LOL Cross posted with Dash. You in particular make me sick, the fact that you're on my list of favs is niether here nor there. As a side note, I really liked your last gallery post, the nekkid chick with the lion hair. Love that Lion hair!

Thats the stuff I was basing my experiments on, stefan. I looked up probe light, hdri, radiosity and a bunch of other stuff. But couldn't find anything were someone had forged ahead on this particular theme in the direction I was interested in. Stewers stuff is amazing, his website really cleared things up for me as far as rendering was concerned. As far as I can see you'd have to fake radiosity, ie not only where the light comes from but also how it bounces of a particular object. therefore youd also have to tweak reflections ie a yellow wall would cast some yellow light from it. Eric, unforunatly I don't know those programs you mentioned except for Bryce and have heard of Terragen. Stefan, does it have to be SR3, i put that on and it really messed with me, I had to re-install poser in the end and upgraded to the previous SR. And also what do you do with it? I had played with probelight plugged into alt diffuse and eventually achieved a self-lit V3, which is all well and good but not what Im after. HDRI in Poser, fake or not, has turned into a bit of a Holy Grail for me just recently. I'm pig-sick of those C4d users :-( and the effects they achieve. I've read about HDRI, seen documentaries on it, I even read a couple of tutorials on how its done in C4d!!! But can I replicate the effect? Can I buggery!

I've spent hours on this one. Plugging in this and that. tried stuff with Shademasters global illumination from freestuff, tried stuff with skydome thingy from RDNA. All very interesting but not what Im after. I'm sure something pretty good could be put together in P5 its just getting the recipie right.

Do you know, I've been wondering about this myself. Like Dash says the probelight in P5 is supposed to be able to help in HDRI (or fake HDRI) but I don't know how to use it for such, I've managed to get V3 looking good without using ans lights at all except the problight which was interesting. I just wonder if there is a good way to fake HDRI in poser using the various node etc in the materials room ie a combination of reflection, alt diffuse, alt specular etc. perhaps in combination with a global illumination???

LOL @ c1rcle, I was just goona suggest for a bunch from here joining up over there and be really arrogant towards them, but your idea is way cooler.

No, no, no! I disagree with all of you!!!

Thanks Dan, I just worked out where I was going wrong, the prop I was working on had two seperate parts that needed texture and bump maps to be applied to both. Thanks all for the pointers :)

Ok, I'm with you so far but without wanting to sound to stupid, how do I get the texture and bump file to work properly with the .obj? I tried the materials room but I kinda didn't know what I was doing :)

Ahh, so how do you use it? I couldn't find it in the maual, see my Glock thread below:)

quinlor, that would explain it. I re-installed poser just last week and hadn't gotten round to the srs.

At least its a relatively straightforward process to sort out eh?

Dunno about that but my computers better ;)

I think the people that run Customer Services here at Renderosity and the people over at Sixus1 will be glad to here everything is ok as it was them that were probably most hurt by your comments

Its the only money I'm gonna be makin' so I'm listening hard.... notebook and pen poised Shh when you come in!

Karen and Darkginger, yep you both know where I'm coming from. And as is often the case, aggression is usually the outcome of fustration and confusion. The funny thing is, as here, the problem can be sorted out within a short while.