Thanks! Certainly the diffuse colour is wrong. I will try to fix it. The problem is the lights change the colour a bit evry time. And its getting a bit like wax. And the skin is procedural, so don't wanna use specular n bump map. But I the brown colur ya gave for the skin would do the trick. Thanks a lot.

Ok, Thanks a lot. I will surely get it right this time.

Use 7-zip(Dload from sourceforge.net). Rightclick on your compressed folders and it gives ya option to open them, or extract e,. :)

use a UV Map template as texture and render. And same UV Map as transparency map. Will render to a wireframe :)

Well maybe a bit more contrast(Balck and White) on your displacement map. Turn off polygon smoothing while rendering. And it should work.

Well, I don't know about neone else but SR1 didn't coz ne probs for me. Well, I'm a noob so I don't use a lot of features of P6 neway :) But it doesn't wreck anything:)

Well, For some weird reason(To save space that is!) Poser 6 figures are saved as OBZ instead of OBJ. Thats OBJ with a Zip :) That is to save space the OBJ files, which are just plain text are zipped. Unzip 'em using WinRAR or use 7-Zip(Dload from sourceforge.net, free, open-source) and you will get an OBJ. Load it into UV-Mapper and ye are done.

Rendered it in max(its the front view, so the lack of contrast), I'm not comfortable with setting nodes up in Poser's mat room. The connecting lines and all, between the diff mats get a bit confusing:) I'm just a beginner. And I used your tut face_off. Not the script. The tuts quite good. Thanks for putting it up there for free.

Well, Nice. I learnt a lot from it. But thats exactly the point. I'm here to learn, and unlike you I don't have the privil of being perfect. So, I would rather not flame. Just learn. Thanks for the tip anyway. :)

And you guys are pros anyway, and i'm sure ya know that. But I'm just learning modeling now. And they decided to use 3Ds to teach us that. And thats what i'm looking for...i'm sure everyone likes to see his models come up relly well in renders. And if a high end renderer(even if i don't own a pwersonal copy), can show me it was relly worth spending 3 damn days to build a car, with only 2-lights and give me decent results...Its cool.
And If I came accross as "Poser ? Firefly sucks", oops! My poor communication sklls! Sorry.
Coz these apps are great anyway. They let you have a personal copy of your own(without having to mortgage your house) to play with. The content's affordable, and the users too are very accessible.
Well, coming back to the thread. If there are some ways to take poser's output out to a third party renderer, we guys here might just mod POV ray for it.
Now that would be good. It won't be that useful and all, but still worth a shot.
Thanks! And fls13 link is great. Although i'm sure ya guys have already seen it. And oops, but i picked up the two msgs in a row habit too. sorry. One final request plz. Can Maxmodelz / Mer. geep or anyone else post a .pz3 file for me to see. I will see it in poser, your morphs, face setup, lights, material. Thats all. I won't steal ya work. Won't use it for commercial renders. And If i can get your kind of results...I would be more than happy. Thanks. Plz tell me if you can upload it on the net/mail me: at ashish_s_india@indiatimes.com or ashish_s@email.com or colmukesh@dataone.in Thanks a ton.

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"Why is it that ... those who have not posted a single render using Poser like to bash Poser the most?" Coz some people only like to post stuff they have made themselves. And not texture / shade someone else's model in a new way and perhaps light it up wonderfully and post it as "Test Render / Relism ? etc etc". And it takes a damn lot time to make a top notch model. :)

Well, Heard about Maxman. It does not support Max R7 I guess. Does it? Don't know Plz tell. And its no good using it if you have to rewrite all your shaders and all. PaxRendus is a better choice if you wanna go through all the trouble. Well, all these cost a wallop though and it would take me months, if not years to save for these. Something like MTOR (RAT) would really rock for Max. Though at my level of work, you can use Vray, or even POVRay and the final results don't differ much to cuss about or needing to spend a few thousand bucks here and there. The renderer doesn't matter much unless you are working for ILM or Pixar :). But the time it takes to render does. My Prof was telling me that PRman at normal res and stills is just as good as V-ray, though at anims its way better. V-ray I think is my renderer of choice. Quick n cheap. And I just posted a Poser test scene to Max via GestureMax. And set it up to render with V-ray, GI N all :) Lets see how it turns up. A final word needed: Which is better for Poser to Max, Reiss BodyStudio or Gesture Max. Anyone who has used 'em plz tell. Thanks

Well stewer, It supposedly does. But its useless. Tried it.