my name is yadi im new to poser 7 im very good at working wit photoshop cs3 and bryce but poser 7 has me stumped im trying to creat a morph to resemble my self  but editing the face is very difficult for me i cant change the size of upper and lower lips  the eye shapes are all wrong the skin color is wrong and i cant find any good tuorials to edit the face i more or less get morphing the body i wont even begin talking about the hair i have no idea how to chage hair color of eye color either default is brown i have green there is no green option in materials either any help would be greatly appreciated my pic is in my bio if anyone to help anyone understand my direction, thanks : )

I'm only a beginner myself, Yadi... but I just wanted to say hi and welcome to the 3D world of frustration and delight. I have no doubt someone - probably Acadia... :O) - will be along very soon to give you some tutorial links and pointers, and you'll be rendering beautiful images in no time!

thanks  i love the renders of RGUS i would looooove to create images like that

select the head , and you should find a bunch of morph  dials that allow you to change stuff.

The face is probably an  image map texture . look in the material room to find what you are using , then load and modify it in photoshop, same with eye color, there may be a bunch of mat poses to change eye color .

textures are kept in poser7/runtime/textures/?whatfolder?/skinhead.png   << or whatever 

i was morphing the G2 default head in the face room and i couldnt get it to look anything like me , i could alter certain facial features in photoshop but what about hair, nose , eye shape i cant alter it too look like mines!!! uhh this program gets me frustrated im at the point ill pay some one to make my head and send me the file..lol

Okay, if you want to change the color textures, you need to either:
 

1. Use the material room.  I'm still learning about that, but Acadia has a wonderful sticky at the top of the forum.

1. Go into your poser directory and look for the texture images.  Make a copy of them elsewhere, then change the colors on the copy to suit your desires and rename it.  All you have to do then is put the texture images back into your poser runtime.

About making a face that looks like you, there are a few options that I can think of.

1.  There could be an option with the faceroom, however you'd need someone who uses it a lot for advice.  Perhaps you just need to keep making a lot of little tweaks here and there.
2.  You can download a free 3D modeler, like wings 3d or buy a cheap one like hexagon.  You would then have to model your face in the 3D utility (be sure not to add or subtract any points, lines, or faces) and then import the changed model to use as a face morph.
3.  Save up and buy Daz's victoria 4.2 and the ++ morphs.  A little expensive, but that is a popular figure and if you check around the various sites, she has a growing selection of clothing and character morphs, both free and for sale.

Quote - i was morphing the G2 default head in the face room and i couldnt get it to look anything like me , i could alter certain facial features in photoshop but what about hair, nose , eye shape i cant alter it too look like mines!!! uhh this program gets me frustrated im at the point ill pay some one to make my head and send me the file..lol

Do you have the body & face morphs for the G2 figures?

Without the morphs, you will have a very hard time doing much of anything, and what you can do will be much more difficult.

If you don't have them, head over to www.runtimedna.com & search for Ultimate Body Morphs & Ultimate Head Morphs.  They are about $20 each.  They are just what you need to get the most out of

Welcome to the wacky world of Poser....

I am a newby too, just started a fortnight ago. Same as Yadi, I am good with CS2/3, Poser gives me problems downloading >rar files -or files that are Poser related but not recognised by the program. Maybe I am stupid, but how do you handle such files?

Sometimes the simplest things are the most difficult. I am looking for the most recent Victoria character. Everyone says it is free. But where? DAZ? Daz is a pretty hopeless program. Could have
been invented by the CIA. Downloaded items disappear.

Yes Mr/Mrs ssgbryan, welcome to the wacky world of Poser. But I like the program nontheless!

V4 most definitely isn't free, you can get her from: www.daz3d.com/i.x/shop/itemdetails/-/

Hello, yadi!  Like FrankT, I would strongly recommend you look in to purchasing Victoria 4 and her morphs.  She has a wide range of possibilities and is easy to work with.  (Feel free to take a look at my gallery to see what I have been able to do with her.)  As for skin, hair, etc., you will want to consider looking at the various products in the marketplace here.  Having a few of these items will at least give you a better base to work from.

Frankly speaking, the chassis of Victoria is not rellay the most beautiful or impressive. Maybe  because she is the oldest, made her a target for so many terrific good enhancements-morphs.
The best in Poser is the chassis of Jessi. By far the most beautiful and flexible. However, very few morphs of her are to be found.

Well, I have to learn a lot. Might take a year or so to get acqainted.

Thanks for your replies.

As a follow up to Yadi's quesitons:
Have you visited Philc's site (www.philc.net).  There is a really neat tool in his "Poser Tool Box" called Face Putty that can move the character's face all about.  It puts a "cage" on the face & then you can move the "cage" about & change the shape of the head.

