Quote - Now that Rendo has a wiki, we could move these links to an article there and then it is something that can be edited and kept up to date.

Yeppers! It's in my plan to do that.  Just been busy and then sick so I haven't had a chance. I will though.

I have way more bookmarks and bookmark threads than this one.

Quote - Updating

Getting Rid of Glowing Iris Circles

this is a dead link, is there any chance you know where it was? LOL

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2733625

I simply typed "Glowing circle around iris" in the Rendo search engine and its the first match.

I actually found it right after I sent the note. sorry for the trouble. she had corrected it down a dozen or so replies.

We need the Wiki page to replace this thread.

I think we should work backwards, since some of the earliest posts have been superceded, as you found out.

All we need to do is create the page. Is there one yet? If not, I'll create it.

Then every day, somebody should pick a link and add it.

That is a good idea. BTW when is your book due out?

I don't know when the book will be done. I estimate I have another thousand pages to write. Then I have to edit it and probably make it into two books, or maybe three. There is too much to talk about. I also have no idea if printing a book with 2000 pictures means nobody can afford it.

Anway - there is a wiki page for the Poser Material Room here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrwiki/index.php/Poser_Material_Room

It was started with the intentioin of listing all the nodes, but I think that's going to be a mistake. Just covering the basics of what the nodes do and how to use them is easily over 50 pages.

Anyway, I'm going to make a sub-page from that for Poser Shader Threads, under Further Reading. Then we can just start moving links into it from here. We can sort it later.

Oh how tedious. Copy and paste doesn't work - only the words arrive, not the links. My God, it will take forever.

Crap - why is Wiki using yet another markup language, totally different from HTML. How tedious.

Now I see why nothing has been written for the most part.

OK here's my opinion, and please don't try to change it.

WIKI editor SUCKS.

It should accept pasting of HTML and do the right thing. Somebody is a mighty lazy programmer.

Great - so because I don't know WIKI markup, I click the link for help on editing. Nothing.

WIKI Sucks SQUARED!

I did the first five.

I'm using the links from page 5 of this thread. Some of the links are sectioned by where they are, which is not useful. But we should not re-order them until all have made it across. Otherwise it will be very hard to correlate them with the links on page 5.

well, it's not exactly lazy programming.  the wiki system they're using is the most popular wiki system out there by far, and it was made years and years ago when they decided the best way to deal with security and regular users (not people who knew how to hand code)  was to use pseudo-code. javascript wasn't as advanced as a language, i think, and i know the practice of clean DOM scripting wasn't in place.  unless i'm remembering wrong, there were no rich HTML editors for textareas yet.   iirc, the most i saw at the time in terms of javascript and forms was a little bit of input validation.  so pseudo code enabled people to add HTML properties without having to know HTML.  phpBB uses pseudo code, too, so much rich editing online was done that that way.

things have changed and advanced, and there are both free and commercial JS modules that can duplicate a full HTML editor.  but there's a huge community around that wiki system now.  it's the backend  for the entire Wiki Media line, for instance.  almost everyone who uses wikis at all are used to using this system.  so even if most of the Web is doing something different, most of the people on it who post to wikis are still used to this system and its pseudo code.

that said, my guess is it's possible to implement some JS rich HTML editing on the client-side and keep the backend mostly the same.  but it would be a lot of trouble to work against usability norms, which is generally a bad idea and has its major drawbacks in the best of situations.

I found a tool to do the conversion here:

http://toolserver.org/~diberri/cgi-bin/html2wiki/index.cgi

My point was the WIKI editor should have a button to paste HTML and convert it. My opinion stands. If it's done already on that page it could be done in the WIKI editor.

Anyway I did the bulk of the conversion from the big post on page 5. It's here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrwiki/index.php/Poser_Shader_Threads

Assuming the big post on page 5 was up to date, we can re-organize it. But I'll let it settle and get tested a bit first. Then after sorting it, we can add the individual posts that were added besides those.

Acadia was looking for your discussion of skin shaders in another thread, is that in the wiki as well?

