Apologies for only answering now. Between a swamped schedule and some minor health issues, my hobby time is pretty limited right now. ^_^"

A lot of thanks for all your inputs, folks. I'll play around with your suggestions once I have some spare time. :-)

Thanks again and happy Posering.

Ah, my bad then. I thought the Cycles implementation was finally up to snuff. ^_^" Alright, thanks a lot. More to fiddle then.

Roger and thanks you. :)

First of all, thank you all for tuning in. I have tried the suggestions from both @RoseHawk and @Snarlygribbly, though I am sad to say neither made any difference. I ran more tests with various settings, using different scenes I made over the last years and some new test ones. The baseline for me seems to be that Superfly simply ignores certain settings for lights. When rendering the same scenes with Firefly, shadows behave as they did before in Poser 11.3.

I will follow the advice by @hborre and submit a ticket, because I have the sneaking suspicion this may actually be a bug and not, as I first suspected, user error. ^_^"

Again, thanks to all of you. :-)

Late to the party. Sorry.

But yes, definitely interested in this one. makes a note to self

My immediate wishlist is rather short, to be honest, and more on the level of Patch material than features for a new version. ^_^"

1. micro-polygon smoothing for SuperFly
2. make SuperFly fully compatible with Blender Cycles (so far, it is missing some of the node types Blender Cycles has at its disposal)
3. maybe look into Eevee compatibility
4. in case points 2 and 3 are not achievable for some reason, provide an easy export-to-Blender function that gets your whole scene over on the fly for rendering (ideally with all SuperFly materials intact)
5. provide GPU-rendering support for the newest video cards (so far, the Turing family cards don't work, if I'm not mistaken)

Do a roll-back to Vue 8.4 Build 49020. The bug about conforming clothing was, as far as I am aware, introduced with build 51713.

Alternatively, you can stick with build 51713 and use the option "allow reposing inside Vue" when importing if you have the necessery horse powers. That way, conformers will work properly as well.

Be warned though that using Wardrobe Wizard or any other such conversion program will never give you the same quality than if the clothing was specifically made for the character.
This is especially true for older clothing, like this one (made for Posette), because the mesh is very low resolution compared to present-day items.

Think akura_ is talking about the videogame series "Dead or Alive" by Team Ninja.

Hey, if you do manage to find some Helena and /or Christie outfit (Leon and Bayman would be nice too), be sure to shoot a PM my way here on Rosity, yes? :-D

Quote - SpiritWolf, this is a longshot since you say P8 is functioning correctly (and you've probably checked this already but I didn't see you mention it), but have you ensured your drivers are reasonably up-to-date? as OpenGL advances, older versions of graphics drivers no longer play nicely, and I do know that with P8, I needed to update my driver compared to the original Poser Pro.

Using Catalyst 10.2 (as stated in my first post about the subject ;) ), as the 10.3 version has not been released so far.

Render Settings -> Preview -> Display Engine

The only option that has any visible effect is the switch between OpenGL and SreeD.

It does not matter wether I use PBuffer or Scene Window, nor does it make any visible difference (at least for the scenes I tried so far) if I tick the boxes for Hardware Shading and Optimize Simple Materials.

I'll just see what SM thinks about this. Until then, I'll keep using P8. At least there, OpenGL works as it should. ;)

Quote - Wow... that's something. It wasn't that bad on my computer. You understood me correctly, but there's definitely something more going on. I guess it's time to contact support.

Thanks. I am wrapping up a little package to send to SM support later right now. Will see if they have an idea. :)

Quote - If I were mean I would say your monitor surface ain't able to handle the lady's volume....
But I am not.

Oh, believe me, if the person who ordered that image had his way, she would have double that size at least. ^_^" Talked him out of it, though.

Quote - You need to reset your preferences, that should solve the problem. I had that problem with P8 and after doing that everything was fine again.

Resetting preferences? Since P7, P8 and PPro2010 use different folders to store their preference files, I don't really see how that could affect the OpenGL performance.

But okay, just to be safe, I went ahead, deleted all the preference files for all 3 versions of Poser, restarted the computer just in case and opened PPro2010 again. After loading my current WIP file, I still get OpenGL display errors. Though I must admit that now, it isn't completely black anymore. Instead it.. but look for yourself:

OpenGL with mouse on the windows taskbar (not visible since I cropped the pic a slight bit to remove it)

OpenGL with mouse over the preview area

SreeD with mouse over the preview area

Seems to me that PPro2010 handles OpenGL differently than P7 and P8, since those, after deleting the pref files, still do not have this problem, but display correctly.

Or did I misunderstand you and I need to reset something other than the Poser preferences?

Is it just me or does PP2010 (x64) have problems with ATI cards and OpenGL?

I just bought PP2010 and installed it on my machine (Win 7 Ultimate x64 German, Core I7 920 @ 3.4Ghz, 12 GB DDR3-1066 RAM, PowerColor ATI Radeon HD 5870 1GB with Catalyst 10.2 drivers).

I unchecked the option to install 32bit files and used the traditional library setup (Runtime in the Poser folder).

Problem is that with the OpenGL Preview Renderer, whenever I move the mouse pointer over the actual display area, it goes black. When I move it back to anywhere else, it returns to properly displaying the scene...

Using SreeD instead, all is well. Also, I still have Poser 7 and 8 installed separately on this machine (both with latest service releases), and they can use OpenGL with no problem.

So, what did PPro2010 change in the way it handles OpenGL in contrast to earlier versions of Poser? Any hints or ideas how to get it running properly? °_°?

Cheers,

SW448

EDIT: spelling

Thank you, Debbie. I appreciate it. And sorry to have been so much of a hassle.

Regards,

Sascha