Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Lighter skin in P5

dbowers22 opened this issue on Dec 29, 2004 · 7 posts

dbowers22 posted Wed, 29 December 2004 at 2:54 PM

Say you have a skin texture that is too dark. Here is an easy way to lighten it up in Poser 5. Just go to the material room, select the body sections you want to lighten, got to the texture map, and reduce the Texture Strength by an amount that gives you the shade you want. A value of 0.7 to 0.5 seems to work well. (Of course you can alway darken the texture by putting a color other than white in the diffuse color box)

dbowers22 posted Wed, 29 December 2004 at 2:55 PM

Here are the material settings.

xantor posted Wed, 29 December 2004 at 3:22 PM

The texture strength trick works in poser 4/propack too, I have used it myself quite a few times before.

Little_Dragon posted Wed, 29 December 2004 at 4:11 PM

You can also lighten a texture by using a colour math node. Set it to Add, plug your texture into Value 1, and set Value 2 to some shade of grey.

xantor posted Thu, 30 December 2004 at 4:58 AM

Surely using a maths node makes the rendering time longer when just reducing the texture strength wont?

Little_Dragon posted Thu, 30 December 2004 at 2:37 PM

Quite possibly. Just presenting some alternatives, xantor.

AntoniaTiger posted Fri, 31 December 2004 at 3:59 PM

While the Add node is a bit simple, other math nodes can do non-linear adjustments. You might not want the lighter colours any lighter, for instance.