That is absolutely too cool!! Reminds me of the wings in Armitage:The Third (last episode I think...) Mecha wings!

WOW! That's not good. My suggestion would be to backup your characters, textures etc. and uninstall the app then reboot and re-install it. Hope it helps...

oh, yeah, one more thing. The ethical considerations in this matter are another thing entirely. Legally you can take someone's stuff, futz with it and sell it. Ethically you may not be able to sleep at night...I would but you may not.

The exact legal stand on this matter is the same as for artwork...if you change it 30% it's yours. PERIOD. (it may actually be only 20% but 30% is safer...) That is the official copyright law. (I used to do some copyright stuff for a game publishing company...)

Thanks Momodot, That is what I was trying to show with the stigmata. He wasn't "human". He was "christ". He wouldn't show you a pool of dripping blood for you to touch. I'm going to work on the textures more...and I think the spear wound was the left because it was supposed to pierce his heart...

Nope, doesn't work for me...I can visit every other site in the free-and not so-free world...but not BBAY! :(

Doesn't Poser use an internal color model like everything else? I wasn't aware that any program could be effected internally like this when your system color setting was changed. I mean if you set the program or file to 32-bit I could understand. But the SYSTEM display settings? Programs are supposed to be independant of windows settings. I guess that's what happens when you port a program from a Mac...eeewww... Mac's do everything wierd.

That presents an opportunity to ask another related question... I have a cr2 file (or is it an hr2?) of a hair figure that I want to load into UVmapper to get a template to paint on. How do I get it out of that format and into a .obj so i can load it? Just by editing the cr2? Do I just strip the extranious crud from the file?

Thanks for the feedback y'all. I was kinda trying to de-emphasize the cross in general. That's why the crucifix is kinda dark and has a general lack of detail. I would have liked a little more "wood" to show instead of just dark and flat (there is actually quite a bit of detail and rough wood texturing) but it was more of an after-thought than a central image-even though it is centrally located in the picture. I agree with you about the hands though. Very "putty" looking and yes the christ does look too caucasian (lack of hair etc.) but there is blood on the hands (just too small to see). I was trying to get the hands to be the focus, because for some reason pentacostals don't emphasize the cross so much as the whole idea of the crucifixion. The comment is "he is rissen and isn't on the cross anymore..." they tend not to even have crucifixes in there churches. I went to a christian school (church of god - very close to pentacostal) for 9 1/2 years and spent all of my "formative" years being raised by my grandmother in a church (she was a "deacon" and we were VERY active in the church for years). I just kinda drifted from it... Anyway, the crucifix was never a prominent part of the pentacostal imagery. Just empty crosses. That is why the jesus figure is so under-stated / low-detail. I couldn't figure out how to get him to look emanciated. I've only been using Poser for about a month so I'm still trying. I've never taken an art class in my life. Not even in school. Everything I've learned has been from just doing it...and seeing the results. The "banding" on the hands is intentional actually. It is a sort of "heavenly glow" just for effect. I agree with you as to the textures. Like I said earlier, the cross actually has quite a bit of texture but it cannot be seen because of the lighting, etc. I actually liked the bright blue of the background. I thought it gave it a very bright look which gives a more "hopeful" appearence to the image. In fact the whole thing is a bit bright on purpose (except the cross). The text is not very contrasting on purpose too. It was meant to kind of blend-in to the background so as to not detract from the overall imagery. Anyway, I will probably redo the image (but I know I'll never get the post exactly the same...you never can.) Thank you all for your comments and suggestions. It really helps to get feedback on a piece like this. It was all very kind. I'll post the newer version of it when I get it done. And some of my other stuff too...although my other stuff is diametrically different from this type of thing... Thanks again.

Very Cool. How long have you worked on it so far? It looks great.

Oh, yeah...I made this in Poser 4 and Corel Photopaint 9. There's A LOT of postwork here. (layers etc...) The hands are standard P4 with a new Tex map (made in photopaint) and bump map (also in photopaint). The figure is a standard P4 male with standard tex and the cloth is the cloth-strip from the forum. (Thanks to whomever posted it...) The cross was made in 3D Studio Max and exported as an .obj file. All the pices were rendered in P4 and then composited in photpaint. I've only been working with Poser for about a month.

Actually the alpha channel is something else entirely... An alpha channel is a specific 8-bit-portion of your image that defines TRANSPARENCY. Think of it as an extra grey-scale image tacked onto your original that defines what areas are transperent and which are opaque. In fact that is exactly what it is, and it turns a 24-bit image into a 32-bit image because of the extra 8-bits of transparency data. (Hope I didn't get too nerdy there...just rying to help.)