Honey_ZA:

You will need a prop for this that repeats both the back and the floor, and you will need to put the image right (with the horizon line at the angle where the back meets the floor.)
You could also split the image - upper part background, lower part floor, and use two simple squares. I cannot split your images for you, but I can make and upload a prop you can use.

Give me ten minutes, ok?

A word about Hexagon.
It's definitely not running on all hardware configurations. Had it on an AMD 6000X2/Geforce 5600 - nope, had it on an AMD 4800X2/Radeon 1900 - nope.
Was running it for a while on a notebook (Dual T2050, Ati Radeon Xpress200M) - no problems.
Now I have got it on a QuadCore (Q6600@4x3GHz) with a Radeon 2600 Pro), and I am able to handle even a 1.8 M (!) vertices without even thinking about crashes.
Hexagon is tricky as far as the GUI and the workflow is concerned (validate....validate....validate...) but is a simple and a good modeler (never wanted to be more than this).
The tut that comes with Hex is a lousy joke (won't find the videos it's referring to...) but once you learned to understand Hex's a bit weird dialect, you will understand.
Another application which is not bad is Blacksmith, which is at the lower price segment, too. It's more like "analogue modelling" than everything else I had, and I use it occasionaly.

Morphs that were set up with V4 should be working with V4.2.
At least all of my products do.
If you need a character morph to transport from 4.0 to 4.2, make a .pz2 file (save to the POSE folder, include everything) from the 4.0 or 4.1 and apply it to the 4.2. Do this BEFORE you install and initialise the 4.2.
(Which, by the way, is free if you already own a previous version, check "available downloads" at DAZ, if there is nothing, make a reset request at your "itemized order history" and there you'll go)

I did proceed it this way with some two dozen characters, and it worked fine (P7, latest service release, on XPPro)

One tip when using the SpaceNavigator in question: get a pack of pills against flight-disease  from your local drugstore, take two before you start - cause once you started with SpaceNavigator, you won't be able to stop until you do not longer know where's your upper and where's your lower side.
It's especially FUN if you use it on a BIG two-screen setup.
And  an important two word info is missing on the SpaceNav original package, though...
HIGHLY ADDICTIVE
(And the tweaking/posing is faster by a factor of 8 or so, comparing SpaceNav/Keyboard against tablet/keyboard, with SpaceNav clearly on the winner side)

Mike:
I suggest waiting for Poser7Pro (which will support up to 3 machines in the cheapest version).
And before you invest (or rather: spend...) money on a multicore machine, be shure your favourite applications support this. It doesn't help too much if you go from a 3.0 GHz dual core to a 2.4 GHz quad - do the math... ;-}

*The only reason to render at a resolution higher than the standard 72 dpi is when the image will be put into print, etc.

*Modern inkjet printer: 124 dpi, offset for a newspaper: 132 dpi, laser on photographic emulsions 170 dpi, offset for magazines 264 dpi. The resolution itself says nothing, it's the total of pixels in height/width related to the target image size.

We don't know that x64 XP Pro is stable?*

Don't know if it is stable with Poser7Pro. Nor does anybody else except the guys at SmithMicro and eFrontier at this time. Before I switch to (XP)64, I will be shure that it works with P7P and my other 3D related app's.  Do not need any other machine for my 2D app's, the horses are used to my voice, meanwhile.

Is quad core really necessary? I don't think so.

Nor do I. On a trial with P7, latest SR, quad is about 12% faster. (Comparing a 6600 with a P4D 925). Not worth the expense (as far as I am concerned, but I am just a poor, old, starving vendor).

No issues on:
2x2.8 Xeon, 6GB, fx1000, XPP 32
Athlon 64 x2 4200@5000, 2GB, gForce 7200, XPH 32
P4D 925, 3000 @ 3400, 2 GB, Ati 2600 Pro, XPP 32
as above, but XPH 32
C2D T2050 (Laptop) 1600@1800, 1 GB, Ati M200 onboard, XPH
(on the Laptop, now and when single sided polygons appear transparent in preview, but rendering fine (not too fast, though)

A suggestion (JUST a suggestion) for P7Pro: 3 P4D 915 or 925 machines with 2 GB each at XP 32 (until we all know 64 is stable). No need for Vista, no real need for 64 until Posers mem.managment does better, and, first of all, no need to spend a 1,000 bucks where a 400 $ machine will do. JUST a suggestion, but thats what I did. Works with Vue's rendercow, too.

Ah - a pedal drive power generator could help me to get rid of the overweight and save some serious mones.... ;.}

Quote - And yet, and yet, and yet....  he makes some very valid points, just the same.  If someone is cranking out 100% canned image day after day, are they really on the same plane as Michelangelo?  Plainly, no.

