Ebony La Femme:

The Video is awesome! Thank you for doing that!

Well. Inspite of my own words of recolouring textures I tried this just now and recoloured the base skin into something hopefully African and Foxy into what's intended to be native american. Of course Poser is still busy with my attempt of clothing LaFemme in V4 conforming things (which worked suprisingly well and I did not even use the fitting room which couldn't cope with Aery Souls things, or maybe I did something wrong). But I will show my results when I finally came around to morph and render my recoloured LaFemmes. At the moment I'm having so much fun trying things out I can hardly wait till one image is finished to start the next lol

The gnome on V4's shoulders looks cute, btw. I think some of the next things I must try is morphing a hobbit^^

It's not wrong of course. I render many white girls, too, but I also like to render other skin tones and features once in a while. I haven't tried, but I never thought it would be a problem to morph african or asian or... features with La Femme. But just recolouring pale skins to darker tones is not as easy as it seems or will often look not just right. Thence a darker skin (from real dark skin's photos) sometime would be welcome. Please mind I'm not complaining at all that it isn't already available. I know that lighter skin tones is what comes first and after all, it's only been a week.

I would ask, please give the content developers some time before you demand more support and content^^ When content for her stays being released at the current rate she'll have her garderobe full soon, even with more than skimp ware. There are some very not-skimp-ware outfits available already, in fact most of them I'd rather consider good solid everyday wear like loose Shirts and sportswear (nothing really skimpy about a sport bathing suit...) And there is already more, there are 1-2 fantasy/scifi outfits, there is a medieval gown, and I think with some texturing work some of the baser clothing pieces can go a long way. So no need yet to beat the "if only she gets enough support" horse by now. Shoes are a point. Though I just now used a pair of Aery Soul shoes as propped figures with good result. I little bit of scaling and some touches with the morph tool and there you are. Well at the moment it looks like many vendors wnat her to be a success. Other as with Evolution, who also was a very promising figure in my opinion. The most crucial point for me are skins and character sets, and there LaFemmme has after a week already five very good sets plus the also very good base skin (Evolutions base skin really can't compare) so I'm in good hopes there, too, that ethnic variety may come in time (which I would like very much, too because you only get so far with texture recolouring).

Thank you. Hmmmm... suppose I must get Roxy after all. I got Mina first, for a paler skin, but it was really a hard choice.

Oh nice, is that the new Diva Character? Great expression, she looks like she's seen something slightly disgusting^^

Rather not lol Yes, maybe it's in the material settings, but sometimes I notice on textures, too, that the lip's edges are too sharp. That's not La femme-specific, mind you. Can happen with any base figure. But that's easily to be dealt with, so no complaint from me about the base figure there! Really, I am grateful that she's there. And it seems I shouldn't type English when having the flu. I shudder before all the typos I can't edit out any more.

Thank you all for your advice on render settings, it's highly appreciated! I think I have now a good balance between acceptable speed and quality as base settings I can work from for more specific needs. Else... I really think LaFemme all over is generic enough to have a really good base figure, one that can be an athlete or a tiny fairy or whatever. Her base form is perhaps more on the model side (=not as realistic as evolution), but than I really like the variety in my runtime. And I've only started scratching at the surface of all her possibilities. Way to soon to start moaning lol So thank you for bringing her into being - I really really hope that she gets lots of support even when the first excitement is worn out. About the lips - the shape is nice, I think, and can be morphes easily to liking. What I don't like sometimes is when the lips asge appears to sharp on the texture without blurring or fading the edges a bit. But that's a matter of texturing, not the base figure.

Thank you, RedPhantom and Glitteraty. I'll definitively try both ways. In my present case, I can't turn the lights much higher without overexposing the skin - I'm using Tempesta's Mina, which is very light. But for future images I'll remember this. For now I do get better results with indeed turning up the subsurface samples. If it's usually lightning that's causing the grain, then perhaps it's due to the fact that I've never used area light much (because of many outdoor scenes) but the Superfly studio consists mainly of area lights as far as I see. That's a sweet render, btw!

Thank you, but oot doesn't use branched path tracing here, so I'd think my settings are even higher than that. I could have a look at those clamp samples and filter glossy settings though.

edit/ after looking at those promos - they have the grain, too.

Hmmm... I have a little problem, perhaps someone can help me: I have to use unusual high render settings to get rid of grain for LaFemme. But I'm not sure if it's due to the shader set (SSS with refracted eyes), the light (from blackheart's Superfly Studio) or something else.... but usually I have the following render settings: Pixel Samples 14 with branched Path tracing and diffuse samples 5, glossy samples 3, transmission, sub surface, volume and ao samples 2, Mesh light samples 15. That has been more than sufficient in most cases so far but not now. I've been going up to 24 pixel samples and more and still have slight grain on some skin areas (especially in the shadow). Seeing as this is a SSS skin shader would it perhaps be wiser to increase the subsurface samples instead of the whole pixel samples thing? Or anything else? I'm not using progressive refinement because that doesn't work well with branched path tracing and without it I have slightly different colours. Indeed I have seen many LaFemme images, even in promos, with grain so I thought perhaps her shader settings require different treating?

My first image with La Femme: https://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/blue-bird/2858762/?p

This looks great! Perhaps someone can help me out? I'm playing with her right now and like her so far, but the material options puzzle me a bit, what would I choose in a normal SF render? I'm going with the SSS with refracted eyes so far... has anyone done a comparison of the different materials yet? Else I'll make one myself^^

I'm on poser side altogether, and the things I make are for Poser. The abundance of G8 stuff here is the main reason I'm shopping so very little at the MP... that being said, maybe V4 especially has just been too long around? There are already so many things to be had, especially if we talk of skimpy clothing (although in some departments, i.e. really decent period clothing, there's really little to be had). Another Story are Dusk and Dawn. It's really a pity that those two are more or less left alone.