Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: P5 (or not) - Changing hair colors, and material formats

pakled opened this issue on Aug 16, 2009 · 6 posts


pakled posted Sun, 16 August 2009 at 11:16 AM

More and more, I'm starting to run into a problem with hair colors; I want to change a hair color, so I go into the Material room. I've tried changing specular colors, ambient colors, everything on there, but when I render, nothing's happened. Other items, like clothes, skin, etc., seem to work fine; but for some reason, it's as if someone scrubs it off pre-render...;)

On the other hand (and only an example, I'm not picking), there are some hair models named after a couple of planets ('nuff said), that have some color textures available, but nothing happens there either. I have P5, and the description says they are P6 textures. I get the impression that P6 textures don't work in P5?

Just wondering; I don't want to permanently change the hair color (I suppose I could do it 'post-work' in the Gimp, but ...oooh...Postwork bad...;) Is there a node, or a setting, etc, that I'm missing?

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


LaurieA posted Sun, 16 August 2009 at 2:50 PM

Not even the diffuse color?

Laurie



markschum posted Sun, 16 August 2009 at 3:28 PM

Look at diffuse and whats connected to it.
There is a hair node that use a root and tip color for a gradient . 
If an image map is connected to diffuse then its getting the hair color from the picture .


pakled posted Sun, 16 August 2009 at 5:27 PM

hmmm....gelflings...;) Thanks, I'll try it out.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)


3dvice posted Wed, 19 August 2009 at 8:15 AM

If you have a color_texture, you can substract the color of that texture with a color_math node and add a new color with another color_math node or color_ramp node. Please see this thread for more info: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2689018 You might also want to have a look at a couple of links in the Material room, Nodes and Shaders Sticky on changing hair colors: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2722867

Le cinéma substitue à notre regard un monde qui s'accorde à nos désirs. - André Bazin


pakled posted Wed, 19 August 2009 at 11:10 AM

Thanks! After some playing, I've been able to change a couple of hair sets, but I can always use more help. Thanks for the Links; I don't even understand Bryce's material settings, but as long as it's fairly simple...

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

anahl nathrak uth vas betude doth yel dyenvey..;)