I have been using Poser 4 to create figures for Microsoft Train simulator scenes. For this application, low poly count is important and I have had good sucess with the V2 and V3 lo poly models included with Poser 4. I am modelling the 1920's era and, for men, it is pretty easy to retexture the stock models into various suitable outfits. I am having more trouble with women though. I need some low poly figures wearing appropriate dress shapes for the 1920's period. Any suggestions?

Thanks

Wayne

Attached Link: http://www.poserfashion.net/downloadp4.htm

This site *see link* might have something that might be useful to you. Not sure you have the correct figures, although you said you have V2 & V3, but it reads like you say they are lo poly figures that came with poser, which they are not. V2 & V3 are high poly figures from DAZ. The low poly figures that came with Poser are generally called Posette & Dork, or P4 woman & P4 man. If you only have the figures that came with poser than you probably won't be able to use the clothes that are on that site as they require that you own V3 or V2 (they do not share the same clothes) If you do have V2 then near the bottom of the page there is a character called Coco for V2, she has 3 1920s style dresses and she and the dresses are free. I hope that has helped you. -SimderZ- xXx

ah.... i think you must have meant V2 & V3 as meaning Version 2 & 3... my mistake

arghh wishes there was an edit button In the Poser world you will often see people mention V2 & V3, they are referring to the high poly figures by DAZ3D called Victoria 2 & Victoria 3 (shortened to V2 & V3).... thats why i read your post wrong!! Opps I hope you find what you are looking for.

Sorry for the confusion - I did mean version - but I understand now I shouldn't have used this abreviation. Thanks for the lead to the Coco site. The fashion style is right on. If I were to buy the Victoria figures, perhaps I could use my 3D modelling software to trim the polycount. Thanks for the reply. Wayne

There are Victoria low resolution figures available at DAZ3D.

You could take a shot at rescaling some of the clothes to fit Posette [P4 Nude Woman]...might be a long shot but you never know. And I think Serge Marck at the site Simderella gave you even has some period clothing for Posette that might be modified for your use, they would probably be in one of his archieve sections.

Even if you reduce the poly count, you will be making a derivative figure. For your own private purposes such is ok. (For example, you intend to render an image with 10,000 armored warriors and you decide to reduce the polycount before loading all of them into the scene so as to have it rendered within this lifetime.) However, if you are working on a commercial project, or something to be shared with others, you must be very careful not to have any portion of the original mesh or your derivation of it released in such a way that others will be able to download and utilize it or reverse engineer it. Please read the EULAs at DAZ and CuriousLabs if you intend to have 3d models out there in cyberspace. Because you are looking for low-poly models I'm assuming that download speed is a factor and that you aren't simply using rendered sprites. Carolly