I know the SM people are monitoring and commenting on some of the posts here. I hope they address this one. I was ready to purchase Poser 8 until I read about this issue. I have a lot of custom morphs for V4 I made myself and would hate to jeopardize all that work. I recall after I bought P7, I had some issues with V4 working and got very little help from the Poser software people as it was not a P7 supplied figure. I can't recall if that was before or after SM purchased Poser, so hopefully we see some attention to this issue from them. If any of you who have had this problem get a resolution to this, please post what you learned.

Mark

Okay thanks for the ideas. I tried kicking out an obj of the invisible parts and then of the whole figure and the invisible parts are not there. It's strange that I can identify them in Poser and twist them or bend them and see the body act like they are there.  I'm looking thru the scene file now to see what's missing, but it's a lot of greek to me....

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I tried deleting everything but V4 than saved the file and reloaded it. Her chest and neck are still missing or invisible. I can choose them as a body part and the commands for them like twist and bend still work. Thanks for the idea.

Mark

Okay thanks for the ideas to try. The hither thing worked pretty well. I tried the "PREVIEW_OGL_OBJECT_BBOXPICKING 1" change but it didn't seem to work.

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Mark

I have a few ideas. I saw your gallery posting "Tank hill". Why not some type of setting like that for Poser with trees and grass and some Russian huts for use with your tanks? I also would like to see some type of ruined city block that you could pose tanks in. Also why not more Russian tanks like the T34/85, JSU, and JSU-152?

I certainly understand the feeling here. I've bought models that then became free.

I did want to mention that Bazze is making some new models and just giving them away. He just put up some pictures of a new one today:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1837208

He says it will be free. Maybe that's some compensation.

Yes I think the "gold lame cloth" worked best. Thanks.

One question. I am trying to apply a transparency map to the same cloth to make part of it invisible. I see where the map works and the cloth disappears, but now the skin under it has the shine to it that the gold cloth has. How can I block that from happening? I think I need to plug the same transparency map into somewhere else, but I don't understand where (Still learning I'm afraid...sorry about that).

Thanks again
Mark

Okay I'll try it out.

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Mark

That looks pretty good to me. Can you post a picture of the material set-up for it?

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Mark

Went by mine this morning. I just wanted to get a movie like I usually do on Saturday. Lots of people looking around, but really no one buying anything. I saw no announcements regarding sales of any kind. I overheard one store clerk saying they didn't know anything about sales or discounts yet but hoped to hear sometime today. Nothing on their web site except an announcement that they were going out of business and their current policy regarding purchases. About 20% of their DVD's were already gone. Other than that it seemed pretty well stocked as normal, but I didn't stay long.

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I went to the GOODY site and they show a lot of styles. I'm not really picky so any of those would do, but this one looked good to me.

http://www.goody.com/Products/Styling%20Tools/Brushes/Cushion/Cushion.aspx

As to the transmapping. it migth be a good question as to how a transmapped brush would react going thru transmapped hair. If I had to guess, I'd think this brush had about 120 pins in it. Maybe that would not be too many to do physically.

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Mark

Maybe someone said it, but you can turn the raytracing for transmapped hair "off" under its properties, and the render time reduces. I usually do that until the final render, but to me I don't see much difference either way. Maybe some improvement around the edges..

Good luck

I checked that and nothing like lock figure is on.

It get's even stranger. As an exampleI can't get the hand to grasp or un grasp, yet I'll bend a single finger and suddently the entire hand will move to the grasp setting. When I try to use the grasp dial again, nothing. Same thing with the neck. I'll put in a twist value, nothing, but move an eyeball and then suddenly the neck moves too.

I can only the lower portion of the body to rotate. The upper portion stays locked. It seems like it's everthign above the wast that is locked. All the morphs work fine, it's jsu movement and scale.

Very weird.

Thanks for the help

This has been helpful. Thanks a lot.

Mark

Okay I tried the new algorithm and that seemed to work. Every time I apply a new pose the eyeballs stayed where they should. I think I also see what I did wrong earlier when I tried putting this directly into the pz3. A mistake on my part.

This has really saved me some time, plus I can use the same approach in the future. Thanks to everyone, and lesbentley look for a renderosity gift certificate in the mail from me.

Thanks all

Mark