My first Radiosity render of a Poser figure- the Siamese MilCat, done in Vue 5.

I used the SUN as a light, with no other lights, just to see if I could get a Sunlight type effect without a whole bank of lights. All the Radiosity settings were default, except I also tweaked the Sun's shadow down to about 80%.

Image de-saturated in Photoshop to get it a "photo" type look.

Here's the original color render...

Terrific render. the lighting is wonderful.

Outstanding!

WOW that is so realistic looking! Fantastic!!!! :)

That turned out very nice. I like the first one better, looks more real than the second. Hope they will soon get out the german version, want to upgrade too.

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The new OpenGL in Vue 5 is WAY BETTER than what it was in Vue 4, which was nearly useless. E-on recommends nVidia or ATI cards for best results.

Also- I have finally found the "hidden" panel in Vue 5 that opens up a "Post Processing" dialog that allows you to do Photoshop-like Gamma and Color Corrections to the rendered image- things like "Warm Black and White" as seen in the top image. The Vue 5 manual says the corrections are done at a much higher bit depth than the final saved file. Not sure yet WHAT that bit depth is- but I am guessing it is 64 bits...

Here's how to find it...

Don't get to see these too often...

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I think a brand new software release that delivers photo-realistic imagery of Poser figures deserves to be noted in the Poser Forum. After all, Vue 5 imports Poser figures better than any other software- other than Poser itself. That's a pretty remarkable achievement. But the NEWS is that Vue 5 can deliver photo-realistic Radiosity and even HDRI (which I haven't tried yet- but will very soon). The other NEWS for Poser 5 users is that Vue 5 not only imports P5 dynamic hair and dynamic cloth, which can be animated, there is also a brand new expanded Materials Editor which very likely is capable of duplicating P5 materials- including Anime Cel Shader effects. I think because people have tended to think of Vue as the Landscape alternative to Bryce that they do not yet realise that Vue 5 is moving much CLOSER to a full blown Poser Figure renderer and animation package of incredible high quality. I really think thats Poser NEWS!

Excellent work with the cat Veritas!!!

Way cool! :] Fish

realy good looking veritas, how about doing the b/w render with vue5 postprocessing just to compare it to the photoshop altered one (just for fun :P)

Wonderful lightning and details. Excellent work !

And as soon as E-on gets back to me on the issue I have with the rendercows not working, I'll see what I can whip up... (and the dynamic cloth behaves very well, thank you). :) What's the attached filesize limitation now?

O my! Looks like my late and sadly missed Odette...Sheesh, now I have to start ANOTHER change jar to save up for Vue... Beautiful work!

I made the original render in Vue in color because at the time I could not find where E-on had put the post-processing dialog. By the time I found it, I had already rendered the 2048x1536 image with Radiosity- which took a couple of hours... after which I found the new Post-Processing controls. However- you have to use the controls as a FINAL render adjustment step before saving the file. Once saved- you have to do it in Photoshop (or another app). But later I did test it on a smaller image and the Post Processing adjustments are VERY NICE and if you are interested in concepts like "Warm Black and White", or maybe very classic "1940's Black and White", these adjustments give you darkroom photographer type adjustments because you are working in a much greater digital bit depth.

I had been wondering how long the render took in Vue. What are your system specs?

sorry if this was talked about already, but... I have Vue 4.2... what are the main differences with Vue 5?? not asking for a detailed description, just a pointing out of the main differences... in other words, if I have Vue 4.2, do i really need Vue 5? thanks for any info...

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I did the MilCat on an Intel Motherboard P-III, 512MB RAM, ATI Radeon 9000, ATA drives- Windows 2000 Sp4... The link to my new HDRI Trice image (see link) was done on an Athlon 64 with AMD 3400+, 1.5 GB ram, SATA drives, nVidia GeForce, Win XPro Sp1. Obviously the second machine is faster, but it was tied up yesterday- so I used my P-III. Not bad as long as you don't watch the screen (watched pot never boils)...

I would have to say that Vue 5 is much better in many ways- especially all the new rendering modes- Radiosity and HDRI alone are worth the upgrade, I think...