Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Crease angle affects shadows too?

moogal opened this issue on Jan 03, 2013 · 7 posts


moogal posted Thu, 03 January 2013 at 7:26 PM

I'm having a little difficulty getting an object to look right in PoserPro2012.  I don't want the crease angle too high (because of beveled edges) but lower settings are giving me strange looking shadows.

I'm finding that there is a very noticeable difference when this object is rendered with a crease angle of 50 (upper) and a crease angle of 60 (lower).  I did not think that crease angle even had an effect on shadows, and I can't explain the blockiness of the raytraced shadows in the upper image.  The faces in question don't actually appear "flat" until lowering the crease value into the 20s, so I have no idea why a value of 50 (or even 59) looks so diffrent from 60.    

This is really frustrating, as what works best for the shadows doesn't look right for the reflections and vice versa. 

(Blue fog is a result of saving as png and using wrong background color)