Month: January 2012

This section hosts the following articles:

• Changes and Additions
• My atmosphere or volumetric lights don’t show up, how come?
• Poser nodes / settings and versions
• Gamma, Transparency and Blends
• What’s the fuzz about Gamma Correction?
• How are Image Based Lighting, probeLight objects and IDL Sky Domes related?
• Can I use a light for a specific object only?
• Can I use a light for preview only?
• Can I use a light for diffuse or specular lighting only?
• How do I set the color and intensity of my light(s)?
• Poser Materials V3 Lights
• An Overview on Backgrounds
• (How) can I rotoscope against a movie in the background?
• (How) can I add a background picture in my render?
• (How) can I use a reference picture in the preview only?
• (How) can I make a “green screen” shot, to add backgrounds in post?
• Poser Materials V2 Background
• (How) can I create volumetric spotlights in my scene?
• (How) can I create a smoky or foggy atmosphere in my scene?
• Poser Materials V1 Atmosphere
• Poser Materials V Materials for Non-Objects
• What are the HSV and Gamma (Math) nodes used for?
• What are the User_defined, Simple_color and Colorramp nodes used for?
• What are the Component and Math_functions / Color_math nodes used for?
• What are the Math nodes used for?
• What are the curvature (dNdu, dNdv) nodes used for?
• What are the stretching (dPdu, dPdv) nodes used for?
• What are the point P and normal N nodes used for?
• What are the Variable nodes used for?
• What is the Compound node used for?
• Shader tree construction: Math, Variable and Compound nodes
• Material Zones, or: to which Body Parts do the materials apply to?
• The 3D Solid texture nodes
• The 3D Cloudy texture nodes
• What are the 3D surface texture building blocks used for?
• What are the 2D surface texture building blocks used for?
• Poser Materials IV Advanced Surface Definitions
• How does Poser handle my movies for texturing?
• How can I assign a movie to a material?
• How does Poser handle my images for texturing?
• How can I assign an image to a material?
• What’s the Environment Map > Spherical Map node used for?
• How do I properly combine Transparency and Raytracing?
• What’s the Raytrace > Fresnel node used for?
• What’s the Raytrace > Gather node used for?
• What’s the Raytrace > Ambient Occlusion node used for?
• What’s the Raytrace > Refract node used for?
• What’s the Raytrace > Reflect node used for?
• What’s the difference between all those Scatter nodes?
• What’s the Special > FastScatter node used for?
• What’s the Special >CustomScatter node used for?
• What’s the Special >Scatter node used for?
• What’s the Special > Hair node used for?
• What’s the Special > Velvet node used for?
• What’s the Special > Subsurface Skin node used for?
• What’s the Special > Skin node used for?
• What’s the Specular > Ks Microfacet node used for?
• What’s the Specular > Phong node used for?
• What’s the Diffuse > Toon node used for?
• What’s the Diffuse > probeLight node used for?
• What’s the Anisotropic node used for?
• What’s the Glossy node used for?
• What’s the Blinn node used for?
• What’s the difference between the Specular component, and the Specular node?
• What’s the Clay node used for?
• What’s the difference between the Diffuse component, and the Diffuse node?
• What are the Alternate Diffuse and Alternate Specular components intended for?
• What’s the Translucence component intended for?
• What’s the Refraction component intended for?
• What are the Custom_outputs intended for?
• What’s the ToonID intended for?
• What’s the Shadow Catch Only intended for?
• Do Render Settings affect the behavior of materials?
• Where do the Reflection Color and Value tables come from?
• What’s a proper Value for Reflections?
• What’s a proper Color for Reflections?
• Can I get a (simplified) explanation on Lambert and diffuse shading?
• Can I get a brief intro on Node-tree building in Material Room?
• A PoserSurface material component, offers Color and Value. How do these work together?
• Are there any practical limitations in combining Diffuse, Specular, … in a single material?
• Are there more principal limitations in combining Diffuse, Specular, … in a single material?
• Are there any principal limitations in combining Diffuse, Specular, … in a single material?
• A PoserSurface material offers Diffuse, Specular, etc. How do these work together?
• Poser Materials III Intermediate Surface Definitions
• What are the Bump/Displacement components intended for?
• What’s the Reflection component intended for?
• What’s the Transparency component intended for?
• What’s the Ambient component intended for?
• What’s the Specular / Highlight component intended for?
• What’s the Diffuse component intended for?
• Poser Materials II Simple Surface Definitions
• Material Room Simple and Advanced interface - how do these relate?
• Material Room offers a Simple interface. What do I miss?
• How do I access a Material?
• What’s a material, a shader, a texture, a map?
