[Solved] Mairy/3Dream Hair Issue- PP2014 - Bright as day even w/o lights

Lissa_xyz

I love their hair, honestly, but it's driving me bonkers and I'm about to tear out my own. I have this problem with Aspasia, Despoina, and Esidor.. which is every hair I own by them. I don't have this problem with other hair that I've tried.

Mind you, there are zero lights in my scene, and IDL is OFF.

The scene I'm trying to do consists of dramatic headspot lighting only, and this issue is the only thing standing in my way. lol

Renpatsu

I don't got Poser, but this looks like some kind of "Ambient" material/surface setup? In Daz Studio I'd definitely check the ambient channel of the surface and get the strength of it down. Poser probably got some equivalent channel for that in the material setup. "Ambient" on the surfaces gets used quite often at least (a bit too often for my taste), which usually causes problems in darker, more dramatic scenes.

Lissa_xyz

Well, it didn't turn out to be the ambient channel alone. I started disconnecting things everywhere (Poser's mat room looks more like a shader mixer network rather than DS' surface pane) and finally got it when I started disconnecting the diffuse map from the translucence channel and putting the channel back to black.

I guess I'll have to start remembering to check translucence as well from now on.