Hi to all,

I started out learnin poser 7 a few months ago but stopped because I'm very frustrated with the face room. There's not a lot you can do there and to me that is very important as to what I want to do in the future.

I have been through the tutorial and seen the Linda tutorials, but the few characters you are given to work with aren't very good, especially the women. I couldn't create the face that I wanted to, but on websites such as these I see some incredible work, with good looking female/male faces of different types. How do you guys do it?!! Is there a program that you can recomend, or a program like poser which is better for such things?

Thank you.

I personally would suggest getting the free Victoria 3 model from DAZ3d.com. I'm not quite sure about morphs or things of that nature, but she works a lot better than the standard Poser figures for me.

Of course, this is just personal taste. I'm sure there are other tutorials and things like that to help you along with the defaults. But no, I understand, they are a major pain in the patoot. Which is why I don't use them, LOL!

Thank you,
but the trials and tribulations of Poser 7 are endless. I went to that website and I could not find Victoria 3 or anything for that matter, it has the worst search engine in the world! And when I do find her, I'll have to find out how to import it onto poser... endless.

Ok, It's just that I've downloaded free stuff before and couldn't get to come up for poser.
I've downloaded Daz studio software from it, thanks for the link.

I am rather surprised that you are unable to get free content to appear in Poser considering that most free content adhere to the runtime hierarchy convention.  Of course, if you are lacking the correct model in your application then the free content would be almost completely useless.

go up a few posts, and there's a link to the Poser freebies of ages past. Also, (if it's still out there) there used to be a download of Mike/Vickie/Aiko/Hiro as one honkin' big file. Maybe someone remembers where it was...it wasn't on Daz, I do remember that.

DAZ figure pack: Windows: http://www.download.com/Poser-DAZStudio-3D-Models-Pack/3000-6677_4-10579249.html Macintosh: http://www.download.com/Poser-DAZ-Studio-3D-Models-Pack/3000-2180_4-10579252.html But; that won't help with making custom faces. The DAZ people are not compatible with Poser's faceroom. To make custom faces, you will need to create "morphs", or "morph targets". This can be done to some extent in Poser using the morph brush tool; but it seems that most prefer to use a 3d modeling application, and then import the morph targets into Poser. There are threads about both methods in this forum. Welcome to Poser! (:

Quote - go up a few posts, and there's a link to the Poser freebies of ages past. Also, (if it's still out there) there used to be a download of Mike/Vickie/Aiko/Hiro as one honkin' big file. Maybe someone remembers where it was...it wasn't on Daz, I do remember that.

I'll try to look for it, cheers.

Quote - DAZ figure pack: Windows: http://www.download.com/Poser-DAZStudio-3D-Models-Pack/3000-6677_4-10579249.html Macintosh: http://www.download.com/Poser-DAZ-Studio-3D-Models-Pack/3000-2180_4-10579252.html But; that won't help with making custom faces. The DAZ people are not compatible with Poser's faceroom. To make custom faces, you will need to create "morphs", or "morph targets". This can be done to some extent in Poser using the morph brush tool; but it seems that most prefer to use a 3d modeling application, and then import the morph targets into Poser. There are threads about both methods in this forum. Welcome to Poser! (:

Thanks, but the poser faces are that ugly that no matter how you change them, you can never get them looking human. I'm assuming creating/importing morphs is still, just working within the confines of the original face.

Thanks for the welcome but I'm tearing my hair out at this one, even older computer games have better "customizing face" abilities than poser! Other than that, it would be fairly simple to use.

Quidam has released a new mesh application called Argile and, my understanding, you can custom alter head mesh for morph targeting.  There is a video tutorial demonstration on how it is done.
This is the link if you are interested pursuing this avenue:
http://www.n-sided.com/3D/argile.php?rub=1

I believe there is also a demo program in the free section here on Renderosity.