On break... (at home now... doing telecommute is fun.... )

Color inversions:
All shades of the following colors when inverted will be within the same color inversion series:

• Original Color:    Inverted Color
• Magenta:                 Green
• Blue:                         Yellow
• Cyan:                          Red
• Yellow:                      Blue
• Red:                           Cyan
• Green:                  Magenta
• White                      Black

When you use the x-ray mat, you need to remember the inversion factor (as I called it).

As for the mask... When you finish rendering the finished product to disk, go back and select the different objects and re-render it with the object mask and save to disk. Make sure the view has not been changed or the objects moved.  I always used PSD format for the layer. Then in photoshop, open up both the rendered and the mask psd. Duplicate the layer in the mask psd over to the rendered psd file. The object mask will serve as a selection aid. Set the magic wand sensitivity to 2 and you can either one of the 2 things, you can select either the white or the black. This is how I used the object mask within Photoshop. I used the mask to isolate the objects to do a little photoshop magic.

As for the transparency... I guess I could bump up the transparency within the mat up to about 85 and re-render and use a lighter shade of cyan but you got to remember real world density of matter in order to make it more real? in the laser fashion.  (For me that is)...

Here is the poinsetta I used from a previous render in all its x-ray glory. I only did the leaves and the stem and the berries. Left the pot alone ...

Took me a while to figure out the color inversions... But once I got that, the rest was easy. Also using the object mask created by Bryce helps with selections within Photoshop as it is solid b&w.
It's just a matter of duplicating the layer to the appropriate file(s) and manipulating it as a selection item with the magic wand.  I also used within Photoshop, the hue and saturation adjustment to adjust the lightness and darkness of the item I wanted adjusted.

Interesting... Now I'm off to work... will stop in later...

Quote - thunderstone..did the one on this page..that pink flower... sorta getting here..
the original pix are a bit more brighter and detailed...
still working on it..
see what you can come up with. the more meshes you have to work with the better..sicne you can go into detail.. ie.. texture each one separately and reduce/increase the transperency and change the color..
did you download the originals..since there is also the given sky you need to use..

Yeah I d/l the originals... Play around with them and them bones! Remember? Cursing poser skeleton/?? D/L the flowers.  Well some of them. Haven't had a chance to really put them to use at the moment. Was trying to finish up a personal project of mine... Sky fx... did that now have a blank slate with which to work with. Hmmm... you gave me an idea with the above. Going to bed now. Will work on them some what in the morn before work.

Erosiaart, how is it going? Getting any success??? I haven't been able to play with it like I wanted. I downloaded the flowers (Hurrah!!!) and am trying to get it to work right... Somehow I end up with b&w flowers... not exactly x-rays...

Will try again tomorroe.

TS

Quote - Real models, I'm afraid.  Big ones, too!

Before the idiot killed himself, my brother was responsible for the SFX on Hitchhiker, Blake's 7, Doctor Who....the list goes on!

Ears perks up Blake's 7??!!??? That's my all time favorite SciFi show back in the 80's... That's one show that should be revived... I would like to see how it all ends... Never got a chance to as by the time the show was ending, I went from working days to working evenings and nights and would you know the days they aired the show I was working??!!?? VCR and Betamix wasn't in my price range even with the amount of overtime and shift differentials I got paid with... :crying: By the time the price came down and I made a decent enough salary, it was over and gone from the tube for good. :mad: No reruns, nothing... I pity the fool that made the programming decisions over at the sci fi channel...  :lol:

You know anything about those SFX on those shows?

Quote - This is one of the best tuts on making a crowd..It does require Photohop..Also, be sure to visit the downloads as there are some free people billboards and textures..

http://vyonyx.com/index.php/down/tuts/tutorials-creating-a-realstic-crowd-in-photoshop

Thanks for the tip... I think I know now what else I can use to create a realistic crowd... You have given me an idea. I'll let you know what I came up.

Thanks again for the link.

Yeah... I got the flowers... Gonna play with them this afternoon (over here, it's 6:43 AM and I haven't have my morning fix of java yet!) Got to get ready to leave at 8... TTYL

What is britt's user name here? I typed in britt mccary and there's no such user here by that name so what user name did she go by while here. I search all and got flower pot, flower texture, and some nonsense  that is not really helpful. Google wasn't much help either...

Quote - try searching for flowers in the freebie.. use britt mccary's flowers...

What is britt's user name here? I search in the freebie section here for flowers and came up with at least 33 different types of "FLOWERS" like flower pots, flower texture, etc... (I am surprised that it didn't bring up flower power in the search parameters. That would have blown my mind right there!)

What about the forum where you originally got the flowers from? Have you look for the poster there?

I will try again with google... Maybe I'll hit pay dirt there. (tried google... no flowers but there's britt!...)

About the artist: Have you tried the administrator's mail box over at that forum? Seems like the artist is the site administrator. I can't make heads or tails out of the language, but maybe you can just drop a note or 2 into her mailbox.

Ok, I played with it... Don't really like it... Ok, here's the gist of it....

It turns the object mat transparent, but as far as the color goes, eh? In your favorite image editor you will have to invert and do some colorization. I really don't like it... (I mentioned that before, didn't I?)

Maybe I am not doing it right... What I need is some flowers to fool around with... I tried doing it with the old standby... hand with bones from poser...

:cursing: Whatever you do, don't use those blocky #@$$%^&!!!! bones from skeleton man or woman... They're the most  UGH!!!!! !@#$%^&*&^%%$$@@@!!!! piece of garbage I have ever had the misfortune of using in Poser for bones in hand !:cursing:

Square fingertips???? UGH!!!! Shudder

:unsure: Have you thought about asking the artist, the secret to the laser flower??? Then maybe you can create in Bryce using some kind of work around.

Quote - thunderstone.. thebryster's 1 has 5 mats combined when you import it in..
cheers
let me know how you fare with it and where i haev been going wrong and how it works out!

Oh okay, I got it now... Have the set installed but haven't played around with it yet... close to beddy bye bye time... need to get some sleep.    :b_sleeping:      Will play with it tomorrow.

Got only 1 but with erosiaart's link I picked up the zipped pak with the set. Thanks!

TS

TheBryster,  check your sitemail box.

TS

Now you got me intrigued! What is the name of this marvelous little mat? I want to play around with it too!!!

@koosievantutte: Well yeah... something like that   :b_funny: