Forum: Vue


Subject: Importing Michael into Vue.

Crescent opened this issue on Oct 20, 2000 ยท 7 posts


Crescent posted Fri, 20 October 2000 at 3:30 PM

I believe this works as well for Vicky. If not, it's close. After arguing with Vue for the last few hours, I'll wait a bit before testing Vicky. I've tested this with Zygote's MM texture and daio's wonderful Dion texture. In Poser: Pose Michael. Apply the textures as needed to the figure. Do not use the Bump Map. Switch it to No Bump. Make sure you remove the Bump Map for the ENTIRE figure!!! File: Export: Wavefront .obj. Choose the following options: Single Frame. Uncheck the Universe and check Figure 1 (or whatever figure Mikey is.) Include Body Part Names in Polygon groups. Include Existing groups in polygon groups. Weld body seams. Save the textures in the same directory as the Wavefront obj file. In Vue: Objects: Import. Pick your figure. Lookie - Mikey's eyebrows and eyes are sheet white. Guess moving into Vue is pretty scary! Expand your Mikey figure so you can see the individual parts. Expand the Head. Fixing the eyebrows and eyelashes: Select the Eyebrows. Double-click on the material. Under transparency, change the Global Transparency to 100%. Check the Variable transparency box. Change the Fade out color to black. Change the Light color to white. Under Transparency Production, right click on the picture and select Edit Function. Click on Add. Load the transparency file for the eyelashes/eyebrows. Click Okay. Double click on the Transparency function. Go to the Inverted Saturation selections and pick 100% inversion. If you don't see it, then pick the closest one to 100%. It will still work. Click Okay. Click Okay. Do the same for the UpperEyebrows. Do the same for the Eyelashes. Fixing the Eyes: Expand the Left Eyeball so you can see all 4 parts. Change the EyeBall to a glass or liquid material. REMOVE the checkmark for Cast Shadows, otherwise the eye will look funky! Click Okay. Select the EyeWhite and remove the checkmark for Cast Shadows. Personally, I like changing the EyeWhite to the Milky White texture under liquids but it is not necessary. Whew! Are you ready to RENDER?!? If I'm missing anything, please let me know.