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Subject: poser pro displacement problem

BrianR opened this issue on Jul 08, 2008 · 8 posts
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BrianR ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2008 at 11:45 AM · edited Thu, 25 July 2024 at 1:47 PM

 I have a test scene all set up & rendering displacement perfectly in P7 but in Poser Pro it's a mess, anyone else experience this with PP?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2008 at 11:53 AM

Procedural displacement, or image map displacement?

If image map, do you have gamma correction enabled?

If GC, did you remember to set the gamma to 1.0 on the displacement image map?

If not, it will be interpreted as a visual, instead of a height map. You don't want that.

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BrianR ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2008 at 12:14 PM

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 Hey Baggins,

this is the same displacement we discussed a while back & thanks to you I fixed it but now I get this... aaaarrgh! Anyway, yes, I set the GC correctly and it's an image map disp. Very odd :O/

cheers

Brian

bagginsbill ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2008 at 12:58 PM

So you're getting bloat again?!?

Is this a 16-bit TIFF?

If you attach the disp map to a one-sided square (into Alternate_Diffuse, and set Diffuse_Value=0, Specular_Value=0) does it render as is - or does it show something different? (Remember the old bug, where it came out blue)

If you do a straight hookup as I described, we can see how Poser is interpreting the image.

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bagginsbill ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2008 at 1:02 PM · edited Tue, 08 July 2008 at 1:03 PM

Another thought.

The displacement units you type in are mediated by your preferred poser display unit.

If you enter a value as, for example, centimeters, but you're now in feet, it will be wrong.

When you switched over to PPro, did you set up your display unit the same, so the numbers you're used to using mean the same thing?

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BrianR ( ) posted Tue, 08 July 2008 at 1:03 PM

 I think I may have solved it... just need to check but I may have used an earlier version of the mesh that's since been altered slightly and had the UVs redone... stupid error but probably where my issue lies I think... DOH!!

BrianR ( ) posted Wed, 09 July 2008 at 9:50 AM

 Hi Baggers

I was right, I screwed up!! All fine & dandy with the correct UVs funnily enough. How's the Mac version of your shaders coming along?

bagginsbill ( ) posted Wed, 09 July 2008 at 9:57 AM

Getting closer. Seems like I sort of know why the buttons don't work, now. Still not sure exactly what to do about it.

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