shante opened this issue on Jan 18, 2011 · 49 posts
shante posted Sun, 23 January 2011 at 1:52 AM
OK Vintorix, I did a quick render of the cabin. Please keep in mind that though i got really proficient with the old Poser 4 methodology going to Poser 7 was too an abrupt change for me and I am a bit frustated with the interface. It is proving a freaking nightmare in fact to where I gotta say I hate the interface right now. It is no longer smooth and easy for me and too convoluted in the way you work with materials and apply simple textures for my tastes.
With that said though the render sucks, it gives some idea of how the shack rendered. First of all I had to enlarge it 500% which I thought odd. I was concerned that enlarging that much it would affect the image but it seemed to hold up though very dark and since I didn't render it large so there is no way of seeing how it works at the size and resoluition I will need to render it yet.
I was hoping the posts holding up the porch roof and the roof of the cabin would be uv'd seperately from the walls so I could texture them alone differently and I was also hoping the posts were seperate mesh so I could add more to the building as needed. The posts you added seem wor and bent or uneven where the Poser 7 primitives I will be winding up with are too straight and sharp edged..look too new. I will need to find some wood posts that are not so perfectly straight and new loking.
for the texture, I am going to bring the textures into photoshop and see if I can perform a little recoloring magic since the wood in the desert sun would be bleached much lighter to a paler tan gray perhaps. This texture with the cabin is from a much weter climate zone and too dark/wet/moldy looking as is to be believable in desert climate.
I added some Poser primitives for door frames to add some realism and thickness appearance to the flat plaed wall and threw together two doors real quick and dirty to get some idea of what it looked like with doors in place. Of course it will be different when I get better textures from my full Runtime from Poser 4 transfered to Poser 7 on this computer (I have many more texturing possibilities there I just don't have here as well as a larger variety of ground props to make the render look better but for the purpose of showing how your cabin looked this served the purpose for now.
Are you still willing to also give me the other cabin you showed me above?