A simple privy from the era of iron men and steam locos, based kinda loosely on railway drawings.  Some displacement maps, Hope I didn't forget something else this time, I'm getting good at that.

Doric

PrecisionXXX: I make a new runtime for every project I work on and link it to the library. EVERYTHING I do/make/save goes in that Runtime. When I'm all done, it's ready to pack and I rarely forget stuff. LOL. Laurie

My problem is I'm usually running all over my computer to get the textures, but forget to move them into the same folder, and when it calls for one of them and can't find it, I don't have to wonder.  Mine will find it, of course. but nobody else will.

Doric

Hehehe...can't help ya there ;).

Laurie

nice freebie. BTW to quickly fix path and things - in windows associate CR2 and PP2 files with wordpad then you can easily use the search/replace thingy on the paths.

Well, um, if I don't remember to include them in the zip, knowing the path on my computer might be less than usefull.  Most won't even have a Povray folder.

Doric.

In playing with it in the material room, darkening it up makes it look better.

D.

are you using windows or a mac ?

Using windows, but it wouldn't make any difference what system I was using. IF I don't put the files in the zip, they ain't there when someone downloads.  When I'm deciding which one I"m gonna use, I might be using the .bmp, but I've been converting them to .jpg for the zip, at the same time moving that to the correct location.  Sometimes.  Sometimes I make mental notes to do it, then the notes disappear.

Doric.

Yea I frequently get wetware data loss as well:) Simple trick here can help. It's kinda the manual version of runtime repair software. Open up the final version of the CR2/PP2, find all the texture names. Paste them into notepad. Minimise everything (Windows Key & M) Next press F3. This will bring up windows search. Paste each name into search, set your search options to where you think they'll be. Once search has finished, right click the file it's found. Copy it (NOT move) to the directory where the final textures for that model will live. Repeat for each texture.

Hehe... this is why I stick to procedurals. Everything is in the mc6 and I don't have to remember to copy the texture files... because I forget more than I remember.

I'm also in the process of moving files around, trying to decide what I used and what I didn't.  I'm trying not to let any of the huge bitmaps be moved into the textures, it's too easy to make .png or .jpg and they don't take nearly as much disk space.  It's only in the last few that I've really had to even think about this, and I think reverting to only a couple texture images and the rest procedural where I can is where I'll be going. 

(Think, hell.  I know where I'm going)

Doric.

Yeah, after I get done with rigging, I am going to tackle learning all the nodes in the material room. I am going to figure out what effect each node has on the render, and then figure out how the math plays into it. I can create some really simple 2,3,4 or 5 node materials that are sufficient, but if I want to be able to do what bagginsbill does, I am going to have to really knuckle down.

After I get Poser Pro 2014 and finally have to deal with gamma correction, things will get interesting.

I've been in the material room for nearly two months now...mostly, not a clue. Good luck. LOLOL.

Laurie