Ghosts?

[TrekkieGrrrl]

Is it possible to do a ghost shader in Reality?

Like a semi-transparent, semi-glowing thing?

If it is, which parameters should I fiddle with? I know how to do it in Poser, but in Reality.. not so much...

[pciccone]

Absolutely. There are a couple of ways of doing that.
You can set the materials to be of type Glossy act on the Opacity and make the figure very faint. If you set the Opacity at 40% that should work. You can also use a procedural texture like Clouds or Distorted Noise to make the opacity non uniform, as if it's part of a swirling or turbulent substance. You can then set the materials to emit light ( see Modifiers tab), but make sure to set the gain for the light emission to the lowest possible settings.

You can also set all materials of the figure to be of type Null and then add an inner volume, and that will make your figure look like it was made out of fog. Any light shining on it will scatter and create a ghostly effect. You will need to fine tune the volume settings but it can be quite effective.

Hope this helps.

[TrekkieGrrrl]

Oooh I must try that Null thing. I never knew what that was for (yes I know.. some day soon I WILL read the manual *L*)

[TrekkieGrrrl]

Hm. With the Null and a volume they either went all uniformly transparent grey or disappeared alltogether. But I tried a combo of a cloud transparency map and volume (not sure if the volume actually did anything) but it worked. I got my ghostly deer
Photoshopped a bit to up the brightness on them, but all in all, it worked

Certainly an effect I need to play with some more

[pciccone]

Cool. Thank you for posting the results. A lot can change based on the parameters used for the volumes.