Copy Morphs with Python?

[Ken1171]

OMG That is what I am trying to do and failing badly at! Glad to see I am not the only nut-job betting my head on this one

The current version was used to apply/remove bikini tan line overlays over the existing textures. Luckily for me, all the affected body groups use the same textures in Dawn, which has simplified things because I only needed 1 mask. However, if I want to apply my tiger stripe overlays, they require multiple masks, so the script would need to be more complex, affecting torso, arms and legs. I will eventually make a script just for that.

 

[Dreamer]

The current version was used to apply/remove bikini tan line overlays over the existing textures. Luckily for me, all the affected body groups use the same textures in Dawn, which has simplified things because I only needed 1 mask. However, if I want to apply my tiger stripe overlays, they require multiple masks, so the script would need to be more complex, affecting torso, arms and legs. I will eventually make a script just for that.

I am trying to do something similar for the horse, I was running off Shaderworks Advanced Shaders 1.5 but now that that has been pulled I need another method. So far more headache the progres

 

[Ken1171]

We used to have some talented Python guys doing the job for us, but now most of them left. Some of my best scripts from ShaderWorks now crash Poser 11, and he has retired, so no updates. Many of my scripts from Dimension3D still work, but some only partially in Poser 11. D3D has passed away, so no more opdates. PhilC has also retired. I guess we have to do own Python scripts from now on.

 

[Dreamer]

yeah we have lost a lot of folks one way or another I am worried I wont be able to get the hang of coding and have to shelve a number of projects I have going, at least one was just about ready for store too, just needed a final testing.

 

[Ken1171]

I find coding with Poser Python more tedious than difficult, because we have to consider many side-situations to bullet-proof it. I mean all the things people can do that they were not supposed to do, but they can and most likely will do. ;p

 

[Dreamer]

My brain is just not set up to understand complex coding, more's the pity, just when I think I have it I find I don't. So far I haven't even been able to get a working bit of code the will change the value of the reflection input on the main surface node let alone the more complex mess of adding overlays. I can almost "see" what's needed but there is something I keep missing

 

[Ken1171]

Things have become a little more complex for Python with Poser 11 because we now have 2 sets of materials to deal with, while in older versions it was just a single one. So if you want to pick the reflection node, FIRST you need to know if the current material actually has one, because Supefly physical materials don't even know what a reflection node is. With the advent of PBR shaders, we now have to work in double with Python.

 

[Dreamer]

All of what I am trying to achieve is based of the Poser root node, I am not even thinking of trying to mess with Cycles or the Physical root node.
From what I understand, as long as the SF shaders are built of the Poser root node it should work more or less the same at least for things that don't have reflection or refraction. So skin, animal or human, shouldn't be too big a problem. Well that is the theory and we all know how well that works out lol.
You know I do believe we may have just slightly derailed the thread

 

[Ken1171]

I would say anything that requires metals, though we can simulate them with non-PBR shaders.

 

[Miss B]

Hey @Dreamer and @Ken1171 if you want I could move these posts to Poser - Scripts in the Using 3D Software Poser Subforum, starting with your posting of your Beach Girl and her tan lines.

Just let me know what you want the Title of the thread to be, or you could pick a Title and start the thread, and then I'll move the appropriate posts to it. How's that sound?

 

[Ken1171]

Sounds like a good idea. ^^

 

[Dreamer]

Thanks Miss B, didn't mean to hijack things

 

[Miss B]

No problem Dreamer, as it's a good bit of information, so just moving it to a more appropriate location will help those who are watching this conversion, myself included.

I'll take care of it as soon as Ken starts a new thread for it. If not before I get offline tonight, then first thing when I get online tomorrow.

 

[Hornet3d]

We used to have some talented Python guys doing the job for us, but now most of them left. Some of my best scripts from ShaderWorks now crash Poser 11, and he has retired, so no updates. Many of my scripts from Dimension3D still work, but some only partially in Poser 11. D3D has passed away, so no more opdates. PhilC has also retired. I guess we have to do own Python scripts from now on.

I use scripts from all of those mentioned so I miss them all.

 

[Miss B]

OK, all posts on Ken's Python script have been moved to this thread at Ken's suggestion, so carry on.

 

[Dreamer]

Thanks Miss B, I am sure we will carry on

 

[Miss B]

 

[Ken1171]

OK, all posts on Ken's Python script have been moved to this thread at Ken's suggestion, so carry on.

Thank you, Miss B! ^___^

 

[Miss B]

You're welcome.