Not worried about stacking the JCMs at this time, really i just needed a couple basic ones to get the edge of a set of shorts out of V4s icky thighs when they are bent and the smooth out the crotch area.

Needed one for when the leg was bent back and a second for when it went forward.

It is not renumbering them, had it just been that, I would have just removed the numbers again. sworn alot about it beiing possessed and moved on from there.  It is deleting the ERC entirely. 

I do have 2012 but was working on all this in 8 since I only just got the newer one and as of yet am still a little sketchy on all the details of everything.  8 has had all the SRs installed as they came out so no idea what seems to be the issue.

Thanks for the assist, Cage 

I only recently delved into rigging with a lot of help from a friend here, but was having a similar issue with my clothes going to bits when I posed the figure.  After you have grouped the figure and made it conforming, saved it to your library etc etc etc. open a new scene and reimport the item from the obj that Poser created and stuck in your figures folder.  Reweld all the groups again and save that obj back to your folder where it was under the same name.  Then again, start a new scene, bring in Miki4, load and conform the item, it should keep it from going to pieces. 

Hope that helps, if not, it is beyond my meager rigging skills.    

OOoh you hadn't let me see the cross yet Laurie, make sure there is a good antique silver in there too and my little goth heart will love you forever.  As to the node set up I can't be of much help, I tend to default to using your metals for Poser 8 as it is.  I thinnk it is cause I am lazy...

I like his face, I have always liked cheekbones on guys.  I think so his jaw might stand to be a trifle wider and more squared off, it might help make it look slightly more balanced.   I like the angled jaw though, sooo make sure it stays as a morph,  please. :)  

His head in profile and face on may help isolate any 'strangeness'.  Mind you he already looks better than all the males out there that I have seen and can use.  If he scales well and come with a full set of morphs  I am going to be standing in line to grab him, despite my resolution to not buy more content.  Oh wait that it going to mean getting my copy of Poser up to date as well..  I see this as possibly being bad for  my credit card bill.... LOL.

I shall refrain from petting the screen... but it is a near thing...

He looks amazing regardless, and it is so nice to see a male figure that manages to be toned without having 'moobs'

Quote - FWIW, the clothing for LittleOne by 3Dream has very nice '50s "conic" morphs.  I don't think 3Dream has done anything for the Vicky line, though.

Very true, might just have to feed some of it through Crossdresser when I have the time to kill.

Quote - > Quote - Itmakes absolutely no sense to do a two-minite test in that way. For starters, what machine are we measuring? 

Second, that ti not the point of Lux. Lux is about wuality and realism. If speed is what you're looking for then Firefly with all the advanced options turned off is what you're looking for.

Looking at Hornet's 2-minute render, one can at least see if the lights are in the right places...

At two minutes, yes, you will be able to see if you need to change your lighting placement, though materials will take far more than 2 minutes to come clear enough to see if you need to adjust them unless they are horrifically out of whack.

You could try using the morph brush to pull out the front of the bust a bit to get the look you want.  Shouldn't be too hard.  

I am not sure if there really is a lot of the vintage style clothing in the market that has not been... altered to a more current esthetic.  Goodness knows that is one of the reasons I have taken up modeling, I love vintage pinups and want more authentic clothing than most of what is available.

Quote - Does someone have a render of a dense scene where cap the render time at 2 minutes?  So basically make reality 3 render a somewhat dense scene in under 2 minutes and let's see what it looks like.

Okay assuming that wasn't a joke, Lux just doesn't give you great results in that little time.  Just a fact of how it is, don't look at Reality or any other Lux exporter if you want instant gratification.  2 minutes in, even with an amazing light set up you are going to have something grainy and pixelated.  Maybe if you were rendering something the size of a postage stamp...

 Being one who is stoutly in the I want to disembowel the materials and see how and why they work the way they do camp, I would have to try it and see if it has the same level of flexibility as straight up coding them myself.  SSS is already available in Lux so that isn't a seller for me - I know how to add it to my materials, nor is it adapting the Poser shaders for me.  I always took Lux as a chance to break away from them entirely.  I have looked at the guides for earlier versions of Reality, but as they are for the DS version, and yes, may be similar, I am mostly curious as to what exactly it brings to the table for the Poser user that is not in those guides.  I do understand the launch day mania, with any luck, what I am interested in will not be too long in coming.

Also how accurate are the previews in relation to the final outcome of a material setup?  Do we need to bake and see regardless?   It is hard to see from the videos, some screen caps of the program itself would be nice to see.  If it could speed up my materials creation and adjustment it might be worth the investment.

Ah well need to get a newer version of Poser anyways first, it might nudge me to do so if I could see what I would like to know about. :)

Quote - I saw todays RNDA newsletter advertising Reality 3, the nice images caught my eye, and the page says its for luxrender. Yet on the luxrender site it links to pose2lux and thats free. I've heard of luxrender and reality for daz studio, and the impression was this studio only, so whats the difference twixt Reality for poser and pose2lux?

Well since you already mentioned the free thing...

For those who are on older versions of Poser pose2lux is compatible back to Poser 6, so for those of us who for a variety of reasons have not yet upgraded Poser we aren't being left out in the cold. 

As I have no real knowledge of the  workings of Reality,  I can only say that with a little basic reading up there is little in the way of materials that can't be added into p2l with some .xml files, Snarly kindly provided a guide for writing them when he was creating p2l.  Which can be found on the exporters official site, in the forums I believe.  From there it is simply learning what each material type does in Lux and coding accordingly.  And with Lux's documentation readily available on the site, even I picked it up in a week or so.  Basically you need to learn to use Lux, not a bad thing if you want to take what it can do to its limits. 

I think the most fundamental difference for the typical user is that Reality seems to have a far prettier interface and you don't need to edit files and bring them in.  For some a selling point I am sure, for me, I like the fun of hacking together my own materials and seeing what they do.  

A lack of documentation might be part of my desire to stick with p2l, I like to know exactly what I am buying ahead of time and a handful of videos and some (admittedly) pretty pictures won't sell me on thawing my credit card I like things like detailed features lists, a full walkthrough tutorial, something that says this can do something what I am already using can't...  Right now, I don't see it.

My two cents... And hopefully answers some of the questions, I am sure Snarlygribbly or LaurieA would be able to answer far more fully than I can, I got distracted by the shiny things in the materials and haven't resurfaced from that in about 2 years.

Quote - I would like to grab it, but I can't come in to your site. I have made an registration, but forget the password. Now it will not send me the password. Where can I elsewhere download your freebie?

Because it is an exclusive to 3dppl it isn't available anywhere else.  Make sure to check your junk folder to see it the password  email went there.  If not, let Laurie or myself know and we will take a look to see if there is an issue with them going out.  I will test it this evening, but right now I am being dragged out for family togetherness   

Thanks all for your understanding in this.  If you run into any other errors when you visit there, let us know. 

I am giving Laurie a hand over there, so I will go and take a look and see if there is something going on that I can resolve.  If not I will be sure to let her know ASAP.

Thanks for letting us know there is an issue with the registration.

Will let all know when it is fixed.

Gives me a place to start at least, thanks Margy.