Yup! Wow, MUCH simpler than the MPE I've been using since like.. Poser4... LOL. Mat poses and such all fixed. spins Hopefully I'll have this puppy up in freebies in the next day or two.

Cookie to the first person who recognizes the symbol on the front torso of the parka and who is NOT a Canadian. ;)

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Danke PJ!! 

Much appreciated!

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Oh, wow. Congrats you two!! 

Yes - adore Nightwish here. Miss Tarja's vocals, but I like Annette's as well. ^_^

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Quote - Also, does anyone know of a more RESPONSIBLE web carrier?  One
that is careful to keep things running, and notifies you before "evicting"
you from your "web home"?

After two non-notified domain drops, I really shouldn't continue
to give my business to Freeservers.  

Fool me once, as the saying goes.

www.omnis.com

That's where my website is hosted (and has been for years), and I've never had a problem with them. If they send a payment through and for some reason it doesn't go through, they'll fire off an email to you telling you so... I did have it happen once when my old card expired, and I got an email telling me that they hadn't been able to process the payment.

Worth a look maybe? I don't know how much space you'd need or such, but they're good from what I've seen.

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There's also animation reasons for dial limits as well... but yeah, I would have MUCH preferred the dials not hidden like that. Or at least a pose setting or some sort of library setting that would unhide them enmasse. grabs zip LOL

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Walmart's using it as well. Their self-checkout machines, that's the stock P4 Posette on the animated demonstration sequence that the monitors run when not in use by customers.

Wolf359 -
I've experienced the 'prejudice' angle of the art form myself personally, many times. I've gotten notes and such over on Deviant Art telling me quote : "Well it's nice except for the Poser bit..." or "Well it looks good. Just wish you hadn't used Poser to do it." or, on the more extreme end (and yes i have actually gotten notes like these before), "Why dont' you just go get a colouring book, and claim it's your art if you're going to use Poser for it?"

It does exist. It does exist outside of the poser ''community,'' though I'll admit I haven't seen a LOT of it, I HAVE indeed been on the recieving END of it myself, about five times or so over the last five years of my doing this stuff.

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LOL!!! Good one....

Quote - Umm - not disputing the results, but it not generally necessary to connect the reflection to both the color and the value. The value is simply multiplied with the color. When you connect both, you are multiplying the reflection color with a gray-scale copy of itself. This effectively darkens anything that is below 1 and brightens anything that is above 1. (You could only get above 1 if you were using an HDR image.)

Anyway, it seems that the sum of the reflections and the other lighting was way more than 1, resulting in color clamping. You could also simply type .5 or .3 or something in the Reflection_Value to decrease the reflection brightness.

You know, that much I did know already... that's why I found it so blasted WEIRD. o.O But I've opened brand new scenes, tested it under spotlight, infinite, point, etc... I don't get it! I don't know why it would be the solution, but... O.o It seems to be... very, very, very ODD. LOL

Ja. Confirmed. Leaving all default settings to the product's procedurals 'as is', the only thing I changed this time around was connecting the silly reflection map to the Reflection Value node, and it's rendering the way it should, now. o.O Weird. Very, very weird. 

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Aye... I THINK I found the problem, actually...

The default procedurals connect a reflection map (the sphere) to the reflection map node. They also set the Reflection Value to 1.000. However, the Reflection map is not connected to the Reflection Value node at all. So we have a map connected to map node, a value of 1.000 set to the value node, with no reflection map connected to it.

I have to test this yet - but the initial render after connecting the silly reflection map up to the Reflection Value node thus far shows none of that over-exposure of the procedurals. Give me a minute here and I'll double check. But I think this is the cause... o.O

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Quote - That is because texture filtering in on by default in 7, a very irritating feature, whatever moron thought of this should be slapped.

Er... even after manually setting each material's texture filtering to 'none', Firefly still smoothes it all out... -_-;

I do agree with the sentiment, though! It's one of the most idiotic things I've seen done... LOL.

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Thanks. Explains that, then. ^_^

P4 Engine (Poser7)
Reflection Lite Multi : Off
Reflection Maps : Disconnected Nodes

[Edit : Disconnected Reflection Maps from the main arm base, but NOT the various little details.]

Yep, I know it... but I'm NOT using the toon or sketch render options! LOL

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