Oh Boy!

What's next? Handwriting obj files? (I'm joking, of course)

That is a lot of points to observe, it's pratically a road map to frustration and failure, right?
I will sit through this advise and follow it point to point until I have a positive result.

Thanks for answering my quesitons.
Keep you posted.

Thanks for answering to my thread.

Yes, I imported LaFemme at original scale. In Poser I used the LFDecRig to fit the clothes and rig them. Therefore I saw no reason to zero out the figure. In the properties panel every box was ticked. 

My guess is, I missed something on the way through the fitting and rigging process.

The strange part is that the outcome is exactly the same regardless if I use the fitting room, or the setup room.

Thanks so far. I will try again tomorrow.

@ Varnayrah

I'm working on it. To keep this thread on topic, I will contact you via side mail, if you don't mind.

@Afrodite-Ohki

Just in case it is not obvious yet, I try my best!
A Poser-Wiki would be a dream within a dream.

@ Varnayrah

I understand your situation.
I have the privilege to have a part time job that pays pretty well and doesn't drain that much energy out.
So, I can spend time on learning Blender for example. I'm far from really knowing my way around it, but I can squeeze something out of it, if I try hard enough.
I absolutely agree with your notion on more "fancy" clothing items and I love the examples you came up with.
I remember the days of Victoria 3 and her morphing dress and I have a bunch of texture and morph packs for it in my library.
What kind of lingerie would you like to have? I have worked on a Baby-Doll, a Body-Stocking and a better pair of Stockings.
My LF-Stockings in the Free-stuff section working fine, but think I have the experience now to fix some issues and make them available for LF2 also.

Just let me know.

Amendment:

I tested the DoF settings on Firefly as well, you can switch it on or of to your liking. Works as usual.

Thanks for sharing those advice to adresse this problem.
I checked it out and...it works pretty fine, of course.
At least we have a workaround until the next update, I guess.

Addition to the previous post:

I created a new scene and rendered it, everything was fine.
I switched DoF on, took a render and DoF worked as expected.
I switched DoF off and took a render with face, dolly, aux, hand and posing camera...DoF was always active.
I created a new camera, rendered the shot and...still DoF is on.
The moment you switch DoF on, the scene can't be rendered without DoF anymore.
I also tryed to get rid of it by hitting the undo button to the point the scene was empty.
It doesn't work.

I just wanted to add another observation regarding the DoF function.

In the aftermath of my initial posting, I went to check if I could render the scene with another camera without the DoF effect.

Turns out the DoF is turned on in every camera available.

Since the DoF checkbox in the render settings panel is unchecked in any case, DoF can't be turned off for this particular file.

I didn't checked if a new scene is also set to use DoF. If that's the case I will come back and put in another post.

@igohigh

I don't think you should shut up. Instead you should ask for what you want or need. As I wrote in the initial posting, we have an imbalance in the things we want to use and the things we can have and I think a lack of communication plays a huge role in this.

And by communicating I mean not only tutorials, but round tables with older, experienced Poser user or content creator, building a pool of ideas for fresh content and maybe some sort of workbench project for people who have a work in progress and need someone to get certain parts of that project afloat. Some people are good in modeling, but can't wrap their heads around subjects like texturing or rigging. Wouldn't it be nice to have a helping hand in such circumstances? The fact remains that the majority of content creators have left Poser, so my idea is to join the know how and human resources we have left and build content as a form of a community project. As I said earlier, my background is the free and open source software community, I use Linux, Gimp, Krita, Blender and Kdenlive. I think Blender and it's great and innovative community could be function as a good role model to illustrate my idea of a community. This doesn't mean you can't sell the fruits of such a collaboration, but that is another cane of worms to open another day.

What do you think, does this sound reasonable or does it lean towards crazy-land?

Ups, seems I stumbled on something.

I stay tuned for news.

Hi fellow Poser User,
I'm glad this tread is continue to draw attention.
So far there are very reasonable postings and suggestions coming in.
I learned that I'm obviously not the only one who is missing a thing or two to be available in Poser.
I take that as a positive sign and a driving reason to go further.

