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Subject: Stumped regarding instances

ajtooley opened this issue on Oct 22, 2007 · 10 posts
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ajtooley ( ) posted Mon, 22 October 2007 at 7:11 PM · edited Sat, 11 January 2025 at 12:53 PM

I've got an image in mind that would use a large number of Poser figures in similar poses (okay, they're sitting). Anyway, in order to make placement a little easier, I'd like to use instances to vary clothing color, but I'll be  dad-blamed if I can figure out just how to do that. I'm using Vue 6 Pro Studio; are instances an Infinite-only kind of thing?

Thanks!

JackieD ( ) posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 12:18 AM

I may be wrong but I don't believe it's possible to vary the specific colour of an item using instances..at least not those imported from Poser. Also unless you convert the .pz3 to a .vob you would run ut of memory pretty fast because Poser figures - esp. clothed and wigged ones...are memory hogs when duplicated!


chippwalters ( ) posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 2:33 AM · edited Tue, 23 October 2007 at 2:34 AM

Check out:
Varying Materials on EcoSystem Populations

in the manual (page 492)

Even though you don't have an EcoSystem, this same technique will work for you.

-Chipp

PS-- Not sure if this is an Infinite ONLY setting.

 

ajtooley ( ) posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 7:46 AM

Chipp, my manual appears to end on page 475! In any case, I searched for "varying" and "variable" within the text, and came up with some interesting ideas, but none that would seem to do what I'm trying. At least as far as I can tell, anyway; I'm no chimp, but I do have a problem with processing manual-speak into real-world results.

What I'm going for, in the end, is a group of seated theatre patrons. I'm trying to vary the color of their shirts so they don't look like clones. I could go Jackie's route and save a variety of figures as .vobs and just place those randomly in the seats, but I was wondering if there's a function-related way of doing it.

Thanks for replying!

gillbrooks ( ) posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 8:22 AM

My manual does go to page 587 but on page 492 it's Building a complete scene and Shaping out the forest.

Seems the manuals differ greatly.   Mine is from the 'convenience pack' as my 6Inf was the download version.

Gill

       

chippwalters ( ) posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 12:12 PM

Attached Link: http://www.scenygr3d.republika.pl/SCENY/MenHunting.htm

Hmmm. Sorry about the manual stuff. Mine is from Vue 6-Infinite's manual. In anycase, you may want to check out the horses on this page:

 

keenart ( ) posted Tue, 23 October 2007 at 12:22 PM

Thanks for the URL Chipp.

jankeen.com

ajtooley ( ) posted Wed, 24 October 2007 at 8:04 AM

Thanks! I've only had a chance to glance at it, but the bit about the horses does seem to be what I'm looking for!

chippwalters ( ) posted Wed, 24 October 2007 at 11:59 AM

The Object Center node is the key. With it you can randomly change the color of a material based upon where it's located in the world. If you reread that page carefully, you'll see what I mean.

I'm not sure if Object Center node is available anywhere but Infinite.

 

JackieD ( ) posted Wed, 24 October 2007 at 7:25 PM

Wow..great tute...opens up all kinds of possibilities :-) Thanks.


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