Good choice of carreer. Nemirc is right on. To be good- you gotta be pretty much obsessed. There is SO much reading, problemsolving, time, & multitude of aspects of 3d you never considered, it takes a real love of it to get over the hump. If you have a good demo reel, any shortcoming in formal training can/will be overlooked. Conversely, a crappy demoreel & you are doomed, no matter your credentials. To get started, be prepared to read alot. I suggest try a still image project. Do the tutorials on your software of choice. Adding animation should be postponed til later, it adds more than double the work required. I love Poser, but you should not expect much respect for work if all you know is Poser. You need to get started with one of the big 3d programs, like Max, Maya, Lightwave. I believe Max & Maya are the biggest. good luck, Pack

I really like the test to speech (TTS) samples-= & the accents as well. The best I've ever heard. Has anyone heard any TTS comparable to Poser Toolbox???? regards, Pack angrymobb@comcast.net

I am hoping to export Poses from within any particular Poses folder (make folder name optional/choosable from a menu of existing Pose folders, or a path name)) from in the Pose library, & export the Pose sequence as a bvh file. Perhaps with a couple frames in between each pose to avoid confusing Poser with too fast of changes.. Also using linear interpolation. The idea is to make the 10,000 or so cool poses available to other 3d animation programs, via the bvh format. regards, pack

Oh- & I don't totaly agree Max 5 doesn't import PP/PZ3 files. It does have some difficulty with transparency & bump maps especially - & some diffuse maps, but the animation seems fine. It only takes 10 min to remap a figure (the first time- much less subsequent times). IMO, this is still an enormous time savings. regards, Pack

I don't mean anything from the Props folder necessarily- I mean basic shapes Poser comes with (cube, plane, sphere/ball) aren't allowed usually. Props that originate from standard formats- 3ds, obj, etc work fine.

Make sure you remove any Poser Props from the original PZ3 file. One of the props, objects in your PZ3 are incompatible w Max. Remove various parts to figure it out.

Thanks Jaeg. I have PP & P5 both installed. The INJ's work for PP, but not P5. When I try reinstalling V3, I can't install her in the P5 (Curious Labs/Poser 5 folder, it can't find the orig Victoria. I suspect a bogus V3 install, as do you. Thanks, Pack

In case you're wondering I bought all the V3 body & & head & Male morph packs, & installed them- 338 files in the !DazV3bodyChanVis folder . Sorry for being so dense, I have read the info at the Daz website-

I see in the Libraries!Daz folder subfolders called Victoria 3BodyChanVis. Is that where you mean?. If so- where specifically? I don't see how poser can look there since its not in the usual locations- Character-Pose-Faces- etc. I bought a V3 character- the instructions & unzip paths all specify the Pose folder. Please advise, Pack

Wondertouch is a 1 man company - the creator of Illusion. Allan is amazing. His program - hardly requires the manual- save for learning alpha channel. It is amazingly fast to create profesional quality. 90% of the time- is spent not creating new FX, but deciding which FX you already made even better. Pack

Is fine unless running multiple apps too much. If P5 or P4 is Processing & I switch to other task- frequently locks.

Also has Max & Lightwave animation/PZ3 exporting, A huge feature for some of us.

Yes, that would be perfect. Thanks, Pack

The problem is in Poser Pro. Not that there aren't also Max problems....... The eyewhite matireal - I can change its color- but never see the map- as if the UV changed.

Yes yours. I worked around by importing an Orc MT onto another working figure. Even comparing settings- i could not figure it out. Also 3dsMax obj's not working well at all, unless I use PPP export pz3 import to Max thnx Pack