Thanks, the skin is really nice. I cant do it probably til early next year at best but may be worth a look. One thing with poser back when I was in the game. for the most part it looked like a 3d render. When I left it was getting better and at times I was pleased with it. but I learned in animation school that my love is of environments. unfortunately didnt get to finish and theres a long story i will spare you. I just always loved playing with light.

I appreciate the help.

What I wanted to know, thank you.

Thank you. It may be a bit or I may try doing something in maya. Problem I was seeing is that meshes made in new software I couldnt open and the meshes I made wouldnt open in some softwares. maybe I should run a trial on something. I also need to decide what to do about textures. I usually use either megascans or substance. Substance I can use if it is well altered but megascans I cant use at all. theres free pbr.com too. But I dont know if people want it textured or just nekked.

Thanks Sam, I had forgotten that one. Might be nicer if I could offer textures with my freebies.

As regards textures...yes or no? I usually use megascans and Substance textures for myself. Can't use the Megascans ones for freebies but if altered sufficiently Allegorithmic gives permission to use theirs. But would it be better to leave it untextured so people can texture it as befits their scene? I may start that way and see how it goes. Other thought is pristine clean meshes or weathered and with 'character'? Perhaps as befits the item and my available time. Thanks

3dOutlaw-yes i've seen some really nice work in Blender and I plan on having a look. Baba, thx and yes ive worked in Sketchup before. Will start out in Maya since thats what I kinda know. Then as time permits will do some looking. I also want to create some natural and organic meshes. Doubt I will ever try sculpting people tho. I also have always wanted to make rocks and trees and terrain in Zbrush. Have that on the backburner as time is very limited. Theres just something so theraoeutic in creating a mesh, texturing it and rendering it. My first love is LIGHT. If you've never looked Unreal Game Engine is free and a beautifull tool. If you signup you also get all the Megascans textures for free to use within Unreal. You could create things and take them into Unreal and make a scene then go in and explore it.

At this point I will be using maya 2014. Im modelling to create and texture meshes to use in unreal. i thought i'd drop em in here in case anyone could use em. I was in Maya 2018 but cant use it anymore. I tbh dont know if i'll have time to learn Blender, not until a certain exam is done. But i somewhat know maya. My main focus is learning unreal and secondary reupping modelling skills and texturing.

Thanks, will be pretty basic as I havent modelled in a couple years. I dont get to use Maya 2018 anymore so its either back to 2014 or Blender. Kinda interested to try Blender and see how rough it is to get a good render.

Ahh, thanks, so cant use my old trees in the demo. Then I need to get the monthly sub and ask them to let me use my trees and redownload them. I will do that if they ever answer me. Appreciate the info

Thx Greymom, I had forgotten, and they offer free samples to, will see what they have. now if I can find something to work in the ecosystem. Its just really odd that trees that are locked to a license wont work with that license, something is broken. I didnt get a response the last request I made so dont expect one this time.

Actually, I didnt see them as a free cloud service. I had all my purchases on a remote drive safe and secure. My Vue2014 developed serious issues and working w/ support didnt fix it. It came to a point where I was spending too much time trying to find a fix. In frustration I deleted my Vue and the content and let it rest for months. On a lark I ran across an old remote drive that had Vue on it and gave it a try, Corn3d was kind enough to let me redownload the content even tho the website was gone. But as before the content would not open in the reinstalled 2014. I tried the demo and same thing, no helpfull error msg just a msg that it couldnt open it. They gave up and I gave up.

But I was still checking the website to see if it would ever come back and thats when I caught that E-on's new site was up w/ a new pricing. So, am giving the new demo a try. I had also found a couple of the old trees on that remote drive so I tested. That's when I got a second msg to go to the 'help' and request etc. That is the first and only indication that my assets were not authorised for the vue I was using. I'm going to think that the reason they didnt work with my 2014 is that the authorisation process became corrupted somehow. There is a 'help' on my menu bar in Vue demo but nothing that adresses legacy unlocking, nor is there anything on my acct page at their site. I have emailed them asking but I wont hold my breathe. My requests to get the demo using my registered email did nothing. I actually had to create a new email acct.

So THATS why i'm searching for alt sources of trees, spec pines. Anything that depends on another plant I cant use because I wont have access to that plant. basically all I want Vue for at this point is to render terrains I create in World Creator and Builder, but I do need trees. I love the Asilefx site but many of the plants have dependencies and it isnt detailed which ones. Anyway, thanks for the answer

Forgive me for being terribly dense. Am also trying to render out with a transparent background. I searched for the above fix but find no ground plane to fix? What am I missing? Thx

I did email and got a response from Walther, who is always awesome helping out. They have had some security issues and are fixing them. Sad that it comes at this time of year but then they have had no choice. Hope its back soon.

Thx, wonder if they would answer an email, probably not. Merry Christmas :)

I hear ya, invested heavily into V4 and M4. Tried using an exported fbx file from Daz studio. Tried an obj. And I also am in poser 2011.1. I have no way to import an fbx file just obj and that doesnt work rt, is kinda messed up. Tried bringing them into maya 2014 because would like to have figures to use. Fbx came in fine with textures intact for the body but simple clothes and the neck were crazy. Obj came in figure ok but no textures. I saw for 30 bucks an importer from daz to maya 2016. The figure I did get into poser was not poseable so was worthless. Will look after the week is over, get the privelege to close cmas eve and open the morning, :) If I get something to work will pass it along. havent been using Poser and never can get DS to work right so will just keep going on maya and zbrush.