Caulbox, I notice in that screenshot you have separate folders for V2 and V3. I assume you have separate folders for each Millennium figure? I am trying to adjust to multiple runtimes, but ended up having to consolidate some just because I found it so frustrating to switch runtimes to get a pose, then switch to another to get lighting, etc. Also, I found that some things can be used for more than one figure, such as V3, S3P, The Girl, etc. How do you deal with multiple runtimes in situations such as items that work for more than one figure? I didn't know what else to do, so I consolidated V3 and S3P into one runtime. I also stuck the hair in there as well because again, I found it frustrating to have to move from one runtime to another just to apply hair.

kuroyume0161: How about you do my income tax? I could use a few thousand dollar return :)

Usually I end up having to go into PSP and clone in colour where the shadows are pitch black...IE: totally void of colour, and sometimes to clone clothing over parts of the body that I couldn't manage to get covered, and the area was such that it was impossible to make invisible.

Have you contacted your ISP? They offer packages... free for a small amount, but usually reasonably priced for larger packages. I use www.bappy.com. I don't know how much you get for free space because I pay for a site of 200 megs which has worked for me for about 3 years now. I will have to upgrade to more this year though as my site has grown considerably from the time I started it. Have a look and see if there is anything there that can help you.

Wow, people are still "NOT" reading this message. Cool :)

I save in .png format as well.

Quote - I'm curious why folks purchase figures, clothing, etc from companies rather than doing their own face and body changes themselves eg Victoria 2,3 etc downloads or variations thereof.

Because some of us can't be bothered, or are too stupid (me) and haven't figured out how to do that stuff yet. I made a post asking for help and information on how to make textures because I too think it would be more satisfying to use things that I made myself...at the very least it would give me something else to do other than press buttons.

So I'm working on it :) Another reason is time considerations. From what I can figure out, making nice textured items and figures takes a great deal of time, and looking at the maps, I can see that for myself. Some people want to create figures and use them in the time they have to play in poser, not spend that time in a graphic program trying to make a texture for a skirt. Bascially, bought poser items is like fast food. Quick and satisfying the need. Message edited on: 03/30/2005 15:48

Quote - Unless I'm mistaken, when you said you can't always get the clothes to fit, stupidest_login_ever thought that you were not matching morphs on the figure. That's what the Tailor is for.

Ahhhh,I misunderstood :). I put that program in my wishlist to buy with my April Poser budget. > Quote - When you apply in the Pose room, you're using MAT files someone else has prepared. That's fine for something quick, but you're losing a lot of power and you're at the whim of the creator.

Yes, I realize that, which is why I'm so bored with Poser. I'm used to having free reign in what I do from working in a graphic program. At the moment I find Poser stifling and limited; largely because I use other people's items, and my lack of understanding of all rooms other than the Pose room...and even then I don't use everything in that room either. Poser is a very hard program to learn. > Quote - Furthermore, if you want to make textures yourself, you're going to have to know how to apply them, and if you want to distribute you should know how to make MAT files.

Yes, you're right. While I would be able to add colour and texture in PSP, I have no clue on how to save the files in the right format. That's something else that confuses me. These file extensions are foreign to me and while I know where to put them so Poser can find and use them, I really have no understanding of the files themselves; how they work, or how to make them. Someone had made a post but I see they have deleted it :( It did give some very good advice. Essentially suggesting that I'm not doing anything with what I do render in Poser. That I should be looking to see how Poser can be used to accentuate other means of artistic creativity in 2D graphics. He/she is right. I'm so bored with Poser at the moment that it doesn't spark any creativity within me, so I just render the images and distribute them to some graphic groups as PSP tubes. They're all ecstatic to have Poser images to work with, I'm happy that they're happy, but I'm left unsatisfied because I'm not using the left side of my brain; the creative part. > Quote - Here is a Material Room Tutorial . Read (view) it in good health.

blinks wow! Lots of arrows. I'm going to print that off and spend some time looking at it and working along with it this evening. It looks like a very thorough overview of the material room, and I'm glad to see based on the attendance in that thread, that I'm not the only one who finds that room mind boggling :) > Quote - Texture mapping is alot of fun. What you need to get is the UVMapper software.

