1/20/08

I am no Material Room/Node expert, but I have been playing around in the Material Room today. I got Sixus1's Small Crawler figure because it was on sell (see the Product Showcase Forum). I wanted to do some (simple) re-texturing of Crawler and place him in a hell-like environment. I reviewed the products at several sites, but they did not suit my concept. So, I decided to try the material room.

I came up with some settings for the GROUND and a Skydome (made from the Poser 7 – Props – Primitive - Ball Hi-Res). I think they look very decent (but they need FireFly set to use displacement). I used the standared lights so obviously some of the colors would need to be adjusted for more hellish lights.

I have several questions. I was almost set to share my PZ3 of this scene when I realized that this would share the geometry of the GROUND prop and the Hi-Res Ball. I thought that might create a copyright problem? Would it be a better idea to share the material (MT5) files?

Would it be all right to upload a zip of the MT5 files with a JPG of the render settings I used and a render of the scene to ShareCG, and put a link to the file here? If several people tried it out and pronounced it usable, I could upload a version later to the Freestuff at Renderosity (providing I can figure out how to package it so that it would unzip to the right place in a Poser 7 runtime).

I have included a small render of my own personal hell with this message. (I hope this doesn't need a Content Advisory for Language).

LMK

Probably edited for spelling, grammer, punctuation, or typos.