Hi. I'm looking for some free medieval clothing. I'm just hoping for stuff I can adapt. I've looked through the archives here for good medieval clothes and Google-d for them but have had no success. If you could help me, I'd very much appreciate it. Thanks!

If you have Poser 5 there's a set of medieval clothes for Don on the content CD.

I wish I did. I'm working with Poser 3. The thing is, I've gotten stuff for version four to work in three as long as I didn't try to use transparancy maps(I tried the demo) and remember to convert the textures to the tiff format.

Using poser 3 drastically limits what you can do using poser, you probably already know but you would be much better with poser 4. The difference between poser 3 and 4 is huge.

You could also get DAZ|Studio - it's free. Renders better than P4, but doesn't have magnets or wave deformers. Most P4 content (except the magnet stuff) works straight out of the box.

Attached Link: http://mystic-nights.com/directory/index.php

Please don't kill yourself with P3 and go d/l DS as suggested above. A few words of warning - you won't find historically accurate medieval clothes for free, maybe apart of Valandar's dublet for P4NudeMan (dublets are rather late-medievil though) and plain tunic/tabard for M2. Most of stuff you'll find is fantasy-medievil or just plain fantasy, like "Poserworld medievil dress" which is actually fantasy one. Good luck though. Link attached points to Poser links directory. This is awesome, it really makes easier and much faster to search for the freestuff.

http://www.greylight.com/poser.html

Greylight does have a lot of things specifically made for poser 3. (the ghost stuff they have there is good, too )

Attached Link: http://www.daz3d.com/studio/

Also Daz has a choice of how you want to render. Daz Studio also has 2 different options for rendering. 1) Open GL which uses the systems video card to to render the final image. Produces faster renders. 2) 3Delight uses the 3Delight software rendering engine. This option is slower but produces the most realistic results.

Thought. I'm assuming you got Poser 3 from a cover CD. If you have a look on the most recent discs you might find Bryce. Or better still a special SE version of Vue 3. While this version of Vue doesn't import Pz3's. It can import .objs. So if you load poser, export the scene as an.obj. Then place all the textures used in that scene in just one folder. Vue should import the obj, then ask for the maps, aim at that folder and the textures will be loaded. Sometimes you have to do for each map, but it can work OK. You might need to tweak the textures a bit, V3 eyes don't like this way, that's because theres some kind of membrane thingy. Just set that to transaprent. Then so you can light and render using a better lighting system/renderer than P3's.

Mr. Sparky, I've got a question. Which magazine are you describing? Could you please give me a link to its site? A kind soul gave me his old copy of Poser3. Thankyou very much for telling me about those different sites, everyone! :D

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Daz studio is hard to use, slow and buggy and there is no way to make figures or props etc.

Computer Arts and 3dworld magazines: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/ and http://www.computerarts.co.uk/3dworld Back issues at: http://www.computerarts.co.uk/about_us/back_issue_archive back issue queries: computerarts@subscription.co.uk

These magazines are also very good for getting free modelling programs, you wont get the newest version free but sometimes you do get some very good older versions.

Computer Shopper magazine is doing Bryce 4 on this months issue. Only saw the cover, magazine was sealed up so don't know if it's a cut down or special version. http://www.computershopper.co.uk/

It will probably be the full version of bryce 4, it has already been free with a 3d magazine before.