@BasicWiz: gamma-correction and all that made no sense to me either, until I looked at it from a maths perspective. Then, it made complete sense.

It is not a perfect solution. How Poser computes colours - appears to me - to involve a LOT of maths: light maths and colour maths and surface-normals maths (probably better called vector maths) ... lots of data. Some of the data is straight-forward, some of it isn't. I understand it to be a matter of giving the one that computes all that correct information to work with. Simple as that.

Now, it seems I've entered into another realm where lots of calculations are at play. You go into this room and first-off, you go: "Whoa! Scary!"

Where do I start? How about... "New Simulation"? So, I click on new simulation and get this range: start frame to end frame. Well, given the fact that I need to sit down and cross my knees and I'll have to assume 30 frames per second because at the bottom of this room is a bar with a slider that goes to 30 frames, I'll type in 90 for end frames. But, why is there a place to enter a number for start frame? And what's this Steps per frame? Can I slow things down by saying 3 steps in each frame, thus all I would need is 30 frames. "You can either set the simulator to run through your entire animation (I'm not making an animation: I'm doing a still!) or pick a set of frames during which the simulator is active by entering your desired frame numbers in the ..." Don't you sometimes wish the manual came with a manual? To explain the manual? Or am I just a bit thick?

That's the simple bit. Object vertex against cloth polygon. I think this is where conformists run screaming back into the safety of Conform To. Which Object? The figure object? There is an expanatory statement in parentheses that indicates that the default is cloth vertex against object polygon. This is not an option in the tick boxes. Does ticking one or more of these deactivate this?

Cloth draping... drape frames. OH! So I can drape my skirt without wasting a lot of time with a sim! I'll just put a number in here and pose my figure and the cloth will drape. Why am I wasting my time with a sim when all I want to do is drape a cloth?

Suddenly, programming Python and writing matmatic scripts seems like child's play. This is the most bewildering interface ever.

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