Hiya! I am having some problems rendering very dark shadowed areas in P7.

As you can see, the image shows my P4 render engine settings & the results. The areas that should be pure black are rendering with odd, bright & colorful artifacts.

I ran into a similar problem in my online webpage gallery with the gallery system I am using and posted about it on the gallery mod's homepage years ago. What was happenig with that - I would post an image in my gallery and if it had very dark areas that should be true black, it would display them in my gallery with these same kinds of artifacts on the black areas. When I posted for help all those years ago, someone explained it as the gallery mod on my webpage as having problems with areas that were 'blacker than black'. I know that doesn't seem to make sense, but, if white = 100 and black = 0, for some reason some black was registering as like a negative number.

I think that's what is happening with poser. For some reson, it wants to render those areas darker than a pure black and I end up with these artifacts. In the past when I have come up against these problems, I have adjusted my lighting a bit so that the shadows aren't as dark. But, for the scene I am working on, I need deep shadows =

I'm sorry if none of this makes sence, but I'd really like to know how to fix this. I've tried rendering in firefly as well, but my PC is a bit of a dinosaure & poser just keeps locking up.

The lights I used in this particular image are ones inclueded in the Genesis for V4 lightpack from Daz, but, I've had similar problems using the free RDNA dramatic shadows lighting too in the past.

Any help or suggestions would be GREATLY apprecieated. And again, I'm sorry if thise doesn't make sense, but it's difficult to explain when you don't know what's causing the problem and can't use technical terms.

Thanks!