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Subject: Importing Poser to Carrara (Transparency Maps)

wolfdd opened this issue on Mar 08, 2000 · 8 posts
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wolfdd ( ) posted Wed, 08 March 2000 at 2:09 PM · edited Thu, 14 November 2024 at 1:38 PM

The last two days I spent a lot of time, trying to transfer characters from Poser to Carrara. Some problems, mostly concering texture maps I could solve, but the transparency maps drive me crazy... As far as I see this, Poser uses a variable transparency. Only this explains, how you do get real good looking hair with trans-maps. Carrara seems to know two states only, transparent or not transparent when using a map. RGB 0/0/0 or 255/255/255 of the map become transparent only. As a result of that the good looking hair from poser looks real bad in Carrara. I experimented a lot with the shaders to find a way out, yet without good results. Any ideas how to solve this problem? wolfdd

EdW ( ) posted Wed, 08 March 2000 at 2:29 PM

Hey wolfdd The only thing I have figured out was to use a layers list and put your trans map in the shader channel and a value in the opacity channel and mess with the value. I have gotten Allie's hair to look pretty good although I haven't tried any of the other trans mapped hair styles yet. Ed

wolfdd ( ) posted Thu, 09 March 2000 at 8:50 AM

Hi Ed, thanks for your hint. I will try that. I will loose some information of the poser original, but maybe it`s a good compromise. wolfdd

MASA ( ) posted Fri, 10 March 2000 at 10:16 AM

Hello wolfdd, Please see bellow. http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~masasi/TIPS/CAP2.jpg This is Carrara texture's Room screen shot. I am Japanese. Sorry,My English is poor. MASA

wolfdd ( ) posted Fri, 10 March 2000 at 7:26 PM

Hi Masa, Thank you very much! This solution works perfect. wolfdd

MASA ( ) posted Fri, 10 March 2000 at 7:48 PM

Hi wolfdd, You're welcome. MASA

EdW ( ) posted Sat, 11 March 2000 at 7:18 AM

Hey Masa Thanks for the tip. It never occurred to me to use the trans maps like you did in your screen shot. Ed

MASA ( ) posted Sat, 11 March 2000 at 8:39 AM

Hi Ed, You're welcome. I had to work hard to find the way. I really thought... to transfer "KyokoHair" from Poser to Carrara. I am PoserFactory's member. Please visit my web site. http://www.eurus.dti.ne.jp/~masasi/ MASA

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