Quote - Thank you Laurie, you keep giving us these wonderful presents.

I bore very easily...lol.

And you're welcome.

Quote - That piccie is amazing, Laurie. Wonder if the trees and ivy implied a longer render, or if that's just part of what Lux does handily. The image is so good, I'll wink at the spelling of reclamation (reclamation: the process of reclaiming something from loss or from a less useful condition) :biggrin:

It just occurred to me that I forgot to answer your first question...lol.

While the whole scene was practically choking Poser just to move around (lots and lots of polys in those trees), Luxrender chewed thru the render in less than an hour and a half ;) - quick for Luxrender. Then again, outdoor images are always faster in Luxrender than indoor images with indoor lighting. The shadows need MUCH longer to work the noise out.

Laurie

" Then again, outdoor images are always faster in Luxrender than indoor images with indoor lighting."

Good to know! I've been wanting to play with those Baum3D and Ivy Generator tools. Your results are so impressive and the fact that Lux can manage those types of files easily, I'm more than tempted to have a go, now.

And than you for the skyScapes, Laurie... they are brilliant! I love you getting bored: never know what's you're going to do next.

i've been avoiding Baum & Ivygen for those same reasons. so thanks from me too.

Gee, this thread is do derailed...lol. But I should say that Arboro makes really nice trees and plants too.

Now, back to my rendering ;o).

Laurie

tricky ;) LOL

Laurie

I just wanted to pop in and say thanks to the people who have worked on this.  Great job!

Everyones images are looking good! I attempted a sunset with one of your skies Laurie, I have a lot to learn! But it's fun trying :)

For some reason it's not letting me post my pic, IE9 is a pain in the butt!

renders are looking good.

try to add some reflection to the skin.

how do u launch pose2lux?

Quote - how do u launch pose2lux?

Just like you do any other python script if you use Poser 7 and up.

If you're using Poser 6, when you goto open a Py file, the file box won't see the pyc. so you can put in *.pyc and enter, and you'll then see it in the file list or just put Pose2lux.pyc in the file name box and call it that way. To find it, you need to migrate to the folder where you placed the Pose2Lux script.

Pose2Lux does not work in Poser versions prior to Poser version 6.

Laurie

Quote - > Quote - how do u launch pose2lux?

Just like you do any other python script if you use Poser 7 and up.

If you're using Poser 6, when you goto open a Py file, the file box won't see the pyc. so you can put in *.pyc and enter, and you'll then see it in the file list or just put Pose2lux.pyc in the file name box and call it that way. To find it, you need to migrate to the folder where you placed the Pose2Lux script.

Pose2Lux does not work in Poser versions prior to Poser version 6.

Laurie

I use poser pro 2010.. forgive my blank moments...

Poser Pro launches scripts thru the scripts window, like Poser 8 and Poser 7.

Laurie

Quote - Poser Pro launches scripts thru the scripts window, like Poser 8 and Poser 7.

Laurie

Ok thanx for reminding me however.. when I opened lux to render my saved exported scene I get this error..

[2011-03-13 23:52:41 Severe error: 47] Parsing error in file 'MyLuxScene.lxs' at line 16: syntax error

Did you try opening it again? Sometimes if you load twice, it loads the second time.

Laurie

Quote - Did you try opening it again? Sometimes if you load twice, it loads the second time.

Laurie

Ok will do that.. thanks Laurie..

Okay, so can some one explain to me how to get a reflection on a tiled floor? I saw it in one of RobynsVeil's test renders. What option do I choose on export to get this look?

Quote - Okay, so can some one explain to me how to get a reflection on a tiled floor? I saw it in one of RobynsVeil's test renders. What option do I choose on export to get this look?

A glossy or Not so glossy material designation should do it. The glossy parameter in Luxrender has a strong reflective component in the specular by default - good for some things and downright maddening for others ;).

Laurie

Quote - > Quote - Did you try opening it again? Sometimes if you load twice, it loads the second time.

Laurie

 

Ok will do that.. thanks Laurie..

same error unfortunately..

and you tried re-exporting from Pose2Lux?

