Hi all,

This is to announce that I’ve started(*) to publish the first () part of my Missing Manuals on Poser Material Room. I’m proud of it.

(*) First part?

This part, Concepts & Elements, covers Material Room (and related lighting and FireFly rendering) from a technical perspective: principles, all nodes, all node-parameters, all interfaces, all levels of Poser users (separate sections for basic, intermediate and advanced).

Next part, mid of this year I hope, will cover something similar for related external renderers: Vue, Reality/Lux and Octane, with a focus on interfacing: what Poser material settings go where in the other program, and which ones won’t make it to the other end?

And then, the functional perspective: how to make good metals, stones, bricks, skins, and so on for FireFly – and the other renderers as well. And also: links to and summaries of relevant portions of the forum(s), on topics like the above. That will become an ever growing collection, I guess.

(**) Started?

From http://www.book.artbeeweb.nl/?book=material-room and a click the offline (PDF) version is already available for download, in two versions: 

• Full version that contains it all, for all levels of Poser users, all details. PDF 8.7Mb, over 200 pages A4, that’s about 5 times the Part 3 Material Room section in the Poser manual.
• Basic version, containing only the info for starting Poser users, PDF 0.8Mb about 20 pages. Just for preventing them from drowning and from becoming overwhelmed.

From now on I’ll be uploading text, images, relinking posts and so on to make the entire story available online too. That’s a massive job given the amount of material, so the next two weeks you’ll be facing pages under construction, dead links and worse. Take the offline PDF’s instead, I’ll give a heads-up when done.

Happy rendering.

Thank You :D

Downloaded, needed some light reading.

Bill

Downloaded the full version, Many thanks.  You are a real star and a example of the forum being used for good rather than evil. I hope as many people get benefit from it so that all your considerable effort is worthwhile.

Just downloaded the full version, looks like 208 pages of absolute awesomeness!!!

Thank you very much, aRtBee, and this couldn't have come at a better time for me, either.  Ever since I first saw the Material Room in Poser 5 I've hoped for a manual on the subject, something where everything is in one place and can be referenced.

Despite the huge amount of effort put in on the forum, there's often that need for a reference so that we can check out other methods of doing the same thing, for me at least, that's when things start to click!

Thank you for this!!! Now I can finally know how to set up the mat properly.

All I can say is: "WOW!"

Poser Users everywhere are in your debt!

Awesome indeed!!

Awesome!  Thanks!

Thank you so much.

Hartelijk bedankt voor al het harde werk en Uw vrijgevigheid, Tony

to all: thanks, encouraging. I need that every now and then. Let's not forget that part of the info, and part of the test-till-you-drop attitude, comes from BB. I owe him for that. I still may be off in cases but not as much as before.

@BasicWiz: you started it as part of the Poser FAQ project. We owe you. Perhaps Shane will step in, and Rendo will make space, in due time. In the meantime, it sits on my site.

@Vilters (Tony): graag gedaan. Doet U Pose Room :-) ? Ik ben niet zo'n modelleer.

Thank you very much.

Thank you so much. Just downloaded the full version. I'm just getting started with Poser and this will make learning it so much easier. Looking forward to the other "Missing Manuals". 

Thank you! Downloaded the full version, which I'll be loading onto my Nook to read when I can.

Thank you for your sterling work.

     Bravo for your worthwhile work,  filling a void.

This is wonderful.  :woot:  We've needed a proper manual for the Materials Room for a long time.  Thank you.  :thumbupboth:

hi all,

thanks for the comments and encouragement.

In the meantime, the online version presents many issues. Although the texts are up, and all mutual links are established, the images won't show (properly). They do show when clicked upon, but that of cource is inconvenient to say the least.
Some issues seem to be browser related, some seem layout-theme related, and some appear on specific pages only. So I guess there are some conflicting code modules at work. 

Hence it's not you, in case you wonder. As I'm about to leave for a week or two, I leave a crippled site behind, sorry for that. I hope everything gets sorted at the end of the month. In the meantime, PDF's are fine.

Wow.  Great job, aRtBee.  You put a lot of time in to that.  Thanks so much.