ethin posted at 4:21 PM Tue, 14 June 2022 - #4439969

Not the image I was thinking of but a good one for her debut. She has a name now too, Eleonora Poe.

Something's Out There

Oooh;  I like this. :D

You'll need to be careful to distinguish between motion blur and stutter.  If you see motion blur, look for this box in render settings and un-tick it.

If the individual rendered frames are *not* blurred, then look for unwanted keyframes:

P.S.:  I recommend that you render a series of individual frames in PNG format, then compose those in a video editor.  While Poser *can* output a video, if anything goes awry, you lose the entire animation.  If you render separate frames and suffer a crash, you still have whatever frames have rendered and can resume from there.  Also, you can adjust the compression *after* viewing the effect in a video editor.

A scene made for @bagginsbill's tutorial thread on underwater godrays:

Halo-pixie explores undersea ruins

Oooh, nice lighting effect, @RedPhantom !

In the liquor cabinet of Cafe' L'Homme:

Thank you, @Miss B !  :D

Material update -and a few new meshes, such as the apsynthe "I dream of Jeanie" bottle- of a scene set up to test and experiment with BB's material ideas for metals, glass, volumetric liquids, and light-scattering candle wax.  Rendered at 4K in P12 Superfly.  At 4K, you can read the embroidered mithril script on the hems of her shawl and skirt!  :D

Have a seat, have a sip

A3 with the Sydni mat/morph by Thorne & Sarsa (skin mats adapted for Superfly).  The tree-top flet setting is a test scene for BB's metals, glass, volumetric liquids, and light-scattering candle wax materials.

Have a seat, have a sip

La Femme as the holographic AI Cortana

Cortana and Master Chief in the A.R.C.

An old scene I made for the release of P9/Pro2012, to demonstrate the possibility of lightcasting (meshlights) in Firefly IDL.  After a few material updates, this is a P12 Superfly render at 4K resolution.

sailing through Lothlorien

The Grey Havens from Lord of the Rings

Grey Havens

An elvish grey ship underway at night

Grey Ship

4K render of the exterior of Cafe' L'Homme

Cafe' L'Homme

A3 Sydni again, this time as the Greek muse of dance, Terpsichore, skating by Xanadu.  A meshlight model  which works in both Firefly IDL or Superfly.

Xanadu

Thorne & Sarsa's Sydni for Aiko 3, with skin maps manipulated in the material room with math nodes to work better in Superfly.

evening commute

ChromeStar posted at 10:21 PM Sun, 22 May 2022 - #4438946

That's a great light effect, well done. I might add some displacement on the trees to make their outlines feel a little more real.

-AppleJack-'s Futuristic Train, with meshlight modifications for Superfly.  A bit of Stonemason's Urban Future 3 in the background.

evening commute

This is a re-work of an old scene;  BB's godray technique using an infinite light, a "gobo" filter in front of the light, and a volumetric air box.  Rendered at 4K (3840x2160 pixels) in P12 Superfly.  Doll is A3 Sylfie by Thorne & Sarsa.

Misty morning godrays

Trying to link from gallery:

Misty morning godrays

I made another candle model (the table candle's flame is down in the melt pocket and so not visible from the side).  It has an unseen (does not cast shadows, not visible in camera) emitter mesh closely fitted inside the flame mesh.  The flame can be given modest ambient so that it doesn't white out, while the emitter has an ambient value of 256.  This is a Firefly IDL render;  note that it casts a reasonable amount of light (there is no point light used).  As @hborre noted, this takes much longer to get a clean render, and Firefly IDL is notorious for the splotchy lighting;  I would instead use a point light (scaled to fit the flame) for a single candle, but the method is great for an array of hundreds of lights where using Poser lights would be prohibitive.

BB's flame material, modified for dual root - the Superfly material adds the highlighted nodes which jack up the lightcasting output:

Flame prop properties:

Unseen flame emitter prop (for Firefly IDL use) properties:

This is where I *do* recommend use of mesh lighting:  lots of lamps in the elvish tree stairways (and the pixie dust trail):

...or odd complex shapes, such as the tubular neon of Xanadu: