Okay, I'm new at using Poser 4 and haven't yet got the skill to create the kind of pics I've seen here... Can somebody here help me figure some things out? 1) I have some of that... what is it called? The Digital Babes stuff... and when I try to put it on my models, it seems to stick to their necks or backs. I click "Confirm To" then the figure body, but it doesn't work. They end up with HUGE forheads as the hair "confirms" to the BACK of their heads... How do I fix that? Currently only TWO out of five of my hairs (all from the same site) work right. 2) Where can I find some... ahh... sexy poses? What I mean is, something for use if say I wanted a sexy render of a woman... Like some of the things I see here... same with the face expersions. I hope I explained this clear enough, LOL :-P BYW, when I do use the poses I already have, how come sometimes the joints look deformed? All bent in-side-out? Not to bad, but it kills the effect... and how do I fix that? 3) Clothing... where do I find some very REAL looking cloths for the Victoria model? High heels, sexy lingerie, you get the idea... AND, how do I fix her feet so they work right with high heels? 4) Rendering... I just read on this forum that Poser does a bad job at rendering... what program should I use to render my images? Will Photoshop 5.5 work? What about Maya Personal Learning Edition (Can't affored the full version). Thanks. I'm really into this computer art. I hope to get a job making computer games (I have quite a few BOOD RPG ideas) so I love messing around with Poser (don't know if it's used in computer gaming though). I can't pay for things (You remember what it was like to be a broke 16 year old, LOL) so I need links to free sites. Thanks everybody!

OK, I'll try to answer a couple of these. 1. The hair - from Koz's Digital babes site or anywhere else - is usually built for one particular model. If you have a hair for the P4 woman, for example, and try putting it on Vicki, it will be out of place. Instead of conforming it, move the hair into position (use the dials in the object properties dialogue, don't try and grab it with the pull tool), scale it if necessary, and then parent it to the figure (Object>Change Parent> and then pick Figure 1>Head or whichever applies.) 2. Poses, again, are generally built for a particular model and don't often work well with others, due to the different way in which their joints are made. Poses for V3, for example, won't work well at all with Posette (the P4 woman), as Posette's not very bendy ;-) For some nice sensual poses, just do a search in the freestuff here on "sexy" - there's a couple of pages worth. Also try Schlabber's great site, Posing Is An Art. He also has some tutorials for posing up there, and a new,in depth tutorial is promised soon. I'll let someone else answer your other questions :)

Thaanks :-) Some of the hair files say for Vikki 2-4... I don't actually have Vikki, but I have the P4 woman that is supposed to take Vikki textures... and clothing. Thanks again!

1. While the P4 renderer looks very poor for today's standards, I'd say stick with it until you actually have the need for a better renderer. Some of the best Poser images ever have been rendered in Poser 4 - look at the gallery of mec4.com to see some examples. Photoshop is not a renderer, and the renderer of Maya PLE ruins all the fun by adding a huge watermark to your image. Decent renderers in the $0 price would be: POVRAY: A raytracer, for which a program exists that'll allow to render Poser scenes. Unfortunately, I forgot the name. 3Delight/Aqsis/Pixie: All three of them are free RenderMan compliant renderers. Poser 4 has a built-in RenderMan export, File/Export/RIB.... When rendered directly, these files will look about equal to Poser, in cases (e.g. transmaps, shadows) even worse. But if you learn to master RenderMan and the RenderMan shading language (you can find the specs at http://renderman.pixar.com/ and a number books about that in a library), you have truly professional grade tools that can create top-notch images. But for the beginning, I'd say stick to the built-in renderer - before you don't master that, the other renderers will just confuse you.

Taking over from Karen... Clothing for Victoria: There's a ton of stuff here, DAZ and at PhilC's site. Phil C may well be your man for sexy ligerie; he's produced some fine sets for V3, and they don't cost much, either. Around $2, IIRC. You can make them look more or less how you want by applying new textures to them. Again, there are tons in the Marketplace here. Working with heels: It got me confused for the longest time. Boots are pretty easy. Make the feet invisible and conform the boots to the model. That is, select the boot BODY and conform that to V3. Shoes or sandals with heels often have a fitting pose for the feet, or at least instructions on the amount of bend you need to apply. Rendering: Photoshop is not a renderer. It's a bitmap/vector paint package. No rendering capabilities at all. Poser ain't so bad at rendering, certainly not for its price range. P5 has more options than P4, but is something of a poisoned chalice, according to some folks here. I use P4 Pro Pack, and get reasonable results. There are several free light sets which will help you enormously. I can't give you advice about any other renderer, unfortunately. That said, DAZ Studio should be available "real soon now", but as a buggy Alpha version. The rendering abilities are said to be good, but nobody here could vouch for it's stability, ease of use or even release date. I'd be inclined to stick with whichever version of Poser you have for now, experiment with that and learn the basics. No disrespect, but your first renders will be absolute pants anyhow. Everyone's are. So, why spend a lot at the start? Good luck to you, hope I've been some help.

look at the gallery of mec4.com to see some examples. Dang, I have to eat my own words here. The new mec4d gallery is mostly Poser 5 images. But if you look around in various galleries, lots of cool stuff was rendered in Poser 4. Good lighting will do a lot more for your image than an expensive renderer.

Thanks :-D

Attached Link: http://secure.daz3d.com/galleries/index.php?id=1522

Wow... was that done i Poser 4? That's almost like a REAL picture!

If you're using the P4 woman, I think you have to use P4 Woman (Posette) clothing, even if she's been remapped to take the Vicky textures. You can try some of Vicky's clothes on her -- with some tweaking, you can often get clothes from different figures to fit -- but you'll probably find that Posette's clothing fits better than Vicky's, especially when posing the figure.

Continuing render: go over to runtimedna.com, become member, free, start getting the various light sets. Play with them.

What nickedshield said. Download Traveler's 'Softlight Flesh' light sets, and your pictures will look 100% better. And keep at it. Poser expertise is not gained overnight. ;)