Duh..... Thanks!

Grey cat, I went to test drive wings and couldn't even get started, the interface is alien to me. It came off a mag disc. Is there any docs for it somewhere I could download?

Finally! I'm glad you posted this. Me thinks you are about to get pounded by the "no commercial post folks" tho. I don't care, I wanted to know the minute this came out. I'll have to say the price is right! That coulda been 60.00 - 80.00 easy. Thanks!

Well, good news, I hope. I went to www.eovia.com and downloaded the 30 day demo for Carrara 3.0. I launched it and it allows for decimal input. You can go to the website and download the demo to see if it's what you want. Plus, it's easier to get stuff into Poser from that program. Just a thought. There's tons of stuff out there.

Oh.... yeah AutoCad is darn great for that. And that makes lots of sense, now that you say it. I use it that way more hours a week than I care to think about. I wonder why others haven't figured this out. I'm not sure but I think Carrara (At least from my old Raydream experience, which was the program before it was Carrara.) can do this. I think maybe you might want to post a new thread asking what cheaper modeler would let you enter sizes numerically. I don't really know much about that. I'll break out my copy of Carrara I got from a magazine and let you know. I wasn't lucky enough to find one of the euro mags with Cinema4D on it, so I don't know about that one. Shoot, InfniD used to let you do that, and that was ten years ago.

Uhm.... I have an Autocad 2000 seat at work. There's no way I would buy it to model with Poser. Also, Autodesk is a mean, mean, mean company. They stopped supporting 2000 just a few months ago, and 2000 didn't even have full 3d functionality. Mechanical desktop had to be bought for that. So, you'd be buying 2004 version? I think there are alternatives. Plus, no organic modeling. I mean sure, you can go to .0000 decimal places in accuracy, but in Poser, I don't think you need that. I'd think about something else. Maybe Z-Brush for organics, and Carrera or Cinema4d for hard modeling. (All for less then AutoCad, I'm fairly sure, if not way less) Plus, you should get something that would talk to Poser a lot better than Autocad. I use AutoCad to make tables, stairs, windows, etc. But nobody cares that my stuff is exactly to .0000 places what it would be in real life. Why so much precision?

Yes Sharen of Sams3d walked me thru it. I have AutoCad 2000. I can walk u thru later tonight.... if she doesn't see this post. It involves exporting and reimporting in AutoCad first. Also, there are numeric settings for arc and circle smoothness, segments in a polyline curve, rendered object smoothness, and contour lines per surface. These numbers are magic and I have them at home. I think you set these numbers under the options menu in AutoCAD, export once as 3dstudio format, re-import, then finally export again, open in Poser, export, open UVMapper, then finally back to Poser. It involves putting things you want to have seperate materials or prep for rigging on different layers on AutoCad and changing their chosen colors. I found that the smooth polygons function in Poser causes mucho trial and error problems, so I always when making models in AutoCad check each object before making a whole bunch of stuff just to find out I made it wrong. I'm sure Sharen will be along shortly to help you. I have archived all her IM's so maybe I can help if she's unavailable.

I have the feeling that April Fools' day isn't over yet. Nice one. Very nice! I bought into that one hook-line-and-sinker. :) Cudos to Anton and Daz! Practical jokers! Now, when can I buy that amazing figure? Don't even tell me it's not really coming out.

No. If we look in our Poser Runtimes, we'll see nude boy and nude girl. I know they aren't supposed to be sexual in nature. I think that in the case of GIRL, we're looking at a highly stylized figure. No one would say "hey, that's a real child". There are thousands of ligit (or rather, not perverted) uses for such a figure. Why should we even think of cramping the creativity here? I found it interesting (and this was mentioned before) that the Curious Labs survey asked about adult content creation. Curious Labs recognizes the adult content creators as customers. It's demand that will always win out. We can't control what others want. For example, the reason Caravaggio (1571-1610) painted nude boy cherubs (which would definitely in this day be considered obscene) was prolly because he was paid by the Catholic church (or Cardinals thereof) to do so. But I'm not expecting anyone to condone the destruction of paintings that prolly value over 40 million each. DAZ is gonna market this figure in a way that will generate the most sales. There is no way to stop them.

I got one the other day that was along these lines.... "We're sorry, but your bank account has been closed due to fraudulent activity. We have reported you to the police. You can only clear this matter up by responding to the information included in the attachment." Or something to that effect. I deleted it without opening the attachment. I mention this because I note a strange similarity to Spanki's report. Needless to say, this had me running to check my bank account (D'oh, that gives me a bad thought). It was o.k, but now that I think about it, if they somehow had a spyware that recorded me going into my bank right after I got such a fraudulant notice, then I've fallen for their ploy. For the love of Pete, this virus stuff is getting so far out of control, I'm really starting to wonder how we'll ever get rid of it. What if this just gets so bad you can't go on the internet without the equivalent of a full suit of armor? This doesn't sit well with me at all.

Impressive, most impressive... :)

Thanks Tiny!

How do you guys find this work, or go about getting into it?

Well, you can try to increase the shadow map size of the infinite light. If it's set at 256, try 1024 (or bigger) this of course will increase rendering time. Hope this is it.