I have limited modelling experience, but have collected various free/shareware apps which may help - (if only I understood things better).

Is there a collection of graghics templates for use with the Poser Pro primitive props; to use when creating my own materials?
For example, I assumed it would be easy to create a graphic for a 'dice'; and then apply it to a simple Box.

Forgive my ignorance, what is this process called; that of creating an exploded graphic which is intended to fit a particular prop? At least I will know where to start looking.

Thank you.

We can go from UVMapping to procedural shaders for creating material nodes.

The process is called texture mapping. It is often done in coordination with UV mapping, which is performed in a 3-D modeling app. I have been working on this all year. I find that Blender 2.63 is my best choice for a modeling app. It is free, strongly supported by the community, and is upgraded often. It has a large learning curve, but there are many tutorials and lessons that can be found online. I use CGCookie.com to learn about Blender. They have many free tutorials, and also a paid subscription which allows you access to much more. It is well worth the $10 subscription fee. 

HTH

C~

this is what you need.

the figure on the right has the same material but the rendering engine is not set to maximum just create new scene and dont change any of the settings if you want the material to appear as the figure on the right. but set to max for the figure on the left then ther bump mapping takes over and that is what you get.

But it was not at all a loss because I walked away with an awesome ice material.

He said DICE not ICE

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Wow. That's excellent.  I can't say I've felt a desire to lick Andy before, but it's warm here, and he looks like he'd give some serious heat relief with just a handshake.

That is just plain sick :-)

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Wow, that really does look like Ice!

Hi Latexluv,

There is one thing I have learned from working with bagginsbill, and that is,

there seems to be no material that he can't build.

The guy is a stinkin' genius!

Makes me sick!

:-)

Tom

Yes, I know. I've been following just about any thread that he's posted in for years, collecting little pearls of material wisdom and shaders. I'm sure though that I don't have all of the materials he's freely published. That's why I was very intrigued by this Cloud idea he talked about over at RuntimeDNA. Drives me nutters when he says he doesn't save a lot of the materials he tinkers with!

My thanks to all replies regarding UVMapping. I was hoping there would be existing templates for the default Poser primitives props; to save converting the props to OBJ. However, thanks to your responses; I now know where to start learning.

(I am sorry my 'dice' got confused with 'ice'. This has led to yet another difficult to follow  thread in this Forum.)

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Can you share the node set up for this?  That's downright scary good!

Is this ice shader available anywhere BB?

Could also be epoxy resin with air bubbles in it just as easily.

The iceman cometh!

I expected him to be a little less see-through (ie artic snow/ice), but that looks right for the normal every-day ice.

...well, when one thinks of ice they probably wouldn't think 'escalator'. On the other hand, plastic might come to mind if one thinks "mall". Great shader, not such a great choice for support of an artistic illusion. My blasphemous 2 cents.

It does show off what the material can do with the lights behind it. 

i've turned out the lights to view BB's ice andy, i was afraid he would melt...........