I try to help where I can, but my knowledge is minimal compared with some of the giants out there..

errm... I ought to point out that I'm not actually in the Graphic Arts industry - I'm a computer programmer. ('tho come to think of it, computer progamming is a sort of art.) But I do understand deadlines... All ARTISTS, wherever their drive comes from, try to instill in the viewer's mind the same emotion as they were imagining at the time. Whatever the medium, they used short-cuts. For instance, musical composers use established musical theory to work out their harmonies. (OK, some don't - but how many of them do you hear of?) Using Poser is a quick and easy way to get over an idea. It's HOW you use it that counts, plus the imagination behind the idea in the first place. (I don't set myself up as an example!) If purists always had their way, we'd be stuck dead at the time of the arrival of the 1st purist (probably somewhere around 2000 BC: "No can copy cave-painting of other antelope - must make new version from watching real antelope") Me, I'd rather click on a Poser figure, muck around with it til it looked vaguely like the image in my head and if I like it enough, I'll share it with others. Or, make a new figure (if the mood struck me: unlikely - I can't afford the hi-end 3D modelers). Now, where can I get all of the freebies that will make up Tracy Emin's "Bed" (or whatever it was called - the one that got shown in the Tate...) - I could make a scene and put a facsimile of Tracy in it (stategically placed so that no naughty bits are showing, just to placate the purists...) Sorry if that sounded like a rant (wasn't meant to be) just a little satire :-) Cheers, Diolma

...and for that "full-on" stare, just use the relevant camera as a target for both eyes and they'll follow you around the room. (Creepy!) LOL and cheers, Diolma

THAT'S IT: Bridget Riley!! (goes and get fresh glass of beer to refresh memory. It's never helped before, buit maybe this time lucky). And thaqnks Mason! I've seen the same effect before, but only on the printed page, nothing quite so impressive as on that link! (thinks) - now how do I get that effect imported into a Poser scene? .... Cheers, Diolma

Just been added to my "Tutorials" folder..

@Scarab - could you IM me that link too? (posable bamboo at an adult site, my mind is boggling, when I occasionally stop laughing!) LOL! Cheers, Diolma

Blush!

Ah. Thx, Karen! I didn't know about the Srevice Release. I'll toddle over to Daz and get it...

@randym77: Randy - I haven't created ANY new runtimes yet. I left the !DAZ folder where it was (under Runtime) What I did (and this is NOT recommended, as I found out) was to copy all of the V3 MATs into a new folder under (the original) Runtime/Pose 'cos there were all these folders at the top level for all the different MAT types and it took ages to scroll thru them (get Stephanie Petite and it gets worse) So I created folder "Poser 5/Runtime/libraries/poses/V3 stuff" and moved all of the Inj/Rem stuff there. All is OK if I just want to inj/Rem a single MAT. BUT if I try to use the "Inj All": coffee time - because the scripts say //Begin All Body Morph Injection. // All Chest-Breast readScript ":Runtime:Libraries:Pose:!V3 Chest-Breast INJ:AreolaBig.pz2" readScript ":Runtime:Libraries:Pose:!V3 Chest-Breast INJ:AreolaOut.pz2" readScript ":Runtime:Libraries:Pose:!V3 Chest-Breast INJ:BreastDroop.pz2" .... (and believe me - there's a lot of file references inb there..) So Poser looks for them in "Runtime/libraries/Pose", NOT in "Runtime/Libraries/Pose/V3 Stuff/" (where I moved them to). doesn't find them and goes on looooong hunt... for EVERY one! So. It seems to me to be best to keep all the DAZ stuff in the same directory (probably the original Runtime/libraries/Pose directory) and move EVERYTHING else out into another runtime :-)) This only applies if you ever want to use the "INJ all or REM all" MAts - otherwise, everything is OK.. I'm still working on how I want to sort things...

"Dem bones, dem bones, dem Poser bones..." Just saved this tutorial (lot easier to understand than the Poser manual) :-))