Looks really nice. Thank you. I will look that one up for sure :)

I got myself Crossdresser (Morphs and Licenses) recently, to convert some of the M3 clothes I have.

If that one works nice, I will buy the M3 fantasy stuff from Xurge, too. Got no feedback if they intend (or are willing) to make the M3 armor also M4 useable.

After my exam and study stress I also intend to check on some "clothing" tutorials offered at Smith Micro where they focus mainly on turning modelled armor/clothes into comforming ones.

Maybe then I can also use exported Models from Games, after I picked them apart into single pieces for easier "comforming" and use.

@wolf359

The images I have posted were just "ideas / examples" since something like that most likely would catch interest...

I can tell from the FanArt community, that many who can't draw their fantasy into existence, rely on 3D Stuff like Poser and DazStudio (or like me Carrara) to make their ideas visible.

That kind of community shouldn't be underestimated as potential customer for armor and clothes that look at least somewhat like the stuff they know from games and movies.

Assassins Creed, Skyrim/Oblivion/Morrowind, Dungeons & Dragons has a quite large Fan Community ... and not forgetting Manga/Anime stuff. Not all Manga/Anime is about slutwear ;-) just to name a few.

That Fantasy Rogue Robe from Xurge 3D was quite popular even if it was not really good when you did jumping and swooping combat poses... but that's because of the lack of movement morphs and because that robe had only two pieces instead of three or more. I guess when redone for M4 or Genesis Aery Soul style - it could become epic!

Now my question:
What do you mean by limited uses to most people?

I have seen so many people posting their Daz / Poser stuff at Deviant Art and there are plenty of battle, parading and whatnot epic fantasy stuff among there that's not about half-naked sexy posing smoochies.

I think those could be quite well some customers for male armor, too, that looks more than just smooth and "normal". sings The internet may have ben born because of pOrn (old WoW Insider) ;-) but not everyone wants to do "only" images of that kind.

Bending/Posing:

Besides - if armor was done more like Alpha Seed / Aery Soul does it ( single pieces instead of just two or three body-part pieces) - the useability would be much better and bending wouldn't be such a problem either - and you can mix and match that stuff nicely with other armor pieces.

AS has been so far the only one doing armor this way... (sadly only for V4) **and it has been very very successful and people buy it even if it costs a good deal of money... **

But as I said before, even with Genesis which is more or less a unisex thing in many cases, there hasn't been done anything really "epic"yet... all just the same smooth leather armor, smooth plate mail, skimpwear and so on...

Which strengthens my feeling that many armor and clothing vendors don't play Games and aren't aware of the source of inspiration and the potential of the Poser using FanBase who loves nothing more than creating FanArt with appropiate and "as similar looking stuff as possible) ;-) just check DevArt in the 3D Section for various games and their characters.

That's really sad :( 

M4 is not really that bad to work with.  I actually find him much better to work with than with V4 ;) no boobs and booty getting in the way.

I find it rather unnerving to do frankenstein-armor stuff so I have something that looks at least a little different. 

http://rhian-skyblade.deviantart.com/art/Exploring-Skyrim-271219662?q=gallery%3Arhian-skyblade%2F42400196&qo=9

One of my attempts with M4... have to add, this only worked so well because Carrara allows me to manipulate meshes (unlike poser or daz), and I do not shy back from using ZBrush to get what I want out of M4 …maybe that's the problem...

Most only use the puppet houses and expect one click solutions... well even AS clothes required some serious morphing and adjusting... almost none of the AS stuff fits my female chars without investing some time... My females tend to be toned and slightly muscular.

What could make the rigging somewhat easier..creating single pieces as AS does.

Gloves Left, Right extra... same for boots, arms, chest, neck and head...

That should eliminate the problem with the joints and bending... someone in heavy spiky armor can't dance about like a ballarina anyway ;)

And well M4 can result some very handsome guys. All they lack are some great awesome epic clothing or armor. Just check at DevArt under the 3D corner.

