Help on DAZ/Poser for skinning.

But of Course!

Ummm... Poser 5 or Poser 6.

Here's the instructions for Poser 5. If you need the ones for 6, let me know.

Okay! It's a little complicated, but not hard. I'm going to tell you, without illos, to save time and download. But if you can't figure it out from this, and you want to see screenshots, let me know.

1. Open Poser, and make sure the correct figure is loaded, etc.

2. Click on the tab at the top that says, "Material." This opens the Material room, which looks a little different. Once there, you'll see a large window which is probably empty. At the top of it there is a menu which lists, "Object", "Material", and "Node Options."

3. Click on the Object menu in that window, and choose the correct figure from the drop down list. Probably Figure 1. The "PoserSurface" panel for one of the Materials will open. You'll be able to tell which one from the color at the top, since the default SL AV is, shall we say, brightly colored.

4. Click on the Material Menu, and choose the correct material from the list. They are named Material_Lowerbody, Material_Upperbody, and so on. You'll want the same name as the Template you were working on, of course.

5. Click on the Diffuse Color swatch, at the top of the PoserSurface panel, and change its color to white. This acts like a tint, and will affect the colors of your material.

6. Click on the little icon directly to the right of the Diffuse Color Swatch. It looks like a plug, or something. When you click on it, a menu will fly out, that says "Disconnect" (which is probably dimmed) and "New Node."

7. Mouse over "New Node," which will open another fly out.

8. Mouse over "2D Textures" (at the bottom) which will open another fly out.

9. Choose "image_map" from the last fly out. A new panel will appear, titled Image_Map, and connected to the Diffuse Color with a cyan line (although you probably won't see that unless you drag the window to the right.)

10. Click directly on the word "None" next to "Image_Source". It's in the first line of the Image_Map panel. Another dialog window opens, that has a drop down menu of all textures currently loaded (Probably "No Texture" and "Ground Default Texture'.) Below that is a button labeled "Browse."

11. Click the "Browse" button.

12. You will (finally!) get to a normal browser window. Find your texture, and Open it. Its name will appear in the dialog from step 11.

13. Click OK to accept the texture. It will appear on the AV, and also at the bottom of the PoserSurface window.

14. Repeat steps 3-13 for each Material.

15. Click on the "Pose" tab at the top of the window to return to the Pose Room, which is the one where you do the work in Poser.

Yeah, I agree that all of that is much more complex than it needs to be; but it's set up to do a lot of stuff that we aren't using, when we're just checking image maps. And the complexity is for that (or so they tell me.)

Also, it goes very quickly once you get used to it.

So, let me know if you need screen shots!

Here. Just scroll down until you find them.

You know, if you'd used the Advanced Search, with "Poser 6" and my name in the fields, you wouldn't have had to wait for your answer.

Note, by the way, that I don't have Poser 6, and the demo has long since expired, so I can't answer any additional questions. People who own the software will have to do that.

Hi Azildin,

Ummm.. you don't want to remove the Diffuse. If you did, your model would look completely black. Diffuse is the color of the pixels where beams of light hit them. (As opposed to Ambient, which is the color where the beams of light aren't hitting.) It gets very technical here, but you're probably not in the least interested in that.

So, to cut to the chase, what you want to do is make the Diffuse tint White. That way, the textures you are applying to your model (which are also in the Diffuse channel) won't be tinted. It's exactly like changing the Color tint inside SL, which you're probably already familiar with.

To do that, just set all three color numbers (in the field above the button that lets you choose your texture) to 255. (Click on them, and drag to the right.)

I'm kind of surprised that you have to do this, though. The default is white.

Are you sure that this is where you are having a problem? If it's not, perhaps you could post a screen shot, so that we can see what's actually going on.

Hope this helps!

But of Course!

Ummm... Poser 5 or Poser 6.

Here's the instructions for Poser 5. If you need the ones for 6, let me know.

Okay! It's a little complicated, but not hard. I'm going to tell you, without illos, to save time and download. But if you can't figure it out from this, and you want to see screenshots, let me know.

1. Open Poser, and make sure the correct figure is loaded, etc.

2. Click on the tab at the top that says, "Material." This opens the Material room, which looks a little different. Once there, you'll see a large window which is probably empty. At the top of it there is a menu which lists, "Object", "Material", and "Node Options."

3. Click on the Object menu in that window, and choose the correct figure from the drop down list. Probably Figure 1. The "PoserSurface" panel for one of the Materials will open. You'll be able to tell which one from the color at the top, since the default SL AV is, shall we say, brightly colored.

4. Click on the Material Menu, and choose the correct material from the list. They are named Material_Lowerbody, Material_Upperbody, and so on. You'll want the same name as the Template you were working on, of course.

5. Click on the Diffuse Color swatch, at the top of the PoserSurface panel, and change its color to white. This acts like a tint, and will affect the colors of your material.

6. Click on the little icon directly to the right of the Diffuse Color Swatch. It looks like a plug, or something. When you click on it, a menu will fly out, that says "Disconnect" (which is probably dimmed) and "New Node."

7. Mouse over "New Node," which will open another fly out.

8. Mouse over "2D Textures" (at the bottom) which will open another fly out.

9. Choose "image_map" from the last fly out. A new panel will appear, titled Image_Map, and connected to the Diffuse Color with a cyan line (although you probably won't see that unless you drag the window to the right.)

10. Click directly on the word "None" next to "Image_Source". It's in the first line of the Image_Map panel. Another dialog window opens, that has a drop down menu of all textures currently loaded (Probably "No Texture" and "Ground Default Texture'.) Below that is a button labeled "Browse."

11. Click the "Browse" button.

12. You will (finally!) get to a normal browser window. Find your texture, and Open it. Its name will appear in the dialog from step 11.

13. Click OK to accept the texture. It will appear on the AV, and also at the bottom of the PoserSurface window.

14. Repeat steps 3-13 for each Material.

15. Click on the "Pose" tab at the top of the window to return to the Pose Room, which is the one where you do the work in Poser.

Yeah, I agree that all of that is much more complex than it needs to be; but it's set up to do a lot of stuff that we aren't using, when we're just checking image maps. And the complexity is for that (or so they tell me.)

Also, it goes very quickly once you get used to it.

So, let me know if you need screen shots!