Laurie

Quote - and you tried re-exporting from Pose2Lux?

Laurie

I tried creating a very simple scene.. opened the script saved and then.. open lux and same error.. don't know what I'm doing wrong..

You can change the colors by changing the values on the .xml "color Kd" line. Just copy and past one of the colors and their values, change the name of the material and the "color Kd" line and you have a new mat :o).

A handy all round tool to have is Just Color Picker. You can sample a specific color from any image with it (match a lipstick or something like that) and it will even give you the color in the rgb 0.0 format that Luxrender uses.

Laurie

Thanks for the new materials, they look great! I do have another question, and I hope I don't sound dumb here, but either the exporter or Lux doesn't like infinite lights or IBL lights????? Am I doing something wrong??? Could someone post some Poser lights that will do well on export to Lux with instructions? I'm not doing any outdoor scenes, so these would more or less be studio lights.  Sigh, maybe I'm doing something wrong on export.

Not quite sure what you mean by "doesn't like". Can you be more specific? :)

I've personally not had problems with either kind.

Laurie

The current scene that I've been working on, I've tried several different light set ups. Two were slightly modified light sets that BB gave a way some time ago. One of those light sets was all infinite lights. I thought nothing of it and exported away. I brought it into Lux and the entire scene was black. One light set had two spots and one IBL. It seemed on export that the IBL was not a working light. Pushing the gain on it did nothing to the rendering scene. For Lux, does an IBL have to have an image attatched to it? If so, then that was the problem with that light set. There was no image attached to the IBL light. However on the light set that was just 3 infinite lights in Poser.....I have no idea why in Lux there was absolutely no light. I may have missed discussions on these things, I've been involved with tax preparation and have not read discussions in depth.

Quote - Okay, so can some one explain to me how to get a reflection on a tiled floor? I saw it in one of RobynsVeil's test renders. What option do I choose on export to get this look?

Believe me, I'm like a total novice at this, so reflections were a fluke, but here is what I did. The shader was originally Fabiana's flooring shader, which of course won't work at all in Lux. What I did do - no idea if it made any difference - was to set diffuse_value at .8, set specular_value at .25 and have a granite node plugged into bump for the GROUND material (Poser's GROUND).

Again, no idea.

Then in Pose2Lux, for the preview mat zone for ground, I selected Basic/Glossy.

Attached Link: Test scene for LatexLuv

Here is a scene you could use for testing. It has four lights: 3 infinites in different colours, and a white IBL, each assigned to its own group. The zip file also includes the .lxs scene file output by Pose2Lux Pro so you can try rendering straightaway.

Switching just one light on at a time:

IBL:

Blue:

Red

Green

Hope that helps!

Lower values make the surface more reflective. Higher ones make it less so.

If you use the Pose2Lux 'basic/Glossy' material you can control the '*roughness' values by entering a value into the Reflection_Value field in the PoserSurface. The value exported to Lux is the reciprocal, so if you use a value 0f 0.99 as in the attached example, you get uroughness and vroughness values of .01 (i.e. quite reflective)

Quote - Nail Colors: glossy mats with no reflections and a sharp highlight.

You can change the colors by changing the values on the .xml "color Kd" line. Just copy and past one of the colors and their values, change the name of the material and the "color Kd" line and you have a new mat :o).

A handy all round tool to have is Just Color Picker. You can sample a specific color from any image with it (match a lipstick or something like that) and it will even give you the color in the rgb 0.0 format that Luxrender uses.

Laurie

Ooh, those are wonderful Laurie! They're going straight into my 'autoload' folder :-)

Sheesh, better get this site up and running - all this content for it!! :woot: !!! Thanks, Snarly!

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Quote - You can change the colors by changing the values on the .xml "color Kd" line. Just copy and past one of the colors and their values, change the name of the material and the "color Kd" line and you have a new mat :o).

