Love it....excellent work...

Yeah, I know, Anthanasius! That's a beautiful picture, isnt it? I wish women today still used stockings...

I intend to continue with my stocking work, and indeed make the top welt attach to a suspender belt (and corset, and girdle), with the welt (and hole) properly stretched, just like in this picture. (And add Cuban heels, Manhattan heels too. And wider welts, other bits of details. Different brands of stockings, so to speak--Cervins, the old Aristoc, etc.) But it will be quite a lot of work, I'll have to add the torso skin map, for instance, and I am still refining what I have done so far. 

I'll get to it...so keep watching.

And I notice you use stockings on several of your renders in your gallery...very nice...

Ah-ha, thanks Bobbesch...I'll give it a try later today...

I've been experimenting with my node layout--it looks like the anisotropic node should actually feed into the stocking color node (the Image_Map_3), not vice versa, and the "image" needs only be a solid color--so there is doubtless a way to create that solid color, in various hues, using another node. I'll see if I can figure it out later. And thanks, Jo, for the link to Castle--I've been looking through his tutorials, tho I must say that  math turns to fog in my brain...doubtless I've got my own node issue somewhere in my cerebellum, perhaps cross-connected to my amygdala....

Thanks, Charlie. I'll look into Matwriter. And yeah, us old guys can get kinda lost in all these new-fangled, arcane things, like nodes.....

There must be a way of saving this mat room setup so I can apply it with one click to another figure. How?

And I would really like to improve this. Bagginsbill's nylon shader includes the ability to alter the color of the stocking, for instance, which still amazes me. Would that be possible with this set up? If so, how? What should I try?

BB's full nylon shader is still much better than this effort--the gloss is amazingly real. As my understanding of the material room grows, I want to find a way to use it. I know BB showed an example some weeks back, which included the necessary mask for the stocking, and I will go back there and see if I can figure it out now that I know a bit more. Thank you again, BB, and please be patient--I truly admire your knowledge and appreciate your time in sharing it--but I still have to decipher much of what you have presented! And thanks, too, for the others who have responded and helped my with my education...

No, I'm here, sorry, been busy working on other things...I thank all of you for the further information. I've actually learned (using PhilC's tutorial) how to apply a mask, using the Blender node, and I used BB's instruction about using the mask to lighten/darken the stocking color. I just havent had a chance to take this any further--will get to it next week, see if I can feed into my noggin this information and take the stockings much further. I also want to buy the vascularity/veins asset, since it looks like the author is using displacement maps in the way I want to also. So much to learn, so little time...

But thank all of you again for the information! I'll be working on it and posting some results next week!

BB, it is clear that you are the resident expert on the Materials Room and its varied nodes, and you show admirable generosity with your work. But it is also clear that you dont have much patience for a rank amateur in this field, like me. I must tell you I was pretty happy just getting your stocking shader to work--and to play around a bit with those nodes, trying to figure out what they did--quite amazing, they are--and I was hoping there would be an easy way to drop a mask into the business. I did go over some of that earlier work you showed, but much of it was simply baffling. I dont even seem to have all of those nodes you used. Or are they re-named somehow? Anyway, I'll go back and spend more time with them. Maybe I'll make progress. Just playing with this stocking shader of yours was instructive.

If I have more questions, I'll  post them again. But perhaps it would be best if you just ignored them, at least until I reach a higher level of understanding. Then you can toss your complex subtleties at me and I might actually get them!

Here's the rest of the material room nodes (it was too big for me to grab all in one try)

And here's a snip of the material room and most of the nodes...

I think bagginsbill's mask/shader is the ideal way to add the correct gloss (and different colors) to a stocking. I havent had a much of a chance to explore his explanations (especially difficult for someone who has never worked with nodes), but I will. But the stockings will still need special bits, like the heel treatments, the seam, welts, wrinkles, which have to be created separately. I think that is what thewebflea is doing, and I am eager to see his results. And vilters' painted-on corsetry: wow. I saw them earlier, and hope I can make something that looks so good. I just havent had time...

I think it's exciting the way people here explore and create. Most of you have an expertise far beyond mine in all these technical matters. I especially want to learn about nodes and the material room--I can see, from bagginsbill's and vilters' examples, how powerful a tool they are. A step at a time.....

I think Poser's talk designer only works with stock Poser figures--unless you can find the configuration files for M3 or V4, for instance. I found the V4 config somewhere--dont remember where--and now that figure works, more or less. The V4 config also sort of works for the M4 figure. But I generally prefer Mimic for the DAZ characters. And I like having the PZ2 which I can drop onto the figure anywhere in the Poser timeline. For me the Poser talk designer seems inconsistent, but maybe that's just my lack of experience.

The wav files can be a problem in Mimic too, I discovered. There are several different wav paradigms, and both Poser and Mimic seem to accept only some of them.

Sorry to be so late getting back to this--spilled coffee on  my keyboard, then had a bunch of domestic crises (washing machine quit, hot water heater, clogged drain). But things seem more tranquil now...Cedarwolf, I agree the stockings look rather plastic now, or more like latex than nylon, but I'm sure fooling around with the settings will allow variations. And when I have more done, I'll lodge the files somewhere so anyone can grab it. Maybe make a freebie page, learn to do zips. What I'd appreciate--if anyone does grab it--that any further work can be shared too. I want more heel treatments, for instance--Cuban heels, Manhatten, whatever. And I still want to get further into the material room and use bagginbill's expertise to set up a shader, and a mask, whatever...

Meanwhile, I uploaded a new version of the video using these stockings. This is the fourth version, with the gloss added, a stormy background, some voice. It's at Youtube--

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvRHdH_Y5hU&feature=share&list=PL315E4254948F9BAF

I'll keep fiddling with it, adding some other camera angles, try to clean up the voice synch, etc......