I found these two links useful in learning about CR2 files: http://www.kzin.org/poser/cr2/index.htm http://www.rbtwhiz.com/rbtwhiz_ERC.html There is a utuility in the free stuff "CR2 Editor" not to be confused with the more powerful "CR2 Edit", that you might find useful. You might also want to check out the free Metasequoia application for making mesh objects; http://www1.sphere.ne.jp/mizno/

OK, so you're using a kind of mesh transmap on clothing worn by Thorne's Spooky Kitty, right? The transmap looks like it came from Thorn so it should work. Try this: Make sure that you have the right piece of CLOTHING selected in the dropdown list at the bottom left of the render window. Open the materials Editor, load your tansmap in the "Transparency Map" section, put a tick in the box that says "Texture changes apply to entire figure". Put the "Transparency Max" slider to 100%, the "Transparency Min" and "Transparency Falloff" sliders to 0%. Click the "Material:" dropdown list, make sure you have the same slider settings for ALL materials in the list, and that same transmap is set for ALL the materials. When you click OK the piece of clothing should turn into a dotted outline, and when you render the transmap should work. If that doesn't work then I am all out of ideas sorry

Another way. Example: Load a Poser box and ball into a Poser document. Open the Group Editor, select the ball (either from the dropdown list, or the hierarchy editor) click New Group, call it ball, click Select All, the ball should turn red, click Assign Material call it ball. Select the box, click New Group, call it box, click Select All, the box should turn red, Assign Material call it box. Close the Group Editor. Assign any colours and textures in the Materials window. Save the box and ball as one wavefront object (OBJ), tick Include figure names and Include existing groups . Thats it. You can re-import the object and save it to the props pallet. The disadvantage of doing it this way is that it accepts the default mapping of the objects, where as if you use UV Mapper you can control the mapping. The advantage is that its quick.

"Is that a (square) object in front of another object or in front of a background?" Yes.

OK, I think we need to know more about the transparency map you are trying to use, and more about the thing you are trying to apply it to. Meanwhile some thoughts spring to mind: 1). An object may have more than one material, make sure that you have the right one or ones selected in the dropdown "Materials:" list of the Materials window. 2). Textures may be mapped to the object, like in the case where the "P4 woman texture.TIF" is mapped to the P4 Nude woman, the proportions and shape of this texture map have to be appropriate to the object it is mapped to, the same applies To transparency maps, try applying your TRANSPARENCY map to your object as a TEXTURE map, if the appropriate arias aren't black and white when applied as a texture, then they won't be right as a transparency either (see picture above). 3). Some objects do not have any UV texture coordinates defined for them, in that case you would have to use the free UV Mapper utility or other application to create them. 4). Try applying a different transparency map to the object, like the one I supplied, see if any thing happens. In the picture above the same transparency mappas in my first post was applied to the jacket of the P4 Business Man and to the skin of the P4 Nude woman, not much effect can be seen on the jacket, but quite a lot on the woman, this in because of the way that the transparency map lines up with the texture mapping of the various materials. Finally try to give us more information about the object you are using and the transparency map.

The result of the experiment should look something like the above picture, if it does you can try to duplicate the settings with the transmap you want to use, if it doesn't, we can try to analyse what went wrong when you post the resulting render.

Its hard to advise when I dont know exactly what you are doing, or trying to achieve. Try this experiment, copy the above JPEG image into your textures folder, load a Poser4 one sided square from the Prop Types pallet into a Poser document, scale it up to 400%, and apply the above image as a transparency map, set Transparency Max to 100%, and Transparency Falloff to 0.00, leave everything else as it is, and render the scene. Save the resulting image and post it to this forum. Continued next post

To make a prop into a smart prop just parent it to some body part in a character, from the menu bar Object > Change Parent (it must be parented to a character, trying to parent it to another object wont work). Select the prop, and save it to a props pallet, DONT USE Select Subset or it wont save as a smart prop, a dialogue will pop up asking if you want to save it as a smart prop.

Put rather crudely, a character file (CR2) applies various sorts of information to an object file (OBJ), the P4NudeWom.obj for example, to create a fully articulated character. The appearance of the character can be altered by applying morph targets (MTs). You can find some MTs here in the free section, they can be applied from the Object > Load Morph Target menu. You can also copy morphs directly from another CR2 file using the free utility Morph Manager, or you can make your own MTs in Poser4 by using magnets, or create them in other software such as Zbrush or Rhino and many others. To do a character like Victoria from scratch involves the creation of the mesh in a modelling application, Its beyond my level of competence.

Note that in the above k 0 3.4 is the scaling factor and is equil to 340% on the dial, so the decimal point has shifted two places to the left. If you just wanted to scale in one dimension, say zScale, then the code should be: propagatingScaleZ zScale { keys { k 0 3.4 } }

I have inserted the following code into Strangechilde's pose files, to allow them to scale the eye props, and sent them back to him/her. Strangechilde has tried these files with the new code and apparently, THEY WORK!?! So I am posting the code here for the benefit of those who are following this thread. It somewhat cut down from my original attempt. prop Mecha_right:1 { channels { #----New code starts---- propagatingScale scale { keys { k 0 3.4 } } #-----New code ends---- targetGeom Open_2 { keys

Render 1 looks too scrunched in Y dimension. Render 2 much better, but right eye needs to be visible. Saturation of the red highlight seems too strong for my taste. Perhaps the Crown of head could be deeper. Sorry if this sounds too critical, don't have time to be diplomatic, very nice job realy.

Render 1 looks too scrunched in Y dimension. Render 2 much better, but right eye needs to be visible. Saturation of the red highlight seems too strong for my taste. Perhaps the Crown of head could be deeper. Sorry if this sounds too critical, dont have time to be diplomatic, very nice job realy.

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I have inserted the following code into Strangechilde's pose files, and sent them back to him/her. To my understanding this code should work to scale the eyes to 340%, but I could be wrong, and have on way of checking, as I do not have the files that the pose acts on. prop Mecha_right:1 { channels { #----New code starts---- propagatingScale scale { keys { k 0 3.4 } } #-----New code ends---- targetGeom Open_2 { keys