I once knew how to remedy this, and my old computer had Poser set up to defaults which avoided this problem with Firefly.  But my newer system has the trouble and I don't know how to fix it!

Can anyone remind me how to get rid of these black jaggie rendering artifacts?  Is it shading rate?  Shadow min bias?  Help!  It looks like I have the toxic Black Mold of Death in my bedroom set.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

specular light needs adjustment ?

Is this raytraced or depth-mapped tracing ?  Try one versus the other

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The shadows are ray-traced.  There's a change of render or shadow settings which can fix this.  I've had the problem fixed before, but it was fixed.  I just don't remember which settings to toggle, or how.  :unsure:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

Baising needs to be adjusted.

Thank you!  :)  Does the bias level need to be raised, or lowered?  And is there a way to do that globally in the render settings, or do I have to do each object individually?

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

Yup... Shadow Min Bias setting. It seems increasing it might be the thing.

When stuff like this comes up I just run to this site for the anser...
(question #2 seems to address this)
www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/firefaq.html

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That's the place I needed!  Woot!  

The answer is to INCREASE the shadow min bias for the lights.  Which still leaves me confused about how I had things fixed before using the default state.  Hmm.  Maybe I dreamed it.  I thought one of the global render settings could fix this.

Thanks, folks.  :woot:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.

stefan, a.k.a. stewer, has been one of the poser developers for several years now.

That's good to know :)  I had the same problem the other day and couldn't figure out what the problem was. I wanted to get in there and clean off the camera lens,  LOL  That shadow min bias was probably the problem for me too because as soon as I changed light sets the black lines were gone.

I'll add this to my lighting bookmarks thread.

"It is good to see ourselves as others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to say." - Ghandi

Quote - Yup... Shadow Min Bias setting. It seems increasing it might be the thing.

When stuff like this comes up I just run to this site for the anser...
(question #2 seems to address this)
www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/firefaq.html

You are my King !
Thanks for this link.

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