"Ok, in order to select an object, you have to go to "Scene" and see if your object is in the listing. " I see, and that will bring up all the functions that WERE visible in the right-hand menu before clicking on surface selection, will it? (BTW, I can get all that back if I close the program down, but as I dont understand the complexity of Daz's "save" options as yet, I can't save what I've already done... I suppose you couldn't explain all those "Save" options could you?) "But, once you've done that, you should be able to go into your surface palette and see the surfaces. And, from there, you can edit the surface(es) to your heart's content." "The options I listed have been available for some time in the beta versions, but, for complete compatibility, I do suggest updating both your graphics card drivers and Studio." Graphics card updating will have to wait for mid-december, (what I dont get is WHY a new computer would even need updating, I haven't had it long you know, it's only a few months old) "It sounds like you've had lots of problems, but, just because something bad happened once, doesn't mean it will always happen." The only crashes I've had lately were when I installed a new version of Daz... (but that was on the PC, not this desktop replacement laptop) The only crashes I've had on this have been occassionally when attempting to use a 2d image, once on a 2D plane (and that crash disolved Daz AND Bryce5.5c, and did it everytime I tried it, this was the third 2D image in that scene I gave up on that, scene is still unfinished and of course Daz don't listen when you report such bugs they just say "resolved" (when it isn't) and then before you can say anything they say "closed") And the second was on an almost empty scene where I attempted to use a 2D image on something for a material..... Oh yes, it was to use that 2D image as a texture for a panel on my corridor, I can't remember if I gave up on that particular image or if I wewnt back to an untextured version of the corridor and added the 2D image to that, and thus saved the texture and then went back to the almost completely textured corridor and added the texture from the mat lab that way... I think. Now I dunno whether that tells you anything about my graphics drivers or not, but if it does I promise I'll do something about it, in Mid-December. "I've got Bryce 5.5c and D|S 1.0.1.0 installed, and I've had minimal problems, and usually they have to do with me trying to do too much for my computer. It also may be that your computer is out of date." Er, no. Not possible. It's a very new desktop replacement laptop, a pentium (R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz 2.00GB of Ram WinXP Professional service pack 2 NVIDIA GeForce Go 6800 "And, I can understand being a bit apprehensive about upgrading your computer for a free program." Yes, well considering that my husband still won't tell me how much he paid for this computer and the fact that there's no way we'd be able to replace such a cost again (this time was a fluke) You might have underestimated my reluctance! gg "I wouldn't have before, but, now, I'd do it in a heartbeat, if I could afford it." Afford? Dont use that word! g "It's a matter of doing with what you have most of the time, if you can't afford it." Uhu, yes, absolutely! (nodding head vigorously) "In any case, what you're wanting to do is actually quite possible. you can't make dynamic hair, but you can make hair in wings, texture them (usually in photoshop, PSP, or The Gimp), and apply that to your figure..and create clothes in wings, texture them and apply that to your figure." Um... no I dont think so. I understand that figures and therefore clothes are one of the most difficult things to model, and I'm nowhere near clever enough to do that in Wings, I just do... things... I mean I'm still having enourmous trouble with the membrane of a bat's wing I've been back to my teachers (I consider the entire Wings Forum here on Rosity to be my teachers, they are all so much above me in talent and abilities gg kind of nice to have a whole forum of teachers isnt it?) but still can't figure out the bat's wing, something to do with connecting verts and not being sure which of 4 are the right two... anyway I'll be going back to that to try stuff out later. What was I saying? No Idea, never mind. What were YOU saying... "However, DAZ|Studio does not have the proper rigging capabilities to make figures poseable. Right now, Poser can do that." I don't have these new Posers cos I cant afford it, and I won't be able to afford anything new until maybe the middle of next year, if I'm lucky. I do have Poser4, knocking about somewhere, but I didnt install it on this computer since I've had so much trouble with it, not with posing, (version 4 was easier for that than Poser 3, which frankly was crap at moving anything, very clunky and jerky) but with getting hair and clothes onto figures and getting them to stay there! Getting clothes on with no gaps in the clothes is almost impossible, If I then try to pose a figure it all falls off or the clothes stay where they are while the figure moves... anyway I dont want to even think about clothes, gets me too frustrated and angry. " If you don't have Poser, but you know someone you trust that has Poser, why not let them have a bash at rigging your props so you can have them in DAZ|Studio?" Don't know anyone like that. I don't usually talk about Poser anyway, just Wings and modelling and some Bryce. "It could make them more useful to you in the long run. I hope I haven't confused you too much." I wouldn't say confused, no. RHaseltine, "I assume you're exporting the items from Wings3D as OBJ files?" I always say it's dangerous to assume, but in this case you're right. "Although there may well be an MTL file with the OBJ which specifies the colour and texture settings, DAZ|Studio doesn't (yet - in this case we know there is an internal version that will do the trick, since one of the developers told us, though we don't know when or how it will be relased) read it so you have to redo the settings in the Surfaces palette." Yes, I dont actually much like the materials from Wings, I'm not very good at that sort of thing so I usually just use them as placeholders, until I can get the obj into Byrce for proper texturing do Bryce textures show up in Studio? Would that be the way to get a decent looking model into Studio? Texture it in Bryce first? Suddenly I recall that you can export terrains from Bryce... would that also be a way to get scenery into Studio? Or can you only get one thing into Studio? That wouldn't help if you cant get the terrain's textures in too... "Rotate, Translate and Scale are all "selection" tools - they let you click on an object to select it and at the same time bring up the controls for their function." I got all the tool thingies back on the right hand menu just by closing and reopening Studio, but as I said above - since I can't save in Studio, that doesnt help much. I'll give all those tools a poke in a mo, when I get studio opened this morning. "PowerPose is also a seelction tool, and by default it doesn't display any control gizmo which may make it easier to see what you are doing." PowerPose is just for people, isnt it? Fran

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