Attached Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_Thing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volkswagen_K%C3%BCbelwagen

Attached Link: http://www.bigredhair.com/movies/ratpatrol.html

The RAT PATROL theme...
http://mythemes.tv/series/ratpatro.htm

...Strange how I can get one JPG to post but NOT another... they all are standard RGB files sabed as .jpg    -- but some just will NOT load here- NEVER seen that before. There's no special modes or layers, etc. in them...

**August hair for V3, S3 and the new V4

...It's FREE!**

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2677041

I've tried several methods and nothing is working...

Here's one of the older threads where people have asked about this, including RAMWolf- I have been looking for similiar hair for 50's Pin-Ups so I thought a few people will find this of interest..

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2677041

Attached Link: http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=734377#734377

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?p=734377#734377

also a test video here...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2677744

...need some good reasons why Vue 5 and Vue 6 are much better Poser rendering software than Poser 6 or 7?

A question by **carodan **over in the RDNA forum:

"..HDRI in P7 - anyone used it to any effect yet? ...cos I'm having real difficulty setting them up. Seems to me they don't really offer much more control over lighting than using jpegs.
Maybe I'm missing something(?). Not much of use in the manual."

**bagginsbill
**"You're not missing something. Just as there are diffuse and specular effects in an infinite light or spot light or point light, there should be diffuse and specular effects in image based lighting (IBL). But as far as I know, Poser 6 and 7 only implement the diffuse part of IBL. Other apps do both. The diffuse contribution is not significantly affected by more dynamic range. So the addition of the HDR image feature was pointless as far as I can tell.

The high dynamic range is most important for reflections. Consider a poorly polished sphere, with a reflectivity of .01. Its noticeable reflections are only going to be of hot spots, truly bright regions of the sky. Consider a spot in the sky that at a normal exposure produces a numerical brightness value of 200. The reflection of that in the sphere is only going to be 2. If your IBL image can only go to 255, then the specular reflection only goes to 2.55, which is hardly noticeable. But if there is a hot spot, say near or at the sun itself, then the numerical value should be like 15000, and the reflection would be 150, which is very noticeable. Given an exposure setting that accurately records the ground-based scenery, the sky goes way over 255 and just doesn't get recorded. So HDR images were invented to record this extra info that we see in reflections, but do not see directly, because in a photo or CG image there's nothing whiter than white, if you know what I mean.

A high dynamic range image can record all of it. But it's not relevant if you don't calculate specular reflections from that image, because that's where the hot spot matters. It effects the diffuse too, somewhat, but far less.

So don't waste your time. I don't know why EF even bothered with the HDRI feature if they weren't going to do specular IBL. "

...need some good reasons why Vue 5 and Vue 6 are much better Poser rendering software than Poser 6 or 7?

A question by **carodan **over in the RDNA forum:

"..HDRI in P7 - anyone used it to any effect yet? ...cos I'm having real difficulty setting them up. Seems to me they don't really offer much more control over lighting than using jpegs.
Maybe I'm missing something(?). Not much of use in the manual."

**bagginsbill
**"You're not missing something. Just as there are diffuse and specular effects in an infinite light or spot light or point light, there should be diffuse and specular effects in image based lighting (IBL). But as far as I know, Poser 6 and 7 only implement the diffuse part of IBL. Other apps do both. The diffuse contribution is not significantly affected by more dynamic range. So the addition of the HDR image feature was pointless as far as I can tell.

The high dynamic range is most important for reflections. Consider a poorly polished sphere, with a reflectivity of .01. Its noticeable reflections are only going to be of hot spots, truly bright regions of the sky. Consider a spot in the sky that at a normal exposure produces a numerical brightness value of 200. The reflection of that in the sphere is only going to be 2. If your IBL image can only go to 255, then the specular reflection only goes to 2.55, which is hardly noticeable. But if there is a hot spot, say near or at the sun itself, then the numerical value should be like 15000, and the reflection would be 150, which is very noticeable. Given an exposure setting that accurately records the ground-based scenery, the sky goes way over 255 and just doesn't get recorded. So HDR images were invented to record this extra info that we see in reflections, but do not see directly, because in a photo or CG image there's nothing whiter than white, if you know what I mean.

A high dynamic range image can record all of it. But it's not relevant if you don't calculate specular reflections from that image, because that's where the hot spot matters. It effects the diffuse too, somewhat, but far less.

So don't waste your time. I don't know why EF even bothered with the HDRI feature if they weren't going to do specular IBL. "

...Carodan has said that he plans to make his GREAT BIG V4 available as a Freebie- once a few issues are taken care of...not only is he a Poser GENIUS- he's also very GENEROUS!

...my experience with exporting stuff from Vue has not met with really god results... the best way is to use Vue is as a background in Poser- sort of like the DAZ Cyclorama (or "Environment" I think it's called now)...in fact some people have made their Vue renders INTO a DAZ Cyclo so that you even have a grassy foreground, etc... there is even a DAZ cyclo version that has places to put ALPHA plants and trees (which you can make in Vue and export)... OR...you can BUY such Alpha plants from DAZ and/or XFrog, which can be used in your cyclorama foreground...

...LOTS of creative ways to use stuff from Vue in Poser...    HOWEVER....

...You should just consider doing it ALL in Vue - as Vue exceeds Poser for doing outdoor scenes-- and with much better Radiosity and HDRI features- Vue is even better for STUDIO work as well--- I have NO PLANS to buy Poser 7 as Vue KICKS Poser 7's butt in nearly every department!

...as much as T2 promises to be a FANTASTIC landscape program in its eventual final release- (it's just a working demo right now)-- you would be better off getting Vue, I think, at this time...

Unfortunately Planetside seems to have a very LONG timeline for releasing their new versions (like YEARS)- so I wouldn't expect to see a real user-friendly version of T2 until at LEAST next year at this time...

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=Carodan

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?username=Carodan

...and yes, I would like to have her a well!  What a great V4 morph!

Attached Link: http://www.runtimedna.com/mod/ophoto/index.php?photoid=11320

You gotta see this V4 Morph by Carodan!**

Attached Link: http://www.planetside.co.uk/gallery/v/tg2gallery/?g2_page=1

Thanks for that update, Victoria!...Glad you are following that one...and that's why I have been adding updates to this thread- so that that Vue users can get some of the latest info on V4 utilities and software...

Here's another one that some Vue users may not be aware of...

http://www.david.eaton.ukgateway.net/RevealScaleDials.zip

"...here's a pz2 file that will unhide all the Scale, xScale, yScale and zScale dials in all V4's Body parts. "

David Eaton has posted this freebie that UNHIDES V4's Scale Dials in Poser (by default Poser hides them- but NOT in Daz Studio- so this helps people who want to do more tweaking in Poser- and it "should" make these dials also available in Vue as well (someone needs to test this...)

also...

There will soon (hopefully) be available a free morph target that greatly improves the way V4's 
arms look when she has them hanging down. Dburdick and others have pointed this out and
the3DWizard (his nick) is working on it now...I will post a link when its ready...