in poserpro2012 i always had very good renders. skins, colors, shadows all looked natural. (with a bit of postwork here and there :) )

now in poserpro2014 renders with the same setting give way to bright reflections, skins look pale and have plastic shiny glossy look.



e.g. a scene that rendered well in p12, loaded in p14 without changing anything gives this result :

P12 :



P14


the skin is Cosmopolitan london for V4. it is the normal MAT setting. with the SSS setting it's even worse in P14
I also tried turning on and off rendersettings like subsurface scattering, indirect light, raytracing, gamma correction ... nothing gives me the renderresults i had in P12
character (as always :) ) Sasha16 2019ed and for the comparisonrenders : Sasha16
lights : i13 prolightease

if anyone has any solutions on this or how/why this is happening, I would be very grateful !! :)

I don't know if changes appeared between poser 2012 and 2014, but did you check the Attenuation parameter on your light ?

thank you for your reply, Barzing,
the scene is unchanged. saved in pp12, rendered in pp14 with same settings with this as result.

but even a scene created in pp14 with the FFsettings as in PP12 gives this result also



where can i find this attenuation parameter? i can't seem to find it in parameter dials or properties?

found also that older skins for V4 with no or just a couple nodes render normal with no gloss or overexposure

moving the lights in the scene or decreasing intensity has no effect on the overexposure or plasticglossy look. it only moves the overexposurespot on the body.

overexposure is already showing up in the advanced tab. so he overexposure has something to do with the lights, but than still remains the glossy look.
(allthough, same skin, same lights, same advanced tab previewlook in pp12 renders fine)

(when i load a skin from an older character (with no nodes or just a few) in pp14, this doesn't happen and renders normal.)


(perhaps something to do with copyrights or so from the texturecreator; but none of these nodes can be disconnected or deleted in advanced tab)

Just a fast answer :

Normally you should disable Reflection_Lite_Mult on all material because it doesn't work well with IBL and IDL.
The Attenuation is in the light property (under Atmosphere strenght)

thank you for replying, Barzing, tried as you said but no result : deselected light multitude in material and did several test renders , trying out the 3 attenuation options i have : constant, inverse linear and inverse square.
even tested this method after deleting all lights and creating just 1 spot. no visible changes in render.

But a curious thing i stumbled on by pure coincidence : and a solution (for now) : i opened the runtime/textures and copypasted the V4londontextures to a different folder and renamed them.
then i created a .mat file after loading them manually on each bodypart of Sasha. I Don't know how, but it recreated all the nodes as well (screenshot in post above)
but it got rid of the overexposure

here's how it looks now in material without the overexposure and it renders ok now. (but to do this for all textures i use would be quite a task :) )

and i have no explanation whatsoever what happened during just relocating and renaming the textures but it worked.