DAZ Studio, as well as many other renderers implement specularity and reflections to allow for highlights. This is especially true with eye and hair textures. Textures that have painted on highlights defeat the ability of these renderers to create natural highlights. This is something that should be considered when creating textures.

Since Poser files can be imported into other rendering programs that can create highlights, it would be appreciated if textures with and without highlights were included in a texture package. If that is not possible then the highlights could be included as a seperate image that can be layered over the texture in PhotoShop or Paint Shop Pro.

A very good ---->"." ;=]

"." <------ that's a point!

Yes, Geep has a point there, and illusions' suggestion is a good one too!

"3. Re: Of Interest to Texture Makers by geep on 12/27/03 11:02" is the line between two points. ;^) I've been suggesting this for quite a while. Fake highlights look fake. Why have a photo real iris texture if the highlight doesn't match the scene lighting? When removing highlights and cloning the color back into the space, I usually also make the 2 eyes slightly different from each other. This way a model doesn't look quite like an escapee from Mattel. Carolly

Mattel??? Can we use a Poser magnet to attract that stuff? ;=] Actually, Carolly, I had TWO points, didn't I? ;=]

That is what I had noted. ;^)

Ah, and so you did. That'll teach me to read so fast that I don't read what I'm reading while I'm reading it and then respond with a stupid comment that just proves that I didn't read it in the first place, no? I believe it was old Abe Lincoln that said, "It is far better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove any doubt." ;=]

I heard it was Plato, but I probably just violated the whole premise by saying so. :)

Dr Geep <------------- (says nothing) ;=]

illusions <------------(just chuckles) ;^)

Dr Geep <----------(didn't hear any chuckles) ;=]

... and this remark is invisible, odorless, soundless, and doesn't cast a shadow.

...and it isn't palpably obvious, either! ;^)

YUM !!! Dang it ... Now ya made me hongree ! Are those chuckles just illusion's? (big laff here) ... or are they real? ;=]

Hah! ....... I finally beat Carolly to one of these intuitively-obvious-to-the-most-casual-observer type thingys. ;=] double Hah!!

She muss be sleepin' .............. or sumthin'. ;=] Let's not wake her up ......................... yet!

Gack! I don't live here. Truth is that I spent most of the day with the head under the covers. The thug who broke into my car Christmas night stole my driving glasses. I accosted him and it is lucky that he ran (big ugly guy) because with this migraine I would probably have done something stupid. My stress levels have gone through the ceiling (I cannot replace the glasses or repair the car and so will lose my mobility and freedom) and it is really hard to keep a sense of humor. Punning on the tenets of long-dead philosphers helps. Hmmm... can you pass that bag of chuckles this way? Have we thoroughly derailed this thread? Or should we go back to discussions of highlights and glows coming from a real light source? Carolly

Uh oh, I woke her up. On a serious note ... I am very sorry for your misfortune Carolly ... I can relate. And, I apologize if I, in any way, contributed to your "stress levels." <----- (been there-done that) ... let's see now ... real light source ... wanders off trying to think of something "bright" to say

BTW - My name is Geep ........ not Gack. Thanks. ;=]

Well, maybe something about Peter Pan trying to stitch his shadow back onto his feet and needing Wendy's help? And what else do you do with a shadow draped over your arm instead of on the floor where it ought to be? Can you clothify a shadow? (And no you haven't added to the stress levels... I can take a fair bit of teasing.) Carolly

I knew that. ;=]

Getting back to topic (really!), painted-on shadows as well as highlights will have to be examined with the new application. Most of us use the layer effects in PhotoShop to get a hint of 3dedness to our textures, with or without bumpmaps. Part of why those gorgeous texture packages look so rich and worth buying is the illusion of depth. This is fine as long as the main lighting is from above, but if our hero has his long legs stretched out next to the fireplace, the embossing on his boots suddenly looks wrong. New lights AND new shadows are going to take a while to get used to. Carolly

Gack I mean er Geep, http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/abrahamlin103535.html . hauksdottir, Sorry to hear about that. Don't mean to interrupt but, what is wrong with the car? - TJ