Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: How Do I Get P5 to Use the Blasted Background Shader?

bloodsong opened this issue on Feb 10, 2003 ยท 11 posts

bloodsong posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 4:39 PM

heyas; okay, i grabbed the background in the material room, and i stuck some blue and white cloud shader on it, and plugged it all in, blah blah blah. and whatever render settings i use, the blasted background keeps coming out plain flat grey! argh! i got p4 with anti-alias, texture, bump, shadows on, and 'ignore shader trees' off. or p5 with the usual simple stuff turned on. AND the background thing that says 'use current background shader.' AND i checked, and the blue and white cloud thingy is still plugged in! argh!

Lovely Lady posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 5:14 PM

I can get it to work but only with the P5 renderer. Nothing I did would get the P4 renderer to show it.

Puntomaus posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 5:44 PM

Just tried it the first time and it works fine. You have to use the Firefly, it won't work with the P4 render thingie and I noticed that you have to change the colors from black to anything else. When the background color stays dark in the BG color node (or is it a shader or ... ????) you will see no change. And don't ask me what I did there, I just changed the colors, plugged something together and this is what came out :-).

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Puntomaus posted Mon, 10 February 2003 at 5:53 PM

Another one.

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TrekkieGrrrl posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 3:09 AM

Also be sure to tick the "render over current background shader" in the render settings :o)

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gryffnn posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 6:14 AM

Ooo, something else cool to play with - I've got a use for that top one right off. Thanks for the great screenshots!

praxis22 posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 12:56 PM

you can get some really cool effects randomly plugging things together, I've spent more than a few hours dicking about, though I've noticed that often the simple ones work best. Not that I've ever saved them, it's like trying to save an "etch a sketch" :) later jb

bloodsong posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 4:04 PM

grrrrrr.... but i DID tell it to use the shader, and i TRIED the firefly. still same dull grey background. ::shows the thread to p5:: you SEE! now do it that way!!

Tirjasdyn posted Tue, 11 February 2003 at 4:21 PM

screen shot bloodsong?

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bloodsong posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 2:23 PM

hey, it worked! no, really. showing p5 this thread. and the next time i did the firefly thingy, the background shader showed up. dang, you guys are gooooooood! :D

TrekkieGrrrl posted Wed, 12 February 2003 at 3:04 PM

LOL

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