shainandrob opened this issue on Jul 04, 2001 ยท 13 posts
kbade posted Wed, 04 July 2001 at 11:12 PM
Welcome! I am by no means the Poser artist that others here are, but in addition to Melanie's comments (with which I am in full agreement), I would add the following. If you are using the standard P4 characters that came with the program, you'll need a good texture to get realistic eyebrows. I would recommend searching the Free Stuff here for the "Vickybuster" texture, which is a realistic texture for the regular P4 nude woman. Hair is another ballpark; it takes more than a texture to get realistic looking hair. If you are indeed new to Poser, you may not get Melanie's reference to "transmapped hair." (If you do get it, I apologize in advance for explaining it.) Basically, some very clever Japanese Poser users developed multi-layer hair models that allow for the application of transparency maps (and if you don't know what those are, they are explained in the Poser 4 manual that comes w/the software and serves as the help guide). It is this innovation that gives you realistic hair, rather than the plastic helmet look. Although DAZ3D (the company that makes the figures that come with Poser 4) and others have also adopted this technique, Kozaburo, Yamato and others still produce the most amazing hair models (IMHO). And the best part is, Koz etc. give them away for non-commercial use! So my advice to you is to go to the green column of links on the right side of this page, to the "Web Ring Top 15." Click on "Digital Babes." That's Kozaburo's site. You don't have to have to have the Japanese character set (your browser may ask if you want it) to read the site, either. From the front page of the site, click on "Downloads and Tutorial." You'll be able to get your own copies of the fantastic hair models most of the folk here use, and discover how it's done with the tutorial. Kozaburo also has texture and transparency maps for the hair models sold by DAZ3D/Zygote.