damn! renderosity trashed my carefully worded reply! damn you php! :oD anyway - lets start again - found the thread 'cos MGD sent one of his ravens to whisper in my ear about it:o) pretty cool seeing everyones place - quite impressed with the workspaces in evidence. some have def inspired me. i wrote a whole section on dual monitors, but all lost now :O( luckilt MGD explained it pretty well :o) you got a pretty new hewlett packard, right? all you need to do is buy a graphics card that will replace the one already in your AGP slot. get an nvidia based one, but if you got the $$$ think you might do some rendering or CAD work - splash out on one of the [quadro series](http://www.nvidia.com/page/quadronvs.html) - they def rock. i found a tripple head output(sorry chaps but techie words & phrases like that just arouse me - i know i'm a freak!) card: the [parhelia](http://www.matrox.com/mga/archive_story/oct2002/video_workstation.cfm) it might be a bit dated now as i seem to remember it coming out last year. if you're really interested tell me your budget & i'll do a proper search for you as i was thinking of getting a new card anyway :o) "Q. Do you know the difference between a used car salesman and a computer salesman? A. The used car salesman knows when he is lying to you. " ROTFLMAO - that is soo true MGD - :oD crumbs on the plate? where? when i turned round to look i realised that the mouse or the teddy musta cleaned it up. grrr! i used that water as crowd control on the unruly blighters! no alkaseltzer in the glass - just a trick of the light - i lead too much of a dull life to get hangovers i'm afraid :o( that book is the clan of the cave bar - eagle eyes! quite like that series. here's a close up for all the bibliophiles:

adding my messy corner :o)

lol - no problem! thanks very much for the info :o)

very nice pics MGD. how long does a lady take to get dressed up in that? i only ask - because it seems that it would take longer & be more complicated than the male outfits.

well, chaps - i've done a few pictures now. annoyingly, the house is proving quite difficult. but i will persevere.

here are the other ones i posted:
thanks for the selection process tip - it made it much easier:o)

http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=567933&Start=1&Artist=georgedvore&ByArtist=Yes

http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=568408&Start=1&Artist=georgedvore&ByArtist=Yes

http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=579412&Start=1&Artist=georgedvore&ByArtist=Yes

i didn't go for the plugins, in the end to create the ray of light, as i found an excellent tute which covered it pretty well:
tute = http://www.apple.com/creative/resources/rays/index.html

image made:
http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=568874&Start=1&Artist=georgedvore&ByArtist=Yes

hope you like 'em:o)

duude! weel done. that is def a good effect:o)

no - that'as pretty much one of the questions i had - thanks very much for your reply - i think that has sorted the prob out. i'll post once i've finished:o)

Cheers guys - i'll check 'em out:o)

Here is what I have done so far:

i live in bournemouth, winton (near uni) to be exact. give me a shout!

LOOKS COOL!

sympathies. i know what you are going through! another thing is if a folder in the path was deleted. i.e : a directory structure change(as happens after a system restore). if that happens poser goes into a loop, requireing a shutdown. also, you can't use that prop until it's reinstalled!

i've got the pc version of poser 4 & it never accepts the file if the name is not exactly correct. i can't believe you mac guys are in nirvana over this! ;-) btw, thanks for all the info on bumps, that's why i originally started reading this thread. most helpful!

thanks v much guys! just one thing. when applying a jpg as a bump map. it looks ok. just wanted to make sure that this is the optimal method?

thanks for the info. so you need mat poses in order to do this? what's that all about? i'll head over to curious labs to find out. thanks for the pointer again!