Richmathews opened this issue on May 01, 2002 ยท 6 posts
Richmathews posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 9:11 AM
Hiya peeps. Just wondering if anyone knew if it is possible (using poser4 only) to make a model invisible like in the Predator movies. See through, but blurry if you get what I mean. I want to be able to use it in an animation. Any help would be greatfully appreciated. Thank you in advance, Rich
tasmanet posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 9:57 AM
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Tirjasdyn posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 9:57 AM
I coun't help you in animation but howabout seting the transparency stuff in the materials higher then after render choose add motion blur in the render menu...
Ericroy posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 9:59 AM
Yes, you can do that. Go to Render>Materials, and set the invisibility to near 100% You can see through it, but can see the highlights. I don't think you can make it blurry, but you can come close to the Predator effect. I hope this helps, Ericroy
nyar1ath0tep posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 2:32 PM
One of the "Predator 1" effects was refraction when transparent, which is impossible in Poser 4, but S.O.P. in most rendering software.
williamsheil posted Wed, 01 May 2002 at 5:02 PM
Here's a thought that I haven't tried, but one thing you could do is setting all the figure's materials to maximum (white or blue) ambience, rendering and saving, then pushing the camera forward or back slightly and changing the camera focal length, delete or hide the figure and re-render. This will give you two images which you should be able to composite together in a paint program, using the 'ambient' figure as an alpha channel. The slight difference in camera position and field of view in the second image, which replaces the figure in the first should give you some illusion of refraction! Watch out for anti-aliasing around the figure edges!