I keep trying to make stuff 'mirrored', but what works for one model won't work for another.
Worse, I neither understand what I've done right nor what has gone wrong.
Part of problem is a great chunk of Poser manual's 'Material Room' documentation describes the wondrous, one-click facilities provided by 'wacros'.
Which I could not find...
I shrugged, decided that was due to removal of deprecated Python version.
This latest foray into reflectivity etc was spawned by a MMD/PMX freebie, a panel van. Actually one of four versions in set, sharing many parts. Converted to OBJ+MTL using 3DOC($$) or free PMX Editor, there were a few glitches, a few texture tweaks required, but it rendered okay in Poser.
Except for the 'wing mirrors', which remained stubbornly 'matt'.
They, at least, had their own material call, but used a complex texture map, which lacked any obvious mirror shapes. Took a 'binary chop' with half a dozen iterations to locate...
So, not only did I need reflection, but I also had to mask the effect.
I found several tutorials by JCH, sadly only for P5/P6, and the Material room has evolved far since then.
I'd just been wrangling those silly horizontal dots marking hidden menus at foot of Library, having mis-clicked them, when I noticed similar vertical dots at right of Material Room, Advanced.
Um, yeah, due Covid, I'm a year over-due updating my arm-length-focus 'VDU' glasses...
But, surely not ?
Indeed, like Poe's infamous 'Purloined Letter', wacros have been there all along...
D'uh...
An evening of experimentation ensued.
Eventually, I found the 'reflection' wacro spawned three 'nodes', per blue trail, but I could dispense with its two subsidiaries. If masking required, add new node, 2d-textures, image map. Drag its 'port' to reflection value, per lower green trail. Link to 'reflection' appears automatically. Add image call. White reflects...
Care: render default may change to firefly, as wacros over-ride preferences. Just re-select superfly.
I could not make Poser Primitives' 2-sided square behave, my simple 'map' refused to wrap correctly. Will explore. Single-sided square was okay. Box was mostly okay, but showed artefacts. Will explore these, too. And I must tweak 'metallicity' and 'smoothness', where-ever they may lurk, to minimise the ripples / freckles...
Very much 'Work in Progress', but several 'pitons' up steep learning curve...
On Reflection : Hid In Plain Sight...
On Reflection : Hid In Plain Sight... |
Article | |
---|---|
|
|
|
|
|
|
On Reflection : Hid In Plain Sight... |
Comments | |
---|---|
|
|
There's nothing like a dozen quickie test-renders to help wrap wits around problem...
This is not the best way to do reflections, but may help. Do Safety-scan, of course. Un-zip some-where convenient, there's a 'ReadMe' in the mini-Runtime. |
|
|
|
|
|
Just two one-sided squares set at right-angles. One entirely mirrored, other with a blank patch.
Not a brilliant render, but 'Proof of Concept'. |
|
|
|
|
|
Thanks, I'll try it, but tomorrow :yawn: :hug2:
I'm on P7, but might work with some tweaking... |
|
|
|
|
|
:thumb: Worked in P7 out of the box (only changed the version number of the mt5 to "7" to avoid the error message)
|
|
|
|
|
|
Yay !! My freebie actually works !!
:yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: :yeah: |
|
|
|
|
|
:wink: :thumb: Thank you kindly Nik! It reminds me of PhilC's dressing room mirrors :friends: .
|
|
|
|
Was this topic useful? |
Page 1 of 1 |
Users browsing this topic: 0 Registered, 0 Hidden and 0 Visitors Registered Users: None |