alright, this may sound silly, but oh well... i was wondering if there's any way to create a morph for V4, M4, etc, that looks like a piercing hole? I'm mostly tired of seeing all this 3d pictures with characters wearing piercings... and where the piercing tears through the skin, it looks plain, like it's going through as a "ghost", instead of going through a hole...

i know that with raytrace you can make the piercing cast some shadow on the skin and that looks more natural, but i was hoping there could be another way to do it... i also know you can post work a shadow on the piercing, but again, if it could come ouf of Poser "ready to go", it would be perfect...

any ideas of how to accomplish a natural looking "piercing through skin" look that doesn't require postwork, i'd appreciate to know them... thanks in advance...

Maybe a transmap instead ?

Use a tiny magnet to make a very deep dimple , and then make it a morph (spawn morph from magnets)

the magnet idea is not bad at all.. not sure how i would work the transmap on this...

how would i go about transferring said morphs to another characters, though? i seldom use magnets on more than one character, so i don't seem to recall the process...

You can save a magnet set as a prop (PP2).    Hit the plus sign on the props library
and use the subset window to check all the parts of the magnets.   After that,
you can reload the set on any figure and it will go to the same position, which will
probably be about right for characters based on the same figure.

thanks, ockham!! i'll give it a try...

I have had a better look at the ear and theres not a lot of polygons to make a tiny hole from.

Attached is a morph file , it needs a bit more work to smooth it out but its ok for a test.

copy the file , rename it as an zip ,extractthe obj  and use the load morph from parameters panel for the HEAD of V4. You should get a small hole in the left lobe .   If thats what you are after I will try to clean it up.

• file is vertices only *

thnkas, mark!! I'll try it and let you know...

Hi,
the mesh may have not enough resolution for piercing holes, maybe a displacement map
would do.

Best regards,
  Michael
 

hey mark!! it works perfect!! it's exactly what i was needing, so if you could do the other ear, then you'll have my eternal appreciation  :)

I agree with Michael314, displacement is definately the way to go for something as tiny as a piercing hole.

Speaking of piercings, how the heck do you get a belly ing to stay where it's supposed to? With earrings you just parent to the head, because the ears don't move in relation to the rings. But many poses will shift the navel out from under its ring because the ring can only be parented to the abdomen or hip, and neither works very well. The ring can shift several inches and be buried deep within the stomach or far off to the side, depending on the pose. How do you anchor it to the navel?

Quote - Speaking of piercings, how the heck do you get a belly ing to stay where it's supposed to? With earrings you just parent to the head, because the ears don't move in relation to the rings. But many poses will shift the navel out from under its ring because the ring can only be parented to the abdomen or hip, and neither works very well. The ring can shift several inches and be buried deep within the stomach or far off to the side, depending on the pose. How do you anchor it to the navel?

i second that!! i barely put any belly piercings on my characters because they always get messed up any time i re-pose them  :(

the general solution to this is when parenting the piercing to the bodypart make sure you check inherit bends of parent. this makes the prop move along with the surface it is attached to as if it were a conformer, the one drawback to it is that the prop is also distorted along with the surface so it isnt ideal for every prop, but for something as small as a piercing it generally works pretty well.

Right ear pierce morph attached. These morphs seem a bit rough to me , not much to work with.

You can solve the deform problem in some cases  by parenting with the bend option , make it non visible , and then parent the ring or whatever to the hidden prop without bend .