Forum: Poser 12


Subject: Superfly - Help me track down what's changed and what's bugged?

Afrodite-Ohki opened this issue on Dec 25, 2020 ยท 108 posts


Afrodite-Ohki posted Sat, 26 December 2020 at 5:02 AM

-On the skin: that skin shader came from an entire thread where BB helped me come up with something for the Physical Surface that worked with a subsurf map - in the thread, Poser bugs were found and workarounds were figured out, and things were explained like how the Scatter values depend on the diffuse map colors too. I'll have to test if this is no longer true for P12. But if it still happens in P12, the values hborre gave there won't help, as they would be specific for each skin map.

-Rhia I'm fully expecting to have to issue out updates for my hair styles (and for Mayu, which is the character you see here) with extra mats for P12 Superfly. BUT:

-I'll only do that once P12 is completely stable at least when it comes to materials and rendering, for the reasons others have mentioned here

-I'm avoiding to use Cycles root and nodes specifically because they preview all white, which is a bummer because I spent this entire year in blender and got quite comfortable with Cycles nodes meanwhile. But from what I understand, the Eevee realtime renderer has different terms of use than Cycles so we probably can't ever hope for nice previews of cycles nodes anyway because they can't add Eevee to Poser. Which makes me wanna stick to PoserSurface and PhysicalSurface.

-Looks like I'll have to open that thread about the PhysSurf skin again and go through BB's steps to check how the RGB SubsurfDist is working now.

-Where even is BB these days, btw? ?

-... What ghostman hair shaders? ? Where would one acquire them, and can they be used and distributed in commerciall products? I'm still very unknowledgeable in mathy things and can't think in node noodle language.

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Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

Persephone (the computer): AMD Ryzen 9 5900x, RTX 3070 GPU, 96gb ram.