Hi Mayda
I'm new to secondlife.
will be glad to have someone to chat with and show me the ropes as their documentation isn't easy to find.

well your friend's  gallery is certainly a delight.  The program looks interesting, but 238 Euros?  Don't know if I'm ready to take that kind of plunge..  Let us know how you fair with it (learning curve, especially) -- and on a different thread perhaps. 

hmm.  I'm tight on drive space right now so can't do the demo, however I am a Poser user for the most part, so by your description sounds like a lot of money to achieve little result.  As you said, I'd have to buy the FaceGen, and some extra module I'd have to pay for separately for something that works like something I already have (Poser)... 

Luckily, I scored FaceShop Pro when it was $40...

DarkEdge, I browsed your gallery to get an idea of what a model done in face gen looked like. Were there any there?  I also looked on your site but couldn't tell by looking at the characters there either. 

By the way, and off-topic, how does one turn off the music on your home page?

Most "serious" poser modeling is not done in poser at all.  For serious modeling, a modeling program is the way to go - and we know the learning curve on such programs is as high as the price tags.  If it wasn't for artists like David Ho and others (the likes of who are usually feature artists here and Daz/Artzone, Poser and Daz Studio would not be taken seriously at all, as once it wasn't.

The amount of post-editing done on the generated texture map is really in the hands of the user.  I know very little about character texturing, but I know enough about selecting and layers in photoshop to make this program usable - much more usable than my attempts in the face room have been, which required much more work in photoshop before even getting to the face room stage.  And an added plus, is I'm learning a little about character texturing along the way - all at a price I can afford. 

ByteDreams

I have Face Shop Pro, and if you read the threads at Daz you'll find that a few that returned it, turned around and re-bought it...  I have posted a few of my successes with it in my gallery here at r'osity...

It seems to have as many successes as failures.  I happen to love the program, and am now on the hunt for photos.

Well, whatever you guys are doing, sure looks intense!  I just browsed through this thread to its end, skipping over most of the code parts. 
What a great idea, and I'll be watching to see if you get your script running in the reverse as you seem to be working on.  I don't know how to write python code.  I just used this feature a couple of weeks ago for the first time after purchasing one of  philc's bundle!  So I ventured into this forum to see if there was something else someone was cooking up that I could give a try.

Good to see svdl and nruddock in here.  I'm already fond of them both.

so, it seems it's some kind of bug in the upgrade possibly then.

 Windows Live Desktop, good, Outlook 07, bad
I've changed how I receive messages from html to text to see if that has any affect

okay, well now I'm mystified.
It's gone back to doing it again.  just when I thought it had fixed itself.
Guess the programmers will have something to do on monday after all.
Outlook Express -  replaced by Windows Live Desktop. The link works fine there though - it's Outlook 2007 the full version that this anomaly is taking place in. 

Well,  seems reintstalling Office 2007 (which includes Outlook)  fixed it.  I also uninstalled .Net Frameworks 2.0, but left version 1 in place.  it seems to work now,  though it prompts me to sign in first, still, after signing in, it went straight to the thread.  So -- it wasn't a browser problem.

hmm, okay.  I just added tried it in Windows Live Desktop and it worked fine.  So it seems to be an Outlook 2007 issue.  Thanks

yep, the first one after the word "Click"
In fact it just did it again. both links take me to the Marketplace.  I'm using Outlook 2007 (beta), and my default browser is Firefox, which is why I wonder if it is some setting. 

I've been away from Bryce for so long, that version 6 did seem new to me.  I had all the previous versions since Bryce was Metacreations product -- I think I liked it more then.  When version 4 came out I think I may have used it once, when subsequent versions came out -- well I don't think I used Bryce at all then.  I don't know what it was that made me get interested in Bryce again this time around - and I'm having to learn most things all over again. But I guess it was the $6 price.  I think many people will come back to Brycing as I have done.  I'm already seeing work from folks that say they haven't used Bryce for years!

Very nice models! All of them!  You are so generous to give these away!