Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: technical advice about "anvil's party"

ChienRouge opened this issue on Jan 14, 2003 ยท 15 posts


ChienRouge posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 5:57 AM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=313593

Hi, I wanna know if "jack the bear" generate reflexion in Poser or another soft ? I can't make reflexion like mirror in Poser. Thank to answer...

jack the bear posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 6:09 AM

Hello Actually I guess it's impossible to generate reflection in Poser (With 4.03). With this image I create reflection in Photoshop : You create two image in Poser, one normaly, and second up side down for reflection. In photoshop your can make layer to combine the both image.


jack the bear posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 6:19 AM

This is example...

jack the bear posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 6:21 AM

ANd now with reflection...

jack the bear posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 6:22 AM

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=313593

Or see the picture on gallery

ManuCoul posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 7:09 AM

I want to know how you make glace break ?


saxon posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 7:45 AM

In P4, make an image from the perspective of the reflecting object (eg. a mirror) map this image onto the mirror object, render... For animations, make an image strip of an animated gif of the animation from the perspective of the reflecting object, map this to a long rectangle, move this from top to bottom through the animation. Little dragon has a tutorial for another method he's devised...


ChienRouge posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 8:21 AM

That's pretty hard to make...


ChienRouge posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 8:22 AM

Where I Can find this tutorial ?


saxon posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 9:58 AM

Jack's picture really is good. It hadn't finished loading when I replied to you Red and I've only just seen it. To achieve that in Poser alone is possible but would entail covering the ground plane with another rectangle and using a trans map to let the ground plane show through in parts. Take a render from the perspective of the ground (looking up) flip it and map it to the ground plane. It really isn't as difficult as I've managed to make it sound, sorry....


EsnRedshirt posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 10:57 AM

If you've got Poser 5, it's as easy as applying a reflection map to the ground (though I'm sure that's no help for you ;) )


ManuCoul posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 11:18 AM

There's an example of reflection. the real one, not reflection map. In 3d studio max you can generate reflection for real.

Little_Dragon posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 3:42 PM

I haven't actually written a tutorial yet, although I did describe the technique in general terms over in the animation forum, after posting a number of images and videos.

I got complicated and had multiple mirrors and reflections combined with camera movement, but my approach is much easier with still images, or even animation with a stationary camera.

Basically, though, I do it in multiple renders with a transparent mirror. I position the camera behind the mirror (or other reflective surface) and render the scene from the mirror's perspective. Next, I take the render and flip it a paint program to get a mirrored image. Then I import the image back into Poser as a background, and reposition the camera so that the background is in perfect alignment with the actual scene. Then I do a final render, and the background reflection image is composited into the scene.

Getting everything lined up is the hard part, but I have a few tricks to make it easier. One of these days I'll actually write a illustrated tutorial and try to explain the process in more detail.

Here's my finished project. This was rendered entirely in Poser 4:
Video clip (MPEG format, 1.37MB)



jack the bear posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 3:57 PM

Well done Little Dragon, my way are more complicate. Thank.


saxon posted Tue, 14 January 2003 at 5:24 PM

"One of these days I'll actually write a illustrated tutorial and try to explain the process in more detail." LD, you've been saying that for months now mate!