My card was also hacked today (all of my credit line was stolen by Qatar Airways or some such bogus company) and I cancelled it right away. I made the mistake of making one single Credit Card purchase on this site couple of weeks down the road when at the time for some reason I was not able to make a PayPal purchase here. Incidentally my cc statement clearly states I've only used PayPal, Amazon, Spotify and Netflix repeatedly in addition to this one single purchase from Rendo. Quite disturbing.

I'm honored to be picked. Thx!

Unable to make purchases with my MasterCard. It's been a few months since I made purchases last time but have been a customer here since 2004 or something like that.

Apparently I can no longer make purchases with PayPal as my perfectly valid MasterCard can no longer be used when making Rendo purchases through PayPal. Then I just tried to purchase directly with my credit card and I get this every time: "Declined: 10557-A profile preference is set to automatically deny certain transactions.". There has been absolutely zero problems with this card or with PayPal before this when making Rendo purchases. Just for kicks I did a successful PayPal purchase from a rivaling storefront as I was typing this to make sure there is nothing wrong with my card.

"Do you have the original poser image to show what it looked like before you colored it?"

Here. But it's not just about coloring. In this instance I merely changed the underlying images via filtering and drawing on top of them. The beautiful part is that the renders don't need to be very high quality and any errors can just be smoothed over via post working. Sometimes even preview renders are completely sufficient.

"From what I saw, he created the images in poser, stripped the color out, and then "colored" them himself. I'm wondering why?"

I personally don't like the end result of just applying some PS actions to straight-up renders. Opposed to the OP, I don't think the images done that way look good at all. Then again others may not like the more hand drawn -like illustrative style I'm striving to go towards with my work. People appreciate different things and for different reasons.

When I'm creating an image, I much prefer the liberty I get with Photoshop and my Wacom tablet using the render(s) only as a starting point to be shattered, mutilated and bend into the final form. I don't like something in a render? Fine, I can draw over it. I don't have an appropriate beard model? No problem, I might as well draw the beard I want. I totally understand the design choices made by the makers of Anomaly.

I mostly make just still images but with a style reminiscent of comics. For example here is a simple image composed of Poser renders post-worked in Photoshop.

moriador posted at 11:50AM Tue, 06 October 2015 - #4232489

... and painting like this is positively addictive,

Well said.

Thank you. One additional thing: once you get confident in tracing lines or painting over a render, you gradually start to learn how to modify and extend the underlying render. Soon you'll find that you can draw on your clothing items, accessories, hair, beard, backgrounds etc. from scratch. As an added bonus you'll develop a style of your own that makes the end result an extension of you: I think that is the most important thing of all.

I've been doing what the OP described for 15 years. Confident use of a drawing tablet is essential as well as familiarity with whatever 2D program one uses. Here is a sketchy illustration I did few weeks ago. Poser and Photoshop.

And another that features a scenery.

@triangle2010: what is your objective exactly?

I have imported lots of partial items from Xnalara -enabled character models into Poser and re-rigged them in Poser to get conforming models in just a few steps. I have Poser Pro 2014 - and not the game dev.

Here is a step-by-step guide for creating a M4 conforming item out from a Xnalara model.

1. Export to OBJ from Xnalara. You can use a complete Xnalara model and just delete unwanted parts in a 3D program. Posing the model in Xnalara to approximately the same as your target model may be in order (like if you're thinking of loaning a shirt for M4 from a Xnalara model, it becomes easier to initially use a pose that closely resembles default M4 pose resulting in less work in step 3).
2. In a 3D program (I use Wings3D for this), delete what you don't want (like if taking a shirt, delete skin, hair, eyes, lips etc and just leave the shirt), re-arrange or define new material groups and tesselate to get rid of tris. Renaming of the material groups may be desired. Export to OBJ.
3. Import the OBJ into Poser. Use morph brush, scaling and translating to fit it into a default zero pose of the target model (like V4 or M4).
4. Export the manipulated item to OBJ from Poser. Re-import (make sure NO options are selected in the import dialog). It should now fit the default pose of your target model.
5. Selecting the imported model, now enter setup room and answer yes to the dialog.
6. Leave the setup room back to the posing room. This trip makes the item as a dummy figure.
7. Save the newly formed figure. Use WardrobeWizard to convert the newly saved model using the same "from" model and "target" model (like convert from M4 to M4).
8. WW saves you a new figure that is now conforming when you load it. Join parameters may be wonky and may need be manually adjusted. Poser Pro 2014 allows to transform morphs from model to model so for my purposes I'm now done having created a new superconforming clothing item for M4.

In step 6 you could create the rigging from a donor model as well - I personally don't do this. WardrobeWizard conversion does not work that well for footwear and converting does require appropriate WW figure packs to be purchased from PhilC. But as an added bonus, WW conversion gives you many adjustments dials out of the box (like material zone inflates). I can go through this entire process in just 15 minutes give or take 5 depending on how much manual work needs to be done in step 2. First try will take considerably longer. Skipping the 3D program step is possible but Poser really doesn't like tris so don't expect good results.

This process **MAY **work with an entire Xnalara -enabled character model - I have only used to transfer clothing items, hair, beards and such. In essence it should be possible to convert a Xnalara -enabled character model to use a donor rig from - say - V4.

As an example, the below Poser illustration (postworked in Photoshop) has the hair from Xnalara -enabled AC3 model and jacket from a Xnalara -enabled Left4Dead model.

This entire process is crude. It works fairly well though for my own intentions (getting a Poser render to be used as a basis in Photoshop). If your intention is to render lifelike game models in complex poses inside Poser, I don't think this process yields usable results.

Poser and Photoshop

Two recent images attached. 50% poser, 50% Photoshop.

@4220815

At least now this forum accepts The Most Important Thing(TM) a forum software absolute must accept - emojis. Like , and without which Poser forum members simply cannot survive. Features such as searching and a sane quoting system are not so important apparently.

Personally I didn't think the forums could get any worse. I was wrong.

Just FYI, Semidieu's Library Manager Python tool meant as Poser library replacement at RDNA also automatically converts .rsr files to .png whenever it encounters them. I've never had to worry about .rsr -files again when I bought the tool many years ago.