Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Transparency Maps - adding text on Poser 5

aniela opened this issue on Mar 01, 2005 ยท 11 posts

aniela posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 6:30 AM

I want add a text on my picture. I found a tutorial explaining how do it but on Poser 4 that seems have the option transparent maps on dialog material. Poser 5 dont have this option on material room.
I made my lettering on Photoshop, black and white, added a square prop on my scenic and I cannot find how it works.
It should be great if someone explain to me or give me a URL for some good tutorial.
Thank you very much again,
aniela

geep posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 6:51 AM

Hi aniela, You might find some help in [ THIS TUTORIAL.](http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=1663563) <---CLICK LINK Load your transmap as an external texture map (see Page 5) and then plug it into the transparency input (see Page 9). cheers, dr geep ;=]

Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"


cheers,

dr geep ... :o]

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aniela posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 7:17 AM

Hi Doc.:-)
I saw this tutorial before my post and even played with transparency settings. I get 2 extremes: or I dont see nothing when rendering my pic (everything is transparent) or my lettering (white) have the same transparency as his background (black). I couldnt find how make only black transparent. I checked out again this tutorial to see what I missed but no clue.. aniela

randym77 posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 7:54 AM

Post a screen shot of your material room settings.

geep posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 8:47 AM

............. ya needs ta do what randym77 sez. ;=]

Remember ... "With Poser, all things are possible, and poseable!"


cheers,

dr geep ... :o]

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aniela posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 8:57 AM

Finally I got a creen shot (next time I will post one question at time..eheh) Sorry, I was getting info to help PhilC help me.:-) Well, as I said early I tried several combinations, I am sending only one.. regards, aniela

randym77 posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 9:07 AM

Try setting Transparency_Falloff to 0.

randym77 posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 9:10 AM

Oh, and you should attach the transparency map to Transparency.

aniela posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 10:04 AM

yesssssssssssssssss.:-))
It works!! The only thing I didnt try was attach image to transparency.:-)
I wanted send to you but now I am playing with effects I can apply on the text.:-)
Thank you very much for your care!
And thank you to you too Doc (I did already at render thread.:-)

regards,
aniela

AntoniaTiger posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 11:53 AM

You set the colour of the text in Diffuse_Color If you want to get a bit of reflection from the lettering, set the Specular_Color as usual. To prevent reflections from the transparent part of the object (you might want them for glass), plug the transparency map into both Transparency and Specular_Color It's that last which can sometimes catch people out with Poser 5.

aniela posted Tue, 01 March 2005 at 12:15 PM

Aww, thank you very much for your tip. In fact I am trying lot of options here to find good visual effects on lettering.

BTW, I learned only today I can plug using mouse (hitting and dragging) and now I know how plug more than 1 node to another. Living and learning. Learning and living.:-) I think I am discovering Nodes's World.

regards,
aniela