Don't bother, if the vegetation issue is what you want resolved.
This update does not solve the problem with loading additional
vegetation into Vue. The program will tell you that you have loaded
the vegetation successfully (provided you don't follow the
instructions - otherwise it won't) but the vegetation file will
still be unuseable. It is a beta, after all... :

Hi, Dig! Those @#$%&! Vegans aught to be declared a menace to interstellar navigation! ;oD Haven't gotten to procedural terrains, but so far I like everything I've tried except the broccoli

That is a classic phish. Tell tech support and web support at e-on, and set up your spam blocker to autodelete the messages.

I'm an expert when it comes to real world chairs, and these should be marketedI'm not kidding. All this lacks to be orthopedically perfect is a slight lumbar support curve (preferably adjustable), and a head rest. As for the so called suggestiveness of the pose: turn on the TV for fifteen minutes, to any broadcast that includes commercials. If you don't see at least two things that are worse, your TV is broken

In the shop, we have a saying: "Power tools allow you to screw up a project far faster and more thoroughly than you ever could by hand." All CG software has one, and only one, advantage over "traditional" artists tools. It is easier and cheaper to fix a mistake. That't it. BTW: by the original criteria implied, any "traditional" or "real" artist must use a chewed reed, or the tip of the tail of an animal they killed, dressed, and butchered with stone tools, roasted over an open fire, and ate. If they want to use an air brush, they must fill their mouths with paint and spray it that way... ...otherwise, I won't consider it "real" art...just crap... ;^P

Art comes from the soul. Anything that does not, is not. Good art comes from practice, or very rarely, dumb luck. The medium you use is unimportant. Pigments are, literally, ground up, reprocessed dirt, for just a single example. Theodore Sturgeon once said, "Ninety percent of everything is crap! He was wrong. Everything since a splintered nanosecond after the start of the big bang is recycled waste. Don't let the cretin upset you. Next time you run into that attitude, skewer the poor, unsuspecting dolt with your best steely, penetrating gaze, and in a quiet but very firm voice, quote Strugeon at him/her/it/they/whatever. Then laugh in their face. After all, they earned it.

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Yes, DAZ has about the best I've seen, but it is rather crude in the corselet, (lorica) which has the wrong number of bands for either early or late versions, and very poor frontal detail. Gladius is pretty good, and the caligae are not bad. The pilum is too light. The helmet is a late version, the scutum an early version, and the front to back crest is just plain wrong for the mid Republic onward (even early Republic it's not quite right.) The lorica segmata, as it is called in modern times (we don't know what the Romans called it) came into use in the late Principatecompletely wrong for the armies of Julius or Augustus Caesar, or anything earlier.

There are numerous good reference sites on the web. Start at RAT (URL above), they have an abundance of reference links.

Greece and Rome at War by Peter Connolly is a very good pictoral reference for the entire period. It may be in print, but it should also be in your local library.

Most of the stuff I've seen is historically inaccurateeither not accurately modeled or mixes periods. Some day, I'm goona make my ownreal soon nowreallyermum

Ah! Thanks, that is a help!

There are 32 materials on a figure that need to be designated, apparently one at a time? Bleah! MAT poses, at least those from commercial products, don't seem to work. Applying the MAT pose will adjust the appropriate morphs (if they're loaded), but the textures aren't applied to any part of the figure. Once laboriously applied to each of the 32 parts, will a saved material pose work?

What size are the interface icons? Quite some time ago, I contacted them about fixing this (bigger or custom icon sizes such as in C4DXL) in a future upgrade, and they said they were considering it...

lmckenzie: Does that work on a Mac?

There's a screen magnifier on the Mac (where Microsoft got the idea), too, intended as a aid to those with impaired vision. Having to do this is a PITA/K, especially when one's eyes are perfectly normal for a person of one's age. But this has been a problem in Poser since about version 3, IIRC, and the space for the labels was a minor problem in Poser 1. None of the various owners of the software has ever had the consideration for their users to fix it. It is one of the major factors in CL being on my list of "most arrogant software companies." RANT! RANT! Rant! rant! rantrantrant rant

No. All the CL programers are under 30, or have enormous monitors. they can see the dials just fine There are some utilities on the Wintel side, but I don't think they help much for size or color. Grumble

I'd make the mouth wider and the lips narrower, but that's just me.

One thing I would love to see, and almost never do: make the faces slightly asymetrical, the way real faces always are.

Nice to "hear" from you, Laurie!