(man, I hope posting works this time better) I already finished searching renderosity and couldn't find any.. does anyone know where to find some signs like the ones in the pic? it can be in any importable format (3ds, obj, etc)... I'm still building my gigantic city and realized that this particular item was missing...

Do you want the whole pole and everything ... or just the sign part? ;=]

yeah a bunch of primitives sould do the ttrick ney ?

yeah they should... but I was looking for something a bit more professional looking (like with bump maps and all)... that's why I didn't want to make them myself... but cool pic, dr. geep, probably will give it a try if no one produces a better one than the one I could make...

re: " ... a bit more professional looking ... "

You can make the bump map directly from the texmap with only a couple of mouse clicks ... it's built right into Poser.

;=]

you CAN map your custom props, primitives and individual parts the way you like with uvmapper free you make the layout of the texture map for it, and then you can put any bumpmap , texture , reflection and so on.. (if i am not wrong, ney geep ?)

Yup! ............. You are not wrong. ;=]

thanks geep! you convinced me of giving it a try... one question though... so far, when I've wanted to bump map something, I simply turn it into gray scale, then darken it with brightness and contrast, and then invert the colors... how did you accomplish those bumps in the sign? thanks for your valuable help... and I do have UVmapper, riddokun... I guess you can tell now why i wasn't so sure about making that eye prop myself, I still lack very much of the know-how by the way, how would you make those metal rings that hold the sign to the post? any tutorials about it

You could model the rings that hold the sign, but it might be easier to just use a texture and a bump map for the rings as well. Whenever I can use textures and bump maps I prefer it because it renders faster.

Here is the actual size texmap that I used in the pics. I did not use UVMapper, I just applied the texmap as is. Make a texmap that is bigger if you want to reduce the "jaggies" on the edges of the numbers. You can do a right click and ... "Save picture as" and use this for a model. cheers, dr geep ;=]

Here is the bumpmap that Poser created from the texmap.

woah, that's cool, dr. geep... but, how big should I make the sign?? I mean, you didn't even measure the box to see how big the jpg file should be?? plus, I didn't know Poser could create the bump maps on its own!! darnation, and here I was spending hours making countless bump maps in photoshop... thanks, I'll save the jpg and see how I go, I'll post back..

You don't need to measure it. Poser maps the pic to fill each side by default. Happy signing. cheers, dr geep ;=]

ok, here's my first try... everything is dandy, but I can't get the bump map to work... I load the same JPG as bump map, but nothing... I even did bevel and emboss in photoshop, but I can't near the depth of your first bump map up there. I played with the + and - options for the bump map, and nothing... plus, how could you get the bump map poser did?? this is what I'm doing, please correct whatever I'm doing wrong... I open Poser, load the box, then press ctrl+U, add my sign.jpg as texture map, and then right below it, I add the very sign.jpg as bump map, touch nothing else, and press enter. afterwards, I played with the "strength" dials in the bump map part, but nothing... but again, I don't understand how you were able to recover the bump map generated by poser... how were you able to export it (man, it would save me a lot of headaches if I had only read the poser manual all the way to end.. after page 100, I thought I knew all i needed... and stopped reading... how wrong I was...)

that was not what I was asking... I always check "use bumps" all the time... I was just wondering if the process is any different to the one I do... basically, how you were able to recover the bump map you posted here from Poser... to what folder does poser generate the bump map?

Oops, sorry. ;=[ I didn't mean to be pedantic. What version of Poser are you using? The answer to your last question "... to what folder..." Poser puts the xyz.bum file in the same folder as the xyz.jpg that was used to generate it. If you want to look at the xyz.bum file in a graphics program, you may need to change the file extension. Ok? cheers, dr geep ;=]

yes, that's what i wanted to know.. I have Poser 4 PP, so as you know, it doesn't use the .bum file extension anymore, but it's been bumping stuff anyway, specially on clothing, just not on the blessed street sign.. I'll keep on trying, though. thanks as always!

Just ................. "bump" it harder ! ;=]

Thanks for the great ideas on creating a street sign! But, how would I save the cylinder, the sign, and the rings all together in the library so I can place the assembled street sign into any other Poser scene? And of course be able to edit each of its components.

 

thanks,

Ron K.

Never mind my previous post, Dr. Geep- I found your WONDERFUL tutorial on your website,  drgeep.com !!!

thanks in advance,

 

Ron K.

http://www.sharecg.com/v/41573/View/11/Poser/A-(very)-Simple-Street-Sign.