Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: Creating materials for poser pro 2010 'primitives'

timarender opened this issue on Jul 05, 2012 · 28 posts

timarender posted Thu, 05 July 2012 at 11:49 AM

I have limited modelling experience, but have collected various free/shareware apps which may help - (if only I understood things better).

Is there a collection of graghics templates for use with the Poser Pro primitive props; to use when creating my own materials?
For example, I assumed it would be easy to create a graphic for a 'dice'; and then apply it to a simple Box.

Forgive my ignorance, what is this process called; that of creating an exploded graphic which is intended to fit a particular prop? At least I will know where to start looking.

Thank you.

hborre posted Thu, 05 July 2012 at 12:16 PM

We can go from UVMapping to procedural shaders for creating material nodes.

charlie43 posted Thu, 05 July 2012 at 12:20 PM

The process is called texture mapping. It is often done in coordination with UV mapping, which is performed in a 3-D modeling app. I have been working on this all year. I find that Blender 2.63 is my best choice for a modeling app. It is free, strongly supported by the community, and is upgraded often. It has a large learning curve, but there are many tutorials and lessons that can be found online. I use CGCookie.com to learn about Blender. They have many free tutorials, and also a paid subscription which allows you access to much more. It is well worth the $10 subscription fee. 

HTH

C~

lesbentley posted Fri, 06 July 2012 at 7:15 AM

The templates are usually called "UV templates" or "texture templates". You can use the free "[UVMapper Classic](http://www.uvmapper.com/downloads.html)" to generate a texture template from any obj file. Start UVmapper, use File > Load Model to load the object, then use File > Save Texture Map.

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 10:58 AM

this is how i create ice maybe helful?

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:02 AM

this is the recipe

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:04 AM

this is what you need.

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:05 AM

this is what you need.

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:06 AM

heres the texture enjoy

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:09 AM

the figure on the right has the same material but the rendering engine is not set to maximum just create new scene and dont change any of the settings if you want the material to appear as the figure on the right. but set to max for the figure on the left then ther bump mapping takes over and that is what you get.

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:19 AM

value for black node

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:20 AM

value for black node sorry the other was for ice node

Tucan-Tiki posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 11:39 AM

The Ice was accidental and not at all what I was trying to get, I was trying to do an Emma Frost character and make her look all crystaline and cool but I got ice instead, and the results for Emma were less then what I hoped for.

 

But it was not at all a loss because I walked away with an awesome ice material.

bagginsbill posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 1:09 PM

He said DICE not ICE

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bagginsbill posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 2:15 PM

Tried my hand at it. Came out different.

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moriador posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 3:08 PM

Quote - Tried my hand at it. Came out different.

Wow. That's excellent.  I can't say I've felt a desire to lick Andy before, but it's warm here, and he looks like he'd give some serious heat relief with just a handshake.

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DreamlandModels posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 3:18 PM

That is just plain sick :-)


Latexluv posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 4:19 PM

Quote - Tried my hand at it. Came out different.

Wow, that really does look like Ice!

 

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DreamlandModels posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 4:52 PM

Hi Latexluv,

There is one thing I have learned from working with bagginsbill, and that is,

there seems to be no material that he can't build.

The guy is a stinkin' genius!

Makes me sick!

:-)

Tom


Latexluv posted Sat, 07 July 2012 at 5:02 PM

Yes, I know. I've been following just about any thread that he's posted in for years, collecting little pearls of material wisdom and shaders. I'm sure though that I don't have all of the materials he's freely published. That's why I was very intrigued by this Cloud idea he talked about over at RuntimeDNA. Drives me nutters when he says he doesn't save a lot of the materials he tinkers with!

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Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8

 

 

timarender posted Sun, 08 July 2012 at 3:38 AM

My thanks to all replies regarding UVMapping. I was hoping there would be existing templates for the default Poser primitives props; to save converting the props to OBJ. However, thanks to your responses; I now know where to start learning.

(I am sorry my 'dice' got confused with 'ice'. This has led to yet another difficult to follow  thread in this Forum.)

FaeMoon posted Sun, 08 July 2012 at 11:00 PM

Quote - Tried my hand at it. Came out different.

Can you share the node set up for this?  That's downright scary good!

Kalypso posted Wed, 12 December 2012 at 3:43 AM Site Admin

Is this ice shader available anywhere BB?

primorge posted Wed, 12 December 2012 at 4:33 AM

Could also be epoxy resin with air bubbles in it just as easily.

Winterclaw posted Wed, 12 December 2012 at 6:32 AM

The iceman cometh!

 

I expected him to be a little less see-through (ie artic snow/ice), but that looks right for the normal every-day ice.

WARK!

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primorge posted Wed, 12 December 2012 at 11:18 AM

...well, when one thinks of ice they probably wouldn't think 'escalator'. On the other hand, plastic might come to mind if one thinks "mall". Great shader, not such a great choice for support of an artistic illusion. My blasphemous 2 cents.

Winterclaw posted Wed, 12 December 2012 at 12:20 PM

It does show off what the material can do with the lights behind it. 

WARK!

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mysticeagle posted Wed, 12 December 2012 at 12:30 PM

i've turned out the lights to view BB's ice andy, i was afraid he would melt...........

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