• Poser Materials I - Introduction
• Poser Material Concepts & Elements
• Managing Poser Scenes (02. Camera Intro)
• Managing Poser Scenes (03. Camera Blur & Parameters)
• Managing Poser Scenes (04. Camera Lens Effects)
• Managing Poser Scenes (05. Camera Stereo Vision)
• Managing Poser Scenes (06. Rendering Intro)
• Managing Poser Scenes (07. Rendering Quality)
• Managing Poser Scenes (08. Rendering Options I)
• Managing Poser Scenes (09. Rendering Options II)
• Managing Poser Scenes (10. Rendering Alternatives)
• Managing Poser Scenes (11. Lights Intro)
• Managing Poser Scenes (12. Lights Advanced)
• Managing Poser Scenes (13. Direct Lighting)
• Managing Poser Scenes (14. Indirect Lighting [IDL] )
• Managing Poser Scenes (15. Atmosphere)
• Managing Poser Scenes (16. Background)
• Managing Poser Scenes (17. Backdrops)
• Managing Poser Scenes (01. Intro)
• Creating Hair in Poser (Paula Sanders)
• Case Study: Dressing Up (1 Intro)
• Case Study: Dressing Up (2 First Simulation)
• Case Study: Dressing Up (3 Analyzing and Improving)
• Case Study: Dressing Up (4 Girls have more fun)
• Case Study: Covering Up (01 Intro)
• Case Study: Covering Up (02 First Drape)
• Case Study: Covering Up (03 Second Drape)
• Case Study: Covering Up (04 Third Drape and Save)
• Case Study: Covering Up (05 Pin and Move I)
• Case Study: Covering Up (06 Pin and Move II)
• Case Study: Covering Up (07 Banner and Flags)
• Case Study: Covering Up (08 Finish flag)
• Case Study: Covering Up (09 Simple Examples)
• Case Study: Covering Up (10 Advanced Examples)
• Dynamics I – 1 Intro
• Dynamics I – 2 Case Studies
• Dynamics I – 3 Checklists
• Dynamics II – 1 Quick Tours
• Dynamics II – 2 Quick Tour: Hair Room
• Dynamics II - 3 Quick Tour: Cloth Room
• Dynamics II - 4 Quick clues and recipes
• Dynamics III – 1 Intro
• Dynamics III – 2.0 Cloth Parameters – the Sim Side
• Dynamics III – 2.1 Parameters for Simulation
• Dynamics III – 2.2 In other words
• Dynamics III - 2.3 Values on the Net
• Dynamics III - 2.4 Cloth Parameters – do it myself
• Dynamics III - 3.0 Meshes and Sims
• Dynamics III - 3.1 Cloth(es) Room Morphs and Objects
• Dynamics III - 3.2 The list of sims
• Dynamics III - 3.3 Multi-cloth sims
• Dynamics III - 3.4 Mesh behavior in short
• Dynamics III - 3.5 The sim engine
• Dynamics III - 3.6 Sim calculations on the Cloth Mesh
• Dynamics III - 3.7 Mesh behavior – crumbling
• Dynamics III - 4.0 Cloth Parameters & the Real World
• Dynamics III - 4.1 Density, Air Damping and Wind
• Dynamics III - 4.2 Friction
• Dynamics III - 4.3 Resistance
• Dynamics IV – 1 In Perspective
• Dynamics IV - 2 Poser features in perspective
• Dynamics IV - 3 Cloth Simulation in Perspective
• Dynamics V – 1 Crash Course on Math and Physics
• Dynamics V – 2 Crash Course on Sims and Settings
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (1 Intro)
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (2 Purse)
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (3 Jacket)
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (4 Snow Bride)
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (5 Toon Animal)
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (6 Horse)
• CaseStudy: Hairy Stuff (7 Facial and Body Hair)
• Poser Render Passes (1 Intro)
• Poser Render Passes (2 Shadows)
• Poser Render Passes (3 Lights)
• Poser Render Passes (4 PoserPro)
• Poser Render Passes (5 Advanced RS 2)
• Poser Render Passes (6 Material Details)
• Poser Render Passes (7 And more…)
• Corrections (1 Intro)
• Corrections (2 Do I Need …)
• Corrections (3 Exposure)
• Corrections (4 Gamma)
• Corrections (5 Anti Gamma)
• Corrections (6 Poser Pro pt I)
• Corrections (7 Poser Pro pt II)
• Poser – the program (1 Introduction)
• Poser – the program (2 Installation)
• Poser – the program (3 RAM Usage)
• Poser – the program (4 CPU Usage)
• Poser – the program (5 File Usage)
• Poser – the program (6 Library)
• Poser – the program (7 Settings)
• Poser – the program (8 Strategies)
• Poser – the program (9 Workflow)
• Poser – the program (X Professional)
• Poser – the program (Z Appendix)
• Which Poser version?
• What about Poser?
• Poser overview