Played with PBR textures and lighting for another still life. 

Very nice. The fireplace flames are underwhelming; however, the overhead spotlight adds a pleasing touch.

Very nice. The fireplace flames are underwhelming; however, the overhead spotlight adds a pleasing touch.

In that situation, a point light with inverse-square attenuation would be appropriate. Trying to find a PBR texture with emission properties will wash out the image. You want to preserve the mood without losing detail in the background. That's where Blackbody lighting will help maintain the flame's warm glow.

Maybe something like that?

Play with the LightFalloff Strength, as it depends on the size of the luminous object

Thanks gents, will try that out tonight!

Y-Phil posted at 12:43 PM Thu, 8 May 2025 - #4495868

Maybe something like that?

Play with the LightFalloff Strength, as it depends on the size of the luminous object

I got with this one, I forgot I had this collection from ShaaraMuse3D (FireEffectMaker), just used 3 objects stacked with different flames on it.

Rhia474 posted at 4:44 PM Thu, 8 May 2025 - #4495884

Y-Phil posted at 12:43 PM Thu, 8 May 2025 - #4495868

Maybe something like that?

Play with the LightFalloff Strength, as it depends on the size of the luminous object

This is basically resulting in an actual light source without looking like a fire at all.

Oh it probably was that, the Firefly shader looked like it had transparency. I just made that part of the asset invisible and added the SM3D props.

I am totally saving your shader setup for other flames though--thank you kindly!

Oh it probably was that, the Firefly shader looked like it had transparency. I just made that part of the asset invisible and added the SM3D props.

I am totally saving your shader setup for other flames though--thank you kindly!

 Playing with weather

Oh, nice rain!!

Great, indeed 

"I heard a noise", for those who have the reference in Idées noires, a series of black and white comics by André Franquin

Thanks. I don’t remember where I got that rain. It’s a bunch of modeled drops and I duplicated it several times. 

I have been reworking the shaders on a couple of mausoleums, exchanging the textures for PBR SuperFly rendering. The rendered image below has one 60% blackbody infinite light in addition to an ambient-light HDRI. The mausoleum on the right was completely reworked from its original build. I used the Group Editor to create new material zones and applied PBR textures downloaded from FreePBR. With the introduction of the RGB Colorramp node in the latest version of P13, I could apply the Cycles ambient occlusion node to the shaders of both models and improve the shadows in the render. As a note, I don't know if anyone noticed, but you can now see Cycles texturing in the Preview window.

Light dispersion.

Procedural bone texture with ambient occlusion.

Light dispersion.

oh wow! This is stunning! :Do

the others too.. but this catches me immertly

Fantastic pictures, hborre.

These look amazing! You guys do some of the coolest things. I've been away from Poser for so long I don't even know how to use it anymore. I want a hobby other than playing video games (I'm 50, lol), but I'm so overwhelmed by the possibilities of Poser I get decision paralysis and end up stopping. I still need to DL all my assets from the other site so I can use it with Poser. Perhaps that will be a good starting point. I really miss making 3D art. 

Lotharen posted at 10:13 AM Tue, 27 May 2025 - #4496542

These look amazing! You guys do some of the coolest things. I've been away from Poser for so long I don't even know how to use it anymore. I want a hobby other than playing video games (I'm 50, lol), but I'm so overwhelmed by the possibilities of Poser I get decision paralysis and end up stopping. I still need to DL all my assets from the other site so I can use it with Poser. Perhaps that will be a good starting point. I really miss making 3D art. 

Which adds a new level of compatibility with numerous Blender-oriented tutorials, even if many Blender-specific nodes are missing.

Example: procedural wood:

There is a thread full of examples for the PrincipledBSDF node. Even if it has been written for Poser12, it remains a valuable source of information to start with.
Posted by Caisson: https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2954649/principled-bsdf-some-examples

The vector displacement, principled volume, and mix closure weight nodes were also added in P13. I'm not sure which versions these were all added but none are in P12

The mix closure weight node was added recently.  The others were added at least 2 versions earlier.

@Y-Phil Thats pretty cool actually. I have Poser 12. Will have to see about upgrading. I would love to see more examples in renders posted of course. 

Dabbling instead of doing other projects.

Thanks for pointing me to the wood shader ... another choice for my arsenal.  Fantastic!!

The mix closure weight node was added recently.  The others were added at least 2 versions earlier.

Boni posted at 4:31 PM Fri, 30 May 2025 - #4496653

Thanks for pointing me to the wood shader ... another choice for my arsenal.  Fantastic!!

Now that I have a Win11 PC with an nVidia RTX GPU, I can run GPU/Optix Superfly renders.

TinkerBell's Drive-In Cafe'

Cafe' L'Homme (exterior)

La Femme at the bar

Level 19

Level 19 cargo bay doors

underwater caustics with Godrays

Those look amazing. You're great with lighting.

Thank you, @RedPhantom!  

Oh wow, those are so sharp and well-lit. Thank you for sharing!

Masterfully done!

I noticed that La Femme in La Femme at the Bar is self-glowing. The skin shader settings appear to be completely off.

@hborre - I was never able to cleanly render these scenes before, but using GPU/Optix in Superfly, they crystallize fully and in a fraction of the time. 

I noticed the skin glow also;  I'll need to reduce the subsurface scatter, I would guess.

Dystopia 

Depending on your shader setup.  I strictly use Cycles shaders for Superfly rendering.  I don't think I will ever go back to Firefly.

seachnasaigh 

Fantastic pictures, wow.

Wow! Those look really nice. Thanks for sharing.

 The Martians are into weird ritual practices, and desecrating burial tombs to collect macabre souvenirs is one of their pastimes.

Very nice work, hborre!

Aiko 3 (Thorne's Pazu and Mulberry morphs applied)

Deunan Knute dispatches droids

Nice picture, hborre

Another shot from the Cafe' L'Homme scene:

Sylfie descends stairs

Around the corner from Cafe' L'Homme, the server rooms

Fantastic pictures, seachnasaigh 

Playing with caustics and scatter volume in this one

Thanks