So sorry to hear about this Joel!!  Do you have any friends you can crash with until you can get back on your feet??  If not maybe check your cities social assistance options?  Federal govenment does allow for help either financial and or boarding for emergency hardship cases like this.  Just google "insert city name" and social assistance and you should find links to phone numbers where you can speak to someone about getting you off the street and out of your van asap!!

I hope this helps and if I could help financially I would but after Christmas presents for my daughter and $500 emergency dental bill I'm strapped right now!  

Take care and I know your situation will improve!!

Gerard

Happy Birthday!!!   I didn't know we could do this!!!  I'm 8 days late then!!!  LOL!!

Madchen Amick and Jennifer Connelly are 38??   Wow!!  They both still look great!!!

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.php?userid=13013

Last year while experimenting with lighting for an ongoing (taking forever!) project I did the image in the link (my renderosity member page pic) in what I was hoping for an Advent Children look and feel...  (remember the scene where Cloud was on the hilltop where his old Buster sword was knocked over by Kadaj is the look I was going for) it was rendered in Carrara and turned out pretty cool IMHO...

Have you seen the screenshots and movies of Gears 2 yet??  Now that's coming close to FF VII Advent Children quality realism!!!

Gerard

I like both MAX & Carrara myself.  Both offer such crispness and clarity that Poser's Firefly just can't compete with.

I currently only have 2 images in my gallery here (I'm always deleting everything and rebuilding) but they both were rendered in MAX9 and I really like the quality of the lighting, shadows and realism.

Carrara imports Poser scenes perfectly and it's lighting outshines (LOL!) Posers 10 to 1!  Same with MAX but takes a little more work with the materials as they usually need some tweaking after coming out of Poser.

Gerard

p.s. don't look at my gallery pics if large breastedness scares or offends you!!  

Quote - ...I'm attempting to capture a certain style with the lighting that completely shares the realistic game or Movie graphics. Up top is the desired results.

The one WRONG word in your sentence above is: REALISTIC...   Both Soul Calibur IV & Final Fantasy VII Advent Children are far, far, faaaaaaar from realistic.  Both have completely different, highly stylized looks (quality of realism from lighting type/style etc.) to them that just cannot be called realistic (what the human eye perceives as realistic) , though Advent Children certainly does have a beautiful look to it. 

Soul Calibur IV with the screenshot of Cervantes above is 100% realtime produced by the games engine and is in no way close to anything realistic (or otherwise)  like Advent Children...  For a 60 fps current gen console fighting game Soul Calibur IV looks pretty darned good!  Not as good as Gears Of War or Assassin's Creed but it's probably the best looking fighting game out so far.  But dang dude...  so not realistic.  I've clocked dozens and dozens of hours on SC4 but I can in no way compare it to Advent Children which I've watched many many times too.

Now if any 3D app could produce the gorgeous quality of realism of Advent Children at 60fps realtime with high poly characters akin to SC4 that would be AWESOMESAUCE!!!   A few years away I'd imagine but not far...  Poser NOW...  IBL or fake GI and fantastically long render times for the Advent Children look and for the Soul Calibur IV look...  easy but why would you want to???  Firefly already will give a better render (not realtime) than Soul Calibur IV...

My two cents are sooooooo spent I think!

Gerard

p.s.  you should have cropped or blurred out the ign logo...  :P

Hi Esther!

 I noticed the same thing with Poser Pro and 99% of the hair models I've tried in it.  Fortunately for me, the only reason I'm using Poser Pro is to setup a scene then render in MAX where the hair (and all transmaps) display properly.  
I would imagine Smith Micro will fix this bug with a service release but I wasn't able to find any fix or workaround.  :(

Gerard

For what it's worth...  Poser Pro opens fast, searches my single 20+GB runtime fast and just plain is fast!!  My system sucks and only have 1.5GB of ram and an Athlon 2500+ cpu and Poser Pro is by far the fastest Poser yet for me!!  Have all versions since P4!!  Now rendering glitches (textures and trans map issues) abound but I did get Poser Pro to render in MAX so for me the speed is well worth it!

Gerard

I had harsh sluggishness from 7.11 and up, so that's why I went back to 7.10...   they work fine for me!  THanks for the tip though Garree!!

Gerard

What type of graphics card??  Poser 6, 7 and Pro have been known to not play nice with the last few versions of ATI's Catalyst drivers...  I just downgraded to the 7.10 drivers and all is well!!

The Poser Pro weirdness I've been experiencing is trans maps (be it hair, eye brows whatever) don't render properly at all...  either not there at all or very faint.  Fortunately for me it's no big deal as the whole reason for Poser Pro for me is the ability to take the Poser scene into 3D Studio Max and once in Max all trans maps render properly.

All in all Poser Pro is very worthwhile for me.  Just like the good ol' Poser Pro Pack from way back in tha day when I was using it with Max 3.1!!!

I hope you can get this figured out!!

Gerard

Good read Peng!!  So often needs to be said here and about!!!  :tongue1:

Gerard

Quote - Making the render engine work as expected isn't really a reason to call it "Pro".

To me, everyone seems to be forgetting the whole point of this "Pro" version is the integrating of it for use with other (high end) rendering solutions in order to (again) integrate Poser into a more "Pro" pipeline for those "Pro" results that the pros require.  I don't see any point in wondering about speed increases and stability of the Firefly engine as the whole point of using Poser Pro is to output your Poser scene to render in another 3D application.  And for that Poser Pro seems to be doing exactly as promised.  Granted it's just Bodystudio (which had a bad rep) renamed to PoserFusion but it does work and like this new Poser Pro's grand daddy Poser Pro Pack it worked too.  

Let's honestly look at Poser Pro for what it is and not try to look at it as a replacement for Poser 7 or 6 or whatever...   it's the spiritual successor of Poser Pro Pack as far as I'm concerned.

Yay Poser Pro!!!

Gerard

Dang dude!!  Tough luck!!!  Didn't you have carpal tunnel last year too??  Well, take it easy for a while and see if it improves!!  Also I've found mild exercise helps!!  I have ulnar nerve disfunction in my left arm and a touch of carpal tunnel in the right one and being more active and less time on the computer at home (work is in front of a computer for 10 hour shifts) and less (sniff!) time with an xbox 360 controller and being more active on the whole seems to have helped somewhat!

Take care!

Gerard

Gerard

That's weird!!!  Too bad too as they really do work great!!  If I didn't purge my gallery you'd see some really great examples of how great they work!!  Rats!

So, V3 WITH head (not really needed for NGM) and body morphs from DAZ, NGM morphs injected and nothing???

Really weird!!  What version of V3 are you using???  That may play into things!

Gerard

After injecting the NGM morph, scroll down and double click the size you want...  there's presets for differing size breasticles in the NGM (V3) folder!

Hope you get 'em working as they work great!!

Gerard