Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Candle Flame Shader For Firefly... (Use Postwork Answer Is For Cowards!)

3dcheapskate opened this issue on Mar 05, 2020 ยท 100 posts


3dcheapskate posted Wed, 18 May 2022 at 8:55 AM

Just did an 'ellipsoid' morph for the flame...


Whoops !  I forgot that the flame shader uses the V coordinate of the UV mapping of the flame mesh, and that UV mapping is a bit arbitrary - a simple cylinder projection


I think the default flame mesh probably needs to be an ellipsoid to start with, positioned as per a real flame in relation to the tip of the wick.

Obviously the UV mapping of the flame and the use of the V variable in the shader must be correlated


The 3Dcheapskate* occasionally posts sensible stuff. Usually by accident.
And it usually uses Poser 11, with units set to inches. Except when it's using Poser 6 or PP2014, or when its units are set to PNU.

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