Hello all and hope your weekend was a good one.
I was wondering if someone could tell me how I might get my figures to look as if they are Silhouettes.
I want my background and scene to have light but want the figures to be completely balack as if they are shadows or Silhouettes;  is this possable?
Thanks much
Steel

On all the materials for your figure, make sure the Diffuse, Specular, Ambient, and Translucent values are set to zero, and nothing is plugged into the other channels (or set the colours to black - same thing).
Oh, and make sure transparency and edge transparency are zero.

ok just a thought, there may be an easier way :)

1. Dont render shandows
2. select a material on your figures and make teh colour black
3. make sure there is no specular
4. right click and apply to all (it will detatch all nodes then

Or just delete all lights and render just your figures, then save as png's- over lay onto your scene.

Hey guys Thanks much for this info its much appreciated
Everyone have a greate week
Steel

Or ...................... ?

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

Thanks Geeps it gets a little more easy with each reply
Thank you much

:biggrin: ......... My pleasure.

There is a tutorial over at artzone  http://artzone.daz3d.com/wiki/doku.php/pub/tutorials/poser/poser-light13

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=942661

I tried to do a silhouette in an image and wound up liking the stark contrast that it created more than what I originally had in mind. It's one of the things that's fun about Poser. Sometimes, happy accidents happen and something new and unexpected allows creating an image not originally planned for. I haven't had that happen with traditional artistic media.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1925762

You might also be interested in the technique I used for this image which I did over the weekend.

I wanted the cranes to be a pure silhouette against the moon, but other scene objects to have a very low ambient glow (an IBL with only 0.1% intensity), and the backlighting on the cherry tree coming from a low spotlight.

I only had a rough photo for the cranes, so I scanned this and created a black and white transparency map from the outlines, and loaded this onto a black Square prop. You could similarly create an inverted transmap from a render of just your figures (completely unlit) against a white self-lit background, and invert it in the shader using a math node.

The moon and its glow are two concentric spheres, both self-lit. The glow sphere uses an Edge_Blend node to control transparency. The falling blossom is a transmapped 'ground cover' prop that came with the cherry trees.