Poser morph target need the same number of vertexes in the geometry for being accepted. So your new geometry (the mirror and weld thing) goes through, but... the vertex order is probably totally different from the original, so that when the dial is 0, no modification is applied and all seems ok, but as soon as you apply any, poser will try to move every vertex of its original model towards its new position given by your morph object, thus crossing all the mesh and making a mess. My suggestion: in whatever program you are working outside of poser, NEVER delete or replace any vertex/polygon/face. Only move them around. If you can do that, mirror the modifiers applied to the mesh, not the parts of the mesh.

Great! I am just puzzled by one thing: "All entries will be numbered and judged on a scale of 7-10"... shouldn't that be a scale of 1-10? Hehe... just to be sure if that's a typo or how it will be. Thanks!

Antialiasing in firefly is done by the post render filter (the lower slider in the center) and you can choose among 3 settings (box, gaussian, sinc) and 4 levels for each of them. Box is the simplest, sinc the more 'soft', 1 is minimum and 4 is the heaviest degree of filtering you can apply. The pixel samples level is more or less the level of detail you want to have in the rendering. For a simple composition, with not very detailed textures, a level of 3-5 is good. If you are using hair, closeups with high resolution textures, or depth of field or reflections and refractions, then you should increase that, up to the maximum for the most detailed rendering. (You will also need to increase the maximum texture resolution number for avoiding blurred texturing). Hope this helps a bit Happy rendering!

WOW! That GI Sara is fantastic looking! ;)

Definitely a better user interface for the library, file-manager style, with the possibility to move the files and create directories from inside poser to reorgainze it better. Then a renderer with radiosity, or at least a more 'complete' ray tracer (ever tried to reflect a ray of volumetric light? It just does not appear in the mirror surface), and the refraction node suffers some serious limits now... Last... better documentation in the box ;)

No idea on the resources allocations in XP. For the second point, most frequently the problem is memory management (on Poser side). I have the same problem some times, and solved it in one of the following modes (depending on the scene i am rendering): - if the scene involves many figures of moderate size (i.e. crowd, groups of people or some people with complex props and scenery in wide view shots), turning the maximum texture resolution down to 1024 or less (512 is decent too), can solve the problem. You don't want to use this trick if you have a closeup shot... since the textures details would be awful. - in other cases, splitting the scene in 2 or more 'layers' is also a good option. The background should contain the objects that are far from the camera, the front layer the closer ones. Render the two or more scenes separately, save the renders in psd or tiff format (for having also the alpha channel in the image) and then compose the layers in Photoshop or PSP or an image software of your choice. - for hope sake, sometimes only reducing the bucket size in render options to 16 or 8 can just solve the problem, so you'd like to try this one first. Regarding render times, the worst slowdown is caused by raytraced refractions and atmospheric effect (i.e. volumetric light). Shadow maps calculations are also a big time consumer. If you have many lights in your scene, try to activate shadows only for the main lights, and turn off the shadow option for the filling and ambient lights. Hope this might help. Happy rendering

Seems good by the website, but is it really 'new'? i mean i checked the dl link and the release date says 2003-11-24. Oh wait... just spotted the Beta of July 04... winces hmmm maybe I'll wayt for the release... I hate working on stuff with betas... but that's just my point of view.

... going OT i think one of the best flat tops ever was Grace Jones's (I think in one of the last Roger Moore's Bond movies). Well actually... being a bit sarcastic, Grace Jones had 2 flat tops, one on her head, the other was her breast ;) Ok. My 5 mins of sillyness...

I was thinking of 'boning' that 3ds model, but then i saw it's about 500k polygons :) - btw importing it in Max5 it seems to be all connected and rigged, so probably ready to be used (I didn't try anything since my machine slowed to a crawl) I guess Poser would choke at 1/4 of importing and refuse to do anything more...

Got some ideas for that, yet any time i try to do a test print, my car comes out of the printer completely squashed... I spent nearly 20k bucks in repairs... ;) OK, jokes aside, could you be a bit more specific about the size/resolution of the images please?

Thanks all :) As always nice people and feedback around here!

I'm in! I'm in! now, where's Ohio.... browsing atlas... damn! 6.000 miles away! sigh Hey, I'm in with my spirit! Have a beer toasting towards Europe, and, most of all, have Big FUN! Stef ;)

...hmmm probably saving the skirt only figure after the morphs are set by hitting the + icon on the library palette (when in a character/figure appropriate sub-library). This is the quickest way (do it having the skirt selected, or it'd save another object/figure). You will see that as an icon for that, poser will make a thumbnail of your current view. If you want a thumbnail showing only the skirt make all the rest invisible or just delete it from the scene (if the scene is no longer needed). There should be a way to reset only the morphs without affecting the transform dials and making that a standard position from one of the 'advanced' windows (can't remember its name now, it has something to do with the bones, ik, setup, but not the hierarchy window), it's in the windows menu i seem to remember... Glad I could help! Stef

It's just in another menu i don't have poser on this machine but i guess it's in the figure menu, create full body morph (just try some of those menus...)

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thanks, saw that ;) - 15$ seems a bit pricey for a single cloth like that tho... still looking.