You might also try this site for (free) photoshop actions: http://www.atncentral.com/
And as far as (free) plug-in filters (if you are on Windows), I recommend: Virtual Photographer and Xero Plug-in Filters

On the menu Display --> Document Style --> Texture Shaded

@ HeraShort

I apologize if this information is too basic, but you did say you were a day 1 Poser user... I'm on Poser 7 so if it's different in PoserPro someone jump in and correct me.

Do you have a palette along the right side of your screen that says "library"?
If not, go to Window on the menu bar, click and select Library

Once the library is opened, you will probably be faced with the 8 categories that determine Poser file types. The uppermost one is "figures", click figures and you should find all the default Poser figure models. One of the trays should be named (and I'm sorry here, I've moved things about so I don't recall the exact name), DAZ people or DAZ Victoria 4, in short it should have "DAZ" in the name. Open that category and you should find Victoria 4.

Aonedoll is not a complete unknown, I remember they used to sell a young Asian male figure, whose name escapes me now. I had him wishlisted,  but support was lacking so I never purchased. I think they had a female also with marginally better support.

Thanks everyone...

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UTC2 is sold exclusively somewhere that Apollo is not supported at all.
So I am not at all surprised to hear this.

UTC2 has the Poser 7 figures in the list for development. I think Sydney is something like number 4 on the list. Maybe he'll be marketing those plugins elsewhere, on the otherhand,  the bastion may be weakening... I believe I saw something sold there for Miki, I'm pretty sure I saw Miki used in a promotional image. Whether it weakens enough for Apollo... that's another question.

Very impressive, Mr. Sparky, congratulations!!

Quote - Hard to tell with DAZ.  I stepped up too quickly with my expectation.  I suppose that one should never expect DAZ to be running things the way one would expect.  Hell, we have been waiting for dynamic cloth for 2 years now so..... that should give everyone a clue as to time lines VIA DAZ!

I think you have to have animation before you can have Dynamics, so I guess you must be happy about the release of aniMate. That's gotta be a step in the right direction...? Almost like an upgrade from "soon" to "sooner" :lol:

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I'm not sure about Apollo leading the pack, I have allways perfered David 3. This is cause you can buff him up a lot better than Apollo. For example David's abs. Apollo does have some advantages.... different rigging, foot and toes adj. I hope that Mike 4 combines the best of both
David 3, and Apollo, or the new Apollo 2008 combines the best of the old Apollo, and David 3.

What we need now most of all is a texture converter to convert textures back, and forth between
the different characters out there, and Apollo. It strikes me very discrimatory, that you can transfer textures between all the different characters out there, using the old universal texture converter, and soon (prob) with the new texture converter. But, NOT apollo.

As a DAZ product, David 3 is not in competition with Michael 4.

As for Apollo being supported by Texture Converter 2, 3D Universe has stated that he won't be supported due to "creator restrictions".

@ Gini

Olivia was/is to be the counterpart female of KelvinG2-- an african-american female model.

Maybe this link will get you into the forums: http://www.contentparadise.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10002&highlight=Olivia

Well, I don't know that apologies are warranted. I think we all saw exactly what DAZ wanted us to see. And, no, this is not a slam against DAZ. If nothing else, DAZ demonstrates consistently that they are aware of marketing concepts-- and that they're pretty damned good at them.

They're about to release their new flagship male figure... They look around at the competition, (competition being any male figure with any significant marketshare that was not made by DAZ) far ahead of the pack is Apollo, mid way are the G2 figures and then pulling up the rear are Rikishi, Clarke and Vincent Parker. Well, they can't compete with Vincent Parker, because his strength is low polygons, not an area DAZ has a strong interest in... The promo pictures released in the preview thread had the now detached Apolloish image, an image that had a Clarkish feel (young, soft male) and a large rotund figure -- clearly Rikishish. Earlier images I've heard described as looking like James.

The message is clear. If you like those looks, M4 can capture them. The more subtle message is that you can have your "Apollo (Clark, Rikishi, James) Look" with DAZ "support". With the preponderance of clothing converters on the market one of the greatest deterrents to the success of all the other male models has been the lack of good or great texture maps. Right out of the gate, preceding the figure's release, you know that you can use TC2 to convert all of your favorite M3/D3/H3 or Freak textures to M4. You know that the clothing converters will produce plugins for M4. You know that DAZ will produce clothing for him. Not as much as for V4, but certainly more than any of the competition, with the possible exception of the G2 men.

So, yeah, I agree with Esther. The image was removed, but it served DAZ's purpose. It increased chatter, which leads to interest, anticipation, speculation... All things that DAZ  wants to precede the release.

My guess as to the release date is October 9... Steal whatever thunder Content Paradise /Smith-Micro can muster for the long awaited release of Olivia.

I think the comparisons are more along the lines of my cousin looks like Will Smith and not meant to be twisted into a mesh comparison. In that particular image he does resemble  Apollo. However, there were quite a few images posted in that preview thread and one might have elicited comments that he looks like Rikishi...

Funny,  Wardrobe Wizard had the ability but it was disabled for obvious legal reasons. When the first Wardrobe Wizard initially came out, some of the demonstration pictures showed Posette converted to V3. It wasn't the face, but then I suspect if they could transform the body mesh, it could have done the face as well.

Maybe PhilC and Kamilche can come up with a method that would verify legal ownership (encode each model plugin against the figure obj???)  and introduce BodyWizard!

Funny,  Wardrobe Wizard had the ability but it was disabled for obvious legal reasons. When the first Wardrobe Wizard initially came out, some of the demonstration pictures showed Posette converted to V3. It wasn't the face, but then I suspect if they could transform the body mesh, it could have done the face as well.

Maybe PhilC and Kamilche can come up with a method that would verify legal ownership (encode each model plugin against the figure obj???)  and introduce BodyWizard!

Well, I'm taking a wait and see approach.

It's a different Poser market than it was with the release of M3 and for that matter David. When there was little to no support for those figures it had major impact on the figure's useability. But with the advent of the various clothing converters and the Texture convert for M4 (released prior to the figure), non-modelling/non-texturing users of M4 are not going to be completely stranded with no options.