{"id":3555,"date":"2014-04-30T12:44:49","date_gmt":"2014-04-30T10:44:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3555"},"modified":"2014-05-01T18:14:42","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T16:14:42","slug":"poser-materials-iii-intermediate-surface-definitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3555","title":{"rendered":"Poser Materials III Intermediate Surface Definitions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The articles in this section discuss some material definitions for object surfaces (the PoserSurface), which are handled through the Advanced Interface: the nodes from the Lighting group, and the nodes on image-maps and movies. It also discusses some principles on dealing with the PoserSurface root node.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, articles discuss the workings of the PoserSurface root node in general.\n<ul>\n<li>How do the various <a href=\"\/?p=3557\">components (Diffuse, Specular, &#8230;)<\/a> and <a href=\"\/?p=3566\">elements (Color, Value, &#8230;)<\/a> work together<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3560\">Principal<\/a> and <a href=\"\/?p=3564\">practical<\/a> limitations in combining components<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3568\">A brief intro on node-tree building<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Second, articles discuss some elaborate details of components available in the Simple interface: <a href=\"\/?p=3571\">diffuse (Lambert) shading<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3573\">reflection details<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3579\">render settings<\/a>.<\/br> &nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Third, articles discuss the additional components of the PoserSurface node, like <a href=\"\/?p=3581\">Shadow Catch<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3583\">ToonID<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3585\">Custom output<\/a>,\u00a0 <a href=\"\/?p=3587\">refraction<\/a> and <a href=\"\/?p=3589\">translucency<\/a>.<\/br> &nbsp; <\/li>\n<li>Forth,\u00a0articles discuss <a href=\"\/?p=3591\">Alternate_Diffuse, Alternate_Specular<\/a> and all the nodes from the <strong>Lighting &gt; Diffuse<\/strong> and <strong>Lighting &gt; Specular<\/strong> groups. The common ones:\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3593\">Diffuse\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"\/?p=3595\">Clay<\/a>,<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3597\">Specular<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3599\">Blinn<\/a> and <a href=\"\/?p=3603\">Anisotropic <\/a><\/br>And the less commonly used ones:<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3605\">probeLight<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3607\">Toon<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3601\">Glossy<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3609\">Phong<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3611\">Ks_Microfacet<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Fifth, articles discuss the nodes from the <strong>Lighting &gt; Special<\/strong> group, like Scatter and Hair.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3613\">Skin<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3617\">Velvet<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3619\">Hair\u00a0<\/a>and <a href=\"\/?p=3627\">Fastscatter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3615\">Subsurface Skin<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3621\">Scatter<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3625\">CustomScatter<\/a><br \/>\nAfter that,\u00a0the <a href=\"\/?p=3629\">various scatter nodes are compared<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Sixth, articles discuss the nodes from the Lighting &gt; Raytrace group.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3631\">Reflect<\/a>, <a href=\"\/?p=3633\">Refract<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3639\">Fresnel<\/a><br \/>\nAfter that,\u00a0their <a href=\"\/?p=3641\">complex relationship with Transparency <\/a>is dealt with.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3635\">Ambient Occlusion<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3637\">Gather<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Seventh, articles discuss spherical mapping, image maps and movie-based textures.\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3643\">Spherical Map<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3645\">Images<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3647\">how Poser handles them<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"\/?p=3649\">Movies<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"\/?p=3651\">how Poser handles them<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Next subsections present similar articles on an(IV) <a href=\"\/?p=3653\">Advanced\u00a0<\/a>level, as well as on defining the properties of (V) <a href=\"\/?p=3685\">Non-objects <\/a>(atmosphere, background, lights) as far as these are handled through the Material Room interface. The <a href=\"\/?p=3721\">Appendix <\/a>lists all Material Room nodes and relevant Render Settings, and their availability in the various Poser versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The articles in this section discuss some material definitions for object surfaces (the PoserSurface), which are handled through the Advanced Interface: the nodes from the Lighting group, and the nodes on image-maps and movies. It also discusses some principles on dealing with the PoserSurface root node. First, articles discuss the workings of the PoserSurface root &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/?p=3555\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Poser Materials III Intermediate Surface Definitions&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[145,133],"series":[127],"class_list":["post-3555","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poser","tag-material-room","tag-poser","series-matroom-intermediate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3555"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3748,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3555\/revisions\/3748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3555"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.book.artbeeweb.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fseries&post=3555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}