Thanks ^^ I'm suprised people are still posting on this. I've mostly gotten over it by playing non-commital 1-player games (cus while I wanted a lot of the time I was blowing on WoW for poser work, I still do ENJOY videogames and can't cut them out all together)

Thankfully, Portal 2 and Mass Effect 2 replays are a good drug.

@Hioushi: Yeah, ME2 was great. I only get about 2 playthroughs of each:

Female Infiltrator Shep: Character I identify with, more or less full-time Paragon except for brief moments of misjudgement. Lost Grunt, Jack, and Legion on suicide mission (Okay with that, Jack was a nutter, I knew Legion for all of 10 minutes, and Grunt is Krogan, dying is a cultural occupation).

Male Biotic Shep: Case study in video game cruelty potential. Basically always Renegade except when Paragon choice effected later mission better. Full survival of team on suicide mission (thanks to a piece of note paper and the Mass Effect wiki). Slept with Tali despite being such a jerk, I wanted to punch him and I'm the player.

While a lot of sequels are crap, some companies are really getting the stride for it these days. Thankfully the ones I play are single-player and non-addictive.

I mean, Mass Effect 2 was amazing and the idea that a decision made in the plot of the first game can effect the plot majorly even onwards into ME3 is so inventive. Bioshock 2 was touching. Sadly too is trash these days.

Lol, the only time i went a week without a render (or more normal in my case, making a mesh) was because my computer went soo far into crash-and-burn territory that I had to boot it with a thumb drive.

Thanks for all the commentary ^^. 2 Days later now, feeling a bit better. Decided to fill the time learning Marvelous Designer 2.

Just a coda on all this (aside from thanking you for the help despite this being highly OT) I felt I should share this phone convo I just had, as I find it funny:

Andrew (Husband): Hey, how's the whole quitting WoW thing going? Feeling a little better?

Sooraya (Moi): Okay enough, it's a little tough.

Andrew: You should do what I did when I needed to get off smoking.

Sooraya: What was that?

Andrew: A lot of weed.

Sooraya: Not helping.

Thanks, that's inspiring. I know it sounds silly to put so much stock in a game. I've decided to spend a  week away from all games in general, pretty much only using my computer for work and mulling over forums, I 'move on' on things very quickly once I get over a certain bump in the road it seems.

Of course my husband is like "Drink yourself stupid!".. the man isn't a font of wisdom, but I knew I wasn't exactly marrying a sage lol.

Actually I work out quite a bit, mostly because my job is painfully sedentary. I am thinking of joining a couple extra classes though. Thanks for the advice.

I've decided to do this in comic format.

@SamTherapy- Lol, yeah, my current job did that for magazines. I'm pretty much incapable of looking at a page in print media without becoming lost unpleasantly in the layout, identifying the techniques, and (worst of all) chronically identifying fonts.

In line with my theory, I do feel a lot better now that I've gotten some brief sleep. It's amazing how odd the brain works sometimes.

I do have to say, dynamic cloth is wonderful. I've had poser for a day and I managed to get this result. Maybe nowhere near professional quality, but I'd like to see conforming clothing do that. (okay, I cheated, I made the mesh in the days between ordering and recieving Poser, point remains though)

Gah, that ripoff series keeps getting attention when the true and orginal Robertcop goes forgot... lol.

Just a little update on this, I ended up getting Poser 8. Thank you all so much for all the help. I owe a lot of favors ^^. I managed to weasel a render out of it after I finished. I did this scene with DAZ studio a while back, I think it looks much nicer now.

Actually, that's very helpful. I don't need to consider IDL because I'm just using this to make content for someone else to use (he uses Pro 2010). Honestly if DAZ Studio 3 had a cloth room, I'd be using that instead. The morph creation seems nice too over manually tweaking in Blender.

Heh, with me its actually more a matter of "will be" exploring. I don't actually have Poser. My little brother (the one I'm learning this stuff to help) uses it. I'm more of a modeller, and not a very good one at that, I make a living on very erm... stylized, vector cartoons. I'm mostly learning Poser so I can help him out with his project, but since I have my mesh making tools (Blender and Sculptris) I'm plugging away at questions so I don't do something to my meshes that makes them unusable.

And yeah, dynamic clothing is amazing, back when I first got into Blender, I would waste DAYS with cloth and softbody simulations. It's a shame DAZ Studio (the poser-family software I DO use) only supports one company's products and lacks a cloth room.