Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: "There's a light..." "Over at the Frankenstein Place!"

d-larsen opened this issue on Feb 23, 2004 ยท 18 posts


d-larsen posted Mon, 23 February 2004 at 6:52 PM

Numanoid, me a tutorial? I've been whining for help the last few days because I've only been at this for two months myself. I used Geep's tutorials, Fallencity Tutorials, and most of the comments and answers provided here in this very forum by all the real experts. The basics came down to using P5 Don Hi-Rez UV Map Template. Then I took(borrowed), every picture of Frank from my archives and other folks archives. I used PS7 to color balance as many of the photos to match each other as I could. I cut the various best parts of his make up and Tim's feature and layered them in a .psd file. Pasted the pieces over the template and blended the layers, all 27 of them, one at a time. Exported the .jpg file in to P5 Face Room. First big mistake here! As I changed the Default face and applied to Don P5 Hi Rez character it would distort the makeup really badly as I morphed the face geometry. Next time I'll know better to morph the face first into the proper shape and facial feature geometry and then apply the Face map afterwards. P5 Face Room allows you to load your own Face Maps by clicking on the Folder next to the preview window and load a Face Map. I had to readjust the makeup several times after the facial morphs so that layered correctly over the new geometries. Also, A previous poster had shown how she layered Arnold Swarzeneggar's face on a wire mesh figure to match geometries and I borrowed that idea to finish matching the face morphs to my P5 model when I started having real problems getting the facial features to match. Took about a week working 5-6 hours a day and very little sleep to achieve this result. I'm very happy with it now and that says a lot for an obsessive compulsive like myself. Now, it's time to start on Riff, Columbia, Magenta, and Time Warp unconventional conventioneers! Hope this gives you an idea on how to do this. Someone has been working on a tutorial for the Face Room in P5 and said he would post it soon. Geep was so thrilled that someone else was doing that that he said he would work on something else. I expect they both will be as good as the previous tutorials they have posted.