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I've been using one of the ToXic Pallene texture for Kira, one of my female characters, for several years now. However, in the last two versions of Poser, I've had a lot of trouble getting her hair to look platinum blonde, rather than white.

An example of the problem can be viewed in the link for this message. I would like Kira's hair to look like it does in the Color Texture node. When I render, however, it simply turns white and I'm not sure why.

Any ideas?

Maybe it's your lighting blowing the color out?

If you don't already have it, get the lightmeter from BB's file cabinet ( https://sites.google.com/site/bagginsbill/file-cabinet ) and do a render with it visible in the scene? 

I always keep my whites below 207/207/207 of I can. Seems to work. FWIW, I rarely make pure blacks either ;).

Laurie

And it has been stated before again and again, Diffuse_Values should not be set at 1, only under special conditions.  A value of 0.85 should be a good starting point.

Quote - And it has been stated before again and again, Diffuse_Values should not be set at 1, only under special conditions.  A value of 0.85 should be a good starting point.

If I use Snarly's script on the hair and set diffuse to .85 (like I do all the other hair props I use for my characters), it makes the problem WORSE, not better. The reason I showed the material room settings as "stock" relates to the fact that even if I do NOTHING to the hair, it's rendering white, rather than platinum.

Do you have a pro version  anupaum or a vanilla version?

Laurie

Poser Pro 2014.

I agree.  Snarly's EZSkin is not an exact fix.  I have had to go back and examine the images in MatRoom to see localize the problem(s).

Snarly's script does not use the Diffuse or Specular values on the PoserSurface, rather it plugs the nodes into Alt_Diffuse and Alt_Specular.  Anything added to the node arrangement as increased Diffuse_value or Specular_value gets multiplied in the formula.

If you use GC and the reduced Diffuse Value doesn't work for you:

Try putting an hsv node between the diffuse color chip and the color map node (attach the color map node to the color chip on the HSV node). Set the value on the HSV node to something like 0.9 from 1.0. You might need to bump the saturation up slightly or lower the value more, but ya get the idea :) At the least you can boost your saturation this way and perhaps get the color you're after.

Laurie

In this render, I use same Toxic 06 (named "peroxide") and spotlight at 40%
Also use BB's Envsphere set to "not visible in camera"  and render over black.

I'd be reasonably happy if her hair looked like what you've rendered, above. I generally use less light than you've done here (Normally, my "sun light" in outdoor renders is between 30 and 35%.) I also use the enviro sphere set to "not visible in camera," unless I'm using a spherical image as a background.

This is why I'm confused. All the other hair props I use look reasonably good, but this one, with this color, isn't working!

Maybe I have a corrupted file?

Quote - If you use GC and the reduced Diffuse Value doesn't work for you:

Try putting an hsv node between the diffuse color chip and the color map node (attach the color map node to the color chip on the HSV node). Set the value on the HSV node to something like 0.9 from 1.0. You might need to bump the saturation up slightly or lower the value more, but ya get the idea :) At the least you can boost your saturation this way and perhaps get the color you're after.

Laurie

Okay. I'm going to try that. Thank you!

Thank you!

:)