cool huh? rendered in poser 5 useing firefly renderer.

Great

That is ... astonishing ... very nice work! ;=]

Mmmm which reminds me, must repenish my coffee cup! ;) Excellent image BTW!

Ive been seeing more and more good renders with firefly now that folks are really starting to see what its capable of. Great render - Was fun to see your comp do this wasnt it? :)

As a P5 user its great to see posts like this :)

Nice... The gold edges really add to the cup and saucer.

I'll never go back. never. you can't make me!!! NO!!!! ow! oooh, pretty coffee! As an inveterate believer in firefly and the material room, I will say this: It ain't Poser 4. And that's a Great thing.

Looks great! :)

And now the question no one dares to ask (but is on everybody's mind): How? :)

Gold wdges had to have thier own material node/grouping and then I just hit them with gold reflection map. I downloaded someones mirror and duplicated the setting for the reflection node, this worked out real well. Id like to try this with cars too. I used a sky to give the spoon a reflection map that kind of made it look like silver, Im still wondering If I need to take some of the blue out of the image though. the highlights were done in poser and imported the object into poser 5 for the rest.

Oh and Im also using the sky reflection map on the saucer and cup, this kind of happend by mistake but I liked the effect and kept it.

A lot of work to be sure! But the result is just fabulous! Thank you for sharing it with us DarkMatter. :)

Cup was downloaded from 3d cafe imported and translated by poser. Mapped in uv mapper

Looks good. I loved it after my first render and use nothing but the firefly now. Have you tried some atmosphere to get some steam?

Excellent! I'm enjoying the Firefly renderer myself.

Steam is a good idea. Since coffee is an oily and aromatic brew, a bit of surface texturing for tiny bubbles would be a nice touch. (Traveler did a cauldron with bubbles last week for the Propsclub, and I think I saw it in Real Deals: bubbles add character to a fluid.) The spoon should be a less saturated blue, because it really jumps out now. Its reflection in the side of the cup is wonderful. It also appears to be a coffee spoon (smaller than a teaspoon). The cup itself is magnificent. The pattern looks very high end with that restrained gold edge. Nice work all around! Carolly

The water reflection was post edited in paint shop pro6 The rest was render in firefly, I just did the same thing to the car as I did to the cup, it was a little more involved though and took an hour to render in ray trace. the sky reflections were done by putting a plane over the car with a sky texture on it, Because the car could not pick up reflections off the background image. The bottom reflection of the car was done with the ground plane having a mirror reflection and painting it black. Car shine was a refelction map as well as a mirror reflection setting. windshild was reflectionmapped for shine and mirror reflected to pick up the sky plane reflection so was the hood of the car.

Superb, DarkMatter!

agree. really good.