No. I hate that thread. But it's better than the Daz3D "beautiful skin" thread.

Quote - Anyway I did the bulk of the conversion from the big post on page 5. It's here:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrwiki/index.php/Poser_Shader_Threads

Assuming the big post on page 5 was up to date, we can re-organize it. But I'll let it settle and get tested a bit first. Then after sorting it, we can add the individual posts that were added besides those.

You're a gem!

It took so long to put the original up, and then to update it with this one, only to have RDNA go and redo their whole site and break all of the links.  I just lost steam and really wasn't up to resorting and making yet another thread.
Thanks for putting it all on that Wiki site. 

Once you are done, I'll just add new links to that and not bother with this thread anymore.

I have a whole slew more links to add, just haven't felt up to it though.

upsy

Both first links are dead

Quote - Both first links are dead

Work your way backwards through the thread as the links have been updated (due to site changes here and elsewhere) several times.
The wiki page should have the most up to date links.

Leather and Suede

This thread includes a download for an .mt5 file as well as a matmatic script.

Ok, I started to update the wiki page. I"ve managed to incorporate the 1st 2 pages of this thread with the updates.  I should have the rest done by the end of the weekend.

After that I'm going to work on the wiki page and try and sort it out better and update any dead links.
 

After that I'm going to create other wiki pages with other bookmarked threads that I have created for things like lighting, cloth room etc.

Most excellent! Many thanks !

awesome, ty acadia!!

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrwiki/index.php/Poser_Shader_Threads

Super duper Stickie.  Thanks so much for creating it.

a suggested link for one of my favorite how-to's 

'Create Perspective UVs' on the group palette

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?message_id=3662790

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Moving this up for the time being. I'm still working on fixing the links and moving everything over to Wiki.

Thanks for all your hard work in organizing all this :-)

Time to revivify the stickiness of this thread.

What he said.

any thoughts on achieving a sculpty/clay kinda look? something kinda wallace and grommity?

Quote - any thoughts on achieving a sculpty/clay kinda look? something kinda wallace and grommity?

I think I got it, http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=2945860#2945860

Attached Link: http://www.runtimedna.com/60-Off-One-Day-Sale/

It's one of the most useful python scripts I ever got because i really hate changing materials one by one.

Love esther

I changed the texture jpg on a floor and now want to make tiles out of the texture I have used.  How do I do that?   I can't seem to attach an image map node to the Poser SUrface.

Quote - I changed the texture jpg on a floor and now want to make tiles out of the texture I have used.  How do I do that?   I can't seem to attach an image map node to the Poser SUrface.

Start a thread - or two. That seems to be two different questions or I totally don't understand what you mean by "I can't seem to attach an image map node to the Poser Surface".

This thread is supposed to be links to threads, not a conversation.

upsy

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http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrwiki/index.php/Poser_Shader_Threads It's dead for me...

Rendo management killed the wiki. The senseless destruction of this feature is cause for great concern, IMO.

In fact, every link that sounded halfway interesting to me is dead.... Yes BB, it is disturbing to find out that something like this has been done voluntarily. If anyone knows "why" I'd like to know, but more importantly, I'd like to know if there are plans to reroute this information to somewhere else!?

Quote - In fact, every link that sounded halfway interesting to me is dead.... Yes BB, it is disturbing to find out that something like this has been done voluntarily. If anyone knows "why" I'd like to know, but more importantly, I'd like to know if there are plans to reroute this information to somewhere else!?

Scroll down the thread.  The links have been updated....or rather most of them anyway.

Upsy

Start a new thread for your question. This thread is for listing links to useful threads, not for actually answering questions. When you start the thread, explain what you know about UV mapping and what you did for this prop.

Did that. How do I remove it from here now?

We cannot remove postings after 15 minutes. That is why it is so important not to clutter the forum. We can't clean it up.

this thread was about blending skin and tattoos with nodes.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2716576

sorry guys, but most of the rdna links are dead, for the last two weeks they've been saying we are moving to our new home, anyone know when they might resurface?