Can anyone tell me if there is a way to set the conformee to smooth shaded? Having the conformer shaded is a big improvement, but as long as the base figure is still in that flat toon mode, I can not see what I am doing. I don't know if its my eyes or the way my brain works or what, but I can't work on something like this without depth perception.

Phantast, feel free to disregard this. Most of my fighting with the program was done in 1.1, and because of my depth perception problem mentioned above, I can't dig in to version 1.2. Supposedly most of my complaints have been fixed, so with any luck this is just the irrational rantings of a half-blind madwoman and no longer apply. But, in regards to version 1.1, I HATE this program. A LOT. I've fought with it so much that just opening it up pisses me off. As far as I'm concerned, I might as well have just flushed my money down the toilet; I consider it to be the biggest waste of both time and money I have ever experienced in my time using Poser. I wish I had waited and bought it from DAZ so I could have gotten my money back on the damn thing. Of all the attempts I have made at converting clothing, exactly TWO of them have worked, with multiple tries each, and both were relatively short sleeveless shirts moving from V2 to V3. The program would lock up. Autoscale would be insanely off and wouldn't undo. "Symetry" option would lock up the program or send vertexes off oddly. If I didn't use one of those options, the mesh would break apart between bodypart groups. Auto adjustments distorted the mesh beyond repair and wouldn't undo. Without even moving the figure, I'd find pokeage in Poser that didn't show up in the preview.

Again, supposedly those problems have been fixed in version 1.2. There are some more customer-service related problems, though. First, based on MarkDC's "suggested workflow" string in his forum at Digital Criminals, the workflow is now more manual than was advertised when I bought the program. Second, the support forum was one of the selling points when I purchased; it disappeared without warning or explanation previously, and although it's back now, there's no reason to think that won't happen again. Third, the few times I have tried to contact MarkDC, his responses have either been overly brief, or flat out nonexistant.

Hopefully most or all of these problems have gone away. If someone can tell me how to get the base figure into smooth shaded mode as well as the conformer, perhaps I will find that everything is now hunky dory sunshine and roses and be as happy as everyone else. But I wish someone had warned me before I bought it. I despise the damn thing so far, and I would hate to see someone feel as upset and ripped off as I did.

Also, it's at DAZ now. You can always buy it, run it through hard paces right off in the first 30 days, and return it if it doesn't do it for you.