Let's begin with a "before" or, in scientific terms, a “control” shot.  This is custom-morphed Victoria 4.2 with a texture set of my own design applied.  The texturing is applied with 5 nodes.  As you can see, this rudimentary shader is better than nothing, but it's far from anything that could properly be called "realism."  Let's fix that!  To prepare Poser, make sure the units are set to feet and displacement maps are enabled in the Render settings.

NOTA BENE: The symbol >> will be used to indicate sequential menu selections for most nodes.  In the case of Color_Math and Math_Functions nodes, however, the name that appears after the last >> in the sequence indicates what to choose as the “Math_Argument” parameter after the node has already been created.  Names in quotation marks (“ ”) precisely identify a particular node in the tree.  Depending on the order of creation, which is largely inconsequential with regards to the final shader results, the nodes in your implementation that correspond to the nodes I name may be named differently.

	by nfredman on Jun 5, 2009 6:32:51 pm [homepage] Er, don't you mean, "Second, create four math>>Math_Functions>>Gain nodes?
	by Iuvenis_Scriptor (online now) on Jun 5, 2009 7:23:47 pm [homepage] Nfredman, yes I do. Thanks for pointing that out! I've now corrected that particular instruction.
	by miste1982 on Jun 12, 2009 11:53:08 am [homepage] Thank you my friend, thank you, thank you!!!!!!
	by ghostman on Jun 24, 2009 3:11:48 am [homepage] Very enlighting info! Thank you. :)
	by Roxam on Jun 24, 2009 8:09:29 am [homepage] Cannot Thank You Enough!
	by CaptainNeatoman on Jun 24, 2009 1:37:24 pm [homepage] Page 3 - Hair trans map? What image are you using?
	by Iuvenis_Scriptor (online now) on Jun 25, 2009 12:55:24 pm [homepage] Captain Neatoman, the hair trans map can be a trans map for eyebrows, pubic hair, armpit hair, etc. depending on the area of the body you're texturing/shading. In the screenshot, it's named "Image_Map_2."
	by Shalimar-Cherie on Jun 29, 2009 5:42:18 pm [homepage] My good Lord what an brilliant TUT , thank you for its work. It will take some time till i am trough , but i will do it!
	by DigitalDreamsDS on Jul 23, 2009 5:36:26 pm [homepage] How do you save all these so they can be readily available?? And.. are the 2nd page and 3rd page different skin areas?
	by DigitalDreamsDS on Jul 23, 2009 7:35:56 pm [homepage] Ok, my results didn't come out anything like what you have. There are discrepancies in the images and instructions. Which should be followed?
	by Yannek on Feb 27, 2012 4:04:10 pm [homepage] My skin is gray. I checked twice and everything is correct. Doesn't it work for newest Poser?