'Get Framed!' Help - Solved!

Stryder87

Hi

I'm trying to use one of my own pictures in a frame from the Get Framed! package, but am having some difficulties.  According to the note it says:

• To insert a picture in a frame, you will need a paint program or photo-editing program. Select the frame shape you want to use, then find the corresponding template for the picture panel. The templates are entitled, "b9gf_paneloval.jpg," "b9gf_panelround.jpg," "b9gf_panelrect.jpg," and "b9gf_panelsquare.jpg." Take the picture you want and position and resize it if necessary so that it fits within the border of the template. Then resave the template under another name. Then, in Poser or DS, select the "Panel" material and insert the texture map you have just created.

There are a couple problems I'm running into:

1) The three templates mentioned are nowhere to be found in the Props:B9999:GetFramed location.  They also don't exist in the manually downloaded product either.

2) I did a surface selection of the Panel area, but I can't find any place to insert the texture map (jpg picture).  There's nothing in the Parameters tab of the frame I want to use that let's you insert a texture map.  Edit: I found the Normal Map option in the Surfaces Tab/Editor/Panel/Normal Mapping.  However, when I select the jpg I want to use, nothing shows up in the frame.  I'm guessing it's because the size isn't right.  However, I can't properly resize the jpg because I can't find the templates to use (see problem #1)!

3) This entire package doesn't seem to show up in the Smart Content tab.  Again, have I done something wrong (I let DIM install it)?  I've run a database repair recently so it would have been part of that, yet it doesn't show up at all. 

Can anyone shed some light on this?  I love the idea of using my own pictures in my scenes.  So many possibilities for this.  I also have Framed Studio, but I can't figure out how to use my own pictures in that package as I don't know how to convert a jpg into the duf format it uses with the corresponding png.

Ugh.

Edit:  Added screenshot to show Panel options.

 

Porsimo

DIM doesn't download or install templates automatically, but you need to download them manually from your product library.

Richard Haseltine

2) the image would apply to Diffuse colour/Base colour usually.

Stryder87

Porsimo said:

DIM doesn't download or install templates automatically, but you need to download them manually from your product library.

I checked for that, since I saw the Framed Studio had a seperate download for Templates.  However, there is no download for templates with Get Framed!, only a DS and Ps download.

 

Richard Haseltine said:

2) the image would apply to Diffuse colour/Base colour usually.

You mean it doesn't go in the Normal Mapping area?  I'll have to check the other area after work today because I don't remember seeing any other place to choose a different texture to insert.  Hmmm....

 

Scavenger

Normal Maps are a type of bump/texture* maps...you might use them if you wantted to make a picture look like a painting, giving it paint grooves and brush strokes.

The picture itself goes into Diffuse (or Ambient as well if you want to make it a glowing picture).

 

 

*heres where we run into the problems of terminolgy, as the instructions used "texture map" in it's 3d term meaning "a picture mapped onto an object", where I want to use "texture" as just that, a texture like bumps and grooves and smooth areas.

Stryder87

Scavenger said:

Normal Maps are a type of bump/texture* maps...you might use them if you wantted to make a picture look like a painting, giving it paint grooves and brush strokes.

The picture itself goes into Diffuse (or Ambient as well if you want to make it a glowing picture).

 

 

*heres where we run into the problems of terminolgy, as the instructions used "texture map" in it's 3d term meaning "a picture mapped onto an object", where I want to use "texture" as just that, a texture like bumps and grooves and smooth areas.

And here lies the problem... If you check the screenshot of the Panel options, there is no way to insert anything into Diffuse.  The only places to insert a picture are Bump Strength, Displacement Strength and Normal Map.  I'm totally stumped.

 

Richard Haseltine

Stryder87 said:

2) the image would apply to Diffuse colour/Base colour usually.

You mean it doesn't go in the Normal Mapping area?  I'll have to check the other area after work today because I don't remember seeing any other place to choose a different texture to insert.  Hmmm....

There should be a little Daz logo (old-style) to the left of the colour-picker widget - click that and you will get a menu, select Browse to load your image.

Stryder87

Richard Haseltine said:

Stryder87 said:

2) the image would apply to Diffuse colour/Base colour usually.

You mean it doesn't go in the Normal Mapping area?  I'll have to check the other area after work today because I don't remember seeing any other place to choose a different texture to insert.  Hmmm....

There should be a little Daz logo (old-style) to the left of the colour-picker widget - click that and you will get a menu, select Browse to load your image.

I don't see it in the screenshot I attached this morning, but I'll look again when I get home.  Thanks Richard, and everyone else!  Hopefully I can get this working.

JimmyC_2009

See the image below:

 

 

Richard Haseltine

Sorry, it's the white triangle in your image.

Stryder87

*facepalm*  I must be really really tired to not have noticed that.

Some days you just need a thick, blazingly bright red arrow with multicoloured sparkles pointing at the obvious answer to your question.

Need.... more..... coffee......

 

Stryder87

Well, tried out the suggestions.  It works great.  Thanks guys for all your help!