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So been working away at understanding Poser's material room. My newest adventure was getting to know the Physical Surface Root node. FINALLY have a nice version of Bruno's skin looking quite yummy. The mouth is open so I could check on details like his teeth, tongue and so one. Reflective quality to the Cornea, Nails and Teeth were also beaten into submission! LOL
Now if I could just figure out how to get my ugly eyebrows to work along with the expression morphs, head shapes and brow movement dials. I did a tutorial that I'll post below. If anyone has any knowledge for me to try to get them working correctly please please please chime in.
The brows were a pair I made in ZBrush a good long while ago, Dusk 1's release time) (I'm using them as a testing figure before delving into a really nice set for Dusk!
Thanks so much!
Now if I could just figure out how to get my ugly eyebrows to work along with the expression morphs, head shapes and brow movement dials. I did a tutorial that I'll post below. If anyone has any knowledge for me to try to get them working correctly please please please chime in.
The brows were a pair I made in ZBrush a good long while ago, Dusk 1's release time) (I'm using them as a testing figure before delving into a really nice set for Dusk!
Thanks so much!
PS, getting a handle on the Materials Room is becoming a little more intuitive and I have to say I'm in love with the Physical Surface root node. So much easier than the older Poser material root node. I'm still getting my head around the SSS and the Specular settings and what to connect to them to bump up their abilities. It's usually a math node which I'm still pretty much in the dark with... here is a set up from the skin.
So did I. That's basically my root node for everything nowadays, though the meaning of that "specular" color still eludes me from time to time. If it uses Roughness/Metallic, then what is specular doing there? That makes no sense. I was told that is actually some kind of IOR (index of reflection), and it has some fresnel effect attached to it, but then, why is is a color?
SSS works just like you did in there. The ScatterDist parameters are measured in millimetres, but what if my Poser units are in inches, which I think is the default? One thing I've noticed is that setting it to 1 for human skin adds tons of noise to the render, which takes much longer to render. Sometimes it's just no worth it.
That's for creating different SSS groups using that index, but I don't know how to use it. ;p
I was told not to change the default mid-grey value for human skin. They said it's the average best value for Fresnel effect. But your guess is as good as mine.
parkdalegardener
Adventurous
When using Firefly to render SSS in material zones next to or on top of each other there is a blueing effect. Putting the SSS into separate groups alleviates this. I have not run into this issue when using Superfly/Cycles nodes. Yet.
Example is Skinface in one scatter group and lips in a separate group to keep the lips from turning blue.
parkdalegardener
Adventurous
Specular is always a data value. That is why it is not a colour value and instead greyscale. PBR rendering is based upon the idea that the item being rendered is composed of numerous triangles that represent the surface of the object. When light rays hit an object they become absorbed, transmitted, or reflected. With polished metal the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. There is no absorption or transmission only reflection. The grey in the specular chip represents that micropoly scatter an average surface reflects. If I recall correctly it is not mid-grey but actually somewhere around 10%. White is zero. No micropoly scattering of light. That is why the chip should be white for metals.
Well now we know. Interesting!
So finished with the product update for Tina so far. Got her all done now to redo the older attempts in Poser to get Tommy ready for Poser.
Here are some examples for Superfly and Firefly renders of her makeups.
There will be 6 MU's and 9 Fantasy MU's, lots of eye colors and nails too!
Here are some examples for Superfly and Firefly renders of her makeups.
There will be 6 MU's and 9 Fantasy MU's, lots of eye colors and nails too!
Yes, she has quite a bevy of styles. The Blues is part of the regular make up but you can switch the lips out for another color which will soften the entire effect. I didn't do separate lip style folder but I guess I really need to for more options!
I wanted to renew the Training Gear pack for Dawn and have it currently reloaded in Poser 11 setting it up! Originally I had it in the testing area at 'Rosity but the nice beta tester gets back to me and shows me all these issues so I told her forget it, I'll work on it and resubmit later.
So today I'm finalizing Tina's (Character for Dawn) settings and needed a cute outfit for promo's, and low and behold the Training Gear set came to the rescue. I tried Ken's Bunny suit (as in Playboy) but there is something weird going on with how it conforms (he informed me that there was some weirdness with the breast/chest area that causes that) and the other really cute sundress from Steve over at 3DUniverse. No go with that one either, neither will conform properly but my Training Gear set DOES, perfectly!
So my original maps for the set had a HUGE Wolff Trainer logo on the top as well as on the pants. OVERKILL anyone? So I spent an hour in Photoshop removing all the logo info from the Diffuse maps (the color maps) and the internal maps like Normal, Specular and the others (the maps that make the clothing look more realistic) so that was fun. Once I got a workflow going it came together nicely. So now the top looks more simple but still cute.
