Gagonrich, regarding what you mentioned.... "Another option for conforming hair is to export it as an object, reimport it and save it as a prop that can be parented to the figure's head.".....

Could you please tell me what I need to do when I go to File/Export?   Do I select "image"?  I'm just not sure how to export as an object, and how to "reimport" as a prop.  Or if you could point me to the manual's instructions I'll have a look there myself.  Many thanks!

MM

Thanks for all the suggestions. Will try the yTran dial.  I'm using Ben & Kate, which seem to be fine for clothes, hair, etc....The millenium kids seemed like a good bet, but they are Poser 4 figures from 2002, and although the specs say they come with poses, etc…none were to be found after the install , still working on that one. I have also downloaded and installed The Kids 4, which I see have available clothing, props, etc...for purchase at Daz website. Haven't looked for any Kids 4 free stuff here yet.

The biggest reason I'd like to use Will more is that Will works with the face room, and if I can get a few different sets of clothing/hair for Will, I can change his face a few times, and I'll have made a few new characters from using Will as a base. None of the Daz figures work with the face room.

I was able to find a few more clothes for Will, a pair of jeans that conformed nicely in the P5 Boy folder, however no regular Tshirts.  What I tried to do unsuccessfully is I loaded a Polo Shirt from the P5 Male folder (which is obviously for adult sized P5 figures), then I scaled it down to Will's size, but it wouldn't conform correctly. (see attached, pic 1 has adult shirt resized, pic 2 is when I then tried to conform it).

Hborre, I thought of "unconforming" but couldn't figure out how to do that.

Lol, thanks but that won't be necessary!  

So far I've installed millennium kids and added them to the library. They seem to work very well. Strange thing is though that all the content (ie...basic morphs, expressions, etc...) got placed in the "figures" category of the library, with the exception of the poses which seemed properly placed in the poses section of the library.  This is similar to what happened when I installed V3 & V4. 

I'm using external runtimes on my external HD, and I'm pretty sure I setup the folders correctly ahead of time according to the instructions provided on the SmithMicro support site for installing Daz content into poser.  I assume this may well be exactly the way they're supposed to load in, as I'm fairly new to the procedure.  I have yet to purchase additional content, ie..morph++ , hair, and clothing, so I would imagine they would get installed automatically into the proper library categories, ie...props, materials, expressions, hair, etc...

Ok, thanks for the reply SamTherapy, I'll give em' a try, but if my computer explodes you're going to have to help me fix it!  :-) 

Ok, will give it a try, thanks guys, appreciate the tips! :-).

Well, so far today, using the node I found in the materials room, I've checked the file that Poser uses as the default for Ben's TShirt color, and I've located the folder and the size is 2000x2000.  So I created a new file that same size in Gimp, filled the background with black, then overlayed some text and sort of centered it.  Then I saved it as a jpeg in the same folder as the original default tshirt, then went to the materials room and swapped the image file in the color node using the texture manager.  Lol, I'm still reading about the texture manager in the poser manual, and still quite new at gimp, but somehow that worked. :-)

I know that UV mapping is much more accurate, especially since I'm guessing (trial & error) here on where to position the logo or lettering on the tshirt, so I'd like to be able to understand how to take the UV map for the tshirt out of Poser and import it into gimp, but would need a basic step by step if that is possible.  When you say "load" the obj file, do you mean open the obj file in Poser, or in a photo editor?  Not clear on that, sorry.  Thanks, very much appreciated.

MM

That might just give me enough difference to look believable.  I've been trying to figure out how to put some kind of design or lettering on a TShirt.  For example, maybe have one kid wearing a sports shirt with a number on it, another maybe some kind of logo or silk screen would be good.

I assume from what I've read so far in the manual, that is also accomplished in the materials room using nodes, similar to how I colored the hair.  Problem is, as far as adding patterns and colors to the conforming clothing,  I haven't quite figured it all out yet as to what type of nodes to use and how to set them up, which nodes plug into which, etc...more studying to do!

Thanks markschum, appreciate all the help, glad I was able to follow those instructions and make it work, one more step out of the way. :-)

Maybe there are no hair colors in free stuff because he's a legacy figure, probably not used as much as V2, M2, etc.... 

btw, I'm also looking for conforming clothing for Ben and Katie because I need to have all the kids dressed a bit differently from each other.  Surprised that there is only one set of clothing included for each figure.  Don't know if there will be any clothes in free stuff for them or not. Search is on!

Played with the color intensity boost factor and pretty good results on this render so far!  :-)

Inputs on right, outputs on left....ok, got it, helps to know that, lol!  Thought it was the other way around. Guess there are a number of ways to do this, will get to practicing, I've learned a lot today, thanks for all the support. :-)

Looks good to me, thanks for sticking with me on this everyone, much appreciated.

Quote - When you have all the materials changed you can save it as a material collection in the material room for use next time

I'm wondering if I can use Ben's material collection for a different figure, like Kate?  Will give it a try once I've adjusted and saved it all.

The Value 1 output of the Color Math node is connected to the HSV node, and the output of the HSV node is connected to the Image Map node. Now, do I just connect both Value 1 & Value 2 of the Math node to the Image Map node and just delete the HSV node?

I was just reading in the manual about the Add, Multiply, etc....I just set mine to Add from following the pic, I'll change it to multiply, thanks!

EDIT: Couldn't find anywhere in the manual on how to save a whole node setup, or which library folder I would save it to.  I'd like to be able to save the final setup of all the nodes and settings, that way I can apply it to the rest of the hair group without having to create it from scratch and try to match the colors exactly every time for each group. Any suggestions? 

Once I've adjusted the color to where it's not too yellowish, I guess I'll have to do the same with each hair group.....can I save the node setup somehow so I can then just load in the complete setup for the other hair groups? If so, what library folder would I save a node setup to??

I should also be able to apply it to any figure's conforming hair, (Kate, etc..) not just Ben's, correct?  (Just thinking ahead, I've got ten or so kids figures to create for the party, and they all should look a bit different from each other as far as hair, size, shape, etc...) Only a month into Poser, so this is quite the challenge for me. Thanks again everyone for all the help, much appreciated!

IsaoShi, I'll check my render settings for the gamma correction, thank you!

MM