Thanks, Quest!!

Anything that makes my life even a little bit easier, I am for.

I'm having a hard time putting the mousie gown away.  I'm cleaning house today (I mean CLEANING house), and after I mop a floor or dust a shelf, I find myself wandering back into the office and pulling out the damned gown and fiddling with it.

I finally discovered the bitmap import, and imported a picture of the Degas ballet ensemble for sale at the DAZ site.  That gave me the outline for my latest gown, and then I did your lofting tutorial again.  I still need to get into tweaking each lofting cross section to get the folds to be more realistic, but everytime I play with the control points, something seems to go ary (sp??) and somehow I screw my curves up such that one or more of them become open, and suddenly I can't loft.  Grrrrrr.

Over time, however, I am bound to improve.  I remember when I started with Bryce, and I couldn't figure out how to do the simplest things.  Now ... many years and a couple of Bryce Camps later, I'm whizzing through the Bryce parts of most scenes (except for lighting .... lighting is still hard for me .... I have no sense for it, no matter how many books on photographic lighting I read.

Modeling I can do .... once I figure out how to do it and what all the commands are, and where they are hidden.  I hate it when the books say (and the Poser book is one of the worst when it comes to this ....) "just click on the button and do " and I am sitting there going "Where is the friggin blah blah button, and HOW do I do it????"  Would it be so hard for them to stick in a few examples??

Must stop whining and moaning.  The cats aren't going to mop the floors for me.

Could be worse, could be raining.