Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 9 - mesh as a light - how to do it ?

mrsparky opened this issue on Apr 03, 2012 · 112 posts


seachnasaigh posted Fri, 11 May 2012 at 12:27 AM

(mrsparky)

Quote - ...do you think it would be possible to create an animated raster line effect (as on the classic leia hologram) on a whole figure using P9's lighting?

     Oh, my.  That's quite an idea.  Getting the hologram effect on a mesh would be (relatively) easy, including having it cast a bit of light.  The major problem would be to avoid an X-ray appearance, wherein one would see the doll's mesh underneath her hair and clothes, and for that matter, her eyeballs and teeth inside of her.

     Earlier in the thread, I posted an amber-colored ghost image of a doll using double edge blend node texturing.  I removed the offending interior body parts, and re-imported the modified OBJ.  But Leia's clothing needs to be opaque, and to keep Leia from showing through, my first thought would be to make a mesh similar to that required for 3D printing, removing all the polys which are not the visible exterior of the total assembly of doll, hair, clothes, etc.  Even this would still show Leia as a shell -the backfacing polys would be visible- rather than appearing as an opaque object.

     That's for the heads up, Gen Nutt;  I'll look for that thread, and I'll ponder on Mr Sparky's idea.

     Here's the HAL light, an animated procedural.

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