Nobodys work is on the same plane as Michelangelo, nor on Rubens', Rembrandts', van Goghs', Picassos', Dalis', Fuchs', mine, or yours.
Not to talk about you or me - the other gentlemen mentioned above where masters in showing their excellent talents in COMMUNICATION USING MATTER.

If anybody produces something as a piece of art, there is a communicative target in it, no matter whether the artwork is a painting, a sculpture, a dance, a song or a digitally created image. It's good, if it communicates. 'cause only if it communicates, it can touch somebody. If it doesn't communicate, it's either  masturbation, or a fraud.

This does not mean at every piece of communication is "art" - needs some craftmanship, too, to handle the communicative tools. And of course by far not everything made with Poser is good. But it's also not part of the qualification that a virtual image has to be created by  the use of Lightwave, Vue, Maya or anything else.

If somebody can use Poser to communicate and touch, let him/her do this.

The way this Jin guy is argueing around simply shows, that he is completely unable to communicate, has not got the least amount of craftmanship in COMMUNICATION - which means, he is unable to touch (maybe except himself). That, of course, is his problem, not mine. But if somebody stands up and wants to make RULES for art, a MEASURE for it, he should have left the world the day the Nazis 3rd Reich was over.
As long as he doesn't show that he can handle even the most primitive tools and rules of communication, he must not be allowed to judge, because he is not an artist but something else that starts with an "a".

E-frontier has what  -  some 300.000 user for Poser alone?
I don't EXPECT all these people to be "artists".
I read through that whole thread but didn't find the only point that would have really mattered:
"Are the users having fun with Poser".
Those "participants" in this "discussion" don't seem to have too much fun with their work. The wouldn't need to start a flame anywhere, if they were busy doing things with their "art"-"software".
Especially this "jin choung" guy. I really LOVE guys like him. And what I love most about those guys is their faces when I refuse them to taking part in my art classes. (Non-virtual, face-to-face, sculpting classes).
But my question now is: do I have to make my own hammers and chisels to be an artist?
Do I have to make my own marble to be an artist?

*I'll probably buy another computer when Microsoft proves to me that most of the major Vista bugs have been dealt with

*you mean ... never?  :blink:

No seriously: I bought two new machines just today (with a look on what Poser7Pro will offer: FINALLY FARMRENDERING! And because I am old, ugly and poor I bought (in components) two Pentium 935 D machines (2x3,2 GHZ), Win XP64 (yeahyeahyeah) and 4 GB Ram each. Summed up to less than ....pocketcalculator.... 1.40 €/$..... less then 1,500, including a 8 x Gigabit Lan Paperweight. 4 logical CPUs that can really be used as two workstations....

Yes, I feel a bit lost in the moment with all that stuff spread over every accessible desk in reach...

Solid technique, approved a zillion times, cheap, but not out of date.
Before you spend so much money for just gaganeverseen-RAM, get standard stuff at standard prices - 4 GB DDR2/1066 are some 290 or so  $ at my place at this time.

Has anybody seen my screwdriver...

I really need to give Hexagon a look sometime.  Just so that I can say that I have.

Yeah, maybe I like it, because it's so pretty much like me - misunderstood.....

*I believe that Rendo needs to open a Cat Fancy forum.  Or at least they should provide a link to the Cat Fancier's Association at the top of the Poser forum page.

My cat says, you're right.

*Yeah -- my impression of Luxology as a company is that they are top-tier when it comes to customer relations -- it addition to making a great program.  What more could you want?

*Agree with you, Robert - sometimes they are already overdoing it a little. I tried Modo (demo) and I think it's a great tool for anybody who is not an old, bit stupid, stubborn Windows Conventions used guy like me.
Hexagon does one thing for shure: it sucks - until you learn to save every important step in modelling. All my shops stuff and my freebies are made in Hex - from a walnut fairy boat to a celtic harp to a clubs facade to even V4.1 facemorphs, it's versatile, has no real limits and it integrates smoothly with UVMapper. Like with every other program, one has to know what he's doing, of course.  But - it cost's not too much more than a smile, and on most machine config's it really works - and it follows (most of the time) windows conventions. It has got paint and displacement paint options (which I don't use), and after some, let's say 60-80 hours everything neccessary has gone into the bones and the marrow - and becomes pretty easy to use.

To answer the initial question: I would give it a trial.

I agree with Sam Therapy (Gosh, what a weird name...) if it comes to architectural proportions north of the Clyde.
I agree totally.

*"then it would indicate a problem at the Yahoo end, and you can try working with their technical support to get it sorted"

LOL! :thumbupboth:

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