Thanks. I tried those textures and they seemed to work well.
Any gossip on why Poser dropped the ethnic characters?



"Mike Williams" <nos### [at] econymdemoncouk> wrote in message
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>
> You might be interested in the fact that version 4 of Poser contained a
> series of ethnic "characters". This feature was dropped from Poser 5.
> The different ethnic characters had facial morphs that changed things
> like the roundness and flatness of the face, the prominence of the
> brows, the fullness of the lips and the shape of the nose. The skin
> colours were achieved by taking the same image map (which was quite
> pink) and multiplying it by different colours, and changing the
> highlight colours.
>
> The main colour of the image map was <.94, .71, .62>.
>
> The Default character multiplied the image map by a plain colour
> <.99, .88, .84> and had highlights coloured <.05, .05, .05>.
>
> The "Carmen" character multiplied the same image map by the plain colour
> <.55, .43, .37> and had highlights coloured <.16, .13, .10>.
>
> [In POV, highlights are either the same hue as the light source or
> filtered by the pigment (by specifying "metallic"), but in Poser the
> highlights can be given a different colour.]
>
> I reckon the nearest POV equivalents are something like:
>
> Default:
>   pigment {rgb <.93, .62, .52>}
>   finish {phong 0.05 phong_size 7.1}
>
> Carmen:
>   pigment {rgb <.51, .30, .23>}
>   finish {phong 0.28 metallic phong_size 7.1}
>
>
> -- 
> Mike Williams
> Gentleman of Leisure

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