I am very new to Poser and looking to fastrack through some basics. One question I have is - how do you guys take a model eg# Vicky3 or Poserette and combine them in a scene with say another character eg# Dork or Mike say in city street setting holding hands? So far I am posing my characters in the document window okay but I am curious how do you move characters you"ve posed from the document window _ combine them with other characters you have created on poser5 and add them to say a poser street scene etc?

Is like addin' conforming clothin'.....Pick a 2nd character, then hit the double checkmark to add a new figure. W hen ya want to pose one or the other, select the Body of the one ya want. Or sumpin'....

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Of course when all else fails, you could give the manual a jolly good browse-thru. . .
Not the best, as manuals go, but you'd be surprised how many questions could be answered by reading it. Yours, for instance. . .
Welcome to Poser, btw

This was a bit tongue-in-cheek, but intended good-natured ly.

Message edited on: 08/28/2004 01:54

What Freebass said is the usual way to go. It can lead to some heavily cluttered scenes if you intend to create a large scene. Especially if you intend to use more than two figures. Adding props and clothing when there are multiple figures in a scene can get confusing.
My approach is to create each character I'm going to use individually first. I load, texture, dress and then roughly pose each figure to something close to the final pose I'm going to need, then save it to a 'Models' folder on my drive. (I don't save these back to my figure library as they only ever get used once for the scene I'm working on.)
Once I have the basic characters prepared I start building the scene using my Key figure (the one that will be the focus of the image) and arranging props, furniture, temple or whatever around that one. Once the scene starts taking shape I then Import each additional pre-made pre-dressed figure and place them in relation to the first.
Posing them together, holding hands for instance, is the hard part and just comes down to a lot of hard work and patience with the parameter dials. Learning to actually Pose with Poser takes a while.
There are lots of couples type Pose sets available in the Marketplace if you want a quick solution.
Hope some of this helps. :o).

One thing i learnt - from someone here in this forum is the create your scene backwards, start with the background - then export it out. start a new one - create that one then import the previous scene in - render and export both together out and so on. this works for me as i usually use alot of props and sometimes more then one character. hope this helps!

Why do all this import & export stuff? If you're going to have your characters in a scene, put your hair and clothes on your first character, then add him/her to your character library. Then do your next character, add him'her to the character library... Then when you're ready, place your scene first. Then add each each individual character from your character library and pose them. To be safe, save your pz3 file. Resave under a different name as you make changes. When you're ready, render, and save that scene as a pz3 file.

hey thats another tidbit! thanks! i'm new to poser so i havent learnt all the shortcuts. writes on notepad thanks!

Hey thanks to you all i am reading the manual - trust me Leather-guy but it aint that user friendly with it's layout or terminology. I am find the tutes and forums are much more better for accelerating my learning. You guys are very good, using plain English speak and jargon free with screen pastes and links. Much appreciated. My printer is working overtime to the point I am creating my own user manual ;-) I wish Curious Labs would employ/consult some of the users from Renderousity when putting it's instructions manual together instead of whoever they employed.

To answer Bobbie Boucher, how often do you use exactly the same model after a pic is complete? I don't save individual characters to my figure library because usually I will never have another use for them after I complete whatever image I'm working on. I only save things to my figure library that I will have another use for later. Otherwise I'd end up with a huge figure library of Vicky3 in various outfits and poses. I'd do it if I had a set of characters I use regularly, A set of comic-book heroes for example, but I prefer starting with a clean slate every time. Saving them to a folder and then re-importing does the same job without cluttering my libraries more than they are already.

I always start with a clean slate, i never use the same outfit on the same character more then once..

I'm talking about saving stuff as you go along, and about setting up for your final work. It is much easier if you do it the way I described. That way you're protected in case of computer crash, etc. All this importing and exporting is way too much extra work. Oh, and yes, I do use some characters over and over, perhaps with the same clothes, or perhaps with different outfits. But then maybe I do different work than some of you.