Well, don't think it's going to change :( Seeing all those skimpy dressed males at DevArt... it shows that there is not much else left to do with them than PinUps....

In fact, I just asked at Xurge3D today if they could make some of the old M3 stuff also available for M4 (like Warmonger, Dragonlord and so on)

And yep, I got that one too blush

I already also try to do a frankenstein technique in Carrara, piecing together various armor pieces (via mesh manipulation, not just hiding) to get something new. But that does only work to a certain level.

Even tried that with exported meshes from Games - but those sadly are not really useful for someone like me since I am not really a modeller or rigger. (tried rigging, but that whole morph and whatnot business just eats too much time I do not have - even if I wish to have that knowledge how it works and so on - even when using donors it doesn't work).

My guess (just a guess!) would be that many of those people who make a living with modelling clothes don't play computer/console games and so they never probably get any ideas or inspiration from that area.

I know from Alpha Seed and Xurge (from their website profile) that they are gamers and it shows in their models. But AS only makes V4 stuff... and I got all fantasy armor stuff from Xurge. Warmonger and Warlord for M4 would be cool... but you can forget about converting M3 stuff to M4 as soon as it is about Torso armor :-/ tried that, and failed. (Wardrobe Wizard and such)

I cannot believe that M4 stuff wouldn't have sold well back then and that I am one of the very few who would have bought. The world doesn't consists of female characters only... and without some guys it's boring. Plus, even with Genesis  around, I haven't really seen any wicked looking armor that comes even a little close to stuff you see in Games.

Where I am back to my guess, that many professional clothing/armor modeller don't play any Fantasy Games and aren't aware of the really wicked pieces out there

And well, looking at Alpha Seed and PowerAge his armor stuff, which also looks complex and detailed mesh-wise (sadly almost all for female only) it shows to me that it would be possible to rig game-like armor stuff to M4 and V4 ^^

Jup, as I said, I checked so pretty much any popular shop and have almost all fantasy stuff you can have for M4. And most of this only has surface details, no real mesh details like nice pauldrons or cool barbs or barbed bracers and and and.

I am looking for stuff like this:

Concept Art:

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wshRPax8GTc/ULwQQv8ChZI/AAAAAAAACMQ/CkF_ozshlN0/s1600/Daedric_Armor%5BWEB%5D.jpg

InGame Skyrim:

http://cdn.overclock.net/0/04/0453cd6f_3104-5-1324989338.jpeg

Or a nice robe:

http://lindseyseale.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/thalmor3.jpg

Or like this (ok this is just  Art but you get the Idea what i am looking for)

http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs38/f/2008/316/9/0/Demon_Samurai_by_Mr__Jack.jpg

Thanks, but I already have everything fantasy-like from his site for M4 :-/ otherwise I wouldn't ask.

This is really what wonders me... why is there so little for M4? and why are there so very very very very few cool and detailed armor stuffs like one can find in Games.

I think the most popular gaming robe/armor re-done for poser was the Assassin's Creed Robe. But that was it more or less.

I tried rigging Skyrim Armor to M4... I even picked the armor apart, so I could comform single pieces... no chance. (as I said, I am a mere hobbyist and the utmost modelling I do is more of manipulation of existing meshes in Zbrush or Carrara..)

Wow thank you :)

I am new to 3D rendering, but had creative blocks while working on my novels :(
Writer's block is terrible... mostly not because I lack ideas, more because I can't get it down on the virtual paper. It's like glued tight and too stubborn to get out.

If I have creative blocks in whatever appearance, I usually play computer games, read a good book, play Dungeons & Dragons Online... do something in the household (stuff I should have done long ago laughs), turn my garden upside down or simply chat with friends who share common interests and loosen up the creative-knot.

I didn't mention listening to music, since I listen to music all the time as soon as I sit at my computer, which is 80 % of my wake time... at work and at home.

