An experiment was done to determine the effect of various settings of the transparency function in Poser.

The test setup had a single cylinder with 5 horizontal "slices." Each slice had it's "Falloff" set to a different value from 0.00 to 10.0 as shown. The "falloff" values are constant for each of the 25 samples.

A cylinder was used because it has both a curved surface (x axis) and a flat surface (y axis) at a varying angle.

A single infinite white (100%) light
was located at x=0, y=0, z=0.

Shadows were turned OFF.

Anti-aliasing was not used.

This chart is intended to be a general reference guide only.
The transparency function can also be affected by object color, light(s) color and setting, texture color, bump maps, and reflection maps and settings.

This chart is not intended to be an absolute reference but a general guide depending on the effect that is trying to be produced.

The "Trans-Min" and "Trans-Max" values used are shown in chart#2 and were varied in 25% steps, e.g., 0%, 25%, 50%, 75%, 100%.

The "Trans-Min" is shown from 0% to 100%. (left to right)
The "Trans-Max" is shown from 0% to 100%. (bottom to top)

The 3rd picture shows the test setup.

These are the settings that were used.

This is the tested configuration.

Beautifully planned & well-executed demonstration. Nicely Done!

This will be much used geep. Thanks for making the effort and sharing! Paul

It's in my archive, thanks geep!

Thanks geep, this will come in handy!

Thank you so very much geep! Ive been muddeling with transpsarncy issues over the weekend , this is just what i needed. THANK YOU THANK YOU ! Jeff PS: THANK YOU ! Happy rendering

Hi, Since I was making a master file for geep's charts and can't figure out a way to copy the text without typing it into photoshop (is there a way?), I decided to post this text so you can all save it. If you make your full file about 14 inches square at 72dpi and put the 3 charts in it there should be sufficent room left for this to fit.

... anyone out there who is interested in this will appreciate it.

BTW - Re: copying the text. You can also "click" and "drag" to hilight the text you want to copy ...

then, right "click" and "copy" ... (see above)

Now, open your favorite word processor and "paste."

Voila! You've got text!

cheers,
dr geep <---------------------------------(feelin' kinda pastey)
;=]

Hi geep, I got the cut/copy/paste thing down. I was just wondering if there was a way to paste it into a jpg or other graphics file in photoshop. Since the photoshop type tool is the only type related thing I doubt it's possible. Maybe the ol' "print screen" key is the only way. You know I must need glasses I looked for typo's and I still missed one, I didn't know texture had 2 u's! That must be the artsy fartsy pronunciation...

Thanks Geep, useful stuff! Regards- Lemurtek

Actually, I saved off Droyd's text page, too... with the idea of pasting it all into one document. Thanks, Geep, this will be very useful... especially since it is so neatly executed. Carolly

I got it into photoshop using the type tool use ctrl V You can just about copy any text by highlighting and using Ctrl C Paste using Crtl V Cut using Ctrl X