aRtBee opened this issue on Apr 29, 2014 · 18 posts
aRtBee posted Tue, 29 April 2014 at 5:55 AM
Hi all,
This is to announce that I’ve started(*) to publish the first () part of my Missing Manuals on Poser Material Room. I’m proud of it.
(*) First part?
This part, Concepts & Elements, covers Material Room (and related lighting and FireFly rendering) from a technical perspective: principles, all nodes, all node-parameters, all interfaces, all levels of Poser users (separate sections for basic, intermediate and advanced).
Next part, mid of this year I hope, will cover something similar for related external renderers: Vue, Reality/Lux and Octane, with a focus on interfacing: what Poser material settings go where in the other program, and which ones won’t make it to the other end?
And then, the functional perspective: how to make good metals, stones, bricks, skins, and so on for FireFly – and the other renderers as well. And also: links to and summaries of relevant portions of the forum(s), on topics like the above. That will become an ever growing collection, I guess.
(**) Started?
From http://www.book.artbeeweb.nl/?book=material-room and a click the offline (PDF) version is already available for download, in two versions:
From now on I’ll be uploading text, images, relinking posts and so on to make the entire story available online too. That’s a massive job given the amount of material, so the next two weeks you’ll be facing pages under construction, dead links and worse. Take the offline PDF’s instead, I’ll give a heads-up when done.
Happy rendering.
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Usually I'm wrong. But to be effective and efficient, I don't need to be correct or accurate.
visit www.aRtBeeWeb.nl (works) or Missing Manuals (tutorials & reviews) - both need an update though