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Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections Posted Sep 14, 2002 at 10:52 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	14	425	2002 Sep 15 12:27 PM geep
Anyone need a P5 materials Tutorial for... Posted Sep 14, 2002 at 9:22 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	6	270	2002 Sep 15 2:30 AM JeffH
Fun with cloth Posted Sep 10, 2002 at 6:08 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	7	435	2002 Sep 11 3:24 AM PhilC
Poser 5 lights Posted Sep 10, 2002 at 1:05 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	1	166	2002 Sep 10 2:29 PM Styxx
P5: Is this happening to everyone? Posted Sep 09, 2002 at 3:28 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	14	1004	2002 Sep 10 4:52 AM Crescent
Question for CL - P5 Multiple Runtimes Posted Sep 05, 2002 at 8:32 am \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	16	510	2002 Sep 05 12:59 PM electronicpakrat
Membership Required Sites (Your Advice, Please) Posted Aug 19, 2002 at 3:00 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	19	477	2002 Aug 20 1:56 PM Virus
Scaling Hands (A Tip) Posted Jul 07, 2002 at 4:42 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	24	459	2002 Jul 09 8:21 PM Roy G
Slightly OT: CD Indexing Programs? Posted Feb 12, 2002 at 12:30 am \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	24	330	2002 Apr 07 1:57 PM PhilC
Suggestions, please? Posted Oct 24, 2001 at 2:27 am \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	4	21	2001 Oct 24 2:35 PM fauve
'Nother Tip Posted Oct 22, 2001 at 5:00 am \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	23	111	2001 Oct 25 10:56 AM melanie
Handy Tip - Preventing Pose Folder Bloat Posted Oct 22, 2001 at 4:23 am \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	4	24	2001 Oct 22 10:49 AM EnglishBob
Morphs to reposition Dina's eyes Posted Oct 18, 2001 at 10:36 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	6	29	2001 Oct 19 2:21 PM Helen
Dina... my thoughts and a morph Posted Oct 18, 2001 at 12:02 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	7	43	2001 Oct 19 5:58 AM Krel
Galway in Ireland (got it) Posted Aug 13, 2001 at 2:27 pm \| Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL	phoenixamon	2	21	2001 Aug 13 3:17 PM Nance

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Thread: Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 3:27 AM

I'm still trying to figure out the XML behind the Poser5 interface. I will let you know when I find the correct place to insert that. :) Phoenix

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Thread: Pull all your old clothes out of your Poser closet. | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 3:26 AM

Right-O. It's a single part prop, not a figure, define some groups with the grouping tool or in another app (UV Mapper works) and you can assign different qualities to those groups. So you could make a tight-fitting top with long flowing sleeves. PhilC also suggeted a use for it in making morph targets for conforming clothes. If you feel like looking (it's quite cool) search Phil's recent posts. It's the one about the cape. Phoenix

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Thread: Pull all your old clothes out of your Poser closet. | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 2:58 AM

You can separate the cloth into groups and make parts stretchier, easier to fold, non-dynamic and so on. I imagine that would do what you're talking, but it's going to take a lot of practice to get the feel of it. PhilC is having a ball with the cloth room, and he might be able to give you a better answer when he's around. Phoenix

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Thread: Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 2:54 AM

Funny, Doc. :) Yes, that'd be right, if it would give me a list of alternatives to choose from in a drop down or some such. On the other hand, that might require too much audience participation. Just an auto-artifier would be better. Phoenix

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Thread: Pull all your old clothes out of your Poser closet. | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 2:31 AM

I've been playing with this as well, Coach. Thanks for posting about it. :) This is really REALLY handy. It doesn't matter that the joint parameters don't match, because the "clothified" versions don't use joints. Phoenix

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Thread: Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 2:27 AM

I know, I know. :) And I appreciated it, although I stand by my assessment of my artistic abilities. Someday I WILL find that "Make Art" button. Phoenix

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Thread: Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sun, 15 September 2002 at 12:41 AM

