randym77 posted at 9:50 PM Thu, 21 October 2021 - #4429233

SamTherapy posted at 5:04 PM Thu, 21 October 2021 - #4429222

Surely the easiest way is to render the figure and the background separately, them comp 'em together in Photoshop.  Set up something for the figure to give a ghostly inner glow - Edge Blend does the job in Firefly - then render the figure.  Render the background alone, drop the figure in after and adjust transparency as desired.

Doing it that way, you have a transparent figure that is transparent only to the background, and not to various parts of itself.

That's cheating, for the "no postwork" crowd. ;-)

It is easy enough to do in Photoshop, but I have to admit, I'm curious about how Cyllan managed to do transparency gradients and such, just in Poser.

He probably used texture coordinate nodes with some maths, it's how most shader gradients I've seen are done... probably seachnasaigh uses them alot. Bagginsbill certainly did.