I don't know whether I need to change modelers, or simply become a more diligent student of Hexagon, but my latest foray into modeling (after many years of absence) yielded the object I wanted, but wouldn't let me apply an image map.  At least, not a VISIBLE image map.  Whiskey Tango Foxtrot?!  Anyway, just venting: this post doesn't really belong here.

It's especially weird because I CAN put a procedural noise texture on the thing. Methinks I've spent too many decades as a dilettante.

I just threw this one together.

For something just "thrown together", it's pretty damned good!

Mr. Smith... :)

hborre posted at 7:45 PM Thu, 29 June 2023 - #4468936

V4 does look a bit piqued on that transporter pad.  She doesn't take that mode of transportation very well, does she?

Much to my intense annoyance, I can no longer remember the steps I used for the masking process. I'm going to have to re-invent that process----and take notes this time!

It is a prototype transporter.  That's why you never saw them in Star Trek, they were goop on another transporter pad right after that scene....... lol

Cool render regardless

Y-Phil posted at 1:31 AM Thu, 29 June 2023 - #4468874

Cool!

Very cool. Might be more along the lines of Star Trek if you reduce the size of the effect to something that resembles smaller "sparks" 

I had to Google how to do images with alpha channels (which lead me to an older thread here on Renderosity; seems that the method depends on whether you're using FireFly or Superfly).

Then I got out my handy dandy copy of GiMP and composited this by hand.  I need to learn GiMP's scripting language, because I am not going to create a ten second long animation by hand.

My previous effort at posting doesn't seem to have taken, for some reason.  At any rate, I couldn't remember how to create a Poser image with an alpha channel but fortunately, Google remembered this thread for me.  Now I have to learn GiMP's scripting language so I can automate creating an animation. Doing it by hand for 300 frames would be tedious.ol

Surely they are still somewhere and I can overcome my laziness to look for them. Hahahaaaa :))

I'm surprised that no one has tried this yet.

Thanks to everyone contributing to this thread.  In addition to all the amazing renders there is also much to learn!  Here's my take with the scatter volume using Afrodite-Ohki's cube and lights from the LevelUp expansion.  Flink's sky, ShaaraMuse3D's scenery, Ken _Gilliland's birds used.

Beautiful work!

I wish I'd been feeling better so I, too, could have been experimenting with volumetrics.

Thanks for the update Thalek.  Much appreciated.

On a whim, I checked the Poser 13 content files at PoserSoftware to see if they had been changed.  They have.

On June 2nd, and June 6th, a total of three files were changed.  P6 James, L'Homme, and La Femme file 1.

As   I hadn't heard anything, I figured no one else had, either.

The carpet again... the HighRes tablecloth... the ball... doesn't look the way I wanted it to, but I'm out of breath now. Maybe later...

Thank's TheAnimaGemini...