Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 7 Shader Question...

Chaosophia opened this issue on Mar 14, 2012 · 21 posts


bagginsbill posted Sat, 17 March 2012 at 8:14 AM

I think you two need to start over. Mahakali, you are using words and phrases that imply you've got the completely wrong understanding of what matmatic does.

Clear your mind and read this:

Matmatic is a Python script. Its purpose is to facilitate (make easier) the creation of Poser materials using words and math instead of node diagrams and mouse. It is an authoring tool. It does not do anything you could not already do with Poser alone. It is just automating many tedious things. In other words, if you don't know how to do something in Poser, you won't know how to do it using matmatic either. It is not an enabler. It's just a different way of describing materials.

It does not read, examine, or otherwise pay attention to anything loaded into your Poser scene. It reads text files describing what you want made, and it makes the materials, storing the result into Poser material files or mat poses. It can create mt5 and mc6 files but it cannot read them. It cannot read what you have loaded into the material room.

Each time you run it, it examines your scripts in your file system. Any that appear to be newer than the last time you ran matmatic are processed. Any that have not changed are not processed. This is why you get different results when you run matmatic two times in a row. It has nothing to do with anything you may have loaded into the scene.

 


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