Is there a difference when you use colors in the bum maps? How can you have the best resoult?

Colours don't matter; contrast and brightness affect results.

a color bump map is just a bump map with too much megabytes. The way a bump map works is by using a base grey as the middle level, and then darker tones appear raised , the darker the tone the higher the rise, while lighter tones appear dropped. Your color map will look the exact same as if you desaturated it first, the renderer will only notice the tones, not the shades.

GreyScale Bump as .jpg

The result in Poser on the Box.obj

I hope we don't confuse our English and Canadian friends who use the word "bum" to refer to an anatomical feature. I don't know about you but mine has never been mapped. I did, however, notice a cute cartographer following me with her eyes as I walked away one day.

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Also Australia New Zealand Pakistan India Singapore Malaysia and the other Commonwealth Countries What's more most play the great games of Cricket and Rugby where men are men and Grid Iron players are regarded as big girls ;-)

Actually, the first thing that came to mind when I saw the thread's topic was Bum Fights. Despicable, truly despicable...but hilarious if you're twisted. :) Otherwise, ya, um...it's all grayscale, as the images showed and others said. (See, I'm on topic!)

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It actually is neither brightness nor contrast - Poser is using the "Value" (as in HSV) which is a very unlikely and non-intuitive choice. For example, all plain primary colours (like 100% red, green or blue) are seen as 100% white. If you convert the colour template into greyscale, the primary colours will turn into some shade of grey (darker than white) and consequently change the "bump" effect - colour to grey typically uses the "Luminance" (as in HSL) and not the "Value". I wrote a set of filters for GraphicConverter (May only, sorry) which include a function to remove colour from a template without changing the "bump" effect.

Thanks MartinC - I've used it. It's good.

Bobasaur: Belly LoL!!!! Watch when she gets to Cape Horn, hey? Q

Ahhh, Cape Horn - the Southern Tip!

thank you all,sorry for the "bum" instead of "bump"...

A little bum, alot of fun! Well, that's what I heard.

Hey Pitklad: Don't be so hard on yourself. This from the Poser Forum FAQ: "4.) No more .bum files-- ProPack will read standard picture files directly, instead of converting them into .Bum files " As for Cricket. I don't understand the rules, but I love the colorful uniforms and somehow a game (called a test?) lasting more than one day, with breaks for cucumber sandwitches and a spot of tea has to be a wonderful experience. I JUST CAN'T FOR THE LIFE O'ME FIGURE OUT WHAT THE HELL IT'S ALL ABOUT.... Q

It's not so much a game, as it is a metaphor for life ....

OOOOOOOOKay. What's life a metaphor of... My new project: The Poser's guide to Zen. Q

to paraphrase quixote, "Don't be so Zensitive!"

I just wish that when god was handing out wisdom, I wasn't still back at the libido line, beggin for seconds.... Zensorious... Q