Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: layers revisited

Believable3D opened this issue on Aug 02, 2009 ยท 4 posts


IsaoShi posted Mon, 03 August 2009 at 7:28 AM

Displacement works on the underlying geometry of the surface, not on any one texture layer.

It's a mistake to think of blended textures or colours as separate layers in the final render. No matter how many layers of texture you combine in a shader, there is only one surface with only one final colour value for each rendered pixel.

It sounds like you need a bump or displacement map based on the hair texture map, with the hairs as lighter strokes against a black background.

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