Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: WANTED: V4 with Tan Lines

the_tdog opened this issue on Jan 25, 2008 · 22 posts


bagginsbill posted Sat, 26 January 2008 at 8:08 AM

Hi folks.

My lights are free - get them here: Baggins LIghts

Just a note on the tan lines. The way I use them involves just one or two nodes in the material room. This means I can use tan lines, drawn linke a transmap, with any color map, dynamically. You should not be using a tan template to alter your color maps. That's way too much work and lacks flexibility. 

By altering the color of the color map in nodes, you can swap in new color maps or tan maps in any combination at will.

So how to use? It's very simple. Add a Blender node. Connect your color map to both inputs of the Blender. Connect your tan map to the Blending input. Now depending on which way your tan map goes (white on black or black on white) you darken one of the input channel colors on the Blender. You can also make it a bit more red if you want a coppery tan. Run the Blender to your Diffuse_Color or wherever the color map used to go.


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