I'd recommend WW over the tailor. These are the reasons:

The Tailor:

• external application
• load figure and ONE piece of clothing at a time
• have to manually pick the morphs to add
• need to save the item to your hard drive
• need to go through tailor again if you want to use the item for another figure or even the same figure with different morphs.

Wardrobe Wizard:

• works from inside Poser
• you can dress the figure up with all of the clothing/items and then go down the list of items
• it does the work for you. No need to select the morphs yourself.
• no need to save the converted items to your hard drive. The .dat file from the analyse is small and contains all the information from the "convert from". Saving hard drive space.
• If you want to use the analyzed clothes again another time or on another figure, or even on the same figure with different morphs, you don't need to reanalyze, just put the clothes on the new figure and run "convert to" - No need to own the original figure if you can get the .dat file for the clothes. With the .dat file and the clothes tha the .dat file is for, all you need to do is put the clothes on the figure you want them to fit and use WW to 'convert to'. - WW has a yahoo group set up and people are analysing clothes and hair etc and uploading their .dat files for others to download.

I don't know about the other programs you mention, but Jepes has a store here that has props that will do what you describe... fire, spell effects, smoke, lightning, light rays etc. Reasonably priced and excellent quality too.

Message edited on: 07/12/2005 18:01

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