Alpha Layer Clothing - A new approach to 2nd Skins by dburdick
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Vue6I, SkinVue6: I was playing around with the new 3D Alpha Layers inside of Vue 6. It opens up some interesting possibilities for adding Second Skin clothing to imported Poser characters (in this case, V4). Instead of compositing the second skin in Photoshop over the base skin texture map, you can simply load in a second skin as an alpha layer over the skin materials in Vue 6. Besides the time savings, this approach has several other advantanges such as the ability to use separate bump/displacement maps, separate speculars, the production of real shadows, and eliminates the need for trans maps. Plus you can layer on as many items as you wish - in a photoshop-like fashion.
Comments (16)
andrewl
very nice, shame skinvue6 won't work in Vue6 esprit. skin texture looks very real.
wabe
Interesting thought - opens indeed a lot of options. Maybe another level with only the shape of the second skin and a little displacement on that then and it becomes VERY real even.
Surama
That looks really great!
FrenchKiss
Oh well now this is VERY interesting! Opens a whole new possibility for add on second skin textures in Vue. Wow, Dave! You're coming up with some very cool stuff here! :) :) :)
Irish
Super tip Dave ~ looks terrific! Will have to get out my second skins and give it a whirl. Thanks!!
Darthmagus
Great work!
Fidelity2
B-E-A-U-T-I-F-U-L. 5+.
Rutra
Great! Cant wait to get my hands on Vue6!
Shari123
An excellent idea Dave! SkinVue just gets better and better. Thank you for your diligence on creating this wonderful program.
meselfr
Oh... got my Vue 6, Got my Skin Vue 6 (btw excellent job), just waitin' for V4 support and I am off and running... most excellent work with the alpha layers.. excellent :)
BernieStafford
Excellent work Dave - thanks for this.
RubyT
Very cool!
shanpoo
Looks good. One of these days I would love to try painting on clothes. Certainly would save me major money if I didn't have to buy outfits. LOL Hope you had a good weekend...Shannon ;}
Kazam561
"shame skinvue6 won't work in Vue6 esprit" yes, I have Vue6 Pro Studio and would also like to try skinvue... It looks nice.
bruno021
That's interesting, Dave, but how do you make it fit the right places? Was this prepared in PS first, so that it matches the body already? And how about the environment settings? Do you leave all parameters to default? ( 100% coverage in altitude, slope and orientation)
coa
Looking good, Dave!!! Marvellous how you try all these different skins out!!!