You are not the first to have a problem with a web host. Thanks for the beautiful work.

Forgot to mention it was an Error 403: Forbidden, which is why I mentioned the possibility of hosting help.

She looks lovely...and Russian! If I had a Cyrillic keyboard, I'd say prekrasna! But I can't download her from FreeStuff...I am getting an error message. I hope mad.s can fix it, or someone here can help him with a mirror, if needed.

Although camera angles and lighting do a lot for an image, I think I would emphasize textures and transparencies as making the biggest difference for realism. But (at least in this context) it's always better to show than tell. So I would suggest going to the webring links on the right side of the page, probably the "next 15 entries" link. Check out sites like PoserFactory, Digital Babes, and RENDERoCITY. The stuff (at least at the first 2 I listed) is free to download, use (non-commercially), and study. I believe Kozaburo has a tutorial on transmapping hair at one of the first 2 sites also. The regular P4 nude fem (Posette) doesn't seem to have as many photorealistic textures as Vicky, but there is a Vickybuster texture in the FreeStuff section at this site that might inspire you. Rendering in Bryce might also help; I am no expert in that regard, but I have seen forum threads and tutorials on that topic galore.

This is by no means my araea of expertise, but I know that Traveller's tutorials make reference to the "magic triangle" which is an .obj file apparently needed for the process. If I remember correctly, not using the triangle can lead to program faults. Of course, if you have already d/l'ed the triangle, please ignore.

Thanks for the info! I may have to download that TrueSpace demo now...

Cool, but now I'd like to know whether that 5 minute time increases as the frame count increases, and if so, how many frames took 5 minutes?

That's VERY Cool! A couple of questions, though: 1. How long did it take to convert the animation? 2. Will the plugin work with Mimic?