ROTFLMAO!! My thoughts exactly when I saw the title. I figured you must be pissin' yourself. And I was a bit worried for my own selfish reasons. Nope, just another fine stonemason project.

are you talking about just the document window? That you can resize to fit within the menus. You're using one monitor I'm assuming. All the menus can be moved around to fit your needs, usually by dragging the menu title. then just make sure your document window is small enough.

Just to ditto krimpr and add to his comment: If animation is your focus, the motion graphs and keyframe utilities are great for adjusting motion curves and moving and deleting keyframes to nudge your timings into place. I have found dealing with those essentials in the other packages to be a bit clumsy. Motion Mixer is also another interesting animation tool that I have yet to fully put to work. Essesntially, Motion Mixer would be your library of poses or animations that you can use in its own editor to mix and match poses, fade in and out of animations. It's a good alternative to doing a lot of cutting and pasting of keyframes.

Well, there ya go. That seemed too weird to be normal and I will have to look again to see if there is any reason why that would be disabled. Otherwise, I guess it's another re-install. Thanks, Cliff and to all who chimed in.

Yup, poor wording, trying to say too much too fast. Like Little Dragon said, the "option" is as you save it. At least, when I was in this position last night, when I got to the "Save as" portion there was no way for me to change .jpg quality 40 to anything else. And then, I found the work around. It seems strange that nothing is mentioned in the manual. Unless, you're telling me that when you do "make movie, image files, save as," you can change your image format. If that's the case then I have a funky Poser.

Yeah, I think the first whisper I heard of Fusion was the day that Vue 5 Inf arrived. It sounds good but will have to wait for a sidegrade deal or amnesty or a bucket o' money as I just upgraded to LW 9 and Poser 6. 'spose I shouldn't complain, I just got Vue for free. : ) Bushy, Back on topic, by all means get LW because you won't be getting 8 at this point but LW 9 and a second seat of Vue. I've been working with LW for four years now and there is still so much that I have yet to really explore. Good luck with your choice.

krimpr, Thanks a lot. Not a problem, I know lots of people way back said it worked for them. Had to laugh because I was part of a follow-up thread with squid early this year and had bookmarked the above link. Thanks for reminding me about it. It's been one of those "i should try that" bookmarks and been too busy to check it out step by step. Luckily my character project at the time was native to LW. As I'm trying to start up this comic again I've been trying to get all the apps talking P6, Vue5 Inf, and LW 8.3. Thanks again.

krimpr, "It's rubbish." lol I'm glad it's rubbish to you (really). Sadly, I must testify that with ProPack it barely worked in LW 6.5 and never worked (for me) beyond that. I've surfed around to many threads on this subject and no one has ever written any clues that help me debug this problem. True, I'm not a comp-sci grad but I've been around long enough to follow simple instructions and they haven't worked. That said, I am on a mac, I don't know if that makes a dif. Also from the bad luck department: I have been un-able to import from ProPack to Vue without crashing. I have a letter in to e-on, waiting for a reply. If the problem is me, I'm sure I can be debugged too. : )

Dom, what's your feeling on the the weight map/material tweaks when you import a character with Greenbriar? I've had great luck with some characters (few tweaks) and others just the opposite. Also, I gave up on Conformer as it seemed to crash too much. Now I just combine everything as one figure. "professional" , yes I knew that didn't look right.

thanks. I know I've been slack in that area and it's been calling to me but real life has had too many distractions, so far. As I speak I am pulling my pro pack files into P6. I will now be able to get all the characters into one scene file (I hope). And nested library folders!!! I love that!! : )) It's so much faster scrolling through lists. I don't know if that's the OS or tweaks in the software. I'm giddy...

If you're happy with the Poser-Vue-Bryce Pipeline then, no. If you sometimes feel like you're straining at certain creative limitations then Lightwave can offer you: A proffessional level modeler and animation layout. Before anybody gets mad about the "proffessional" remark, what I mean is that it really lets you get into super detail when it comes to editing camras, materials, motion curves, all aspects. Yes, proffessional work is being done with the aforementioned apps too. Particles, motion dynamics, scripting, etc. It's serious but fun too. I've had Poser 6 for several hours now and it's quite a good improvement. So far, getting Poser characters into LW has been a bit of work. I still wish CL would have helped the pipeline in this direction more than it currently has. Lightwave is great for animation and asset creation.

With all 30 seconds of experience with Poser 6 I can say that it has really come a long way and yet remains familiar. I just upgraded from Pro Pack and what a dream to not have to fire up OS 9 in order to run Poser. The middle mouse button now functions and overall seems to run much faster. Haven't gotten far enough to experience the "hangs" mentioned but can already see and fee lots of improvements. G5 dual 2Ghz 1.5 gig o' RAM

Thanks, very much and thanks for the heads up on the back room, off to check that out now. Head brimming with questions.

What a great message to find coming home. Been away for a while so I've got to rush off and get some other recently released Dystopian Destination items. Gun is cool but way cooler is the idea of ten more block of Dystopia! Woohoo! Looking forward to it. Thanks for the heads up.

Oh, yeah Baby! Sign me up! I dare not make any suggestion that could slow down the release date as it could come in handy soon. My current 'street crap" includes, newspaper machines, vending machines, trash cans, mail boxes, currently too distant to be seen. Might be a couple of repeats but here goes some suggestions: Street signs (parking, loading etc) , parking ticket vendors, Walk/Don't Walk signals, Traffic lights, pedestrian barriers, fire hydrants. I noticed you're steering clear of any cables in your street lamps. Just looking at my Tokyo pics, there's lots of transformers and cables hanging off of stuff. But I can also understand, while it is Dystopia, it's also a more future, rather than retro look. So, this was just brain-storming as requested. Looking at most of the stuff on my list I don't see why I couldn't do some of that stuff (like a street sign) myself . The traffic lights or fire hydrant could be something where you would want the design to stay consistant. It's all very cool and I eagerly await its release. I'm sure Stonemason is gonna make some wicked textures. good luck and thanks for the heads up, don