This is such a stunning loss! She was such a talented artist and I loved her work. My love and prayers to her family. She will be missed.

Thank you so much for your wonderful animals. I'm so glad you are feeling better. It makes such a difference!

I support this petition!

 Thanks, Kristi! All's well now.  :-)

Quote - You guys know you already have per-light rendering, right? It's in the Python Scripts menu - Rendering Control - Render Passes. It's been there for ages, not just in Poser Pro.

Duh! I don't even know what I don't know.

Quote - What I mean rendering in layers, is via the Python script, which renders the same image, but on a light per light basis, with the option of also rendering an occlusion layer, as well as a diffuse layer. 

Semidieu's "Advanced Render Settings" at RuntimeDNA does some of that and he might be open to expanding it to do a light by light version. He's both clever and accomodating!

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Diane, you said you matched splat #3 to #4? That's odd - everything I read says Mac users should think #5 or #6. Oh well - that's fine - it means you see pretty much what I see.

I got real frustrated with uploading last night (even after I had the nec info and some success), so I'm a little tardy checking in today. Yes, about the splat test, that's why I mentioned it. On the mac, there's a lengthy configuration process for the monitor and maybe because it's a laptop, things are adjusted differently. I did alot of multimedia/web work over the last 15 years or so, so generally I always adjusted my monitor to 2.2 so I'd have a better idea of how most end users would see. Maybe I see that way too now! ;-P

Yes, blade68, it's Esmeraude 2 (Daz) which has 5 or 6 heads morphs for V4 and A4 each. I love surreality's morphs and skins. I changed the spot shader to .05 and like it; I'll try a version with that and some makeup to see how you like it.

Oh, and bb, a few posts ago you mentioned about starting several separate threads on specific issues (which someone thought was a joke!) and I thought it was a great idea. But I guess I need hand holding on some of this stuff.

Oh, okay. Thought it might be something like that but I couldn't find the restrictions posted. The jpegs were around 300k. Are dimensions limited also?

Since you were able to answer without the pictures, do you still want to see them?

And like everybody else, I apologize if you're having to answer the same thing again. Alot of pages to go thru...

 before VSS

maybe...

 Sorry, it clearly doesn't like the way I click on the Choose File button to attach. Suggestions?

 before VSS

 I'm ignoring all the math talk as it is way beyond me...

After spending most of the weekend reading thru this thread and trying things out, I have a question (and a headache...).

I'm on an intel mac laptop, OS 10.4.11 and have had the same issues as other mac users. I run the vssMainButtons.py. The buttons appear correctly but don't function. I run VSS/Synchronize by running wacro1.py. And VSS/Render by running wacro2.py (can I render the old fashioned way as well?). I saw that one mac user didn't seem to have a problem but was working on OS 10.5.x which I think is Leopard, so maybe something about Leopard links up better with your code. It seems to work okay using the wacros. So that is just a confirmation of another mac user.

I'm attaching 2 pictures, one before VSS and one after (using indoor lighting1 and VSSprop2). There's definitely an improvement in skin tones, etc. but I find, for close ups, the look to be kind of "freckly." At least on this model (by surreality, one of my favorite modelers; her skins are beautiful but very light). Is there a (n easy) way to decrease this effect? Maybe in your pro version, one has a choice of skin tones (eg. very fair, fair, medium, etc) that applies this effect more specifically... IF that is the reason for the freckliness. Looking at "Jordan" by Santel (which is just amazing!) I can barely see that same effect being applied.

Thanks, bagginsbill, for all your hard work, patience and good humor!

Diane

(btw, I ranked the lightness/darkness on your scale between 3 and 4, for whatever it's worth)