Impressive mr Bagginsbill, it's nice to know i helped in making you look a different way at making water droplets (even if it was by accident,lol)
I hope you make some of the failings apparent to smith micro on the failings of the nodes...
as i too have come across the failure of there not being 2 surfaces when you want a water droplet on the skin using diplacement etc, and it would be nice as an inclusion in Poser 8 maybe....
i will keep checking back here, and i may get in some more testing on sunday, but sadly tomorow i have another 14 hour shift at work, so yet again it gets in the way of poser...lol

shedofjoy, you've gone way overboard on this work thing. You need to get your priotities straight

lol @ Shorterbus , i agree totally. but now the weekend has arrived i can get back to what i love,
i will be putting in some serious poser time on monday, tomorow is family day... so all have a good sunday and see you back here for more mud

Enjoy your weekend, I'm sure we'll be back with our buckets as soon as your ready to sling some more mud 

 Shoot I was hoping for a Harry Mudd Shader too!

For those of you not as old as the dirt used in shedofjoy's shader like me, Harry was a character in an episode of original Star Trek Show.

Quote - lol @ Shorterbus , i agree totally. but now the weekend has arrived i can get back to what i love,
i will be putting in some serious poser time on monday, tomorow is family day... so all have a good sunday and see you back here for more mud

So it's been about three months. Did you make any further progress on the mud shader?

bookmarked

I have one more version of the mud shader, currently im working on some clothes for GND4, will post last version mud shader in the next couple of weeks

i must ay the shaders that BB posted here are amazing. but so many nodes? dear lord.

BB - Was your mud shader for VSS ever published?

I've just looked through the thread and couldn't see a link.

That VSS was never published by BB, it has remained a trade secret.

I must be the most awesome person in the world at getting distracted. I completely forgot about this effort.

I don't even know where the shader is anymore. I'll try to find it and get over my dislike for publishing with flaws - probably most people will want it even with the parts I am not happy with.

my mud shader is still on my web site under poser 7 stuff. i still keep on meaning to post my hair shader node setup, but that will have to wait whilst i juggle one 8month old and another due in april.... ohh the poopy nappies, and i suppose i could convert the shader to a poopy nappy shader,lol

@Shedofjoy: Um  ... I'll stick to the mud, if that's ok :-)

@BB: That would be so cool if you could. Doesn't matter if it's not a VSS version either as I can do that bit myself, and besides I want to put some mud on elephants rather than a Vicky!

@ BagginsBill - How about a figure with a bodysuit?  Aiko3, for example, has a bodysuit which covers head, hands and feet also.

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Quote - @ BagginsBill - How about a figure with a bodysuit?  Aiko3, for example, has a bodysuit which covers head, hands and feet also.

So cloth+mud instead of skin+mud? Or metal + mud? Or car paint + mud? All these are possible. I've arranged the mud shader as a layered matmatic sub-shader that can be stacked on others. Since Poser shaders don't offer layering, it's kind of tricky to combine two materials in one shader - but that's what has to be done.

For now, I'm combining with my skin shader.

Sigh.

I really can't bring myself to post the shader until it's right.

Bah - have to force myself to let go. This is still a WIP, but I figure what the heck. Try it.

When saving the attached file, remove the .txt at the end of the filename. Place anywhere in a materials folder.

It is VSS ready. Load it into the control prop Template Skin. When you synchronize, VSS will populate the maps. If not using VSS, just fill in the maps as you need. All maps are optional. Be sure to enable ray tracing and displacement in render settings. And have some stuff to reflect like a sky.

Hmm - tried ten times to upload. Failed. I'll try again tomorrow.

I was referring to your earlier post about double surface shaders and copying the skin geometry.  The bodysuit seems the most likely contender.

Couldn't work out how to extract the 'mud' from the VSS skin shader in order to make my own VSS shader, so just applied it as it came.

Anyway, now I just need to find a nice mudbath for him.

http://www.worldofstock.com/stock_photos/PWO10319.php

More of a sooty-dusty look than having been in a roll around mud fight.

This is better