To Glolla:
A "*.rar" file is like a zip file.  However, it uses a different compression algorithm.  Winzip should be able to handle it just fine.

V4 isn't free.  However through the end of this month, you can get "V4 complete bundle" for 9.99.  It has the V4 Base, the ++Morphs (which you will need if you actually want to do anything with V4), Amarasa Hair & V4 basic wear.  The package has about $80 worth of stuff in it & is well worth the price.

There are free base DAZ characters available.  Go to www.download.com & search for the Poser/Daz Studio 3D models pack 1.  This will get you the base meshes for Victoria 3, Michael 3, Aiko 3, & Hiro 3.  Doesn't come with morphs, but they can be gotten at DAZ.

The state of the art male figure is Apollo Maximus.  He is free & (and there is lots of free stuff available for him) he can be downloaded from: www.antonkisieldesigns.com  He absolutely ROCKS! 

My advice is free and worth what you pay for it.

There are many rooms in poser, learn what can be done in each.  You may not use the room (Dynamic hair brings my system to it's knees) but the more you know, the easier it is to get great art.  (Once I understood the cloth room I started kicking myself for what I had missed.)

Start building external runtimes for each of your characters now.  It is much easier when you do not have very much.  It is much more difficult when you have 60 - 70 gigs of "stuff".

Read the Poser forums.  There is an incredible amount of information available here.  It can be hard to find however.  But, if you persevere, you will discover the forums are a goldmine.  For example, a lot of folks have written free pythons scripts, IBL stuff etc - all free - & very, very useful.

This hobby can get real expensive, real quick.  Whereas most of the base meshes in Poserdom are free, the morphs are not.  Figure to spend between $20 - 80 per mesh for morphs. 

For example, the G2 series of figures (that come with poser) do have body & head morphs available.  They are not sold at Content Paradise.  They are sold at www.runtimedna.com.  They are called the Ultimate Body & Head Morphs.  They run about $19 each & are worth every penny.

There are a number of add-on programs available that really extend the power of poser.  Some are free, some are inexpensive & some are expensive & worth every penny.  Before you spend money, visit the freebie areas first.  It can save you quite a bit of money

My view of "Must Have's"

Free!  At Renderosity, no less:
Dimension 3d, sdvl and a number of other folks have a number of free python scripts & utilites  that do quite a bit.  Get them & see what they do before you start to buy scripts & such.

www.philc.net

Wardrobe Wizard 2.0 - Converts clothing from 1 character type to another.  Can also add morphs from characters to clothing.  And a whole lot more, I am still learning the ins & outs of the product.  It is 59.95 for the base product & then there are add-on packs.  I spent about $100 total.  On the one hand that is a lot of money.  On the other hand, if it had been available when I started out, I would not have spent 20% of what I have spent on clothes.  WW2 allows me to purchase 1 outfit & then convert it to every character I own male or female.  As an example, at www.xurge3d.com there is a free SciFi suit for the Freak (A DAZ product).  With WW2, any and every character I own (From V4 to Sydney, to M3, to Apollo,  to the Mil3 Baby)  now has that outfit in their runtime.

All major characters are supported, plus quite a few I have never seen or heard of.  Also includes the fabled "Make Art" button.

There is a competing product at www.evilinnocence.com called XDresser.  It is a windows only product, so I can't really speak of it one way or another.  It has lots of fans however.  From what I have seen, it does a better job at batch processing than WW2.  The base product is free, the character licenses are $10.  They sell a separate program for adding morphs.  It is also ala cart.  Cost-wise, it is 6 of one, a half dozen on the other.

Poser Tool Box - This has more tools in it than I can shake a stick at  Stuff for lights, morphs, "Face Putty", magnets, a real useful hand movement tool & more.  I don't get a commission I just really like his stuff.  $39.95.

www.runtimedna.com
Search under 3rd party scripts.  semideiu's python scripts do so much & they are only $5 each.  They rock!

Here at renderosity, there are some great products by face_off.  The realism kits are just fantastic & well worth the money.  Currently there is an issue with SR3 (SM updated the Tkinter file, & it is causing some issues.)  However, based on past support, I am sure this will be fixed soon.

Render Studio & Ulitimate IBL's are on my "must buy list"

Oh, and 1 last thing....
Learn lighting.  It is the difference between great 3d art & most of what can be seen in the galleries.  Most of what I see in the galleries is not a good as it could be because the artist hasn't figured out how to light the scene in a way that really brings forth what the artist intended.

