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Poser - OFFICIAL F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2025 Jan 27 5:49 pm)
Well, this is my first post, I've been reading and browsing and checking things out for a while, and I havent got a question about vickie or SMV or the swimsuit, but about the mirror and how the reflection was done? I found a tutorial somewhere on it, that said that poser couldnt really do a real reflection, so you had to fudge it by duplicate poses or taking a render from the mirror's POV and using that as a texture to the mirror surface.. and one other that I can't recall at the moment. So, my question is, how did you do it? Is there another way? Because I'm curious and want to give the same thing a whirl? Besides, otherwise Posette would be a vampire with no reflection, and we cant have that now can we? Or, at least all the time..
It was done with my beta copy of Poser 5! ;-) It was actually pretty easy, assuming you have PhotoShop or something similar- First I set the mirror surface as a absolute black (black color, black everything)so the magic wand could pick it out. After I rendered the view I moved the camera around and rendered again from the back, as a view roughly what the mirror would see. I took both renders into Photoshop and dragged the rear view into the regular view, which automatically makes it a layer. Now this is where it gets tricky- I picked the mirror surface with the magic wand selection tool, and because it was esentially one color I got a selection of that only, I held down the shift key and added the little part under her arm. I then clicked on the button on the bottom of the layer palette and made a layer mask for the rear view. I then clicked on the little chain between the two boxes in the layer palette, which unchains the one from the other, so you can move the layer around without moving the "hole" it is displaying through. I then made the left box in that layer active (which is the rear image), flipped it horizontally (as a mirrored image would be), scaled it down a little and moved it around so it looked correct. The whole thing took about 2 minutes, honestly, far less that this message to do!
Actually I just tried it out in paintshop and had a reasonable amount of success, though it will most likely take a bit of practice to get the various little things worked out like the exact position and getting everything to match up, just the right way, but I think it'll work out well enough. Thanks
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Regular Vickie hopes she stops looking at things and buys something. Getting away from bikinis, I always liked this style. Notice the reflection! I think I'm going to fatten up the edges and straps a little.