Is that how you make the templates to texturize (like those offered at daz's site on the items' pages?) Thank you for all of the replies. It's given me a number of solutions and some things to think about that I hadn't considered. I'm not going to give up on Poser yet, but I do need "more" than what I'm doing now because I feel like I'm working on an assembly line and just doing the same thing over and over and over...

That Tailor program.... I don't understand... from what I read it looks like you take a figure, add all the clothes and accessories, run that program and it makes everything fit your figure without having to turn dials. Is that correct?

I want to make my own textures for clothes and to give them away to people for them to use. Other than footware, I can pretty much get anything to fit a figure.. unless it's sitting of course.

Quote - Acadia, you may want to read the p5 manual if you haven't already. It gives a pretty good description on how to use the Material and Hair Rooms.

I'm such a nerd that I did read the manual in it's entirety when I got Poser 5. My head was spinning. Sine? Cosine? I felt like I could build my own Poser program after reading the manual. It was more a lesson in higher mathematics than it was a user friendly help guide to a new Poser user. The first lesson is a hair tutorial?!!! That's probably the hardest thing in Poser to do...hair. The manual is way too confusing. It starts to talk about something, then says for more information go "here". Next thing you know you are jumping all over the manual and you have no idea what you were originally trying to figure out. At least that's how it was for me. For the first month I didn't know how to do anything because when I would try to load something, it replaced it; turns out they made a mistake telling you how to add figures, and instead gave you instructions on how to replace them. Sorry, but I gave up on that manual as a lost cause. Message edited on: 03/30/2005 02:14

Quote - I don't know what kinds of problems you have in the material room. You can preview what does what in the window at the bottom of the screen so a little experimenting should give you an idea.

The problem I have is that it is too confusing. Nodes, buttons galore... I think I stand a better chance at learning how to fly the Discovery than I do in learning the Material room; I haven't even figured out what the material room is for actually. I thought it was a place to apply textures, but it turns out you do that in the Pose room. I do everything in the Pose room. The material room and cloth room just have way too many dials and windows and 'stuff' in them.

I have patience galore when it comes to stuff I'm interested in. I can spend hours and hours in PSP and need to force myself to close it up when I realize I've been engrossed in it for 5 hours or more sometimes. On the other hand I have to force myself to open up Poser and after 1/2 an hour and a render I've had enough. It's just not fun for me :(

I don't get any joy out of playing dress up dolly. I want to make stuff, not stick stuff on a figure and render it.

I've heard people here saying that some people figure that poser is pretty much 'press a button and make art', and frankly that's what I'm feeling it is; at least to me. Press a button add someone's clothes, turn a few dials and make it fit. Press another button and add someone's texture to the clothes. Press another button and add a pose, turn a couple of dials to adjust the clothes. Click another button and someone's hair. Click a button and add someone's lighting. Click a button and render the image. I don't find that fun...or creative.

I spent 2 days trying to pose a figure from scratch and it ended up like a pretzel. I looked at some tutorials for posing; I even have that book called "Secrets of Figure Creation". I think the reason I can't figure a lot of stuff out in Poser is because I'm not really interested in figuring it out. I want to make stuff and Poser doesn't "make" stuff.

i realize that making good textures takes time and effort and practice. I'm not looking to be good in it over night; I realize it will take time, but I want to try it. I want to learn how to do it. I love to make stuff, and I have a great eye for colour and design, and want to create things instead of just playing Barbie. Message edited on: 03/30/2005 02:02

I wanted to add that I love to "create", and I don't feel like I'm creating anything in poser with what I'm doing. I'd appreciate any help in the creating textures area that anyone can give me.

Thank you :) I don't have the new Vicky yet, but I was thinking of buying her, but not if I couldn't use the character addons that I have. I find plain Vicky rather homely (and cross eyed) and like to jazz her up, so I don't use her "as is".

hehe, cute! I'm not much into the cartoon images, but you did a great job with the frog.

ok, I didn't read the message or subsequent replies, but I did notice that prior to my post there were 38 replies to a thread that said "Do not read this post!" Guess there are a bunch of curious Georges here?

7 models? Geez, I am still at one, lol I figure by next year I'll be up to figuring out how to put some background into the scene ;)