Hi all,

Are there any tutorial on material room?
eg. showing the use of bump, node, displayment, etc.

Thanks in advance

I used the Poser Reference Manual, and this forum to learn a little bit, and just played around with the different nodes to get what i wanted. You didn't mention what version of poser you are using. :)

There aren't any plain newbie tutorials for the material room unfortunately :(

 I was so frustrated with that room that I actually made a post asking for someone to walk me through it.  the bare basics of how to make nodes and connect them.  You might try the same thing.

However, there is really no way to learn highly detailed stuff in there other than to go in and make nodes and connect them in all kinds of ways and watch what happens and make tons of notes for yourself to reference for later.

I wish I could help but all I can really do in there is mimic what others do and then tweak settings. I can apply materials from the material library and also change colours of things, but that's about it.

Check at RDNA in the Node Cult forum. Look through the various threads for examples of material room setups. Some are really complicated and consist of many many layers of nodes. I can barely manage 1 layer, let alone 10 layers, LOL

Another thing to do is open some of your files in poser and look in the material room and see how things have been set up for that item.  Make some changes to the settings to see what happens, or add a node to make a reflection etc. 

Also, here is a post from bagginsbill when I was picking his brain one day about the material room and how he manages to be able to do such complex things in the material room.  Scroll down for further helpful posts from him too :)

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=2778165&ebot_calc_page#message_2778165

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Thanks a lot!

Thanks for the info from me as well.

I am writing a book - I've been on Chapter 1 for 1 month. Up to now I've always done a forum thread about some single micro-topic. Being focused on a well defined goal makes the writing easier. But starting from scratch (you know next to nothing) and having to potentially go everywhere (skin, glass, wood, paint, metal, rock, sand, smoke, cloth, flowers, wax, water, slugs) ... I just can't do it. It's taking forever.

I've done about 35 materials and renders for chapter 1 - I have not used more than 3 nodes yet and none of them were lighting nodes - just color and bump. I think I can get that chapter out soon. It's all about just the built-in Diffuse and Specular of the root node. I re-read that long thing I wrote that Acadia linked to. I mentioned in there that you could spend 100 hours just learning to use plain old Diffuse and Specular, without even beginning to look at any of the other lighting nodes.

I'll let everybody know when Chapter 1 is ready.

Hi Bagginsbill. I have wrote about my kidney failure a while ago and had the same problems, soooo much info. I found concentrating on one aspect at a time helps. You may need to sort out just what you want/need to show and see if they can fall into chapters logically/progressively. Maybe have a chat to the writers forum if it helps. IM me if you want to, I am only a newbie at it but I do know the frustrations of starting out. Jen

Looking forward to chapter 1.  Thanks a lot. :)