Marque, is this the foreground tool from 3dmodelz?

Yes it is, I just love it! Marque

Marque, I have this too, but I can't get it to work in P5 any suggestions? Great images by the way :)

As my kid would say...that's sweet!

Where did you all get this tool? Sharen

It's 3dworldz foreground tool and it's on sale for a ridiculously low price in the market place! I, myself, am an expert as I bought it a week ago LOL

Grab it Sharen you'll love it. Haven't tried it in P5, have you mon1alpha? Marque

I bought it too but haven't used it. I am also interested to hear if it works or doesn't work in Poser 5 (or what would cause it not to work in Poser 5). Thank you for posting the lovely graphics...it may encourage me to get back to the important work of playing this weekend. :)

I went and looked at it in the MP. Is this a tool or a transmapped square prop placed in front of your scene? As for p5, I noticed there's have a pro-pack version that would probably be the one to get.

I just tried it in Poser 5 and the transparencies either don't work or I don't know how to use them yet. 8^) It is a square prop placed in front of the camera. I didn't know P5 had a pro-pack version? Do you mean P4? Marque

It comes up asking for the transparency map as well as the regular map when I load it into P5. I don't know enough about the texture room to figure out how to use it so I'm just using in in P4 right now to get my projects done. Marque

Thanks for the info Jackson, I will try it again :)

Thanks that will help!! I was able to find the prop just couldn't see it when I rendered. 8^) Marque

Ummmm Jackson, can ya show some screen shots all for views, and the material room? Mine loads but it doesn't render no matter what I try :(

It finds the texture just can't find the trans for it. I loaded arch3 and it asked me for it and I found it and it loaded it. Then it asks for arch-3-tran.jpg and it is not in the same subdirectory as the other jpg's. Marque

lmao! spell check, for = four :)

Mine doesn't ask for textures or trans, it just doesn't render........hmm, guess I will try again :)

Mine loads and I can see the trans of it but no matter if I use FF or P4 render and with something behind it it doesn't show. Where are the trans jpg's kept? Thanks, Marque

Ok, it was looking in the prop library for the jpg's who knows why?? lol Marque

Ok, I just noticed when the tool loaded, it says master filter, in the props, it says Binocs (binoculars?) When you look in the material room it says master filter_ preview then when you click on dropdown it says binocs, and the texture is what ever item you selected for the foreground, colums, plants etc. Is that what its suppose to do? Or is something not loading? Textures are here C:Program FilesCurious LabsPoser4Runtimetextures3dmodelz-tex3dmodelz-foreground-tool

Does this mean that for everything I render in P5 I have to go find the textures? Thanks, Marque

We need your help :) well I need your help :) lol!

Hold on, i'll go do some screen shots. Marque, I don't know about everything, but I have to go texture hunting quite often in P5. I imagine if you put the textures in with the props you wouldn't have to, cuz that's where P5 is looking. Are you guys rendering through the Main camera? In P5 you can't see it at all until you render. If you're rendering thru a different camera, it might be out of view.

Ohh I figured mine out, boy am I a dummy! lol If I move the master filter on the z trans dial it works! I guess I just didn't have it moved close enough to show up! some one slap me for being so dumb!

MArque I can't afford P5 yet :-(

Thanks Jackson :) Maybe I had to move it because I don't have p5 open to default state? But at least I know how to fix it now ;) Thanks you for the help!

This Is one cool tool. Thanks jackson for helping make sense of it! This will add some interesting point of views to our pictures.

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Firstly, thank-you Marque for your rather enthusiatic introduction to this thread, really glad to hear you like it.
Now, with regard to Poser 5.....as most of the people who have posted are aware, we are in England, and Poser 5 didnt start shipping to Europe until the 18th September, and at current exchange rates, it's going to cost us just over $600, which we will be taking up with Curious Labs as to why it's over $250 more expensive in Europe. So, bearing in mind that all 3 of us have day-jobs, families, responsibilities, and that 3dmodelz is only a part time thing, we simply cannot afford to lay our hands on P5 yet. However, we have been working with CastleDev Group (thanks Lynn and Debra), who have given us enough information about Poser 5 for us to start working towards updating both the Foreground Tool and WorldZ, so they work in P5 the same as they work in P4.
About the Foreground Tool in general, Jackson is quite correct, the filters are parented to the Main Camera. We felt this to be the best way of applying them, rather than have the end user have to position them to a camera, which had us scratching our heads for a couple of days. The reason there are two versions is that the cameras are positioned slightly differantly in P4 and Pro Pack. A slight movement along the z-trans, backwards and forewards may sometimes be necessary for layering multiple filters-if opened in their default positions, they all try and occupy the same space. Pokeydots, about the Master-Filter question, thats a small oversight on our part (hangs head in shame). The prop itself is fairly straight-forward, the bits that required hard work were the positioning and of course the textures and trans-maps. As such, we just cloned one prop and set it up differantly according to the respective filter effect. Mon1Alpha, the reason for our ridiculously low prices is due mostly to our backgrounds. We are pleased that people think enough of our products to buy them, and that they appear to like them. But we are always aware that people are parting with their hard earned cash, and we would be devastated if anyone felt they hadn't got their money's worth for any of our products.

As soon as we get a copy of Poser 5, we will be going overtime on checking both The Foreground Tool, and WorldZ, and if an updated version is necessary, or even a Poser 5 specific version, then we will contact everyone who has bought these products, and ensure any updated versions are available to you at no charge.

Now THAT is customer service! :)

I don't suppose you could be talked into scraping all your nickels together and buying out a certain software company.(LOL) Its refreshing to see someone that understands the notion of customer service. It would be nice if it became contagious. Thanks for going the extra mile in advance.

No problem! I have figured out what I was doing wrong :( it was me not your product, which I have had lots of fun with :) I have the worldz, worldz of chilvary the foreground tool and lots of your freebies :) So I am thankful you are doing these, and at such a great price :) A happy customer :)

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You stated: "It finds the texture just can't find the trans for it. I loaded arch3 and it asked me for it and I found it and it loaded it. Then it asks for arch-3-tran.jpg and it is not in the same subdirectory as the other jpg's" The regular textures and the transparencies are in the same directory. If it asked you for the trans after you picked the texture, I'd bet you selected the png file that's in the props directory (arch3.png), not the jpg file that's in the Textures directory. Look at the extension when you're loading it and see.

Jackson, which version of the foreground tool do you have?

I have the Pro Pack version.

Thanks!

Thanks!