Rezally ...... well then .... once the armour and archery sets are done i guess it's time to dust off the old 3rd edition DnD players guide, and start goin thru the equipment lists... muahahahaha

speaking of the polearms set ... it's going to be the featured freestuff of the week item in the newsletter for "another 3d art community who's name i'll not mention here" next week.

well chuck if by catalyst you mean a "hey get off your @#$% and finnish it already!" yeah .. Actually I stopped working on the scalemail about 2 years ago .. and i thought nothing of it untill Logan started houndung me regularly to finnish it and then it was done in ... what .. 2 maybe 3 weeks. and that was after having lost all the poser files to an hdd crash and having to go back to the rhino files and remesh. I think knowing people are eagerly awaiting something kida gives me that extra nudge to stay with it .. and it's even gotten me to finnish almost all of my old projects that i started but didn't finnish 2 years ago. :) I have the archery pack to finnish, and then thers some tiddly bit props .. like a book, and a treasure chest, little stuff like that.

Thanks chuck, I find that if i post a forum thread on what i'm working on i'm less likelyy to stop working on it for 3 months to a year like the scalemail.

That would be cool. My email address is mordikar(at)earthlink.net

well if it's parented and you hide the figure all attached props vanish as well.

So what i did was load just the bow and manually loaded each texture and rendered and exported as a psd .. then followed the tut on DAZ for making custom rsr's ... but it was manually loading the texture that was the fun part..

the problem is i didn't think of doing that until i had manually made half of posette invisible by turning off visibility on individual body parts.

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well i'm stuck with poser4 .... i guess i'll have to figure out some whay to parent the items ... i really wanted the sheath and arrow to be unparented so they could be moved ar will .. arrow flying thru the air .. or the sheath placed on the thigh, or arm, or back instead of the hip ... :( I've noticed that even if i do them as smart props if i load just the prop without any figure to parent to the mat files don't work. Kinda made making the rsr's for the mat pose files interesting ..

hrmm.. that might be a problem nickedshield. The bow is a smart prop, the dagger is a smart prop, the quiver WILL be a smart prop the sheath is not a smart prop, neither is the arrow... Hrm....

ok will look into it ... i'm looking at a bow, quiver, arrow, dagger, and sheath and i have 3 texturesets i want to build for each item. I had thought about figureing out mat poses .. i just hadn't got that far .. lol Then again i also want to morph the strap on the quiver to make it fit p4 fem and male, vic3 and mike3, and maybe mayadol and aiko.. i'm not real sure how i'm gonna pull that off without moving the object .. this may be interesting ... :) Thank you Vilian :) I'm glad to finally be giving some stuff back to the community ..

wooo hoo that was it thank you thank you thank you Little_Dragon!!!

looking into that now ... i know the filenames have paenthasies in them.

hrmmm.... nope ... tried resaving without the built in thumbnail even converted it to bmp which doesn't get the option and it still greys out after i load the texture.

i don't know how to do mat poses.. The textures were in JPG format originally. I tried converting them to Tiff and it does the same thing with the tiffs. i'm wondering if photoshop didn't stash something in the original JPG that is just carrying on from format to format and causing me grief.

an odd note .. it's only happening with these textures .. i loaded the uthena dress textures to put on a dress .. and the bow will let me apply the texures and switch thru them at will... (they of course don't fit and don't look good.. but poser will let me switch the textures.) really really odd.