Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: transparency issues P4

Inspired_Art opened this issue on Apr 18, 2007 · 8 posts

Inspired_Art posted Wed, 18 April 2007 at 8:36 PM

Ok, so I set an umbrella to about 50% transparency, with a light directly overhead, figuring it would (most likely) shine a little bit of light through the transparent material. However, it doesn't work out that way. I get a major shadow on the figures head/face. Any ideas on how to go about this?

Eddy

 

Victoria_Lee posted Wed, 18 April 2007 at 8:58 PM

Set the umbrella to not cast shadows would be my guess but I haven't used P4 since I got P5 and then P6 and now P7.

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ockham posted Wed, 18 April 2007 at 11:16 PM

I don't think there's any way to have 'middling' shadows in P4. In later versions, with raytraced rendering, you can get a shadow that varies with the transparency.

Otherwise, as Victoria said, turning off Cast Shadows on
the Properties panel of the umbrella is the only option.

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Inspired_Art posted Wed, 18 April 2007 at 11:41 PM

Great! Don't you just love it when you are on a budget...GRRRRR!! LOL

Eddy

 

darth_poserus posted Thu, 19 April 2007 at 7:21 AM

If setting the umbrella to not cast shadows doesn't work.

You could always try and use a light to light the underside of the umbrella to the desired shade as well.

Of course leave it to me too always find the hard way to do things.

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flyerx posted Thu, 19 April 2007 at 3:35 PM

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Using PoseRay you can reder the scene with POV-Ray (www.povray.org). POV-Ray is a free high-quality raytracer. In PoseRay you can chage the transparency of the umbrella material and the light will shine through when you render the scene in POV-Ray.

Check PoseRay's manual for a simple tutorial.

good luck,

FlyerX

Inspired_Art posted Thu, 19 April 2007 at 7:49 PM

Yeah, Darth, that's what I had in mind of doing.
Flyersx, thank's for introducing me to yet another program I have to learn...
:unsure:  :scared:

Eddy

 

raven posted Fri, 20 April 2007 at 3:46 PM

I would try setting the Shadow value of the light to .5 instead of 1, that will make the shadow lighter.  I've attached a picture to show what I mean. The left side is rendered with the shadow value @ 1.0, the right side rendered with the shadow value @ 0.5. It was rendered in Pro-Pack, so no ray-tracing. Click the pic to see it bigger.