I had listed these for starters: Fender Standard Fat Strat Epiphone LP Standard Ibanez RG470 Ibanez S370DX ESP LTD MH201 Jackson DKMGT A good place to start research is online: Musician's Friend and AMS. BeatYourSoul

WTF!!! I just typed in a long, long, long help for your $500 guitar question and, poof, it disappeared when I hit the Post button. Summary: Check all of your local guitar stores and try all of those within your price range. Check the fretwork, action, construction, weight (heavier woods=better tone+sustain). Play up and down neck in every pickup position, checking intonation and playability, on the same/similar amp that you use. Don't forget to look for used/scratch&dent guitars. These can be a real bargain. BeatYourSoul

Haven't had a chance to try too many Washburn electrics, so it's from limited exposure. :) To each his own. Every guitar type is different and every player is different. That's why I own an Ibanez, Fender Strat, and Gibson LP - one for jazzy or fast styles, one for blues, rock, and similar styles, and the other for rock and metal styles, respectively. I'm a hobby player and at one point owned ten guitars just to cover a gamut of sounds, styles, and tunings. Cool thing is that you could reuse the bridge and pickups on a variety of guitars. If it isn't already, you may want to consider selling that model. But first, I'd check with Washburn about copyright infringements and such.

Hey PhilC! Saw your items there. High quality at affordable prices as usual! Sorry if I sprayed my disappointment too widely. Just seems that some stuff, mainly ~not~ Poser items, are pricey even for simplistic objects. Hint and possible start of flame-war: people who use 3DSMax seem to think that their models are worth much more than anyone elses no matter how crappy. ;)

Not into Washburn electrics either, but FANTASTIC job!! :) I especially like the detail and precision on the bridge and tuning machines. Now that's the type of detail and precision about which I'm talking. BTW, I have visited Turbo Squid (purely by Google accident) and found a couple of nice fenders there. I can't tell how well done they are, but they seem done well. Too bad they are also a little pricey.

"Resistance is futile. Negotiations are irrelevant. You will become part of the Daz Platinum Club and service them with all of your money." Locutus of Daz

I've seen those models and they're not bad, but not high-quality. Where's the edge filet? The strings are way too thick and the pickups are cheap. :) I guess that being a guitarist for (age being given away) over 20 years slants my perspective on what is considered quality in a guitar model. I like that Gibson LP! Does it have the arch top? You can get it here, right? BeatYourSoul

If I ever get time, I'd love to model some detailed, accurate guitars (accurate enough anyhoo - see second paragraph). I have yet to find a decent model out there, including Daz's MilGuitar. Worst are what some try to pass off as a classical guitar. I know what a classical guitar looks like - own three now and have owned several others over the past years. Have a Fender Strat (YJM Sig model), Ibanez Prestige, Ramirez classical, and Les Paul to work from (among other odd guitars). And I have a decent digital camera (Canon PS GS-2) and tripod. Although I completely agree with you Mosca (both about Fender's enforcement and LnF protecttion), there are many look-alikes out there. Just look inside a Japanese guitar mag; never saw so many cheap, nearly identical copies. ;) The way around it is to make it not quite so perfect and they have no ground on which to stand (just like the near-perfect copies) - just mention those three billion Strat look-alikes as a better place to start a lawsuit. :) So what's the delay? One word: Japanese stuff, wakarimashita ka? Starting small on hashi, chowan, hashioki, teapots, etc. Once done with the tableware, I'd like to model a koto and shamisen. The shamisen's gonna be fun. :) Oh, and finally for my thesis conclusion ;0), I'd like to mention that the brave soul who decides to create an accurate model must be aware that the best way to do this is to (shudder) disassemble the instrument (electric, hopefully ;) and model the individual parts separately, bringing them together to make the complete instrument. That would mean adjustable pickups, bridge, tuning knobs, and so on. Please don't talk me into it as I'm not certain that I want to take apart my Strat (and I cannot afford another one right now). BeatYourSoul

Thanx SamTherapy! I didn't bother to look it up, but did notice that in Poser 4, anyway, there was a limited amount of "number space" for giving the dimensions and I'd remembered hearing/reading about a limit somewhere. :) Dave-So, the same idea about background image stretching crossed my mind, but then he never mentioned background images. Good info about P5 though. Personally, I do all of my rendering in C4DXL, so don't have much experience with the render settings in P5. I'll bet you hit it right on the money!

I noticed that Ex-Post #12 was DAZ3D_ (space) and realized that it was pure bunk. Has anybody made any "suggestions" to the forum monitor about this character?

Yes, yes. You have to render to a new window (period). Can't be done otherwise. You want a 10000x10000 image (I think the limit is 9999x9999, but don't quote me on that), you're going to have to Render to New Window unless your monitor happens to accept settings of 16000x16000? That's only if you're Bill Gates... In Poser 4 (4.03), the render will automatically be adjusted to the proportion of your document window (so a 1024x768 doc and 768x1024 render will actually render 1365x1024). You're getting stretching? How? I'd like to see a screen cap of your regular Poser display and the "stretched image". I get 1-2-1 correspondence in my renders (in both P4 and P5).

Until I took up guitar, I always thought that the "circle of fifths" was a bar drinking game - ba da bum!

...going?... D'you know how hard it is to work on Poser with no chair, desk, lamp, heat? ;)

And to continue DominiqueB's argument, how would the same texture look on an elephant and a giraffe? An elephant has a rotund body with large features and pillars for legs. A giraffe has a very tall, slender body with an extremely elongated neck with twigs for legs. I don't think that they would accept a "universal quadriped" texture very well. From my experience, unique models should have unique texture maps.

Okay, Tunames, to the corner with ya. And don't forget the pointy hat! ;)