Dear ssgbryan, chapeau for your extensive and informative reply to us newbee's. A sudden mishap made me deaf and put me out of the working world. So did the banks. All I can do is pay cash and that won't work with afore mentioned institutions. Renderosity is therefore a gift from  heaven because of it's abundant knowledge and free plug-ins.
I make my stripbook now, not a comic but an illustrated story of a yachtsman who ends up in the antique world of 500 BC. I have only three male characters  and three female's to work with.
The Sixus characters and Jessi+Sydney.

Befolre I was handicapped, I useed to be a pro-photographer.  Therefore I clearly see that  the developers of  Poser are neither filmers/photographers. Imho close to stupid, ridiculous. I tried to lock a certain lighting - it doesn't work. In the real world, lights are switched on and off. Not so in  Poser, they circle around with the position of the  camera.

Therefore I am very glad to see a site like renderostity and  members who take a serious interest in the troubles of a newbee.

A thank you for that ssgbryan.

ok i got the victoria 4.2 bundle from daz 3d website but some of the morphs are hidden??? and the v4 to v3 figure is messed up when i press it it says can locate certain files of the morph and for me to locate the file??? also how to do you get rid of the purple bra and underwear the figure comes with???

In DAZ I have managed to get the figure twice on screen. As I already said, the DAZ program is misty, hazed and unproportional vague.I f I open up the tree, every map is empty. Poser has a similar problem but not as bad as DAZ. You never can tell where free stuff of material will be filed in Poser. But, if you learn to work with Poser, you will discover that it is a good program. Albeit the
number of  available characters are  in very short supply. The first thing I would do as a supplier of such very expensive software is to make a fair supply of base characters. Apparently it is extremely difficult and therefore costly to design and develop a character. If you look closely at the Victoria charactyer, she has a lousy exterior.
This lack of available characters makes me curious. Is it so difficult to create e female or male character or do I have a different view?

Tell me.

OH AND BTW I JUST FOUND OUT HOW MUCH I SUCK IN THE HAIR ROOM IVE ATTEMPTED TO MAKE MY OWN HAIR AND MY  MODEL NOW LOOKS SOMETHING LIKE COUSIN IT FROM THE ADDAMS FAMILY HOW DO YOU GET THE FRONT HAIRS TO FRAME THE FACE??? AND THE FREE HAIR THAT I HAVE FOUND LOOKS FAKE AND OR SOMETHING YOU WOULD PUT ON  CLOWN

There is a reason that most people don't use dynamic hair, as you have discovered.  It is an idea that isn't quite there yet.

There isn't a lot of truly great free hair.  The free hair that I like is by kozoboro & can be downloaded at www.digitalbabes2.com.  When buying hair, look for what is most versitle.  I would recommend hair by AprilYSH over at DAZ.  Most of the hair fits all of the DAZ characters.  Another good hair maker at DAZ is Neftis.  Here at Rendo I'd recommend 3Ddreams hair, it fits most characters & plenty of free fits are available.  Netherworks studios sells a hair conversion system that I have had good results with.  Right now they are on sale at 30% off.

Back to V4.  There are many people who really, really don't like how DAZ is working the V4 figure because of things like hidden dials.  There are some scripts in the Freebie section here at DAZ that will unhide those dials.  Of course, those dials may be hidden for a reason.

Getting rid of the purple bra is simply changing the texture of the mesh.  If the V4 set you bought did not include any, there are plenty of free ones here at the renderosity freebie section.  (No, I don't get a commission, I have just found a lot of good things here.)  If you look under morphs & textures there you will find over 250 characters, textures, morphs etc for your V4.  The clothing section as over 600 items, so there is plenty to start with.  Granted they are not as good as say renapd's stuff, but it is a good place to start.

Yadi, your first questions about the morphs. You say you got the V4 bundle... was it the bundle that includes the product called Morphs++? And did you install that product into your Runtime? It has to be installed separately, after V4.2. After installing, it should prompt you to run an update script to update your V4.2 installation with details about the morphs. This is necessary.

Then, when you load a V4 figure in Poser, it does not (at first) have the morphs. You have to go to your Poses library, find the V4 Morphs++ folder, and double click the "Inj V4 Morphs++" icon. Then your figure should have all the morph dials. You can then save this as another figure in your Figures library, so you do not have to inject the morphs every time you insert V4.2 into a scene.

Sorry if you already know all this, but I thought it was worth mentioning as it's not obvious to a newcomer to V4.

Izi

For what it is worth, the complete david bundle is on sale at DAZ for $5 for today only.  It has the following:
David Base
David Head Morphs
David Body Morphs
Universal Texture maps
Clothing Pack 1
Wedge Cut Hair

Really great deal if you don't already have him.

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