Wacros

Wacros are easy-to-use scripts designed to complete specific tasks within the Material room. The Wacro Drawer comes with ten predefined Wacros, each of which accomplishes a basic material setup task or process--often with the click of a single button. You can save time by using Wacros for some of the more common tasks you might wish to undertake in the Material room. Wacros all act upon the root node for the selected object or material. For more information on the various attributes on the root nodes, please see Root Nodes.

Poser also supports user defined Wacros, which you can write using Python scripting, and then place in the Runtime\Python\poserScripts\Wacros\UserDefined folder within your Poser installation folder. Your Wacros will then appear in the User Defined pop-up menu. Please see Using PoserPython for more information about writing Python scripts for Poser.

Material Wacros.

The following Wacros are included with your Poser installation:

Refraction requires raytracing, so be sure to have raytracing selected when you render in order to see the refraction effect. We also recommend setting the number of raytrace bounces to at least two (or higher if you have reflective surfaces behind the transparent materials).

To maximize your Image Based Lighting effects, we recommend using Ambient Occlusion. See Light Properties for information on activating Ambient Occlusion for the selected light.

If you press the Shift key while choosing Remove Detached Nodes, detached nodes will be removed from all sub-materials in the figure with a single click.

Even if one or more nodes are attached to inputs on a given node, if that node’s output is not attached to another node, it will be removed by the Remove Detached Nodes Wacro.

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