hi, i have a copy of poser3 of a magazine cover and now i have a few questions. 1. what are the p3 and p4 women called?...posette/vickey? 2. can i use props/conforming clothes/morphs created for p4 model on a p3 model? 3. are there many web sites that offer p3 props? 4. is it difficult to create the morphs/props/clothes for the p3 model if i cannot get the models of the web? (i have amapi v5 and c4d 5se...again both of magazine covers). 5. am i wasting my time with poser3?... i would like to try this out before i invest much money on software. sorry for the long post, thanks for your help

1. p3 woman and posette. vixky is a millenium character that is a seperate purchase. 2. only with a lot of editing. But it can be accomplished. You'd have to learn how to edit cr2 files and joint parameters 3. most p3 props can be used in p4, i dont know about vice versa. there are literally hundreds of poser sites. 4. morphs/props/clothes are fairly easy to create if you have experience modeling. "poserizing" clothes to make them conformable takes a lot more work. Any regular 3d mesh can be made into a morph, and any program that can import the obj format can be used to make morphs. 5. Poser 4 is relatively cheap. I can not imagine anyone getting p3 instead of p4, especially with p5 just around the corner (supposedly) if you have any more questions, or would like more detaisl, dont be afraid to ask.

Hi <5. am i wasting my time with poser3?...>No P4 is better but I have no experience with p3 but we all have to start somewhere Poser is a good prog to get into. The others can giveyou more help with details of your version. I believe some of the gang have written tutorials for P3 try doing a serch for P3/poser3 or newbie. The P4 woman is called Posette, vicky is a high res figure made by Daz the equivalent for the men is Dork and Mike Have a look through the freestuff see what you can find anyway remember just have fun, any problems yell! ok Dave

Welcome to the forum! P4 is much, much better than P3, but you can get a feel for the program. The major difference is in conforming clothing (being able to dress the models any way you want). Go to the last pages of free stuff here and work your way forward, choosing whatever props or accessories you like. Anything posted in '99 or thereabouts ought to work just fine for you; later stuff might need widgeting. Also, go to PhilC's site www.philc.com where he has put extra P3 characters and such, especially for folks who are just getting the magazine CD. With P3 you will not be able to use the really neat "millennium" characters such as Vicki and Michael, but you can still do a lot. When you are ready, amble over to CuriousLabs (there is a link on top of this page) and download the demo of P4, to get a taste of the improvements. Most of all, have fun. Experiment. Play with it. Carolly

Poser 4 has a lot more flexible lighting (as many lights as you want, both spot and ambient, rather than just three ambient lights), and I believe it has a better renderer (at least, my renders come out a lot better in Poser 4 :-) ) Poser 3 will not handle a lot of Poser 4 props/characters, because it requires its texture maps to be TIF files, rather than the JPGs that most Poser 4 products use. Also, any character that uses multiple geometry files does not work, as Poser 3 does not recognize the extra geometry references. When you are ready to buy Poser 4, check your magazine. At least some (and probably all) of the magazines that have had Poser 3 on the cover CD have a special link to a page on the Curious Labs site that gives you a pretty good discount on the upgrade. (This is a special page; the regular page for people who bought Poser 3 won't accept the magazine copy's serial number.) Good luck, and welcome to Poser.... Lynn Grant Castle Development Group

Hi Firestorm, I got poser 3 from a magazine as well. If you have a paint program which will import jpeg and save as a tif you can use a lot of the clothes, props and poses etc... to be found on the web. (Make sure first though that they are not based on another item of clothing or they won't work.) It takes a little longer and you are better off manually importing each prop but after announcing that the file is newer than expected they usually open and work. I think it's a great introduction to poser, it's certainly given me the bug, so if you are not sure stick with it for a while. There are some fantastic tutorials around, although most of them have been updated for poser 4. Don't forget to go to the curious labs website and download the advanced techniques pdf for poser 3 (it's right at the bottom of the page, but it is there). If you look in freestuff there are some great characters by phil c and also confuscious' ultramorph man and woman who work well in poser 3. There are a lot of good tips in the frequently asked questions here, and you could look at ronknights tutorials (they are written for complete beginners, and although they are intended for poser 4, they are very clear and helpful) Personally, as soon as I can afford to, I will be buying poser 4, but you can certainly learn your way around the basics of the program :-)

All I have is P3, I think it is worthless without transperancy mapping. One thing it is good for is practicing animation. but no real artwork. Alex

I know it's hard to believe, but I've come across people who just couldn't get into Poser, and hated it. Anyway, with any program, it's probably good to try out some sort of demo first. I got that freebie Poser 3 from the magazine, and did my first little 10 second animation in an afternoon and evening. That convinced me, and I immediately upgraded - and haven't regretted it. I'd suggest treating your Poser 3 as a kind of demo. Play with it, and if you like it, you'll love Poser 4. If you hate it, you probably won't like P4 either. BTW, if you got it with PC Plus, you know you can upgrade for half-price, right? John

I got the magazine CD too. And I played with it for a month or two, then upgraded to 4 (and Victoria!) and am now firmly hooked! Reading the new messages here in the forum and making a beeline to the tutorials have both been essential to my learning to use Poser. And do a Search in the archives when you 'hit the wall', preferrably before you pull all your hair out! And ask questions--I can't tell you how many times the regulars here have bailed me out. Without their help (and humor!) I would have given up any one of half a dozen times.

I started on poser1 and thought it was the dogs danglies, all I can say is the same as everyone else treat it as a demo and if you really like it upgrade to 4, if you get stuck check the archives in the forum, check the tutorials up the top and above all ask questions, there's a lot of very talented people here who will gladly help you. 1 thing don't believe anything Legume tells you, he's mad :)j/k Legume. oh and don't let the pink horses put you off either :) Rob

thank you'll for your replies... well, i'll not be upgrading to p4 soon but will continue with p3. i've had a go with it but did'nt give it a fair chance...lol i think i'll be back with more questions in the near future.