So then I started applying various poses Tina and I really don't see any reason to freak myself out over poke throughs, which were brought to my attention via the beta tester. So I guess when when my beta team looks over the pack they will HOPEFULLLY not find much to report in that way. The trick with clothing like this is to make sure you have expand morphs so you "tic tic tick" on the slider to get just the right amount of expansion so none of Tina's digital skin starts popping through the clothing. I've applied about 5 poses so far and only had ONE I have to really pop up the expansion for and that was the socks around the front ankle area.
The first of the many maps for it are mostly in place (I have a pair of Toe socks, wrist and heads bands to set up still but those are easy peasy to set up)
So here is Tina, in a nice pose that would normally be VERY telling of poke throughs. Not a one!
The figure morph is mine done in ZBrush and the hair prop is freebie by 3Dream that comes with Poser 11 and 12, so I'm going to included quite a few color mats for it, this is the Pinky one! I love it!
Thanks for looking.
So today I'm finalizing Tina's (Character for Dawn) settings and needed a cute outfit for promo's, and low and behold the Training Gear set came to the rescue. I tried Ken's Bunny suit (as in Playboy) but there is something weird going on with how it conforms (he informed me that there was some weirdness with the breast/chest area that causes that) and the other really cute sundress from Steve over at 3DUniverse. No go with that one either, neither will conform properly but my Training Gear set DOES, perfectly!
So my original maps for the set had a HUGE Wolff Trainer logo on the top as well as on the pants. OVERKILL anyone? So I spent an hour in Photoshop removing all the logo info from the Diffuse maps (the color maps) and the internal maps like Normal, Specular and the others (the maps that make the clothing look more realistic) so that was fun. Once I got a workflow going it came together nicely. So now the top looks more simple but still cute.
So then I started applying various poses Tina and I really don't see any reason to freak myself out over poke throughs, which were brought to my attention via the beta tester. So I guess when when my beta team looks over the pack they will HOPEFULLLY not find much to report in that way. The trick with clothing like this is to make sure you have expand morphs so you "tic tic tick" on the slider to get just the right amount of expansion so none of Tina's digital skin starts popping through the clothing. I've applied about 5 poses so far and only had ONE I have to really pop up the expansion for and that was the socks around the front ankle area.
The first of the many maps for it are mostly in place (I have a pair of Toe socks, wrist and heads bands to set up still but those are easy peasy to set up)
So here is Tina, in a nice pose that would normally be VERY telling of poke throughs. Not a one!
The figure morph is mine done in ZBrush and the hair prop is freebie by 3Dream that comes with Poser 11 and 12, so I'm going to included quite a few color mats for it, this is the Pinky one! I love it!
Thanks for looking.
Great job!
My pack for Dusk SE is up as of this morning in the Renderosity store.
I'm so happy and relieved to see this finally up and available.
Necklaces ended up with about 100 morphs between all 4 of them.
Rings are conforming so they don't slide around the hand when it's posed and unless you morph Dusk into ridiculous shapes the rings hold their shape just fine when the hands are posed. 5 rings for each finger.
3 bracelets for the left and right wrists
A couple of simple earrings (Dobs and Double Rings and a combo of the Dob/Double Rings that load together for each ear lobe.
Allot of material options! Metals, Leathers, Stones and Jewels set up for the jewelry These are all shaders except for a couple of areas: the ID Bracelet name plate and Necklace 02 shield. Note, while the shaders are set up for the jewelry they can, of course be used on other things but keep in mind I can't guarantee that the will look good on larger props or clothing!
Quite a few material zones to do your own thing with as well.
Rings & Things for Dusk SE
Please take the time to read the ReadMe for more info!
PS: I have a version of this in the works for Dusk 2.0 when I finally get rigged version to work from!
Thank you so much for your support.
Enjoy and happy rendering!
Richard RAMWolff/RAMWorks
I'm so happy and relieved to see this finally up and available.
Necklaces ended up with about 100 morphs between all 4 of them.
Rings are conforming so they don't slide around the hand when it's posed and unless you morph Dusk into ridiculous shapes the rings hold their shape just fine when the hands are posed. 5 rings for each finger.
3 bracelets for the left and right wrists
A couple of simple earrings (Dobs and Double Rings and a combo of the Dob/Double Rings that load together for each ear lobe.
Allot of material options! Metals, Leathers, Stones and Jewels set up for the jewelry These are all shaders except for a couple of areas: the ID Bracelet name plate and Necklace 02 shield. Note, while the shaders are set up for the jewelry they can, of course be used on other things but keep in mind I can't guarantee that the will look good on larger props or clothing!
Quite a few material zones to do your own thing with as well.
Rings & Things for Dusk SE
Please take the time to read the ReadMe for more info!
PS: I have a version of this in the works for Dusk 2.0 when I finally get rigged version to work from!
Thank you so much for your support.
Enjoy and happy rendering!
Richard RAMWolff/RAMWorks
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