I use photoshopCS for postwork (but PSP8 for making thumbnails) Render in Vue5 (easy) and Maya6 (hard - but soooooo worth the effort :P)

hehehe - welcome to 'Poser Anonamous' ;) As for the toes and boots thing just select the toes and uncheck the 'visible' box in the object properties window :)

hehe - I suspect your right, Richardson is good with lighting and shadows. It does work for me though :) Sometimes 100 times is enough, other times it's just too much hassles to scale up the whole scene so I just postwork it out. Do you get the same problem with shadows from spot lights?

The problem is that depth mapped shadows ignore transparency maps so I find they just don't look right with hair. I believe someone (I can't remember who I'm afraid - but it was in this forum) showed that the speckled effect seen on your first render is a result of some number being too small for firefly to cope with (i.e. obj's in poser are v v small compared to other programs and firefly was initially designed to render these larger obj's). When I get speckles in shadows i scale up everything in the scene by a factor of 1000, redo the camera, and then it all works fine.

The only one I have ever seen is Muu's which I seriously doubt will be made widely available. Have you considered posting something in one of the modelling forums and asking someone to custom build one for you? If your willing to pay I bet there is someone willing to build one :)

I got Poser5 in May 2004 after stumbling across renderosity so I blame you lot ;D (although to be fair I've been intriged by 3D art ever since I saw Luxor from pixar) I've been completely addicted since day 1 and learn something new about it every single day :P Now I use Poser5, Maya6 Unlimited, Vue5, Bryce4, PSP8 and PhotoshopCS. Anyone remember what money looks like? All mine seems to have run off hehehe

Holy (insert expletive here) That is seriously impressive (a short clip I'll grant you but still seriously impressive) Did you keyframe that by hand? (Goes off to look for this HDRI python script)

Do you have a pic? As a general tip RDNA's free stuff is good for odds-and-ends like this :)

You weren't kiddin - that is a cool outfit :D

This looks v v v v useful, I've look into UVmapping and found some aspects somewhat confusing so I can't wait :)

If you have P5 I'd consider the 'Real Eyes' add-on as well :D

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=18033

I have never seen something like that :S The copyright bits are not supposed to actually be applied to the model - they should be located on the map away from the uv coordinates used. Can you post a pic like Aeneas said?

hehe - I'm stressed out cos I'm 25 in a couple of weeks, bit too close to 30 for my liking ;P

Looks cool :D I don't even want to think about what that brown stuff is ;P