Anyway here is a render of her i did in Lightwave, nothing too fancy, 4 lights and G2, Poser 4 pro, default DAZ hi rez textures. No postwork, except resizing in Photoshop.

Later i hope to add some background and hair also.. any suggestions for good quality hair ? (free would be nice)

Comments and crits welcome...

Attached Link: Kozaburo

Attached Link: http://www.3digitalcrafts.net/studiomaya/

WOW ! Gotta admire these guys for giving away stuff like this.. The MayaDoll char also sounds quite promising. And thanks for the compliment.. not all of us LW guys are that bad ;) Well ok, i used to be a bit snooty in the beginning, but now i take every app as it comes.

Another question... how do you guys handle the long loading time of V3 ? It takes something like 2-3 mins to load everything up on my system. Any way to reduce that, assuming it is possible to reduce it ? Also anyone have experience loading the morfs into LW... do you save every morf as a seperate OBJ file or is there any plugin to ease this ? -Thanks.

How we handle the loading time? Well personally I browse this forum while it loads (no kidding) or read a book, fetches a coke or somethng similar L I guess you learn to live with it G And I don't know how to transfer the morphs into LW. I would morph the character in Poser and THEN bring it into LW.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=483169&Start=1&Artist=Mazak&ByArtist=Yes

Long loading times? I'd suggest not filling her up with morphs you won't use. The v3 cr2 I use most of the time is just over 7 megs and loads just as fast--if not faster--than any other character. Remember, with v3 you can inject a morph any time you want if you decide you need it. You don't have to keep them all loaded into her all the time.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=326887&Start=1&Artist=jerr3d&ByArtist=Yes

The texture, though, is Nasya by my friend Tamela

Nice ! Maybe we could have an 'All app vicky convention' or something :) Gotta complain though that V3 really deserves a better renderer than the one in Poser, well in Poser 4 anyway. Don't know if Poser 5 is nicer. ernyoka1: Yeah that's how i'm doing it now. But i really hate those nasty defroms you get at the joints in poser. I was hoping to re rig it in LW, and then import the morfs someway... Have to do some more experiments i guess. Only problem, the damn mesh is so heavy, i'm afraid it'l crash or something. "Remember, with v3 you can inject a morph any time you want if you decide you need it. You don't have to keep them all loaded into her all the time." Hmmm.. i see your point. Right now i'm getting a feel for the morfs and what each does so i tend to load everything. When i become more familiar, i'll try doing it that way.

hey, those pics rock. i moved from c4d to lightwave under a year ago, and so far i'm impressed. you know, most users of bigger apps bag on poser quite often. i wonder if we could get a group going, like "lightwaving posers" or something? that image with lightwave and the one with cinema look absolutely amazing. better that film quality. keep it going!!!

Thanks ! Way i see it is that not everyone can or should be an expert in character modeling. But that doesn't mean you can't become good at other kinds of stuff like lighting, texturing, animation etc. Personally i'm a reasonably decent modeler, but i rarely get the time to be able to create something like a whole realistic human. So i use premade stuff to learn the other stuff till i do find time. Whatever else you think about Poser, you have to admit that it certainly has some excellent (and cheap) content available which can be used outside the proggie also. eg here with V3, i plan to practice how to do realistic skin shading and rigging a high detail model in LW. Maybe create some short anims also...

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=471400&Start=1&Artist=Hiram&ByArtist=Yes

Hey Hiram that's very very good work ! Wow ! Wish i could do post work like that.. I'm a total klutz when it comes to drawing by hand, so i have to to do it the long way around, by making sure the render itself is as good as it can be. Not an easy or fun task to be sure, mostly lot's of repetitive tweaking. For animations of course this can be a real timesaver, but for stills it's a real pain !

How about the "Poser Lightwave Users Group" aka PLUGs or the "Lightwave Users of Vicky" LW UV's ?

Attached Link: http://www.greenbriarstudio.com/3D/