Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Anisotropic effect help

Plutom opened this issue on Nov 10, 2007 · 8 posts

Plutom posted Sat, 10 November 2007 at 6:29 PM

Gang, I need help with getting a lathe effect on flat or circular primitives.  What I'm trying to do is simulate a sheet metal effect.  In 3D World magazine, they use Anisotropic to get the effect.  If I give a box a slight curve and apply the node, its partially successful.  However, I want to do it on a flat surface (I'm building a virtual radio system face plate and control knobs etc). As anyone been successful at getting this machine milling effect?  Plutom      

Anthanasius posted Sat, 10 November 2007 at 6:57 PM

May be you can post the exemple of the magazine ...

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Plutom posted Sat, 10 November 2007 at 8:10 PM

This pocket watch is part of a tutorial done by Adam Benton, a freelance illustrator using Cinema 4D for 3D World Magazine issue 96. I want to try some of the effects using Poser 5.- The anisotropic effects is the first-but done on a flat surface if possible.

Anthanasius posted Sat, 10 November 2007 at 8:13 PM

Like this ?

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Plutom posted Sat, 10 November 2007 at 8:24 PM

Yep, that's it.  Strange, in the texture shaded mode, I have it.  However, after it is rendered in the Production mode, it disappears unless I bend it via magnet.

Anthanasius posted Sat, 10 November 2007 at 8:35 PM

The same result with displacement ...

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jonthecelt posted Sun, 11 November 2007 at 5:03 AM

Another tip I'd offer to you for lathed metal would be to head on over o runtimedna, and look in the node cult forum... bagginsbill worked out a procedural metal effect there which works quite nicely... let me find the link for you:

http://www.runtimedna.com/mod/forum/messages.php?forum_id=92&ShowMessage=314074

I just looked at it, and it's more focused on brshed metal than lathed, so it may not be the final effect yo're looking for... but still, the node cult is a good place to look for procedural solutions like this.

JonTheCelt

Plutom posted Sun, 11 November 2007 at 12:19 PM

Thanks guys, you help me resolve my problem.  I had a combination of problems including the ye olde problem of Poser functions shutting down.  When I came back this morning and brought my system back on line--I got everything.  Did down load Bagginsbill's info from runtimedna.com-now I need to digest that info.  Again folks, you helped me a lot.  Still need to add some fancy art work to the face plate via PSP.  Plutom