picnic opened this issue on Sep 12, 1999 ยท 15 posts
picnic posted Mon, 20 September 1999 at 3:13 PM
(Continued) I selected with the freehand selection tool the various parts--ex., the body without the arms. I copied this, pasted as new layer ON the scanned image. I made the template layer fairly transparent so I could see through it to determine where I wanted to cut that part out. When I was sure, I clicked on the 'background' layer (the original) and selected around the template piece, copied it and pasted as a new layer onto the template and positioned it over the body. (Forgot to mention-when I brought in the template, I copied it as a new image and used the new image to make the texture). Then I did the same for the arms, the back body, the back arms. When you are done copying and pasting back and forth, you will end up with a texture map and if you are careful (I wasn't TOO careful with these examples-need to work on that), seams will match. Also, you should know that you don't have to be exactly in the lines of the template. Poser will only read what IS in the lines, so you can go over the lines w/o a problem. Also, if you don't quite cover the template, use your cloning tool, choose an appropriate area to clone and fill in (make sure you are on the right layer). When you are finished, merge all layers. Save the texture map wherever you have your textures (Poser/runtime/textures). If I can help in any further way, let me know. (continued below).