Forcing the knot to open itself is very often a forlorn undertaking. Tried that and failed each time.

Thank you :) I will check there

Oh, and I am not really interested in repacking it as a texture/MAT pack to give it away. It's more for my personal use, to have more different textures to pick from. I do not like using my current three texture packs for M3 (M3, Adrian, Kyler)  over and over again... so the  need is big to create variations... faces with more beard shadow, faces with scars, scarred bodies... and all that.
A lot photoshopping :D and adding different texture elements or completely different textures.

Note:
Most freebies I downloaded, I could use for commercials, as long as I do not sell the freebie itself or claim this freebie as my own. Which I wouldn't do, anyway. But honestly, the freebie-creators I downloaded from usually give you a better idea what to do and what not to do with their creations.

I would expect from commercials the same... but the Daz products I got so far, do not really give me that much detailed right-information. Or I am simply blind. When I check the readme, it shows me a html page, with "thank you for purchasing XXXX" and a lot bla bla.
But never really saw a detailed explanation if they dislike seeing it altered or not.

But perhaps that link you gave me will help :)  

Wow thank you :) for the quick answers.

I hope to create my own skin textures, because I am not certain in how far I have to credit the actual creator of a skin-texture even if I altered it. It's a bit tiresome to list all the creators of the packs/textures I use when showing my stuff at deviantart sigh

Selling my creations or edits of existing material is not an option as I merely use it for my private joy to create characters (for friends, who want to see their avatars in 3D) or give characters of my novel (I am a hobby writer, not commerical yet) some "visual appearance". But I dunno what happens as soon as I get one day a book published and want to use the characters I have created with bought, yet edited, material as base for illustrations.
The original creator of the texture usually has all rights reserved, I guess.

Will dig through the information as soon as I am at home :D Thank you again!

Hmm I apparently didn't explain it well.

I run Vista Ultimate 64 and that was not the reason why I got myself PE Explorer :D

I used that tool to change the flag (you also can use EditBin) for Poser 7 to use more than max 2 or 3 GB. Because it doesn't use more than that without the changed flag. Reason why I started all this fuss :-/

Now Poser 7 uses during my more complex scenery renders about 3,8 - 3,89 GB of RAM.
Even if I had 8 GB, Poser 7 can't be forced to use more than max. 4 GB...

Too bad. I wonder why they do not create 64 bit versions that work with much more RAM than now.

Hi everyone and thanks for sharing your insights! :)

And also a big thank you to Angelouscuitry :)

As soon as I am home, I will check for the virtual space.

Does it also make sense to tell Poser 7 to render hardware based (does Poser use my graphic card then? because it already uses the CPUs and RAM haha) and not software based? Sorry not home right now so dunno where I saw it. Only know it were two check boxes.

I will try to tune down the morph stuff until only those are loaded I need (Given, it's not a whole package of morphes) I probably have to redo my toon, since I made her with V4.1 ... and now I cannot load the new muscle morphs into her (only works with newly made V4.2 chars). She is still running around with the normal facial morphs. Unless there is a way to turn her into V4.2 with Poser.

For M3 it is easily possible. He has single morphs for face, lips, eyes and so on.

Will write more when I am back from work :)

PS:
Poser uses the Dual Core CPU fully...but here it doesn't matter if you have a 32 bit or 64 bit OS.

And for using more than 3GB, you will have to use a 64 bit OS & a tool and force Poser to suck up more than that. I use "PE Explorer" for that. Sadly 4GB is for 32 Bit Software like Poser the technical utmost maximum. :-/ too bad.

Wow this really helps a lot. I think, the next coming weeks I will work through the chapters about render settings in my book. Perhaps there are some good clue how to achieve good results without straining my system way too much

Thank you for those hints.
I am very new to this all and haven'´t dared to toy with the rendering settings yet. Impatient me couldn't wait to start doing some texturing and characters blush

I will try that with my next rendering attempt and let you know what the result was :)