[META] FenWiki "update and nags to update" thread

[Mark Skarr]

Bob Schroeck wrote:

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Wow. That third image is starting to look like a photograph of a real person.

Yep.  That's why I usually go with Lux.  It's an unbiased, physical-based, rendering engine.  It's slow but amazing.
I use these two pictures to demonstrate it as well.
I spent several hours tweaking this version of the picture, getting it as close as I could to the Lux version.  Before Lux, I would, actually, have given up on this image since I couldn't make it do what I wanted it to:

This is the Lux version of the SAME picture.  Actually, this has fewer light sources.

The only things I changed was cutting out the lights from the first image and using mesh lights (something Lux does but Daz does not) and the rendering engine.  The lamp, in Daz has four point lights and you can barely see the effect.  The lamp in the Lux shot has the bulb set as a 50-watt mesh light and the shade is a matte-translucent material letting the light bleed through naturally. The scene has 6 flourecent tubes as props (that you can't see directly here), I set them to 100-watt mesh lights and they lit the scene beautifully.