Poser applies textures to characters using 'UV Mapping'. Poser would wrap the texture around the model and it would then have the new skin tone.

In this case you would get or create a texture file that had a rich dark skin tone, and then apply it to the standard poser model.

While you probably don't want to put a poser character on your sandwich, you might want to create one with a distinct skin tone to differentiate it from other characters. It's much the same with Poser characters. Even though both bottles are exactly the same shape and size, we now see clearly when looking at them which one will contain our favorite sandwich topping. Write 'mustard' on the other one and stick it to the mustard bottle. If you had two bottles, one full of ketchup and one full of mustard, you could take a big sticker and write 'ketchup' on one of them and then wrap it around the ketchup bottle. A texture is really just an image file specifically designed for use with a 3D Poser character. That's fine if you want to make pictures of orangey-peachy people, but what if you are trying to create an African American character? Or a Spaniard? Or a bug eyed green monster? It becomes apparent right away that something else needs to be done in order to achieve a more realistic appearance for just about any character you'll want to set up. For instance, when you look at most of the Poser 4 skin tones, they tend to be kind of an orangey-peachy color.

In this tutorial I am going to focus on textures, and tell you everything you need to know about getting started using textures, where to find them, and how to make them.Ī texture is a way for you to change the appearance of your poser character beyond simply changing the character's base color. While 'morphs' change the character's physical shape, 'textures' change the appearance of the skin, hair, clothing, etc by applying different color characteristics. These varied appearances are primarily accomplished through the use of morphs and textures. And you may have seen some characters that appear radically different from the ones you see in Poser when you first install it. You may have noticed by now that your Poser characters can look a bit bland sometimes.

Poser 7 color profile