Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Something New

angelkyd opened this issue on Mar 05, 2003 ยท 11 posts


aprilrosanina posted Wed, 05 March 2003 at 6:39 PM

You may want to postwork the hair on the older figure - Crash has a good tutorial in the Renderosity tutorials section., using Photoshop. Now, the appearance of the uniformed figures as "reflections" in the memorial is a bit challenging, but not too bad. How exactly you do it would depend in part whether you have Poser 4 or Poser 5. If you have Poser 5, I'd first render a shot of the soldiers over a plain white background. Output the image in your preferred formet - I've had decent luck with .jpg, but there may be better. Then when you're setting up the "full" image, go to the Material Room and select the object you're using for the Memorial. Right-click in the main window, and select "New node" and "Math". Set the Math node to "Add" and plug it into "Diffuse color" and "Specular color" of the main node. Set the background colors of both "value1" and "value2" to white. Now do "New node" two more times, both times selecting "2D" and "image map". Set the first image-map node to your image of the Memorial surface. Plug this into "value1" of the Math node. Be sure to set "Texture Strength" to 2 so you get the full quality. Set the second image map to the image of the soldiers you produced, and plug it into "value2". Fiddle with the texture strength until the "ghost" image superposed on the Memorial looks right. Alternately, of course, you can use your soldier-render as one Photoshop layer, and superpose it on the image of the Memorial in another layer. Fiddle with it until it's aligned well against the Memorial, then slide the opacity downward until it looks like a reflection/inset image. Then flatten the resulting image and use it as a texture on your Memorial-object in Poser. Hope this is helpful. It's an image well worth aspiring to. April Follies