I am planning purchase of Poser 4 soon, and would like to know if a model I scratch-build now with Poser 2 will import easily. I realise there'll be new settings to work in; fingers, toes, etc.; but building now will allow me to get a move on with some of my projects. Thanks for your time, Dave III

can't say for certain, but there are a few P2 figures included with P4. so maybe yours will survive the transition.

No Poser orphans as yet! The app has maintained backwards compatibility so anything done in P2 should work fine in P4. btw, P3 has been on a couple of 3D magazine cover discs and should still be available for free.

...and now you've got me wondering: aside from the transparency features, any reason Vicky would not work in P2? Would P2's material editor allow you to assign her double-layered UV layout?

Well I got low res Vicky to work in Poser 3 after editing her in Compose, but I've no idea if she works in Poser 2.

Good! Just the answer I was looking for! ^^ (I like you people, you tell me what I want to hear! ^^) Now all I need to do is actually put my models together!

As for Poser 3, yeah, I heard about that, but was a wee bit too late to find the magazines on the stands. It's no biggie, I'd rather be up with the pack than left behind when the NEW version comes out.

As for Vicki, since Lo Res Vicki is a wholly new OBJ model with CR2 and RSR info, manually editing those should yeild satisfactory results. Double Layered UV output (what th' heck does UV mean, anyway?) might be a bit much, you'd have to play with it. I would probably find it easier to export a posed model and import it into a more generic 3D graphics app, but I'm lazy and lazy people tend to do twice as much effort to avoid half as much work. ^_^

Thanks for taking the time to answer me, Stay tuned for my next question, how to rotate UV maps to create a kind of "Davey and Goliath" effect!

Dave III

You might still want to look for Poser 3. I have heard rumours that its still showing up on some magazine cover CDs. I've also seen the magazines on eBay. If you have the magazine version of Poser 3, Curious Labs gives you a pretty good discount on Poser 4.

re: U & V for Horz & Vert -- X & Y were already taken!

I was just at the bookstore, and the May 2002 issue of PCPlus magazine, another British magazine, has Poser 3 on the cover CD. (Their website is PCPLUS.CO.UK). Where I live (Chicago), they have it at Barnes and Noble stores. Once you have that version of Poser 3, Curious Labs will give you a discount of something like a hundred dollars off the price of Poser 4. Hope this helps.... Lynn Grant Castle Development Group

That does help... I was expecting to et the discount with my compy of Poser 2, but if I can get hold of Poser 3 in the meantime, I'll be able to get along further. I'll look for it tomorrow. ^_^ Dave III