Alright.. nope, nada.

Funny thing is.. the texture strength for the reflection map; this works in the Firefly renderer, lowering the strength of the reflection map, though it does not work in the Poser4 renderer. This would be fine except that my machine REALLY doesn't like the Firefly render engine (it chokes a LOT on it for just simple scenes). 

Also I actually DONT like the quality of renders it puts out. It destroys bump mapping and displacement mapping every time I use it. Everything comes out flat and blah-looking, as if it's all baby-smoothe. (yes I've gone and set all the textures to 'none' instead of 'quality' and turned off texture filtering, lowered the min shading rate, etc... doesn't make a darn bit of difference)

Sooo.. I'd say your solution, Diolma, is a partial success. It DOES work for the Firefly engine, but not the Poser4 render engine. LOL Oh well. I guess I can render a version in each and layer for all but the arm to get my bump/discplacement working... LOL. Better than nothing, I guess! LOL!!

~ Seliah

Quote - I'm making a total guess here (I don't have the product, and have P6, not P7), but...

Are you sure you need a Texture_Strength of 1.5 for your reflection map?
Increasing the texture strength above 1.0 can produce weird colour effects. I'm not sure if that's true for a grey-scale image, but its worth trying a quick render with T_S set to 1.0.

Using IBL will tend to wash out/flatten the colours, so that maybe why it looked better.

Or, of course (and more likely), it has nothing to do with anything.

Cheers,
Diolma

It's worth a try!! LOL I'll give it a try and see what happens! ^_^

Okay - latest render finished - didn't do anything material-wise. I swear it's lighting related... switched to one of the IBL settings and rendered and it's rendering fine now. o.O But as soon as I go to using standard infinite or spot lights it renders exposed like that. Weird....

Hello,

Thanks for the clarification. I've tried it, with no difference. This is really weird. LOL i've run into a lot of render issues in my five years playing with this stuff, but this one is really an odd one! LOL

~ Seliah

Re reversing the normals -- where do I find that to change it? Sorry, I used Poser4 almost until the point at which 6 came out, and used 5 until well after 7 came out, lol. I'm still not too sure about some of the more advanced features and stuff.

~ Seliah

Quote - ya mean it's still glowing with diffuse = 0? (diffuse + spec + trans + refl > 0 means it will appear to glow)

Yes, that's exactly what I mean. It's still glowing.

Neat - almost looks fractal in a way.

Quote - uncheck reflection_lite_mult? p.s. sum of diffuse + specular + trans + reflection should = 1.0 IMVHO but YMMV.

Nope - no good - no difference.

~ seliah

Quote - disconnect any nodes from the specular and alternate specular channels and set 'em both to 0?

Already did that - see the screenshot posted in previous message... -_-

~ seliah

Aye.. here you go...

http://www.childeoffyre.com/matsetup_cyberarmp7.jpg

~ seliah

Quote - change ambient and alternate_diffuse to 0.

Tried it - no difference.   -_-;

Quote - change ambient and alternate_diffuse to 0.

Thanks - will try that...

~ Seliah

Not sure what you mean. Light settings change from one image to another - I've had other items do the same thing under totally different lighting settings and conditions as well. I'm using 3 standard spotlights. I'm not using AO or IBL or anything fancy.

Render settings - doesn't seem to matter, either. At the moment I'm rendering via the Poser4 render engine (my pc HATES firefly - it blows up on me frequently). Anti-Alias, Use Bump Maps, Use Texture Maps and Cast Shadows are all checked. Ignore Shader Trees is NOT checked.

This has happened to me with the Firefly engine as well, so I know it's not a P4 engine-only thing. I'm currently using Poser7. I've got other examples, and it only seems to ocurr with prcedural textures that are from Poser5 or Poser6 natively...

~ Seliah

LOL - I use a child's tooth brush for brushing from start to finish. : ) Wore a size 1 headgear when I was in high school and had orthodontics going on, and they had to cut about three inches off of THAT, too, because it was too big for my mouth! :p I'm a little italian. ^_^

~ Seliah

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How is your mouth feeling now after the wisdom teeth extraction? I had my 2 top ones pulled back in 1998, a week apart from each other. Both done in the dentist's office.  I was very fortunate to not have had any pain or swelling or complications. Unfortunately that isn't always the case with wisdom teeth especially if they are impacted.

Acadia,

I wound up going with Cross Dresser for now. Works just fine for Luke anyway, which is the only one I really NEED the liscence for at the moment. LOL Laura's a lot easier to find stuff for than Luke, so I'm just gonna settle with the XD and Luke's liscence and convert some of my M3 stuff I've got for him instead. ^_^

Wisdom teeth? Eugh. I'm 28. My mouth is physically the size of a five year old's. My two uppers are what I had yanked - both were bad. Empacted, infected, half missing, and exposed nerves due to being SO far back in my head that you couldn't fit a tooth brush in to keep them brushed. Dentist couldnt' even get a good look at them with the mouth mirror, that's how far back they were. LOL They were also coming in with the upper right facing the cheek and the upper left facing the back of my head. :p A mess. 

Two on bottom will have to go also, but those aren't bad, they're in perfect condition - they're just growing right into the joint of the jaw and causing my lower jawbone to get knocked out of alignment. So I'll have to have them out eventually or I'll wind up needing reconstructive work done on the bone instead! LOL