Put the background image on a primitive object and animate the object on the x-axis.

About the process for Emily ...

What if you had a great regular photo and also a polarized one? For Poser, would that be worth pursuing?

I emailed levius and adam responded and is curious. (not a flat "no.")

If he supplied both, what would the next step be, and is it even worth it?

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Yep

There is a utility script for that! Specifically. I've used it.

scripts:utility:dropActToFloorAllFrames

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Glitterati3D posted at 11:21PM Sun, 17 March 2019 - #4348255

"Please start you own thread about promos. THIS thread is about La Femme."

I didn't start that drift, i just joined in, but I'll desist.

[sharp comeback about my "lousy job" redacted]

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I'd say Biscuits has the best example of showing authenticity in promos for La Femme with the package "Biscuits Faces & Features for La Femme".

Frankly, you have a person posting in this La Femme thread who is the one pulling the subject off topic, and it is not me.

[start opinion ...]

The two enemies are: 1) raccoon eyes; and 2) symmetry.

1. A woman is not a raccoon, or panda. She is not born with heavy black eyeliner top and bottom. Yet promo renders relentlessly perpetuate raccoonism. Here's why: the lack of complexity in the mesh and skin map around the eyes of all default figures, if not hidden, is a dead give-away that you are viewing a dead doll, not a person. Human beings key on eyes when encountering others.

Rather than solve this by complicating the mesh and/or skin map, vendors cover it up. Like .... a mask! The window of the soul should not look dead.

I once interacted with a 'famous' vendor here about this, and she finally admitted that the eyeliner must be there, because now customers expect it, and think 'something is wrong and missing' without it. Sales go nowhere.

1. symmetry. I should say unrelenting, rigid, fascist symmetry. Thou shalt not show an unbalanced expression. Yes, I know, there is a meme that 'attractive' faces are the ones with high symmetry. Well guess what? Not perfect perfect perfect symmetry computer-generated identical left/right. If you look closely at an attractive face, man or woman, yes, there is a high degree of symmetry, but the tiny, teasing, cute little 'faults' cinch home the delight.

[end opinion]

P.S. Luckily, these faults can be easily defeated in all our figures, including V4 and La Femme. Close your eyes if a default shows up in your pose window ... dial a morph, quickly, so you don't damage your aesthetic sensibility.

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Sorry Glitterati3D, you are way off base. I didn't say anything about V4. I am only commenting about promos. It applies to V4 and La Femme. The conversation drifted onto the general topic of "base default vs using the tools to make great characters from them." If you objection is about that drift, so be it. But don't accuse me of the wrong thing.

Please explain why you are taking exception. Please read my next post for confirmation

Bad characters and promos are not the fault of DAZ, Rendo, or SmithMicro. If you are offering a model of the human person for sale, it is your responsibility to provide the tools and power to let the user find truth. Just the tools.

I just took a look at Blujaunte at DAZ. Yep, those characters and the promo renders are special. They evoke reality. I fell in love with Lyra.

Salute!

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SamTherapy, what is the correct way to make bump maps?

wait, i read you post more carefully... I think you are saying that with Levius, there is only one file per shot, not a "regular" and a "polarized." So you can't use the two to take the difference and make a spec map, like they did for Emily. Right?

Hi bantha, thanks for the link to Levius, and I see no evidence of any maps, just photos. The sets look fantastic.

But you say "Sadly, there does not seem to be a "specular" Version as well, so creating spec maps isn't possible that way." So... are you saying you can't pull a spec map out of a photo, and optionally turn it into a normal or bump map?

Makeup/washed clean ...

Ironsoul, that is one of my issues with the "V4 Elite Skin maps" from DAZ ... while the Lana set her face is totally devoid of makeup and definitely deep cleaned, with the others, Amy and Marie, the photoed skin is not "honest." How someone could think that the basis for a skin map should have makeup and/or plucked eyebrows is beyond comprehension.

How do you obtain a "specular reflection map?" Can you precipitate that out from a photograph? I wonder if "Materialize" can do that? I'm going to check tomorrow.

Checing the manual, I'm finding "some" information about those nodes....

Sam Therapy, I'm not saying you are wrong, and I'm not saying that BB does not know the deep truth, but just for the record, the Poser manual suggests the desaturated/inverted diffuse map for a bump!

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