I recently bought the Blossom Dress for A3, but I cannot get it to look good in renders.

Whenever I render no matter what light set I try, the dress always appears too bright.

I am using P5 & tried both the P4 & firefly render engines, with no noticable difference.

I have changed the reflect colour & size, but haven't managed a look I am happy with.

What happens with the default reflect...

 

The skirt material room setting...

The reflection_Value on the top is only 0.2, so I tried changing the skirt to match, it looked better, but was still quite bright.

Does anyone have any other suggestion?

Thanks

Did you try changing the reflection color?

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2672418

I'm not sure how much Reflection really has to do with her dress, but I've just recently figured out how this is accomplished in Poser.  The Infinite distances in a Poser scene are really empty space, so they do'nt offer anything for a reflective raytraced material to work with, as they would  in Vue, or Bryce. The idea is to build and illuminate an environment around the reflective(Or Transluscent) material, in order to make it show up.

The fast way to do this is with what is known as a Sky Dome.  The link attached has has more links to other recent threads on them.

i would try turning the highlight size down to about 0.3000 and change the reflection color to black or dark blue.

jt411 Did you try changing the reflection color? As I stated "I have changed the reflect colour & size" - I guess the answer to your question would be yes :m_wink:

Angelouscuitry I don't really understand the relevance of your link & how it relates to the dress, bit too complicated for my brain this morning, but thanks anyway.

scott8539 I tried changing the highlight as well as the reflection colour, it was a little better thanks.

I think I might just ditch the reflect settings altogether, as much as I like the dress, it is starting to irritate me LOL

Like I say if you want a an object ot have a reflective material property then you need to feed that material something to do it's business with.  Poser scenes are just dead space.  If you want something reflective you need to fill in those infinite voids, from every angle...Or just be satisfied with the little reflection you are getting between the dress and your figure(and anything else You happened to add to the scene.

I've had some success by setting the highlight color to absolute black, and the the reflection color to one level just above this. 
Also, set the diffuse color to a very light grey, so that not everything will be an absolute white.
Just a suggestion.
David P. Hoadley

Thanks I will try this

Hi Anniebel.

What David says is correct. Especially the bit about the diffuse colour. A diffuse colour of 100% white will totally wash out any reflections. Depending on how much reflection you want from the dress, reduce the diffuse value (0 = black, 1 = white, other values inbetween), or  change the colour (you could, for example, change the colour to a very dark red.. try it and see what difference it makes..)

But pure white just won't work...

Cheers,
Diolma