Some of the bigger sites first... ...and I should mention that many sites ask that you "join" their membership. Some of them may support themselves with banner ads, some of them may just want to keep track of membership and growth. (This helps when buying bandwidth.) I prefer to use my own passwords, but if a site makes up some truly fiendish combo of letters and numbers, I'll record it elsewhere. [Plea for any site admins lurking this thread: 0 and O are identical in too many fonts as are 1 and l... can you avoid them? I hate typing in a password and guessing.] Another thing not to forget: Poser does allow for import of 3ds and dxf models. (3ds is usually trouble-free, although there may be scaling issues.) So if the model you want is only in 3ds format, do not despair! You can't "install" it the same way you can install a Poser-native object, but you can still "import" and use it. :) (I'll come back to the topic of installation in a later thread.) Renderosity. This one. :) Renderosity has around 10,000 free stuff items, 7,200 of them just for Poser. We can also take advantage of the 2D textures and photos for backgrounds and the PhotoShop brushes. Searching is a bit scattershot with only one search term. You should try various alternative keywords before giving up. Don't be surprised if you type in "hair", and also get "chairs". With a global community people may use other words to describe an object: torch = flashlight in England. And finally, don't forget the mispellings. Medieval is a particularly hard one. If you only type the correct word, you miss the "Midievel House". Check your profile and include "receive newsletter" to get a special freebie which changes monthly. 3dcommune. http://www.3dcommune.com/ Browse through the galleries, snoop through the store, and delight in the freestuff selection. Almost 1,800 items for Poser, and bunches in the other sections. I recommend downloading a couple of maclean's items just for the readme. :chortle: (The items are often great, too, like his unusual primitives and fancy hats.) RDNA. http://www.runtimedna.com/index.ez? Scoot way down the left menu to find the free stuff. This is the place for lights especially (although you will find some hair and clothing and props). There are other free light sets out there, but I keep coming back to Traveler's. The other strong suit here is the 2-3 ways to build small worlds: microcosms, modualz, sky domes, infinity coves.... This is useful when you really don't want to build all of Ireland just to get a wee corner o' green. Their newsletter has a different "super secret freebie" each week. 3dcafe. http://www.3dcafe.com/asp/freestuff.asp This site has only 3ds and dxf, but it is huge, with a selection spanning from daleks to dartboards (although the description: "a nice pitbull dog" makes me wonder). If you need a non-moving prop, such as a moosehead to hang on the wall of your villain's apartment, this is the place. No search function, and you have to hunt for the button to get thumbnails, but at least it is categorized. It also has links to other free sites. :) PlanIt 3D. http://www.planit3d.com/index.htm A friendly site with forums and interviews and lots of free stuff for a wide variety of programs. Many modelers and texturers will put up at least one item here as site support (a way to encourage the growth of newer sites is to have good content). Since they are trying to add at least one new item a day, I expect this site to grow nicely. This is where you will find lots of horse and dog morphs, as well as clothing textures. Rendervisions. http://rendervisions.com/ Another site which is growing because of interesting freebies and friendly people. The selection isn't very large yet, but this is where you can find x2000's rooms (starship bridge, restaurant) as well as Lady Cherry's Wicked Weasel thong as well as some different characters. (A woman with 6 breasts, is, well, different!) Faeriewylde. http://www.faeriewylde.com/ Not just fairies here. Clothing, mushrooms, chocolate, snowflakes... mousetraps? (I own Froud's Pressed Fairy book and I know what I would do with a mousetrap... but the people there are undoubtedly much sweeter than that.) Look under Faerie Gifts in the forum menu, and follow the posts. People will offer their own work or point out things at other sites. It is better than show and tell, because everybody gets to bring home the jeweled headdress (or whatever). :) 3Darena. http://3-darena.com/ Found it again! :) (I'd misplaced the hyphen before and got hijacked into a nest of nasty domains). This site should have been mentioned up in stores, but I can't simply edit that post. You will find lots of neat stuff from striped stockings to spacey aliens to ruined buildings to Christmas trees in the mall, at fair prices. Free Stuff here is where you will find Lemurtek's and Little Dragon's furry critters. You can also find a fainting couch, an armoury-worth of historical guns, an anime motorbike, an ancient candle.... worth browsing. :) You'll also find support (clothes and textures) for more of the "other" characters such as Sara, LaRoo, Koshini. To be continued...