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<\/a><\/p>\nThe dotting is not on the render, it’s my selection of a colour-area in Photoshop.<\/em><\/p>\n I probably need to try a range like “(500000, 25000000)” for a proper Clown Pass look, and will be plugging that in as I give the script a final polish. I’d suspect that the colour limit is probably 32-million numbers, for 32-million colours.<\/p>\n This discovery leads me to a hunch about why Poser’s ToonID was always so dull and blue-black and needed to be lifted in Photoshop to be usable. It looks to me like it was always clustering in the low range, re: the numbers, and thus it stayed dark.<\/p>\n The aliasing of the ToonID layer is still lacking, and I found a forum comment to the effect that that’s probably the way the animation and film\/TV crowd likes it. The colours selected are thus completely pure and clean, and there’s no muddied fringing at the edges. That makes sense. In such a studio setting I guess also it’s easier to work upward from a dark base, picking out exactly what one wants to mask, rather than be faced with a multi-colour Clown World straight off.<\/p>\n I don’t find this a problem as in Photoshop one can make a selection by the unique colour, and then have an Action smooth and feather the edges to taste. So the jaggies are really not that much of a nuisance. Plus, if you have comic-book ink lines on top as a layer, any seams are shmushed away under the lines, and jaggies can also be slightly softened when you flood-fill new colours by using the paint-bucket tool in Photoshop.<\/p>\n Of course it may be possible to antialias the ToonID layer in Poser, and I just haven’t stumbled on the right Firefly render settings yet.<\/p>\n So… my new script will be integrated into my multipass script. Since if I’m going to be spending 25 seconds getting a Firefly pen-lines only render out of my comic-book multipass script, then I might as well have the ToonID ‘Clown Pass’ as well for only a few seconds more. It’s less clunky for masking and colour-filling than the other options for Poser 11, which so far as I know are:<\/p>\n 1) For something quicker and smoother, SnarlyGribbly\u2019s free EZmat<\/a> script set has a \u201cRandomizer\u201d script which randomises the Diffuse colour value of a figure or prop. However, as that destroys your scene’s material diffuse values, and as it needs to be applied character-by-character and prop-by-prop, it’s not ideal — despite the nice results.<\/p>\n 2) There’s also the paid-for $20 XS \u2013 Extended Shader Manager<\/a>. This has a ToonID button. But it’s used as a character\/prop grouping tool, because it sets the same<\/em> ToonID across each character or prop. Thus it’s not a tool for automatically uniquely identifying every material type in the scene, right down to the diamonds in Doreen’s ear-rings. Also, if the ToonID value is the same across a whole figure or prop, the inked outline may vanish in-between, since it also plays a role in inking. <\/p>\n For an un-occluded free equivalent, see the Render each figure\/prop separately<\/a> script and use it with Preview renders, then re-assemble the scene in Photoshop.<\/p>\n
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