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Subject: Uber Environment/Surface in Poser

Warriorpoet2006 opened this issue on Jul 15, 2011 · 10 posts

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Warriorpoet2006 ( ) posted Fri, 15 July 2011 at 5:40 PM · edited Mon, 29 July 2024 at 1:20 AM

I recently (like a day ago, seriously) upgraded to Poser 8 from Daz Studio 3. While my runtimes moved over smoothly, I don't see my much beloved UberEnvironment2. Is it compatible with Poser (and if so, where the biscuits is it). Seems reasonable if it's not, I'm just curious ^^ thanks.

bagginsbill ( ) posted Fri, 15 July 2011 at 5:55 PM

Get my free environment sphere. Literally thousands of Poser users use it for environmental lighting and to provide something to see in reflections in every direction.

http://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/free-stuff/environment-sphere

It's just a sphere that you can load an equirectangular picture onto. You can find such pictures all over the place. HDRI ones work on it, too.

In render settings, enable IDL (Global Illumination).

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3anson ( ) posted Fri, 15 July 2011 at 9:18 PM

no ds lights at all will work in Poser.

in fact Poser cannot read any file that ds produces.

BB's sphere does a great job. :)

nekkidchikken ( ) posted Sat, 16 July 2011 at 12:12 PM

Okay, I finally decided to give this a try. How do I turn on IDL (global illumination)? I looked in render settings and don't see the option. I'm using Poser 7.

vilters ( ) posted Sat, 16 July 2011 at 12:28 PM

Poser 7 does not have IDL

IDL starts from Poser8 onwards, and it is in the render settings.

With soms tricks you can "fake" IDL.
Do a search here on AO "Ambient Occlusion" and you'll find everything you need.
But IDL is far better in Posers latest versions updated with the latest SR's.

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hborre ( ) posted Sat, 16 July 2011 at 12:31 PM

There is no actual IDL in P7 accessible through the render settings. There is, however, a script modification somewhere which can activate that feature. But it is not as effective as IDL in P8 and PP2010. Results do not look convincing.