Thank you Tom, I am doing well been here or not , so I will be fine for sure !

and everyone know where to find me anyway ..  :)

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Thank you, it was almost 4 years ago that I created textures for character in the pose community, I just want to do something different this time..:) I made sort of this characters exclusive for my mec4d customers but they was very expensive.. so I decided to get myself better tools and get it done faster..and here we go...
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Thank you Sarah :)
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U welcome,, the new digital cameras have only raw2 file format they include own software for that but i did not like it at all, the plug-in support almost all cameras and many Adobe photo programs
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Thank you very much I am honored

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We are the aliens, we are just about to finish this planet and in mine time searching for the next worlds for the future invasions... .. lol ha ha ha

we have really so much bad things going in our world,  that would be better to focus on this at first .. aliens can wait.. and if they exist they will contact us for sure.. I saw**  Invasion** yesterday the new one.. was cool..
Sometimes I wonder who will visit us at first Jesus or Aliens ? from what I read, they expect something for 2012 .. so about 4 years.. are you ready ? lol

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I am sorry to hear about Fred, I did not have any problems not other of my friends..
do they have a phone number at all ?
you should contact the company that provide the credit card gateway and request refund.. you have always 30 days time to get your money back that are the credit card rules worldwide, if they like it or not!!

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Thank you, yes I have also new character for M2 .. if everything works fine he is ready tonight night..
I am waiting with Buddie so long b/c I am missing some photomaterials to finish the body... until next week I am done with him for sure before Christmas :))  I hope so!

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You more that welcome!!!
have much fun with!!

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Exactly what I mean, the quick switch between the both shadows don't really works...
everything need just a little bit more attention..
I am working on Poser time machine, I need the shadows exactly good that why I did my class before..agent Smith will bring us soon in 4th dimension... lol :)

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First  you need to set the Map Size higher that 255 ( 650-1000) works perfect and set the Shadow Mini Bias to 0,000000.. (for the details ) after that your depth map shadows are so accurate as the ray-traced shadows and much more smooth and render much more quicker no matter what type of light you use spot or infinite..if you wanna get deeper in..you will see self...
  the standard of depth-map  in Poser is set wrong that why they render not accurate but that is wrong setting not the shadow problem or bug... if you switch from Ray-Traced shadow to depth-map shadows you have to put in the correct values too .....

SEE IMAGE ABOVE, THEY ARE BOTH ACCURATE
But one thing what make them different is that the shadows that are created by a spot or point light are total different as from an infinite light ( the sun)

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 as there are any copyrights notes regarding to the form of this object in the license then you can't do that... as in this case was by DAZ with the Girl... models that was looking a little bit as her was shut down directly.. as long as there is nothing in the license regarding to the form then you can do what you like.. as always most licenses allow you to use the object or figure only in a rendered art work ;)
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I will suggest to use ray-traced shadows only with spot and point light and  depth-mapped shadows with Infinite light only.. most of the users use the REUSE function and forget to clean it up after that why in some cases the shadows looks not accurate...

I use AO in my HDR IBL and it works very well, the value is very low, when working together with the extra light the AO doing own thing on the best.. react also to the extra light and show only in the places where the extra light don't hit the surface, as it works in real world..it is fast and accurate

I use only depth-mapped shadows for the extra light when the base is HDR IBL.. ray-traced shadows are sharp as well and represent the shadows when the light coming from objects like lamp and spots.. ( not infinite light ) you can blur the edges as well or set the intensity a little bit down..

I tested the depth-mapped shadows with the HDR but this don't work very well, even if you change the shadow value to 300 it looks better but still it is not good and the function don't works as you think it would works.. HDR is nothing else as only Global Illumination there are not shadows beside Ambient Occlusion, you should use one more extra light for the specular and shadows.
For example if you put in real life a white plane in front of you the light that reflect from that  would not create a shadows behind you right? it is not strong enough.. so this make a sense..
Use HDR IBL light as a base lighting only...

The best ratio for that is setting the HDR IBL to 65 % and the extra light intensity to max 35 %, this way you will get 100% light intensity and you don't have to change the Diffuse Color however this way don't give the best effect.
Other thing here is that the poser scene is very small , only 7% is lighted up from the HDR IBL Light-probe, you should change also the Image Resolution to 7 in the material room to have more accurate and well the best light for now...
However when Poser8 will have GI , it will make it not so simple to get the realistic effect,  you will have to compose a complete scene with all right materials and textures that will generate around the model the right Light..and the rendering time would be also very long.. HDR IBL is the most simple way to capture it with one simple light and I love the simple way :) Simple is beautiful!

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You welcome! :)

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