Adding texture elements in the Poser Material Room [Nudity] - Aery Soul

Adding texture elements in the Poser Material Room [Nudity]

Using Yaara, the body painting To explain how to add additional texture elements to your base skin texture through the Poser material room I'm using Yaara as an example. The Yaara package in fact does not include a skin texture but includes a .jpg file of her bodypaiting which you can add to any of your textures. The same technique can however be used in any other similar occasion so you should take this as a general tutorial. If you don't want to use Photoshop to add an additional element to your own texture (be it a tattoo, a make up or eyebrows) you can do it in Poser 5/6/7 material room without having to edit your texture files. On the one hand this allows you to quickly add the body painting/tattoo to any texture you'll be using within a minute. On the other end you won't have the possibility to play much with color and blending options and so on as in Photoshop or rather you can do it but you'll have to add more parameters to your material. The material/shader I'm using as example are very basic, the texture is plugged in the Diffuse color and nothing more, however this is just to explain what to do more clearly but the very same settings can be applied on more complex skin shaders. 1- Load Yaara and skin her with your favorite skin texture.

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2- Go to the material room and select the Skin Torso material zone, now go to the Diffuse Color and create a color_math node.

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3- Change the Math Argument to Multiply and the color of the value 2 to plain white.

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4- Now plug the Color_Texture file into value one and create a node from value 2 to load another 2d texture (image_map).

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5- Go to runtime/textures/awfulsoul/yaara/ and load "yaaratattoo.jpg" and you're done. You can see a preview in the material room window, you don't see a preview on the model but the body painting is there and will render out.

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6- Remember you have to do the same for all the material parts covered by the body painting/tattoo, in this case you need to do it for the SkinHip material as well. It is easier done than explained and without editing your textures your character will go from this to that:

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