I don't use save for web. I'll try the batch processor.

Thank you for choosing my image. You've brightened up my whole weekend.

In the render menu change Render Dimensions to match the aspect ratio of your window size. Both need to match the aspect ratio of the background you intend to use. So if your bg pic is 1600x1280 for example your window and render dimension should be 800x640. Or 600x480. So long as the bg is a multiple of the render window and render dimensions it'll fit properly.

This might help.

My pet hate is the use of the word 'momentarily' in place of the phrase 'in a moment'. I see it used more and more often. Especially by BBC newsreaders who used to epitomise the correct use of the English language.

So when I hear on the news something like, "We expect to see the Prime Minister momentarily," I damn well want to see him leap out of the door at 10 Downing Street and then vanish back inside immediately.

In my view it comes down to fine craftmanship. A lot of the stars that you see in British sitcoms have been in the business for many years, appearing on stage or serving their apprenticeship in radio productions before making the transition to TV. A huge number of our present and past stars have started from their days in University rep companies.

Take a look at this list. Brits will know almost all of the names. Americans will probably know more than half.

Douglas Adams, Clive Anderson, David Baddiel, Sasha Baron Cohen, John Bird, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Peter Cook, Michael Frayn, David Frost, Stephen Fry, Germaine Greer, Matt Holness, Alex Horne, Nicholas Hytner, Eric Idle, Clive James, Tim Key, Hugh Laurie, John Lloyd, Miriam Margoyles, Simon McBurney, Rory McGrath, Ben Miller, Jonathan Miller, David Mitchell, Neil Mullarkey, Trevor Nunn, Bill Oddie, Sue Perkins, Jan Ravens, Griff Rhys Jones, Peter Shaffer, Tony Slattery, Emma Thompson, Mark Watson, Robert Webb.

All of these names started their careers in the Cambridge Footlights Theatre Company. And this is just a very small selection of Footlights alumni. In addition to this teeming pool of performing talent many of our top scriptwriters cut their teeth in the same place and have worked with the artists long before they make it in TV.

And then of course there's the BBC. Even the most cynical among us recognise those three simple letters as standing for quality both in terms of performance and production. The BBC have given us so many top class shows. Some have already been mentioned and are as well known in the US as they are over here. But there are so many others.

How many Americans know about 'Only Fools And Horses' for example? Or 'Allo, Allo'? Both prime examples of the best in British sit-com. How about 'The Good Life'. Or 'Porridge'. (Or anything involving the late, great Ronnie Barker.) Or the wild anarchy that was 'The Young Ones'. If you don't know of those ones then you're still missing out on some of the best. Try to find a few episodes or clips online and you'll see what I mean.

Mr. Bean and Benny Hill made a huge impact stateside, yet many over here regard those as being near the bottom end of our comedy heritage with far too much emphasis on the slapstick. (I don't regard Benny Hill as a comedian at all. But he was a superb clown.)  

Then there's the ratings thing in America. If a show doesn't pull in the viewing figures it gets cancelled sharpish. Over here a lot of our best started very small with a late slot on BBC2. (Monty Python started that way.) Python had a very small but dedicated following for its first two series before it finally took off over here. Their viewing figures would have seen it cancelled after the third show of series one in America.
Maybe that's the secret. We treat our sit-coms like fine wine. Maybe the first episode or even the first series is not to our taste. But we don't throw out the barrel. We allow it time to mature in a quiet corner of the BBC and the taste grows on us.

(And I'm darned if I know what's happened to the text in this.)

I don't know the cape and an image of it and what the straps look like would be useful. Having said that, I think your problem might lie in your third step. The straps should not be both constrained group and rigid group. (I don't think you meant ridged.) Try making them constrained only.
If that works successfully you might want to change step two slightly as well. Keep the animation at 30 frames but you want your V4 in her final pose at frame 20. This will allow the cape to drape more naturally as it 'settles' around the pose over the last ten frames.
Good luck.

Open your library View Options. (The 'Klingon Toothpick' at the bottom of the library window.) In the General options uncheck 'Reopen Folders'.

Done. :)

There's a lot of useful info and a couple of very handy tables on this page.

Cloth Room Tutorial

I had occasion to make a similar enquiry of the mods a few months ago. One of my images contained a nude V4 but with a bronzed statue material. I got a very nice reply from Artemis informing me that the nudity flag was not necessary. I was also told that there had been an easing of the restrictions but unfortunately no details on what exactly that entails so I still don't know what I should be flagging and what is acceptable.

If indeed the rules have been changed can we have some clearer information? Maybe that section of the TOS could use a rewrite.

Good luck with boiling water for forty-eight hours. You're gonna need a HUGE kettle. :laugh:

I use the empty downloads folder as the template for my external runtimes as its not really empty but contains all of the subfolders that a runtime needs. So I have a folder called Runtimes which contains several copies of the downloads folder renamed to whatever I want my runtimes to be called. Hair, Props, etc. Then I install my content into those.
Fast and easy way of setting up externals.

As for the library window, I love it. But I have mine dragged over onto a second monitor so I have no problem looking for somewhere to dock it and don't have to keep clicking it to the front either.

Yep. We've had snowploughs sliding into ditches here in Fife. The view from my window is pretty spectacular. Two inch diameter white telephone lines everywhere I look. And its still snowing with more forecast. I'm going into hibernation if this keeps up.

Quote - I am glad that you visited the Cardiologist.

I am sorry that you need to delay your check up for your financial circumstances.

In the UK I have never had to pay for my treatment .

Thank God for our National Health Service.

This not being smug just pointing out the difference in care.

 

The difference being that we get diagnosed and then have to wait months for treatment or an available hospital bed.
Unless we have B.U.P.A medical insurance cover of course, in which case we get treated every bit as fast as our American friends are accustomed to.

First try using a magnetise to V4 on the clothing. (Found in the Daz V4 Pose folder in whatever runtime you installed V4 to).

This should help but most vendor custom morphs need you to do some extra work on whatever clothing item you are using.

Check your V4 morphs++ after you inject the character morph. Select V4 body then open the morphs++ for the body and take note of any settings that have changed from 0. These will typically include Fitness, Voluptuous and I'm seeing more using Bodybuilder. Find these same settings in the clothing and dial in the same values. Repeat for V4's breast morphs and glutes. With luck the clothing will contain all of the usual V4 morphs that the vendors tend to use. Dialling the cloth to the same values should cure the pokes. If not you need to learn magnets to get rid of them.

If the character morph uses a custom shape instead of dialled in values its much harder and all you can do is experiment with the clothing dials (and magnets) to get as near as you can.