Okay yall, i am really new at all this! POser is awesome but im just learning it. Im trying to make a birthday card, like just a funny card and i want to use some lord of the rings looking characters from poser. I cant figure out how to make a ringwraith for my life!!!! Like with the black hood and stuff! Can somebody please help me! I dont even know where to start making one! AHHH! Thanks! ~Dewman77

First... what version of Poser do you own? In Poser 4 or ProPack, you will need to use conforming clothing. In Poser 5 you will use dynamic clothing, which will drape much better. Second... do you just have the stock figures or have you purchased any others? (In order to make clothing work, the clothes have to be for the right figure.) Third... have you read the manual... do you understand how to load, dress, and pose a figure? Carolly

Im in the process of reading the manual. And i got poser 4..not 5. I dont have any purcased figures or anything. I mean i need elp like from a one two three kinda thing. I dont know ANYTHING! I wanan learn but tis is just coming up too fast for me to know ow to do it! If someone can elp that would be awesome thanks!

OK, in Poser 4 there is a tutorial starting on page 52 of the manual which should get you started with the basics (workspace, figure, lights, rendering etc.), and this is followed by another more advanced tutorial on assembling a clown, parenting props, and making him walk, which is pretty good and has stuff you will need to know, like modifying texture maps and getting hair or whatever to stick to the figure even if you pose or move it. You can go back and read about the features later, but I'd start with the tutorial. (That is how I learn any new software.) After you get through these overviews, you will want to replace your figure with a nude male and start adding clothing. [You may want to jump right in, but knowing something about which camera to use and how to change the color and position of the lights is essential. 3d graphics is more akin to tabletop photography (where you build the set and light it before taking the picture) than to traditional 2d art. Understanding composition and the rest will make you a better artist, but if you can't change the lights nothing in your image will ever look good.] That said... delete the clothed guy in your workspace. Find the nude male under Characters in the menu to the right (by this time you ought to know how to pull up and hide the animation tab on the bottom and the menu tab on the right). On page 164 of the manual, you'll find a chapter on working with clothing. Note the double check icon! This is how you ADD clothing and stuff to your figure. Play with the clothing you already have to get a good feel for how to dress a person. (A side note: if the nude guy pokes through in an embarassing manner go up to the top menu under Figure and turn genitals off.) For a Ringwraith, you won't need to worry about hair, but you might want to play with that a bit, too, so that you learn the difference between conforming (stuff which bends with the body) and parenting (stuff which just sticks to the body). At this point, you are probably bemoaning the fact that the model and his clothing look like plastic. Do not despair! That is what texture maps and the Material room are for. With a normal guy, we can recommend really nice hair and skin textures and morphs, most of them free, but this figure will probably be completely covered. You may also be wondering why you need to deal with the male when all you see of a Ringwraith are his robes. Answer: poses are applied to a figure, and the clothing follows. Do not apply poses to the clothing itself, it will often twist into a Gordian Knot. Unless you want a Ringwraith to be standing there like a scarecrow, you will need a human under the robes! (Although that does lead me to an interesting idea with Mr Wraith and some buzzards. Pity we don't have a good buzzard model. Pity stayed her hand.) After you get comfortable with these basics: dressing a model, move the lights, render the scene at the desired size, etc., you will want to actually start work on the image in your mind. To do this, you will need to find the right sort of props and clothing and stuff. This means knowing the sort of words to search for and the places to go hunting. :) A friend of mine is just starting with Poser, and so I've been writing up some information for her. Go to this link to find the thread on how to organize your downloads and libraries: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1676929 And to this link on where to find stuff: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=1689928 The other thing you will need to do is find posts by Dr Geep. He is an expert at breaking down information into understandable bites. Look for his primers on various aspects of Poser. You might not need to know about wave deformers yet, but understanding how Poser handles transparency and color will help. That should get you going. Keep asking questions as they come up! When you are ready to hunt down props and clothing, ask for specific items. You can also start the search in the various Free Stuff places. I'm pretty sure that I've downloaded a witch king sword, but nobody has made that wonderful armor. Enough to get you going? Carolly

i need help right from the beginning --- i bot poser 5 and i can't do anything at all ---- --- page 66 of the reference manual assumes i am smart --- my first problem is that the window covers up the figures menu so i can't open it

Gpaciolisan, are you maybe running on 800/600 resolution? Normally I am runnin on 800/600 but when using Poser, I change my display to a higher resolution, because the windows or menus in Poser just keep getting in front of each other making my life very hard...

thanks, that helped me a lot !

well, i'm getting the hang of it --- not sure where to go from here --- think i'd like to do some animations for the web --- do you know where i couls gallery for ideas that maximize Poser's potential --- I'm very interested in learning to use Poser at its best .

Attached Link: http://www.belino.net/v280204/belino.php3

I downloaded Lalala, a model. Now, I can't figure out how to get it into my Poser 5. Something to do with the Library I think.