Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: What am I doing wrong with this darn tree....TIA

dlk30341 opened this issue on Jun 13, 2004 ยท 8 posts

dlk30341 posted Sun, 13 June 2004 at 9:20 PM

This is Syams Franipani.....I can't get it work right :(. Does anyone here have this plant & if so how are you getting to render properly. As you see..the bark looks like crap & the leaves are to transparent & the flowers are blurry. Sigh........... I got it to import into Vue OK..had to lower the trans of the leaves to zero...and it doesn't look anything like this....in Vue it looks as advertised...go figure.

Message edited on: 06/13/2004 21:31

LeeEvans posted Sun, 13 June 2004 at 9:33 PM

Can't help much with the bark.. but it looks like you may be using a bad transmap for the leaves... Keep in mind you have to have basically an alpha channel for accurate transparancy.... Here is an example of a texture and a "valid" transmap... The displayable portion of the texture HAS to be pure black (0,0,0)

LeeEvans posted Sun, 13 June 2004 at 9:34 PM

Forgot the pic.. :)

Veritas777 posted Sun, 13 June 2004 at 11:06 PM

Yah, I got that one too a few months back- it never worked right for me- they apparently made it for P5 only but it never said that in the original release. They finally sent me a P4 version (I use Pro-Pack) but that version never worked well and there were no Mat poses- so all the flower color variations never worked. Too bad, as I am especially fond of Franipani, or "Plumeria" and always hoped someone would make one- but this was a big disappointment. And they seemed to have no interest in fixing it or improving the product defects. Will never buy anything from them again!

genny posted Mon, 14 June 2004 at 5:43 AM

I just bought this a few days ago and it is working just fine? It came with two separate folders, one that says "Tropical Trees" (I assume it's for P5) and the other, "Tropical Trees P4." There are no mat pose files, you have to load them yourself, but other then that I have no complaints. Maybe the files have been up-dated since you purchased it and possibly you could get the newer version? I am using Poser4 with ProPack by the way. (:

rjghise posted Mon, 14 June 2004 at 8:10 AM

For each material make sure that the object colour is white and the Highlight colour, Ambient colour and Reflective colour are all set to 100% black. For the leaves set the transparency max to 100% and the Transparency min and falloff to 0%.

dlk30341 posted Mon, 14 June 2004 at 8:32 AM

Thanks guys will check out your suggestions....

dlk30341 posted Mon, 14 June 2004 at 8:37 AM

I guess I'll check for an update...just checked my zip file & there are NO MATS.....I have a pp2...& several jpegs. sigh.............. There was an update..all fixed :)

Message edited on: 06/14/2004 08:43