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something to do with the effect of the various light/shadow setups (including AO and IDL) in conjunction with bump or displacement, and how best to avoid those black artefacts near the meshlines. I'm still looking at my renders to try and work out exactly what the second part of my problem is.

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Thanks EldritchCellar - the full title of the linked thread, 'Modelling having poser smoothing in mind?', nicely encapsulates the first part of what I'm wondering about here, and your explanation is just what I was looking for. T he once-discontinued Renderosity flavour is again available, although the somewhat sour, mildly astringent taste may not be suitable for those with a sweet tooth.

*available in ShareCG, DeviantArt, DAZ, and CGBytes flavours. The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Image below shows the mesh, a Poser 6 (yes, six - this is an old, old conundrum!) render using default render settings (except that quality has been slid up to 'Final'), and another Poser 6 render with everything the same except that 'Smooth Polys' has been checkedДЄnd here are the settings, etc, just to be complete (note: material settings are for the follow-on tests in the next few posts). I then duplicated this bevelled version and added edge loops either side of each bevel. I then duplicated this and added a bevel to each of the edges I want to be 'sharp'-but-in-a-rounded-way.

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So I've created a test object - a simple cube, plus a disc-with-a-hole surrounding it. I remember reading somewhere, ages ago, that adding an edge loop on each side of each bevel, such that the newly created faces adjacent to the bevel faces are a similar size to the bevel, could help in controlling how subdivision (and thus Poser's 'Smooth Polys') affected the bevels. If you then tick 'Smooth Polys' and render the balloonish inflation isn'tso bad, but it's still noticeable. But when you look close instead of each sharp 90В° edge you now have two sharp 45В° edges. Now when render in Poser with default settings those edges don't look so sharp. You can bevel the edges of the cube in a modelling program. If you tick Poser's 'Smooth Polys' render setting, then when rendered those edges/corners will be smoothed as if the cube's been inflated almost to bursting point - not what I'm after at all. If you render such a cube in any version of Poser with default settings you get very sharply defined edges/corners. Let's start with something simple, the most basic cube mesh - 8 vertices, 12 edges, 6 faces. Actually I want to see a bumpy pitted rounded edge effect but I'll go onto that a bit later.)

(Yes, of course, if you're far enough away they will appear sharp, but I'm looking at them from quite close - I want to see that noticeably rounded effect that most real world 'sharp' edges produce. Look at the 'sharp' edges and corners on them - no, they're not really sharp at all.

Look at your desk, or the door, or the window frame, or the building outside your window, etc. o)Д«ut if anybody has any thoughts/comments on this subject then please do post them here.ДЇirst, the problem - in real life 'sharp' edges/corners are rarely actually 'sharp'. I've done a large batch of test renders and it'll take a few posts to get them all uploaded, so it may initially seem like a bit of a monologue. This is an old, old bugbear, and I've finally decided that I have to get to the bottom of this.

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