Embedded Files
Scroll over the words "Home" at the top right (PC web browser) or top left (three horizontal bars, if you are using a mobile browser) of the page to view a drop-down navigation menu for the rest of this website.
Cycles Celshaders for Anime Hair in Poser
Cycles Celshaders for Anime Hair in Poser
My solutions for my various types anime hair.
My solutions for my various types anime hair.
WARNING: VERY TECHNICAL
WARNING: VERY TECHNICAL
Elsewhere in this website, I have shown how I use different methods to create my anime hair for use inside Poser (links provided):
I needed to work out Celshaders in the Cycles system for use with SuperFly render engine. Below, I show my solution for strip geometry hair with pointed tip transparency (I manually painted the transparency); for pull-vertices hair; and for strip geometry hair without transparency.
I have also made some annotated images which are self-explanatory, for the strip geometry hair, with semi-realistic hair tip transparency incorporated into the shader nodes.
How to use Material Room Layers for 2nd Skins
How to use Material Room Layers for 2nd Skins
and Cycles shader trees
and Cycles shader trees
My "Real" BJD
My "Real" BJD
How I created a prop-only posable character for use in Poser
How I created a prop-only posable character for use in Poser
In the real world, ball-jointed dolls (a.k.a. BJDs) are strung together using elastic string, and their individual body parts are rigid. In making my "real" BJD, I could not use the full figure rigging method in Poser software, because this simulates real world muscle deformation in body parts. My method to assemble my "Real" BJD is as follows:
Generate the body parts using Design Doll software by Terawell.
Clean up the geometry using Shade3D.
Create UV templates for texturing - Head parts and Second Skin base clothing to be painted on.
Export parts from Shade3D as OBJ, import into Poser software.
Make sure the imported BJD parts are logically arranged, have the correct relative scale, and are correctly parented.
THIS IS THE SECRET SAUCE: Open the Joint Parameter window, and for each doll part, change the numerical settings for the End Point to be the same as the Centre Point.
The Doll may now be posed like a BJD, but you need to do it manually.
My "Real" BJD - because she does not have a figure rig to simulate human sinews
My BJD can be posed manually and her joints respond like a ball-joint doll.
Exploded view showing parts of my BJD in Poser.
I hand-painted the textures for my BJD character's face.
Her expresions are changed by changing the texture input file.
There is no face rigging.
Note also the parenting of the body parts.
Added Hair Scalp Base
Her expressions are changed by changing the input texture which I manually painted.
My posable BJD is made up of parented props and is not a rigged figure in Poser.
My notes for creating an underwater scene in Poser
My notes for creating an underwater scene in Poser
I made an Adobe Spark presentation which I uplodade to YouTube. It contains my notes for this type of scene in Poser software.
Create text geometry inside Poser Pro 11
Create text geometry inside Poser Pro 11
But the font choices are very limited
But the font choices are very limited
Page updated
Google Sites
Report abuse