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Poser 11 / Poser Pro 11 OFFICIAL Technical F.A.Q (Last Updated: 2024 Dec 17 11:57 am)
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Poser will only interpret black and white transparency maps, not alpha channels.
If you have a png file where the transparent parts are, well, transparent take the file into an image editor, create a black fill layer underneath, merge down, flatten image, and save. Black is transparent in Poser. White opaque. Half tones degrees of transparency. If it's a color image with an alpha channel merge it with an opaque layer and apply that as you would a color texture. Take a copy of that file, select the outline of the color information and fill that area with white (opaque) and the background as black and use as a trans map. UV map your object, and fit the image to the UV Template. You will have 2 files, the color diffuse and the black and white trans. Apply as you would a regular texture in the material room with an image map node attached to the transparency socket, when you load the transmap change the gamma to custom 1, black and white maps such as bump, spec maps, displacement, and transparency must be custom gamma 1. Apply the color version as you would a diffuse texture map.
Also See this...
https://www.renderosity.com/rr/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2965163
If you need further images showing how to make the 2 maps let me know, I'll whip something up real quick.
For the Diffuse map I import it into my image editor and create a sympathetically colored background fill layer. I do this to minimize fringing. This particular png already has a bit of fringing I see, I'll just leave it for the demo. I merge down, flattening the image and save as leafDiffuse png...
I go into the advanced material room and apply my maps, making sure the trans map is Gamma 1. You could also create a bump map in an image editor by desaturating and tweaking the color image or by using an HSV node in the mat room. You'll have to experiment with the specular, as it loads the diffuse will be washed out from the specular...
Works in Poser 11. http://www.jurn.org/dazposer/?p=14317
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I have a transparent .png image I would like to use in Poser 11.3 is it possible to map it on to a plane to it can be posed? Thanks
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