Not yet, I have to work, can't always be at the computer.

Your renders must take a while though . . . . . I lose patience within about 10 minutes -  I guess that's why I want a new computer !

Thanks, Monkeycloud.☺

That would be great, it looks like it will help some.

I should have thought of that: if it's Python it will work regardless, only a matter of putting it in the right place and restarting the program.

Guess I'll be buying it myself . . . .

I'll be watching your gallery now too, monkeycloud:

I see some good stuff going on there !

Gee, that's pretty neat, I watched one of the intro videos  - but it didn't quite do what I was talking about.

Ah, yes - there is a slight problem:  I have a Mac and it sure looks like Shaderworks Library Manager is Windows only.

Thanks anyway folks. Nice try. . . . . unless there is some other thingy hiding in the woodwork that will do this?

I am impressed, I thought they would not work at all since the WM version is a different movement system to the original V4 , right?

 . . . .  which really leads me to ask, what sort of mesh bending did they use on the original? morph only?

I have both and can only echo what was said before: Perfect V4 is more adjustable - since I got it I have made all my V4 chracters with it, and now the updated "complete" system is out (easier to work with, one button to apply) I am even happier - the only sort-of problem is that it means I have not really tried i13's offering to compare it!

What i13 DOES have that XandM doesn't is a version for M4 as well. That is gold. Thanks to i13 for that !

I'll be watching this thread.

Works . . . . better?  in what way?  better posing? more user adjustable?

Okay, bear with me since I only just got Poser Pro and have been using DAZ studio for a while. So V4 does NOT work in Poser Pro, but the new WM version will?  Gee, I had just assumed that it would load into Poser.

I am definitely looking forward to it: so far V5 and the Poser native figures have not impressed me anywhere as much as V4. Specially V5 out of the box (as it were), it just looks, well, ugly to me, not quite human.

Yes, a lot of the best stuff I know of is done by little indie folks, so I am not at all surprised by this.  I'll be getting it. :)

Wow FigureSculptor, if you can get those scripts running I'll be real pleased.

Are you going to post them here or put them in the store?

For textures I would have thought you would want to use .png or .tif - something less messy - but hey, I'm no expert, maybe jpeg 10 or 12 is just as good ?

Then again I don't like to lose any quality anywhere, now that drive space is cheap and computers are fast. The only reason I would use jpeg would be for a web image on a site or page where you MUST limit your file size. Last time I checked JPEG was "lossy" - that means if you keep opening and saving a jpeg, it degrades, to simplify.

Looks to me like a landing pad for something.

You'll see me on Mesh Manglers ppretty soon. Thanks for the link.

Thanks for the info keppel, I'm just past 50 myself.  You have some great models there, and yes, you know it's not going to "fly" but you have not pretended that either - guess it must be antigrav huh?  I really like the GS-78 too.

I sort of plan to be making stuff for sale here in future - it would help to have a little help though, I've got you as a favourite artist now :)

Hmm, must try that.

Ah . . . . I went the Evil Empire way and got a Mac - everything in the box, but for a price. After having done stuff in DOS and other ugly text based systems back in the olden days I wanted something that at least was nice to look at since I would be staring at the screen a lot. well, that's my excuse. That and cutting the amount of time I actually didn't do anything except configure and set things up. I can still remember manually formatting text files for dot matrix printing AAAHHHHHHGGGGGG!!!!

Still, the offer stands.:)

I know my way round textures, I'm not so good at rigging (yet) and I still haven't got round to converting things to proper DAZ/Poser format but I'll get there. In theory you can make a buck selling stuff here - but I'm betting not enough to live off. Besides, putting it in a money framework would probably take all the fun out of it.

Yeah, I got that already, Thanks folks.