I have learnt through the efforts of one member how to apply skin texture to a P5 figure in the MAT room. I applied the skin texture to Will. Then after clicking the eye dropper on the various parts I moved to POSE room and clicked Render - from the drop down menu I clicked Render again and pressto Will looked quite human. Then the moment I move Will or click on the workspace poor Will reverts to looking his anaemic default self again. Scary! I tried saving the image but I must be doing something wrong. If I try saving the image to the Library palette underfigures all I get is the untexturised Will again. Saving it to my C Drive and bringing it back to Work space Pose Room - same thing. Anyone advise me what is the trick to texturing a figure and being able to work on the figure without it reverting to a non textured looking concrete garden ornament?

Make sure that the display option for textured is set (it's the last button, the one circled in yellow in the pic). The default is the one shown, and will often produce what you see. outside of that, it could be a caching issue within poser -- rectified by adjusting your virtual memory settings typically.

You can probably fix your problem by clicking on the last little circle in the row of circles for the display modes. The last one is the one that makes the workspace show textures. You may have it set to "smooth shaded" at the moment, which just shows everything as an untextured model. However, there are many P5 materials that can only be seen when you render (procedural materials). There's no real reason you need to see your models with textures on them while you work on them. You can set up your scene without seeing the textures, then render when you are ready to make a picture. To save your render, go to file -> save or file -> export ->image.

On that pic you're showing, Will IS textured. It's his default (crappy) texture. It simply IS very light. In other word, you picture shows Will, in Texture shaded mode, with his default texture. UNrendered. As long as he renders fine, you need not worry about how he looks in preview :o)

You don`t save an image to the library, when you render the scene go to file>-export>-image and save the screen that way. You should really read the manual, it does tell you most of the basic stuff.

Thanks all...for your advice. The manual is fine Xantor if you have worked with Poser 4 in the past but it uses too many jargony words and not enough screen caps for my liking. I like to think learning is visual more than theoretical and text based. Someone should tell Curious Labs. Just one thing though...i had a play with Judy and her eyes. She renders okay and the eyes came up very nice for my liking . But once click or move of her head and she gets instant mesh goggles. Any idea of how to prevent these.

That is the unrendered view of judy, the mesh goggles is the way that poser shows transparency maps on figures before they are rendered. When you render a picture and then change the view in any way the view naturally changes to the unrendered view of the scene. To make the final pictures you have to render the scene. Curious labs should have really given the poser 4 manual with poser 5 too as the poser 4 manual tells you most of the basics of poser where the poser 5 manual tends to just tell you poser 5 specific things.

I wonder if you can still download the P4 manual as a pdf? Wort a look... I agree the P5 manual is lacking and some places directly erroneous. Still it's better than nothing :) Emearg, you should do a search for Geep's Primers here. He has made some covering the P5 basics too :o)

If you render to the main window, as soon as you make any changes to your scene (or even if you just select something), the rendered output goes away and you revert to the preview mode.

I must be improving though as she had nipples on her forhead at one stage (well it's an improvement if you aren't dating her) ;-) If you are then it's probably a lost opportunity.

Attached Link: http://www.curiouslabs.com/filemanager/list/updates/58/65/85/?sbss=300

The poser 4 manual is available at the link. But it is a big file 32.26 megabytes.

Message edited on: 09/08/2004 09:31

Thanks a heap Xantor.