This is something I just started working on and was thinking about making it Poser ready.Since I haven't upgraded to version 4 yet I was wondering how it handles reflections,whether they are mapped or raytraced.I was also wondering if v4 supports muliple mapping on a figure because right now everything is a separate map. Has anyone found an upper limit to what Poser will load as a figure?I seem to recall Bushi having problems with large meshes in v3.I have a lot more detail work to do on the figure so the file is going to be huge even after polygon reduction.The hair mesh would be even larger than the figure. Just trying to give back after taking so much the last year and a half. Scott

in P4 you can only apply one texture at a time..ie. 1 reflect map and 1 transparancy map...etc. There is no tiling of textures. The reflection maps are not ray traced...no ray tracing in Poser. Good looking figure...

You could simulate real reflections making a previous render and using it as the reflection map, but it will never be like the "real thing". Though a good cheating might do the trick.

Maybe I'll wait til Poser 5...

You maybe be waiting a really long time for P5, most likely there won't be one.

Really really cool looking figure. Paul

ok,LOL, I just have to ask, why are her breasts uncovered? She is metal plated almost everywhere else, for protection, right? So how come a such a sensitive part of the body is not protected? I know, you want to show off the cool metalic texture, AND some titulating flesh, but the cut outs are a wee bit silly. Unless this is a nursing version of the uniform?? actually, it is a very well done image, other than the strangeness of the cut outs :-)

Pam This is typical of this style of figure. Most of the airbrush masterpieces by Japanese artists are like this. Paul

:-) ok, but why? Is there a philosophy that I am just not getting? Am I being too Bauhaus?

::Smiles and shrugs:: Dunno why, just is :) Paul

Pam, You'd have to ask Hajime Sorayama himself for the exact reason but if you replace the chrome with leather or latex you might get a better idea of why.I think it has something to do with a male's inexplicable need for shiny,curvy things.Whether it's a sleek shiny sports car or a shapely woman in tight black leather(or baby oil),guys can't seem to resist,kinda like crows with shiny peices of tin foil. For an artsy explanation,there is the juxtaposition of warm beautiful flesh against cold beautiful steel. But basically it's a sex thing,a Japanese sex thing. Scott

Scott, I like the second view even better, and of course now that I can see that other key places have no metalic covering, it makes more sense :-) I can except it as a "sex thing" LOL The first pic made the outfit look more like armor than amorous! Pam

Pam - Scott did not do the second view THAT is an actual pic of one of Soryama's paintings. Imaginos

I bow to the greater knowledge of these things to my peers......

Master Sorayama is one of the greatest perverts the world have seen (and I say it as a compliment). He's the first artist I know of that developed cyberfetish (another one much more of my liking is Masamune Shirow). But Pam's right, the chrome in the poser pic seems a thick cover cut out to expose the breasts, unlike Sorayama's "second skin" look. Of course, it may be intentional (looks good).