Forum: Poser 11 / Poser Pro 11 OFFICIAL Technical


Subject: 'Transparency' switch to use PNG texture's Alpha channel ?

NikKelly opened this issue on Nov 05, 2021 ยท 16 posts


NikKelly posted Fri, 11 February 2022 at 4:21 PM

Infinity10, that's so neat !!

FWIW, despite several distractions, I figured how to hack an OBJ's MTL to include calls to DIY  transparency maps. This prompted by wrangling a freebie which had ~315 sub-objects concatenated in its OBJ. Major problem was some quirk of the OBJ format made model invisible within Poser. Solved by opening / re-saving from ($$) 3DOC.

Lesser problem was that many of those sub-objects called one of my three transparency maps.

After making a 'safety' copy, I edited the MTL using Notepad. To each eg...

newmtl Model001_Material001

Ns 8

Ka 0 0 0

Kd 1 1 1

Ks 0 0 0

map_Kd 000002248A4649B8.png

I added eg

d 0

map_d 000002248A4649B8Alpha.jpg

Certainly beat using Material room, as UI struggles beyond first page, so ~ 40 materials. And side-steps issue that file-name fields are short.....

This is 'Weathertop', a DA freebie ported from PSP to OBJ+MTL by Quake332 using 'NinjaRipper'.


Now, where did I save those pterodactyls ??