Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: How do you make glowing eyes in Poser 5?

spiket opened this issue on Nov 08, 2002 ยท 8 posts

spiket posted Fri, 08 November 2002 at 12:04 PM

I contacted kromekat about this and he is unsure on how to achieve this efect with poser 5 and sent me to you good people. Setting the ambient color to white and the level to anything above .1 yeilds for the irises undesireable results. anybody have TUT on this or a link. Would like to get a glowing effect similar to this one especially in the shadowed area.. THX

Little_Dragon posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 2:01 PM

Don't you just hate it when you post a question and no one answers?

You can achieve this effect in Poser 5 with a combination of Ambient settings and texture maps.

First, we try it without special textures, by setting the Ambient colours of the iris to white and the pupil to blue, and then setting the Ambient Value to 1. The eyeball itself has a Diffuse colour of black, and no ambient value, as that part shouldn't glow. As you can see above, the eyes are nice and bright, even in shadow, but it doesn't have the mechanical appearance you're looking for.


Little_Dragon posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 2:05 PM

Next, we paint a custom texture for the eyes (white irises with black lines, blue dots at the center of the pupils), then apply it to the figure.

Much better. This was a relatively low-resolution texture; you'd get finer results with a larger map, of course.


Little_Dragon posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 2:09 PM

And here are the material settings.

I attached a specular node to the eyeball material to make the highlights a bit sharper.


Little_Dragon posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 2:11 PM

Settings for the iris material. I turned off the Specular Value since this is a glowing element. Highlights wouldn't be particularly noticeable anyway.


Little_Dragon posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 2:12 PM

Settings for the pupil material.


Little_Dragon posted Sat, 09 November 2002 at 2:17 PM

And here's a section of the texture I created. This was used on the Poser 4 Casual Woman.


spiket posted Mon, 11 November 2002 at 8:14 AM

THANK YOU Little Dragon!!!!!!!!