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http://www.ebonshire.net/tut-geep/index.php

Hope youn find it.

Jackson & others: I agree with you 100%. To me, avatars, emoticons and signatures just get in the way. I read the forums for information and ideas and have avoided the forums at other sites because of these distractions. I have never found the forums at other sites to have as much information passed along, either, and I always attributed that to those distracting elements. I hope the wisdom doesn't stop flowing now.

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I would experiment with the transperency falloff, but since falloff only applies to a surface's transperency as it is seen at oblique angles, I would think that it would have either no effect or would ruin it. I'm assuming that the water is being viewed at an oblique angle such as from the POV of some one standing on the shore. As far as tutorials are concerned, I don't know of any. hopefully some one will read this thread and post a link to one. I did stumble across a link yesterday in the forum to castleposer. There are free node based texture modifiers offered at this site, along with some excellent tutorials on similar subjects. The texture modifiers make gradations from P nodes in exactly the way I stated above. If you play around with the math funcions and the variables you should get what you want.

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There's one at Poser World. It's a trenchcoat with morphs. There may be a dynamic version.

This may or may not work: You could apply a transperency map with a gradation form black or gray to white. You could use either a math node (P node run thruogh a math functions node)or an image map with an image created in a paint program. Use this to create a transperency that would make the water transperent at the shore and more opaque as it gets further from the shore. The color in the water will be preserved. Depending on how the water plane is UV Mapped you may not be able to use an image map to do this with out remapping it. Hope it helps

Zippo has a few also. http://mugi.site.ne.jp/lab108

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Poseray converts any 3d file type (that I know of) into .obj. It preserves the mapping and its free, too.

I solved the problem with a desktop shortcut to my textures folder. I also have one to my Poser 6 folder so that I can put runtime folders into it from opened zip files. I go from desktop folder to desktop icon.

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This is a link to Ockham's Eureka python script that will solve the problem you mentioned. Can take a while to work, though, from my experience.

rowen_crisp Great tip! I just tried it. I never knew it was there. Now I'll be searching for anything else I can find. Does that answer your questiion?

Attached Link: http://ockhamsbungalow.com/Python/

Ockham does have a DeleteLights.py script. Follow the link and scroll down, they're not listed alphabetically. I share your frustration with light management. Prior to P5 and this script I was pulling my hair out.

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Try 3dCafe. They have a variety of potted and soil based plants. Most are in .3ds or .dfx format which can be imported into poser.

Thank you so much for your help! ruyslilangel, thanks, thats where I'm going randym77, it's a free site. karen1573, I'll do that Countach

Assuming the baker is clear you have to make a transperency map. If you have the lettering in white on a black background then plug it into the transperency input. If the mapping is right then it should work. If the mapping isn't right then the lettering will be in the wrong place.

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You can download free models of houses from 3dCafe.com. Scroll down to the Architecture link and click on the link for the thumbnail page. They are low-poly and in .3ds format. You can export them from Poser in .obj format and use UVMapper to correct any problems such as bulging polygons.