Thanks alot SWAMP & vexiphne for the info on V3 New Generation 2005, I'd seen this a while back but I had no idea it would be this good! I think I'll buy this as I really like to morph V3 alot to create my own figures, this would be a great addition.

Acadia,  you're not the first & you won't be the last!

It seems to either be the most obvious or most silly mistakes which drive us mad. My bad habit used to be not turning off ray tracing on the hair, it's a bitch to render when you're doing a full size portrait!! I'm finally remembering to do it as soon as I put in the hair now.

I've been thinking about Esprit over Infinite. I would rather have Infinite, obviously, but I don't think my money will stretch that far, so hopefully Esprit will do enough of what I need.

Very interesting comments people, thanks!

It seems that I may go with Vue, as Vue6 would seem to offer me everything that I need, ie good importer of Poser figures, the ability to make great scenery & a good renderer.

I do like the Poser firefly renderer but I really also want to create full scenes, especially landscapes etc. I create quite alot of characters in Poser, now I want to give them life! I do use dynamic clothing & hair, so being able to import these was very important.

dbowers22 - I like the idea of changing the figure in Poser & the ease of use in which it can then be changed in Vue, very helpful.

Thanks alot for your input guys,  most appreciated!

What I will do is look into Vue more & then decide. I did in the past have a demo of Vue 5 which I only dabbled with & I wasn't really into Poser at the time. I'll download this again & see what I think. I like the offer which will be available for Vue 6!

Thanks again.

Oh, I can spend up to 5 hours on Poser & have less than half of that time actually being productive!

But's it's amazing what you can come up with just by tinkering & messing around, sometimes my best ideas have come this way. When I have set out to do a particular project only a few ever turn out the way I intended them to. I can get too frustrated & have to leave the PC alone!

Karen1573 - Thanks alot, my new avatar is now working. I should have realised that one of the fields hadn't been entered. Thanks again.

Everything's OK now, not sure what the problem was, it seems like it was at my end.

oliveramberg - That's a really cool piece of artwork you did there, I bet you feel proud it's being used!

Thorne & Sarsa make very good characters. However, they do normally have them appear to be in the teen bracket. When I saw Minuette, I thought they had put a young teen girls head on a womans body.  I personally wouldn't have put her in the nude as I know some people would find it a bit distasteful. This is the problem with making characters for V3. We assume she will be a fully grown woman, this appears to not be the case as it all seems to depend on her facial appearance.

You may encounter problems with dynamic hair & clothes as I did. I wanted so much to do work with Poser 6 & Bryce but these problems have kept me away from Bryce for a while. I'm sure there's a way around it but I'm too busy with just Poser 6 at the moment to figure it out. Apparently there's also transparency issues (like eye lashes, brows etc), but I'm sure the more knowledgeable people on here can give you instructions on how to deal with this.

randym77, thanks alot! I haven't been over at Daz for a while so I checked out the offers, I got myself some good stuff for under a tenner!!

Even though Aiko is cartoon like, there is still some resemblance of an underage girl. Therefore I would never produce a piece of work with one in the nude.  I have checked out your gallery, & while I'm not personally offended by it because it's just art & not real, I can understand some people finding it distasteful.

Attached Link: My Gallery

You might like to have a look at these, they might provide you with the atmosphere you're looking for:

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=30235

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=45257

Hope this helps,

Lee (Stormchaser).

ClintH, thanks alot. Glad to know there's not a problem. Lee (stormchaser).