Poser 5 on PC. I'm trying to create a skin texture (for human arms) that looks like a circuit board- mostly just the solder points (no transistors and such). I've got several images of suitable circuit board. I've tried bringing them into the material room and using them as image maps for bump maps (I'm very much a novice); however, I'm not able to produce anything realistic. Any advice? Point me in the right direction? Anything that already exists? Thanks.

Attached Link: http://www.webelectricmagazine.com/98/3/etch.htm

I took the picture on the linked page (found it with a google image search), grayscaled and cleaned it up in Photoshop, then used it as a bumpmap with a strength of 0.05 and 0.05 U and V scale (that's P5 - you might have to do something else in P4.) That photo may be copyrighted, so if you want to display the results you might need to seek permission of the site owners. That goes for any PCB pic you download.

If you're talking about those green phenolic boards with silver-colored solder pads and tracks, just take one of your scans and tile it - using the U-scale and V-scale, as mentioned by karen. Or you can take several scans of different boards, tile them randomly in PSP/APS, then use it as a non-tiling texture.

Thanks, this is all very helpful. One of the main problems I was having was the scaling. I was having a difficult go of getting the image scaled down.

ah..can't help you in poser, there's a Bryce material for circuitboard (think it's Wolfie's den, but I'd have to check), you could bring into Bryce. If not, try LEMOG, Mayang, grsites, etc., for jpeg textures, I'm sure I saw a circuit board on one of them..worse case, you luck into about 1,000 or so textures..;)

Thanks. Here's what I ended up with. It's fairly close to what I was shooting for.