I'm sorry, geep. :) I'm really just passing along what I've learned in other 3D apps that can finally be used in Poser. I'm good at learning the techniques. As for applying them, well, I won a 6th grade art contest and I bet I could STILL win a 6th grade art contest except they don't let teachers enter. :) I made a typo in the third post that changes the meaning. It ought to say "For instance you can NOW use reflections or shininess on transmapped items" rather than not. Phoenix

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Thread: Anyone need a P5 materials Tutorial for... | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 11:43 PM

Posted it to a new thread. Hope it's OK. I've never actually ritten a tutorial before... I'm usually too dim to figure anything out for myself. ;) Phoenix

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Thread: Because my mom dropped me on my head.... | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 11:40 PM

K... The image above is really simple. Assign a 2D Image Map to the diffuse slot. If you want to tile that image, reduce the U and V scales in the Image Map node properties. Assign a pretty high specularity, because you want the surface to reflect light. In the Reflection Color slot, assign a Reflect node. You'll find that at New Node -> Lighting -> Ray Trace -> Reflect. What to assign to the Color slot in the Reflect node depends on your scene. If you are using a background image, it's probably a good idea to attach an Image Map node to that slot so that your background will be reflected as well as the objects in your scene. Otherwise your background color is a good choice. If you want only a mild reflection like in my pic, set the Reflection Value down to something like 0.2. A value of 1 will give you a mirror-sharp reflection, and few real world objects have that. Make sure you turn on Raytracing in the Render settings, and see what you get. Hope this is helpful. I am not sure I'm describing things right. This is all new to me as well. :) Phoenix

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Thread: Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 11:28 PM

Hope this screen shot at least give you an idea. :P Back in Poser, assign your base material as normal... The diffuse slot takes a 2D texture map. In your Reflection_Color slot, assign a Sphere_Map node. This will give you Poser4 type reflections, not rayraced ones. For something as simple as a dress trim, it's not necessary that the material reflect the real environment. In the Color slot of that node, add a normal 2D reflection map of the type we used in P4. You may need to adjust the color of the Color slot as well. As you can (hopefully) see, I made mine a gold shade. The new thing is the Reflection_Value slot. Set this value to 1.0 and then assign your black and white mask image as a 2D Image Map node. What will happen is that White areas will be calculated as 1 (full reflective) and black areas will be calculated as 0 (non-reflective). You could also set the value to less than 1 or use greys in your mask to get slightly reflective areas. That's about it. Render. You do not need to raytrace. Masks like this can be used in a lot of ways. For instance you can not use reflections or shininess on transmapped items. Just link your transmap node to the Reflection Value or the Specular Value slots. Make pearlescent wings, whatever. Hope this is a tensy bit useful and maybe sparks your imaginations for other uses of masking images. I am a crappy artist, and I know a lot of you will come up with uses I never thought of. Phoenix

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Thread: Mini-Tut: Masked Reflections | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 11:06 PM

Open your original texture (Left) in an image editor, and select or mask all the areas you want to be reflective. Using layers for this is helpful. Fill the areas you want to be reflective with white, and the rest of the image with black (Middle). This is just like making a transmap. In a transmap your white areas are visible and your black areas are not. Here your white areas are reflective and your black ones are not. As an optional third step (Right), you can fill the reflective areas on your original map with a solid color similar to the color you will be reflecting. This will prevent the texture from shining through the reflection, but won't always be what you need or want. In my case I was going to reflect a gold color, so I filled the reflective areas with a pale yellow. More to come...

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Thread: Because my mom dropped me on my head.... | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 10:09 PM

Judging by my typos, I'd have to say mom forgot my helmet too. :) I'll write you up something as soon as I can, though if nobody else gets to it first. Phoenix

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Thread: Because my mom dropped me on my head.... | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 9:49 PM

Reflectives floors like this? Phoenix

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Thread: My First P5 Character! | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 9:43 PM

How can you tell it's not Grandpa Al in a halloween costume, huh? ;)

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Thread: My First P5 Character! | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

phoenixamon ( ) posted Sat, 14 September 2002 at 9:30 PM

Grandpa Al in the Halloween Parade? :) Cute.

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