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Stone Arms for V4 skins

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Published on 09-02-2011

Loading up your maps into DAZ Studio surfaces tab

1- Now it's time to add your maps to your texture into the surfaces tab.
Load V4, apply the texture of your choice (in this ...

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I stumbled across this while playing around with the Alternate Diffuse method of fixing plants, and while I find the Alt Diffuse method good, (Which I will show you below as well), There is a better solution (IMHO). I am sure this can be expanded on, so if you take this method and come up with something better... please let us know! This is a plant with transmapped foliage. One Light, Depth Mapped Shadows. See how there are dark spots where the back of the transmapped planes are facing towards the camera? That looks pretty ugly, LOL
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Dynamic Clothing tutorial for Poser 5 or up

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kaposer

Published on 10-11-2010

Before we do anything else we need a dynamic cloth, isn't it? I've one ready just here

If you wish to read the spanish version click here

A little introduction is needed to better understand what a dynamic cloth is. It is a piece of cloth that don't have any "bones", and therefore can't be conformed to any figure. It's exactly like a prop but, it can be used only in Poser 5's cloth room. Having said all that, we can now continue.

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Inside a Material 01 - Rusty Pitted Iron

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Traveler

Published on 10-11-2010

Instead of just posting some of these materials I figured why not start sharing some of the thoughts and techniques behind how they are put together. This time around we will look at this Pitted Rusty Iron material I have made. This will be an ongoing series of tutorials on unlocking the power of the material room!

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Poser 6 Ambient Occlusion Samples

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olivier

Published on 10-11-2010

Preface: Because Poser 6's measurement units effect the values below,
you will need to switch your measurement units to meters in your preferences.

Note: All of these settings can be found on the Light Properties Panel.

Note: Values under renders are listed as: Max Distance/Bias/Num Samples

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A Little Tutorial About Lighting

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olivier

Published on 10-11-2010

Well, I use to think that lights are one of the most important aspect in a good pic. Even a crappy mesh if well lightened can be beautiful. Anyway, I have not chosen a bad mesh for illustrating my tut but a very nice and elegant one: one of the vase that Zhann made a long time ago, the dragon vase.

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IBL Probe Map Template

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olivier

Published on 10-11-2010

Map for Poser IBL Probe Maps

Download an Additional Set Here (Zip File)

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Outdoor Lighting with Poser 8 IDL

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vincebagna

Published on 10-11-2010

Indirect lighting is a great new feature in Poser 8. It allows us to directly do some things we had to fake before, like global illumination and ambient occlusion.

Keep in mind that AO in Poser is a way to fake occlusion in a render. IDL (Indirect Lighting) does the real thing.

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