Karina: If you get misaligned knuckles that look like the fingers are broken then it's often a faulty pose injection which comprises not only the rotation data (as it should be) but also translations (which have no business to do there!). ... look in "Karina's Toolbox" which comes with SASHA-16. The Script _"315 Fix Actor Offsets"

It worked! Here's the before and after:

Yes, I saw that and knew what you meant. translations have no business to do on a hand pose.

Drugs?

Eliza eventually learned how to speak proper English, and it was discovered her problem all along had been lack of chocolate. It wasn't until antihistamines were invented that someone (like Boni) could claim 'drugs' for bumbles in the text. And auto correct.

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Thanks Karina. I'm going to try forcing it to happen and then solving it, because I want to keep using all the legacy poses.

thanks

add:

Oh. It's for SuperFly. That's not for me. But thanks anyway.

Thanks caisson, bb, deecey, and bantha

However ...

I am out of my league here. I don't know what a "Physical Surface Node" is, so while the advanced people here are supplying deep information about roughness, but I'll just sit back and bookmark and perhaps review when I get more experienced.

Here's my reality: I am getting fine results with the "Lana" maps from DAZ, the diffuse and bump. Apparently, DAZ made the Lana bump map with some variant of the discussion here.

My renders are in this thread high above.

When I want to tweak, I just adjust the bump amount on the PoserSurrface, and the specular setting on it the attached map. Also the SSS and the intensity and kind for the lights. Thank you Snarly.

I am hoping to find out how to make bump maps of high quality, or purchase them, some of which has been spelled out here so far. Thanks for the links to purchasable maps.

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bantha:

Me to BB: when you say "roughness maps" (and that they don't matter much) do you mean displacement maps?

bantha: A roughness map would affect the roughness value. Makes the shader more or less shiny. Has nothing to do with bump or displacement, but in fact simulates nano-bumps.

That did not answer my question. There is no "roughness" node on the Poser Surface.

Can you please translate "roughness" into something an intermediate user of the material room such as myself can grasp?

bantha please spare the admonishment {lecture} ... i was not complaining in any way, just stating the fact for perspective. Thank You.

Actually, "The Email of Time" sounds like a great title for genre fiction of an eBook at Amazon.

OMG! Thank you. [please don't tell me that is in the Poser manual, but I bet it is.]

At texturing.xyz, $140 for the full suite, and that's just the face. You have to purchase small parts of the body one by one. It might take $1000 for a full figure.

As for "how to generate skin details in ZBrush" that would be sculpting/painting skin like an artist, right? Not from life photos.

seachnasaigh, that is amazing tech. I have to study it to grasp it.

Can you or anyone add one thing:

Without an image sequence folder, is it possible to simply have Poser walk through a 100-frame animation of a ball and the transparency node increments automatically from 0.00 to 1.00?

Yeah, what's up with the fingers? Why do some of these canned poses, when applied, turn La Femme and V4 hands into bizarre things with mis-aligned knuckles? And how do you fix a hand like that?

Hi BB,

1. when you say "roughness maps" (and that they don't matter much) do you mean displacement maps?
2. if I were in possession of a great diffuse map with little or no reflections, how would I make a bump map, since (and I agree) you don't make it from the diffuse map?

Thank you

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{edit to add: I suspect the answer to #2 is: a hi-res 3D scan}

Thanks, I've wanted to learn to animate transparency for a long time.