Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Creating normal maps... and where to place them.

jartz opened this issue on Mar 10, 2019 ยท 88 posts


Snarlygribbly posted Mon, 22 April 2019 at 5:00 AM

SamTherapy posted at 10:58AM Mon, 22 April 2019 - #4348182

ironsoul posted at 7:38PM Sat, 16 March 2019 - #4348162

No doubt you've had enough of the notifications by now but hope the following helps with your last question.

Problem with adding a mask direct to Ezskin mat is the complexity of the node set-up so layer is probably a good place to start however it has its own problems. Thought I'd do a quick example of layers with Firefly but didn't seem to work so this is for Superfly.
Create Mask

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Apply Ezskin to figure
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Add new Layer to skin mat, add new material and apply mask
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Render...

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This will create a lne where the mat ends with other textures which I think is due to the SSS. Solution appears to be to add the layer to these adjacent textures.

Render again

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The layer just replaces the mats below so if you require effects like bump to propagate through its a bit of a problem. I use a much simplier texture set than Ezskin so just copy the bump onto the new layer but for Ezskin that is more complex.

Hope that helps with the ideas

I was wondering if adding the mask layers prior to using EZSkin would work. Set up a regular texture, get the masks in place, then run EZSkin. Haven't tried it so I don't know if it would be a valid workaround.

EZSkin 3 had an experimental feature to enable overlaying of one material over another. Clipboard01.jpg

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