I'm in need of some pointers: tutorials, threads, tips, manuals, books, ... :) I tried to do a simple starter project - stack up a bunch of cylinders and turn them into something bendable. The idea was to eventually make something like a rope or a tail. Unfortunately, I don't get too far. I need some really basic stuff, I think - like how to create a figure with props. (I've seen the "goldy" tutorial, but that starts with a completed figure already loaded in.) Anyway, suggestions would be appreciated.

Attached Link: http://arcana.daz3d.com/tutorials/propack.html

There's some for the P4 setup room which I presume is the same for P5. Christopher Orth and Craig Burton have tuts at the link above (as well as some other PP stuff) and I have one that takes a different approach here: http://www.bryceworks.com/tutorial/mushbone/mushbone.html HTH; Dan

• takes notes - I was about to start writing a P5 setup room tutorial. I guess I'll add "how to make props from primitives" to it. Hmm, I should make the whole figure in Poser 5 itself as an example.

Dan - thanks for the pointers, but "Qarbon" (which the basic - and apparently useful - tutorials are written in) fails miserably for me on all my possible browser combos. Which means -- EsnRedshirt - write faster! :)

Unfortunately, importing figures which you've made in a seperate 3d application is the best way to do it- although you can, in theory, use magnets on primitives to morph them into figures, you'll never get the level of detail you can reach with a 3d modelling program.

The Poser 5 Setup Room is the same as the Poser 4 Pro Pack set up room, so any tutorials for PP4 would work. Curious Labs used to have a tutorial on making a simple laptop prop, but I'm not sure if that is offered anymore; I was going to check for you but I can't get into the Curious Labs website right now. Poser 4 Pro Pack FX and Design has a whole chapter on the set up room, if you have access to that book that might be a help. Creating models with Poser's limited selection of primitives would indeed be a challenge. I've seen free primitive collections to augment Poser's on the web; if you want to model something with primitives it might help to have a larger selection. I think that what you end up doing when you get the hang of it more would be to import models from other applications to convert to poseable figures.

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Dr Geep's office chair made entirely with the basic Poser primitives is pretty amazing. Collecting all the other primitives out there can only add to to what we can do! Carolly