to them.

You might try searching on Pirate or Buccaneer . You'd have to make your own textures.

You could also fit M4 clothing to V4 with Crossdresser or its ilk. There's more historical stuff for him, at least if you're not looking for "sexy" pirates.

It's too bad RenaPD has closed her store. She had a bunch of Napoleonic uniforms. I think they were for M4, but the hats and such could be easily used for other figures.

Poser can use normal maps, can't it? Just have to connect it to the right node.