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Introduction to P6 Procedural Materials.

• You will need Poser 6
• There are two ways of creating texture for P5/P6 - "procedural" or Bitmap
• we will be using procedural textures ( functions or Nodes in P5/6 terms)
• This is just the basic principals. in creating a "leather like" texture

 

Open up Poser and load in a decent lighting setup - You can't see what you are doing in the dark. Load the V3 MFD and change all the material zones difuse colour to white (in the material room) and Transparency to 0% This stops any default colours/transaparencies influencing our texture or you can use the White dress we saved from our previous tutorial.

Save the Poser file in case you want to use it latter for another project

This is the render setup I will be using

This is what we are aiming for.

Intro to the Material room (Advanced interface) These are the main material attributes

Lets plug in a "Velvet" node to alternate difuse by clicking on the "plug" and selecting the function.

Set the node parrameters as below.

Set up a Skin node for the Ambient Colour

Now lets put in some "grain" by adding a Marble nodee to "Bump" attribute.

Lets add some turbulence to the velvet colour - to give us some variation in the velvet colour

Now we can save our new mat but before we do.... Remove disconnected nodes (if any) by "Shift + Click (Remove disconnected nodes)" This stops latter problems with your saved library. Then you can add your material to your library for latter use.

Now lets apply our Material to all material zones of our dress.

Our dress now has this texture applied to all texture zonews of the dress Before rendering you may like to make the body handles Transparent. By making the body handles TRansparency (Edge) = 1.

Feedback on this tut would be appreciated. Thanks for looking. Richard