Bejaymac posted at 4:12 AM Thu, 8 June 2023 - #4467406

Poser 4 and Poser Pro Pack used a "simple" general purpose shader on every surface, with Poser 5 and newer versions you have the Material Room, this means that every surface now has a bespoke shader designed specificly for that surface.

Since P5 every surface has the general purpose shader settings as well as the Material Room settings, MT5, MC6, PZ2, CR2, PP2 and even PZ3.

DS can only read and convert the settings in that P4/PP general purpose shader, it doesn't even try to read the Material Room settings, and as time has gone by fewer and fewer content makers put anything in the general purpose shader, as a result most non DAZ Poser content just loads white in DS.

The Material Room does a lot of procedural settings (aka no textures) and there is no way to recreate those in the crappy general purpose shaders DAZ provides with DS, you need the Shader Mixer for those, and a good 95% of the user base is terrified of it.

REALLY wow i thinks its excitting 

Sunfire posted at 10:02 PM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467091

Which poser materials are you wanting to use in DS?

Some are easier than others, though in any case some understanding of how materials are put together in DS would be required.

i brout them from a lady they are mt5 files there gorguse matrials but they just won't work in daz i also have poser 11 they work in it fine i just havent figured out how to use the texture nodes or material room to get the glossy or silky affects Daz i have figured out some but not all i'm still learning there is alot on daz i still havent work out theres a shader sets tab that i found thats called the shader mixer which looks alot like posers material room very confusing ill get there i brout the materials from a lady called little designer beautiful stuff   

HartyBart posted at 8:10 PM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467078

When you say "converting them from mt5 to pz2", I assume you mean by using the free utility on ShareCG called "MC6/MT5 to PZ2 Batch Converter"?

Esha has instructions for hand-editing to convert between formats, here, using a text editor... http://www.esha.at/Knowhow/Knowhow_E/Material_E/material_e.html

tryed it it dose not work 

SpookieLilOne posted at 7:45 PM Sat, 3 June 2023 - #4467074

I do not believe they are usable. The material room in Poser uses spaghetti nodes and the surface tab in D|S is plug and play. They are just not set up the same way. Now you can use the texture tiles in D|S surface tab but you would need to research how to get the same effects.

yes i think this is the only way i can do it such a shame ohhh well not much eals i can do

what the hell why did that do that here werid

i keep getting a flat white back ground which i don't want

cool thank you