philywebrider, can you tout the benefits of the DAZ skeleton? I've considered buying it, but I just can't see the value from the description on their site. Are the fingers individual actors? Does it pose easier? What is the advantage? eric

The face I was working on yesterday (which I used to try out the magnet) turned out to have a perfectly flat nose on top (nice little squared surface running all the way from her brows to the tip of her nose) Didn't notice it until I loaded the character in the default light.....ouch! You might try adding a mag to the eyeballs (1 each...plus adding the face to the influenced geometries) to try and draw the eyes out....that will require a lot of careful attention to zone sizes, though. I've used that method in revers (accidentally making the eyes look like they were in large sink holes!) eric

I think she's looking really cute! Any hints on the morphs you used to get vicky looking so young, or are they your own creation? As for the sunken eye thing, I see what you mean, but I wouldn't have noticed had you not pointed it out. Have you tried the eyeDepth morph to see about pulling them out a bit? eric

Yep, those are nice looking ears, DM MegaJar, I think the chin is fine looking. Perhaps your dissatisfaction lies in the shape of the face. The image at the top of the thread has a very pronounced profile (with the nose leading the brows and chin by a longshot) Perhaps some of Vicky's 'flaten face' and 'smooth' morphs can change that somewhat. You can use a magnet for that, but it distorts the eyes and the chin, which might be less than satisfactory. Eric

Never used firewire, so I can't say I know anything about the bus rate (is it faster than gigabit ethernet?) or availability. Considering the heavy use of Firewire on Macs, though, I bet there's support for firewire out there someplace, with OSX being the current Mac OS. Take a look at gigabit networking stuff. It's been around for years, but the stuff is just now reaching affordability. When I was looking at buying a Mac, I noticed that most of the Pro end systems came preinstalled with gigabit cards. Again, I suspect there is good support for it in the 'IX world. RdaiositySG, I'll check that out. I get their newsletter every once in a while, after trying to get a trial download, but at the time, they only offered the older version for download....sounds like they have changed things around a bit....going their now! eric

There are three magnets on the character I was building at the time. 2 eyes (for better big eyes) a nose (for a better round nose) and the one the chin I did as an example of a pointy chin. Never tried a pointy nose, but a magnet similar to the chin should work to make the nose like you wanted (except you'll have to put a lot of time getting the shape you want without really distorting the cheeks and eyes. Magnets are really pretty useful. Once you rename them properly (requires editing the cr2) you can save magnet poses which will allow you to have lots of different shapes on the fly (and no extra morph data to slow your machine down!) eric

Radiosity, please keep us posted as you get more use out of poser (and vue). I'll pick up a copy, if I am confident it will work comparably well. I've heard good things about win4lin, but you can't try it out before you buy and I have no use for the programs they have tested it with and offer support for. I wonder if 9x emulation would be as unstable as really running it under 2k or xp? I have gotten to like being away from the old 9x crashes and memory problems. eric

Please note that I threw that chin on top of a WIP. She is going to have a very rounded chin, so the face isn't really good for the pointy chin here (thus the odd shape at the neckline)! I just couldn't close her just yet:P eric

Attached is a quick test (using vicky 3 character that I had open. Pay no attention to the cheekbone and nose magnets (I was going for nice full Cheeckbones and a more pudgy nose for my own needs. ) If you look carefully, I think you should be able to see the magnet zones. I also scaled the actual magnet down to cause the pointy shape and scooted it's y & z trans down and forward. It is a decent start, I would think, for a pointy chin.

For V2, x-scale on the abdomen works nicely (below %100). There is a point where it gets a little freaky, but just a slight reduction should help you achieve it. I'm impressed with your head (though I think you should scale it up a bit to make it fit better for anime) When I saw it, I assumed it was preteen until I saw the next picture (which is definitely NOT preteen, LOL) Very cute! eric

Whew! For a minute, I thought you had made that 4 wheeler out of Vue primatives....then I realized you meant it was a model from your site (very nice looking model, like all of your stuff!) Very cute pic! Each of these pictures here in the forum is making it hard to avoid picking her up! You guys are making me want to break my promise and spend money again! eric

What about putting the lovely posette head on a victoria (don't care which version) body? I downloaded burtons posette 2003, but haven't used it yet. It might make posette a little more up to date (posette has some marvelous face morphs out there! better than any vicky faces I've ever seen!) eric

Hey Yarp! Just wanted to say thanks (again!) for the great tool. You have certainly made using Poser much more manageble. I use it quite regularly. Now what's this mention of memory for the pattern renamer?....that's what I've been hoping for! Gotta go check your site:) eric

Can never have too many trees:) Actually, there was a version of XFrog available for free with a Magazine (cd). I have that one, but haven't had time to learn to use it. As for leaves and bark, I would expect there to be a huge interest in some nice pictures, especially since some plants don't grow but in very specific regions of the world. Perhaps we can all come together and post photos of leaves from our little areas of the globe? Lots of dogwoods and such around here! Anyone want photos of poison ivy:) eric

The problem has nothing to do with the installer. OS X is a whole new OS for the mac, requiring significantly different code. If CL were to do so, you would probably have wait many months (or years, depending on the size of that team in Germany) to see the first Mac CD. eric