Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Poser 5 render - help needed

compiler opened this issue on Jan 19, 2003 ยท 7 posts

compiler posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 3:16 PM

I've worked on this the whole week-end and could not figure a workout. This is Ultrasalon Princess Hair. I really like it and it was rendering fine with Poser 4. In Poser 5 it turns to a checkered mess. The lights are my default light which I use on other models with the same settings and without any problem. The texture is exactly the same as it was and doesn't have any checkered pattern (the same goes for the transparency map). The only thing I could figure is that the checkered pattern follows exactly the polygon's pattern. What can cause this ? And has anyone an idea to work around this ? Thanks in advance for your help. Compiler

chanson posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 3:22 PM

I'm not sure, but I'm guessing that there are some inverted normals on some of the polys...

quinlor posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 3:30 PM

This look like double sided polygons. P5 does not like that. The work around: Apply the texture as a displacment map with a very low displacment strength (e.g. 0.0001). Stefan

compiler posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 4:01 PM

A Terazillion thanks quinlor. You saved my week-end ! Compiler

mateo_sancarlos posted Sun, 19 January 2003 at 6:04 PM

What causes the "pixie dust" spots on the ear?

quinlor posted Mon, 20 January 2003 at 5:50 AM

Glad to help. And at some time I will learn to always use a spellchecker. stefan

compiler posted Mon, 20 January 2003 at 1:47 PM

Mateo : these are probably a self shadowing. Nothing to worry about, I'll just set the min shadow bias to a higher value and that's it. Compiler