WOW !!!!!! it's fantastic !!!!! :D

Great isn't it ? I want to try it out this weekend. Now off to buy steaks for a tropical BBQ ! infinity10 a.k.a. ibr_remote

@post1 Anton, you use Zbrush, no? You know what I mean? The wormhole effect. Keepng the polys down has its benefits >like carrying 2 hi res textures.

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This is also a great way of adding second skin textures to your figure, without having to bother with extra programs or editing in photoshop. It's particularly useful if the second skin you want to use does not follow the standard material zones of the figures. And if you're using a utility like ShaderSpider, you can even save the wedge to use in the future, so you only have to perform the node settings once and save the wedge; later on, you can just apply it with a single click to any base texture you're using.

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Anton - I'm still getting used to P6 nodes - can you post the full node setup for the texture blends? Cheers!

They there, That is the full set up. You just needs three nodes or just the four nodes if using an alpha. You plug them into diffuse color. Or for using it with more Complex MATs other people have done... plug that Blender node into wherever the texture map node was previously.

Maps get plugged into diffused color or the first socket on the material bar. adding my own bookmark: AKmaterialroombookmark

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thanks Anton, I'll have a play around in the next couple of days and see what happens - I've started to enjoy using the nodes as they open up a whole new aspect of Poser

gmadome - thank you ! hah, I should have checked here for your tip sooner. Had spent last 30 minutes trying to work that out.

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I have used gmadome's technique with two of my own textures.

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That is cool. I love the colors.

Thanks Anton, this is excellent information! I can already see the possibilities!

Awsome information in this thread!  Thank you.

As someone who really doesn't fully understand node functions in poser, it's rare that I come across some tip that is presented in a way that I can easily grasp.  I appreciated it!

Hey thanks. Glad you liked it.

Mark

Hi again.

Here is another really fun way to get new textures from existing ones. You use a bump map, as an alpha map, to define how two different texture maps are blended.

In these examples we are using Apollo's default African map, Captain Quint for Apollo (here at Rendo). and the bump maps for each.

In this image we are using Captian Quint's bump as the alpha map defining the blend.

In the next example, we are reversiing the imputs and using Apollo's bump map to define the blending of the two maps.

Please experiment and post any pics. This technique should be hugely successful for female figure textures especially. You can get brand new looks with what you already have

Cheers,
Anton

Just to add to the confusion....

Don't forget that you can use the math->component node to extract just the red, blue or green part of an image.
Set the component to 0=Red, 1=Green, 2=Blue and plug the pic into the Color input.

This also has the advantage that you can combine 3 masks into a single image by giving each maska pure shade of RGB and extract just the part you want.You can even overlap them as long as you make sure that the overlapping bits are correctly coloured (EG where Red overlaps Green, shades of Yellow). This can easily be done automatically in any competent 2D app.
You'll still be able to isolate the individual maps...
Cheers,
Diolma

just to say, Ajax has a neat thread here about how to do this spatially with the P-node.  he uses it to create a slime layer in his example.  i used it to create my most popular piece, Reaching For Life.  the awesome thing about controlling the blend with the P-node is you can use the same transition area across objects.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=1751108&ebot_calc_page#message_1751108

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2227023

You can get more than 3 masks out of a coloured image if you want to.

"You can get more than 3 masks out of a coloured image if you want to."

You probably can, but I don't know how to, not and keep all 256 levels of greyscale for each mask...

Anyway, I find it confusing enough separating and re-combing the masks with just 3 of them, let alone more. I'll let the experts like yourself do all the difficult stuff:-)

Cheers,
Diolma