I completely agree with what Ohki wrote.
The lack of content creators is Posers biggest weakness.
The question is, how can we brew, cook, bake or breed new one?
One answer could be to make it easier for people to start making content.
Poser already made major steps in that direction by having Poser Fusion for the big player in Modeling and content creation.
That's sadly history and it seems it's not making a comeback.
Me for example had purchased the C4D r12 back in 2010 initially because it was a great way of creating things and exporting them into Poser at the right scale, but also import entire projects animations right into C4D which had, at that time, the better render engine and was way quicker.
In my opinion, it is long overdue to have this kind of interconnection to Blender.
Another solution of the problem would be to create a "school" for new creators, with older and accomplished Poser Content creator as tutors.
To have an idea in mind and to get it into Poser is a bumpy ride, that I know from experience.
I was almost willing to quit the project (the diving suit for LaFemme) because I failed in almost every step of that journey.
It was the help of the community here on Rendo, but also me asking questions and keeping ask to get to the buttom of the barrle.
I guess, some of my questions were pretty much answered a gazillion times and some of you thought this guy is annoying as f, but at the end I released a product which was at least downloaded a few times.
How much more easier it would be to have a forum that is dedicated to upcoming creators who had concepts for content, but not the skills to make it happen.
I know that there are objections to that idea because some of you have bills to pay and content to sell. To give advice to others could harm your business, I understand that.
Coming from a philosophy of free and open source software and being an advocate for the Linux OS, my first priority in this regard is to keep Poser alive and well.
That's why all of my content is and will be free to use.
To make that clear, that's my opinion and I know that you most certainly have yours as well.
The question is, how can we work together to make our favorite software stay in business and getting better.
If you like to discuss some of the ideas that are being brought up, I'm happy to join in.

One thing to what Ohhi said about Lafemme, the images I create with LaFemme are mostly adult entertainment.
The audience I offer my images to is quick to point out flaws of a figure  and that in a rather harsh way.
Since I stopped using V4 and start using LaFemme, creating clothing and body morph for here, I had not one complained, like at all.
Instead I get likes, Images are shared and the comments are positive.
The interesting part is, no one seems to know that LaFemme and Poser exist.
That's another field the needs to be addressed I think.
I made it a habit to name the things I use to create my images to every posting.
This credits have stirred a few reactions, people who had heard that Poser is out of business are surprised to see that this is far from truth.
So, I think with every little step we make, we are getting better and that counts, at least to me.
The worse thing we can do is doing nothing.

@RedPhantom

Thanks for answering my questions.

I do understand that example with the skirt which had handles before as a conforming clothing. If you attach all the parts of the mesh you want to be dynamic, those parts still getting influenced by this single bone, right? That's why I thought to exclude them completely from any bone influence. I think I have to do a simple prop and try how it works out. 

Thank you very much for all the comments so far. It's really good to see that the Poser user community cares.

The initial intention behind this thread was to put together a list of things you might have seen in the Daz Store or needed for a project, but wasn't available in one way or another. 

It seems we all could agree to the notion that the wardrobe of LaFemme an LHomme is pretty short on items, especially in regards to LaFemme 2.

I would like to ask what kind of clothing you prefer to work with. The obvious choices are dynamic clothing or conforming clothes. 

I also would be interested to know how to build conforming clothes with dynamic parts. I guess the dynamic parts has to be excluded from the part of the mesh that is influenced by a bone, but I'm not sure if that is the right way to do it.

So far, I'm quite happy with the amount and quality of the comments. I also appreciate the civilized tone of the discussion.

Have a great week and greetings from Germany.

@RedPhantom

Thanks for pointing that out. I wasn't aware of that product. I will definitely check it out. One item less on the list.👍 

@wfbp1w

That is interesting.
I wasn't aware that the backward compatibility in Daz Studio reaches as far as V4/M4.
I just installed a fresh copy of Daz Studio to learn about how they build there base models.
My last statement about the single base mesh of the Genesis Platform is only partial true.
I found out that Genesis 9 is back to that single base mesh model for both sexes.
Loading this mesh next to a LaFemme mesh into Blender reveals the difference between both meshes quickly.
Genesis 9 has a very orderly mesh, it looks almost like a chess board.
Even with little experience in regards to UV mapping I can imagine that this dense and evenly created mesh shows less texture distortion and can support highres textures.
This clean geometry itself helps immensely to create more realistic morphs and better fitting clothing.
As much as I like the LaFemme figure, I see the point being made about the Genesis Platform.
The only conclusion I can draw from seeing this is that we need something similar for Poser.