lululee opened this issue on Apr 19, 2004 ยท 11 posts
lululee posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 7:20 AM
I was wondering if anyone has any input on what are the best P5 render settings or lighting for photorealistic characters. cheerio lululee
stewer posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 8:23 AM
For a start, try Traveler's free "poor man's HDRI" light sets from RDNA.
rreynolds posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 9:17 AM
Should the Poser default light all be deleted before applying?
igohigh posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 10:27 AM
I like to always remove lights in Poser when applying a pre-set from the library. Poser is natorious at leaving the old lights in the scene and just turning them off, by doing so the renderer takes that much longer as it still calculates those lights. There are a couple great Python script in FreeStuff that can do this very easily.
Laver2k posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 11:33 AM
Ive only just managed to get renders like u see on product overviews. The brighter the better, as for render settings, I used a pixel value thing (dont recall what its called) of about 1000 - 4000. I use 10,000 for close ups. Also, use SHARPEN in PSP or PS, makes a HUGE difference.
saxon posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 11:43 AM
Oh, Koz's hair and Tizania... and just a hint of displacement... and a smidge of anistropic on the eyes and lips...
Berserga posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 1:10 PM
Wow thanks for the tip Saxon. I don't really do any outside shots in Poser though I render those in Vue... but If I want to composite a Poser render into an out door shot or do a quick pic this'll come in handy. I too am a devotee of the idea of faking it with a couple of well placed lights, over the mega globe that IMO only produces slightly better results at a huge cost of render time. Havn't tried the Probelight node yet tho.
bungle1 posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 6:17 PM
rrkknight3 posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 9:12 PM
That sure looks like Angelina Jolie! Wow!
Laver2k posted Tue, 20 April 2004 at 9:53 AM
Wow those are good, what does HDRI stand for?
bungle1 posted Thu, 22 April 2004 at 2:46 AM
i dont know , but who ever made these are very smart and my hat goes off to them for there contribution to the world of 3d, check out MEC4D.com, Cath does some really good renders, some of the best ive ever seen.