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Hi All I made this while practicing in Z-brush over the weekend with no intention of it ever going anywhere near Poser..alas a friend 'persuaded' me to make it poser ready so here it is, A word of warning though..the polygon count is Massive!,the image on the left is untextured so you can see there is a lot of detail in the mesh itself,this should allow for same cool lighting effects & shadows. like I said with no intention of it being for Poser I wasnt concerned about the Polycount,this shouldn't be taken as an example of my recent work for Daz where keeping a low Polycount is always high in my mind,The mapping & texturing have also been kept very basic. PP & P4 versions supplied(P4 users will need to convert 1 bump map)Colinear facets removed for P5 users(You'll still need to turn off smoothing though) Indulge yourselves Cheers -Stefan PS:Special thanks to Awful soul for the NYN clothes :)

Really nice work, thank you so much, I just love your products :)

Thanks StoneMason! Love your work - especially the latest Dark Places stuff.

If I understand correctly, Zbrush will now output displacement maps, which means that if you had Poser 5 you could output that as a low poly prop with a displacement map and have all that detail at a very low resource cost to the end user. Might be worth thinking about, Stef. I know it's made me think about getting Zbrush.

Thank you very much!

Oh, and let us know what you think about Z-Brush... I'm very interested in it. :)

It looks great. Thanks very much.

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Cheers guys :) Ajax..yes,you can use the high poly as a displacement map,but I dont have P5 so I cant try it out:(..in fact I'm not even sure I still have the low poly version of this column,lol,..otherwise I'd be sedning it over for you to work some P5 magic on it :) Staby..I cant recommend it enough,as Ajax said the displacement maps mean you can have massive amounts of detail for very little system resources in Poser 5(or any app that supports displacemnet maps) & besides that it's just plain fun moulding your objects like clay,Too much fun I might add..I really should be working,lol 'Z-Brush central' has a horde of tutorials & friendly folk to get you learning easier, Here's a selection of the Poser related tutorials at the site. Poser, Importing and Exporting: Full Body Morph Targets with version 1.55b Creating Poseable Figures Exporting to Poser with UV Coordinates intact Exporting an OBJ to Poser with a Mac System Poser not loading ZBrush morph targets? Getting Poser texture maps to work in ZBrush Getting Poser meshes into ZBrush Preventing a blocky mesh when importing from Poser ZBrush to Poser Morph Targets example Help importing Poser models Tutorial: Importing Poser Models into ZBrush Importing Poser files into ZBrush Morph targets help ZBrush modeled Poser animation Seam messed up in a Poser Morph? Importing only certain parts of a Poser mesh Creating texture maps for Poser Tips for exporting multiple objects from poser to texture Tips for objects exported from Poser Having problems exporting OBJs to Poser on a MAC? An example of an object exported into Poser Getting rid of eyelash geometry on imported poser heads Help exporting from Poser with morph targets intact Help with Poser Morph targets Problem with long necks in Poser? Help with the extra geometry around Michael's eyes Cheers -Stefan

Oh well, next time you do one keep a low poly and a displacement map for me and I'll send you back a pic so you can see how it comes out :-) What did it cost you, BTW? In NZ$?

Will do Ajax:)..though I'm kind of hoping your busy getting the Transport ready for surfacing,lol :) In NZ dollars I dont know,..I used Daz credit from the Medbay to buy it (USD$480.00)..I guess that's roughly $700NZ..so thanks to all the Medbay purchasers :)..much appreciated -Stef

Yeah, I am working on the UV mapping for the transport actually. I'll get a mapped version over to you once I'm finished doing it. I'm fussy about UV maps, so it could take a little while to finish. We'll have to put our heads together to make sure we don't make too similar sets of textures. Drop me an e-mail at ajaxsoyyo@yahoo.com would you? You made that much from medbay? I really must get a product up at DAZ some time soon. Guess I better get back to this transport, hey?

We made alot more than that for the Medbay..That was just the first weekend :)

Thank you Stone man! excellent modeled column! ready for some punishment for one poor V character! lol

What a fantastic prop! Thank you so much! :)

this is great! thanks so much! ---Essie

Yet another beautiful set piece. Thanks much, Stonemason, your work is fantastic.

Thanks, Stoney! (As you may remember, I like "heavy" / detailed)

Thank you for taking the time to answer and posting the list of the tutorials for Poser Stonemason. I checked some of the video tutorials too and it looks really a great package! I love that organic look.

George!!!!! isn't he pretty... ;) mwuh!! :x

Huge thanks... the column has already made its way into one of my images... and needless to say I love how it rendered. Great work!! :)

well that column looks lovely. :)