shante opened this issue on Aug 26, 2008 · 26 posts
bagginsbill posted Thu, 28 August 2008 at 9:04 PM
*It dawned on me that using a high contrast black and white image to a flat plane and adding transparency would work better
If you just "add transparency" the whole thing will be transparent.
The phrase "using a ... image to a flat plane" seems ambiguous, and if by that you meant associating that with the color of the plane, that is irrelevent. You're not going to be looking at the plane, so the color of it won't matter. It's the pattern in the transparency that will be relevent.
You could make the plane green and pink - it won't matter. All that matters is the transmap.
I bring this up because you said you're not getting patterned shadows. If you did not apply any pattern to the transparency channel, then that is what would happen.
All your wordings seemed to imply that you expect the plane to behave like a real gel. It doesn't. The colors of the plane, even if partially transparent, will have no effect on Poser's interpretation of the light passing through it. It either blocks or doesn't block, but never changes the color.
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