Forum: Poser Technical


Subject: Better documentation on the Math_Functions node?

odf opened this issue on Oct 19, 2024 ยท 14 posts


odf posted Mon, 21 October 2024 at 7:06 PM

bagginsbill posted at 2:10 PM Mon, 21 October 2024 - #4490615

I never found any Poser docs for the math behind any of the nodes. I reverse engineered everything.

Your bias is correct. You can actually verify this by hand, building a ** (log(b) / log(.5)) in nodes and then take THAT node, subtract with an actual math:bias node having the same inputs, then take the absolute value of that difference and multiply by 1000 and plug that into ambient_color. If there's any deviation it will show up as not black. Here I used U and V as my two inputs, and the lower four nodes do the explicit math. The upper two compare and amplify differences from the real Bias function.

Excellent, thanks! I was considering something along those lines but somehow the multiplication at the end didn't occur to me. Brainworms, I swear.


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