Does that morph package also work for male models and other female models?

Thanks, for the offer. I'm sure I'll take you up on it if/when I run into problems with magnets. I'll give it a try anyhow, but that being said, I believe I have a lot of morphpacks. If by morphpacks you mean the bunch of executable files that have file names such as: 7376_12_ca_V4EliteTextureLana.exe and 7376_15_dpc_V4EliteTextureLana.exe, etc, yes I have them.

So if it Far easier than magnets, why do you use magnets? Just curious.

Thanks for the feedback basicwiz and Believable3D. I'll take that to heart and use them.

Where can I find any tutorials and tips on how to use magnets? I'm slightly familiar with them, and of course, practicing I know is the only true way, but some tips and tutorials would help, especially in dealing with faces.

And another question:

If you guys don't use the face room, how do you, or do you, use photos to create 3D alternative characters from a photo of someone?

Michael

That sounds like it might work, ArtPearl.

Could you post the boolean you used? I don't know much about them.

Michael

Thanks Bruno021,

But having tried this I don't see that it does anything. If I resize on a particular
axis I then have to resize the entire frame to get it back to the dimensions it was
before, and when I do that it expands the axis to its original thickness (size)>

Michael

Does Cad have an option to export as an obj?

Did you get my message?

I sent it through Renderosity.

Michael

Hi Forester,

Thanks for the reply.

I am going to send a private message to you.
i have a couple questions to ask of you.

Michael

Ahhh... but here is where a fly is in the ointment, (and thank you for your help):

Vue 6 Pro has no option when saving as a png to "embed Alpha". A very useful feature indeed.

And, I'm not sure it has billboard as an option either.

Hmmm, this whole concept of Alpha planes is interesting. I haven't used it and not sure what its purpose is other than using it to make things transparent. Maybe it can be applied somehow to what I'm trying to achieve which I describe below.

 Can Vue 6 Pro output a layered file where a character can be separated from its 2d background (the alpha plane technique) without having to cut it out in photoshop?

In other words, I'm trying to put a Poser character, rendered in Vue onto a 2d background. Using the alpha plane option renders the 2d background and the poser character into one image but does not allow me to the option of having them in distinct photoshop-type layers.

Here's the problem that I'm trying to solve:

Take a poser character, render her with a solid colored background so that I can later take out that background in photoshop (which produces jaggedy edges that need to be smoothed)  and then put her on top of a 2d background.

Now, if I have her hand with fingers spread apart (or hair strands) then taking out that colored background becomes quite difficult and reduces the quality of the character image.

And in Vue 6 Pro there is no option to save as a png file, so is there a way to cleanly do this in Vue rather than photoshop so that I end up with a character that has no background attached to it in Vue's export?  If not, then I would have to carefully position the alpha plane in vue so that it would not need any editing in photoshop.

Is the alpha plane suggestion the best way to do this?

You see, I'm trying to merge the character with the 2d background but not until they are in perfect position with one another and sometimes I need to remove portions of the character so that she looks like she's embedded in the 2d image as if she were sticking her head out from behind a tree.

Sorry for the verbosity. I'm just trying to make it clear what I am needing to do.

Thanks.

Michael

Ok, hmmm... "put keys for the modules with initial load".... What?
Could you further explain what you mean by that and how I do it?

Thanks for your help, timspfd.

Michael

Thank you Timspfd!

That was the trick. Worked as advertised. Thank you.

thefixer,

How do I get the 2d image imported as the Alpha plane?
I do need that option of resizing it.

Thank you that did the trick, however, a slight challenge occurred:

Now I see the lights rendered on top of the 2d image.  Any suggestions for
not seeing the lights as little sun centers in the render?

Quote - Something I like to do is lift my leg, and lick my butt.

Oh! Looks like Melikia likes to do that as well!

Not sure I really needed that.

Thanks Melikia for a real answer.

Thanks.

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