Or, if you're feeling adventurous, make a generic one with this "colour Kd" line:

input>"color Kd" [USE_KD]

and it will pick up the colour from Poser's Diffuse_Colour field in the PoserSurface, enabling you to change the colour from within Poser :-)

Quote - > Quote - You can change the colors by changing the values on the .xml "color Kd" line. Just copy and past one of the colors and their values, change the name of the material and the "color Kd" line and you have a new mat :o).

Or, if you're feeling adventurous, make a generic one with this "colour Kd" line:

"color Kd" [USE_KD]

and it will pick up the colour from Poser's Diffuse_Colour field in the PoserSurface, enabling you to change the colour from within Poser :-)

My, isn't that clever! Jeez, this is mushrooming!! How cool is this, then!

Quote - Sheesh, better get this site up and running - all this content for it!! :woot: !!! Thanks, Snarly!

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I have no doubt you will!

Take your time, though, and don't feel pressured. Make sure you enjoy building the site :-)

Oh, and don't feel you need to give me Admin access unless it's necessary. Whatever permissions are the minimum I need to add content will be fine with me. That way I can minimise the damage I'm liable to cause :-)

Quote - > Quote - Could someone post some Poser lights that will do well on export to Lux with instructions?

Here is a scene you could use for testing. It has four lights: 3 infinites in different colours, and a white IBL, each assigned to its own group. The zip file also includes the .lxs scene file output by Pose2Lux Pro so you can try rendering straightaway.

Thank you! I will give this a good look over tomorrow. Kinda late here in Canada. Heading to bed soon. Night!

Duh! Yes, Ima idiot...lol. If I had saved one using the kd from Poser you wouldn't have to go thru all that copying and pasting rigmarole ;).

Laurie

I have been playing with the demo that Snarly put up. I loaded the pz3 and exported on my own. I have Poser2Lux 8.7 Beta (if there is a newer version I couldn't find a link here in the forum).  In Lux, I found I had to turn the lights down from the gain of 1.0 or else everything was just white. I might add that I am using the NonOpenCL version of Lux render because my computer does not support the OpenCL version (or at least I don't think it does. It's a reconditioned HP). But, I can say that infinites are working, so I am not sure what I didn't do correctly last night.

@LaurieA, for giggles, I took your fingernail materials into my text editor and added Black to it. Just because I'm a Goth at heart. Want me to post it?

You can do anything you want with em ;). But you might wanna  hold off. I have a better one coming that might be better for fingernails than what I posted. And it's based on carpaint..lolol. But if you're like me, you like nail polish with that super shiney topcoat ;). The only thing is, I have to wait until Snarly updates both versions of P2L first because we found a bug that is now fixed and we found it while I was trying to make this new material work with both a texture and a plain color.

Laurie

What's the IOR on your latex material? I might try one later - would probably do better with a glossy with an IOR setting. Maybe. We'll see ;)

Laurie

Attached Link: Pose2Lux v1.0.1

Fixes bug in XML import routine.

Attached Link: Pose2Lux Pro v0.3.0

This update implements the 'Save All' and 'Load All' menus

These menu options allow you to save all settings in Pose2Lux Pro, including all materials, lights, light groups, sun & sky settings, emitter settings, render settings ... well, everything, all into a single file.

Quote - What's the IOR on your latex material? I might try one later - would probably do better with a glossy with an IOR setting. Maybe. We'll see ;)

Laurie

Actually for the boots in that render I used the black polish shader I made and added to your nail polish xml.

I was looking for the IOR for latex earlier today, seems to vary from what I found, between about 1.42 and 1.59.  I was playing with one at an IOR of 1.5 (splitting the difference).  Think I need to bring the roughness down a bit but am getting close.

Mind you, Laurie is far more familiar with how materials go together and would probably get it done much faster than I will.  I admit I am still plinking away trying to figure out what everything does in the various materials definitions.

As an aside, how would one add the ability for the material to use a bump map if someone were to connect one for a clothing item in Poser?  I know a couple of the corsets I use regularly use bump maps along with the procedural material.  

That looks really nice! Perhaps LaurieA might know how to do the bump map thing.