Gamma 1.0 is not "natural" - in the same sense that the way Poser 7 renders is not natural.

Gamma 1.0 in Pro is keeping things the same as Poser 7 (in theory).

What you have shown is that when gamma = 1.0, Pro renders same as P7.

What you have not shown, or seen, is that when you use gamma correction correctly, Poser 7 renders start to look wrong, except in rare carefully tweaked circumstances. When gamma is planned and the shaders do the right thing for gamma correction, the results are better than Poser 7 results, and you do not have to carefully tweak to get there.

If you're responding to me, I didn't say "natural", I said "neutral".
Gamma correction in PP works the same as in Carrara.

I have not as yet purchased PoserPro, but as a merchant I can see that this is definitely going to present some problems for product development.
cheerio  lululee

Quote - If you're responding to me, I didn't say "natural", I said "neutral".
Gamma correction in PP works the same as in Carrara.

Oooh - sorry. Doh. I know I should not do rendo threads before my first cup of coffee. You're quite right. GC=1 is the neutral setting.

Here's a render of a window shader I'm working on. This is with the shaders and lighting specifically designed for Poser Pro with GC=2.2. Next I'll show you how that would render in Poser 7.

You would never use the shader and lights this way in Poser 7, because you'd think it too dark. So you'd tweak and push settings until it worked without GC. But the results would go wonky as soon as you went to "evening" lights.

You can't expect all that pushing and cheating to work right with GC=2.2, because then you'd have double compensated.

Quote - I have not as yet purchased PoserPro, but as a merchant I can see that this is definitely going to present some problems for product development.
cheerio  lululee

That's the nature of every single imporvement to every single application over time.

Hell, least its not as bad as the biweekly Das Studio changes.. LOL!

So... we, as users, need to (goddess forbid) LEARN to do something, rather than relying on all our old tricks? Either that, or wait until people come out with updated scripts.

I'm not averse to learning... and somehow, some way, Poser Pro actually makes more sense to me.  I admit, I was shocked the first time I turned on GC, after building a scene with all the usual tricks (many of which just really, don't make sense... like lighting a scene with 4 lights that have intensities that add up to way over 100%).  But then when I started to play with it, and see why I was getting the results I was, I started to see that stuff actually worked the way I always thought it should... and not how I trained myself to think about how they worked in Poser.

This comes as a bit of a relief to me.