Awesome thread so far.... 1) P5 often locks after I save. To rescue from a lock-up on XP, hit Ctl-Alt-Del and load the task manager. That should bring P5 back to life. Close the task manager. 2) Plug your bump map into the spec colour on human skin, and tint the spec colour blue. Add a hint of red ambient helps too. 3) The Python Scripts window. A horrible buggy little thing, but useful. If it's not responding to clicks, click the title-bar of the Python Scripts window. If the button dissappear, click the very bottom of the Python Scripts window. If a python script dies that is running in a tcl window, go to the windows task bar, right click the tcl button and close it. P5 should return back to life. 4) Cloth room. Once you've got your clothing draped, export the clothing items to an obj file. Then you can delete the clothing items from the scene and reload via the obj file. That way the settings don't get lost when you now restart P5 and reload the scene. 5) If you are doing a custom skin on V3, there are heaps of duplicated materials for the body and head. Solution 1, modify the V3 obj file to combine the materials into 1 for the body and 1 for the skin (tricky to do - needs to be done outside poser), or (not as good a solution) save the skin material you are using in the mat room for one part of the body, and then apply it to the other body parts. 6) Dynamic hair. This really only works for black hair. You actually don't need a huge amount of hair to render well - IF you render with shadows. The hair will cast a shadow on the head, meaning the light doesn't hit the scalp. [I didn't explain that too well!] 7) Use the hole material on wings3d when making dynamic clothing.

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