Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Is there a way of turning a light into a projector?

markedmundb opened this issue on Jan 10, 2004 ยท 22 posts


Nance posted Sat, 10 January 2004 at 8:42 AM

Don't know about P5 but in P4, no, not real images. Poser(4) lights will cast one bit shadows with antialaiased edges -- so its either on or off for each pixel in the shadowmap, with no grey-scale values except the feathering at the shadow edges. Objects with transparency values above 50% will not cast any shadow, those below 50% will. So, with no grey scale nor color info, Poser lights can really only project shapes or patterns, but not images. The only thing that does come to mind, (and its admittedly a stretch) would be to export your entire scene as a single mesh. Then UV map the new mesh using the rotation angle matching the projection source in your scene, and re-import the remapped mesh making it semi-transparent and re-aligning it with the original scene. You could then apply your 'projected' image as a map that would appear to properly wrap around the objects in your scene.