Daniel, I've had pretty good luck using the Dolly Camera for this.

One of the things I like that I haven't seen mentioned is that the focal distance is now a parameter on the camera, instead of a render setting. If you're doing an animation, you can now animate that, so that a character walking toward the camera always stays in focus.

Nontroppo, Are there morphs on the chest with the same names as the breast morphs? If so, you might try adjusting those to the same values that you have for the breast morphs, and see if that helps.

Ajax, Having it that color certainly worked as an alarm :-) I never thought about no "ceiling" being a problem, since every other time I used it, I had a ceiling. It looks like I need to spend some time with the readme file. Thanks for the help--it's my favorite water to use.

Stewer, Changing the background color to the color of the background (whoda thunk it?) makes a big difference. I'm going to tweak it some, and see if I can get it a little more "transparent", but if I can't, at least I've got something I can work with. Thanks!

Fugazi, Yeah--whatever I change the refraction color to, that's the color I see for the water in the reflection. Stewer, Let me give that a try, and see how it works. thanks!

OK, the good doctor did in one sentence what took me five paragraphs :-) Doc, Could your method be modified to make an ellipse? Ming,

There is a way you can do it-it's up to you as to whether it's "time saving" or not :-)

In this example, I'm going to create a orbit with a radius of 5 around the Center of the Poser Universe(tm). It's also going to take 60 frames to complete an orbit. Make sure the animation is at least three orbits long (180 frames in this case)

At frame 1, set the X/Z coordinates of the ball at (0,5). At frame 15, set them to (5,0). At frame 30, set them to (0,-5), at frame 45, set them to (-5,0), and at frame 60, set them back to (0,5). This will establish the "compass points" of the circle, and also set a keyfram every 15 frames. Make sure each section is set to "spline", and not "linear", or "constant".

(If you ran the animation right now, frames 15-45 would make a smooth semi-circle, but the beginning and end won't work properly. That's because the curve of the spline is different at the beginning and end of the sequence than it is in the middle. Now, we're going to fix that).

Go into the animation window, and select frames 2 through 60. Copy them, and paste them starting at frame 61. Paste them again, starting at frame 121. You've now created three orbits of your sphere, but only orbit #2 (starting at frame 60) is perfectly round.

While you're still in the animation pallette, select frames 61 through 120 (your round orbit). Click on the "+" button to keyframe each frame in the orbit. Copy the section, and paste it starting at frame 2, and at frame 121.

When you've done that, you've got three round orbits.

Hope this helps,
Scott

Message edited on: 01/09/2005 23:08

"(I assume your poker players won't be alien princesses, lingerie models, or barbarian warriors. ;-)"

Would that include NVINATWAFH (Naked Vicky In A Temple With A Full House)?

take care,
Scott

Attached Link: http://www.treas.gov/usss/money_illustrations.shtml

(I noticed that the good doctor's tutorial also shows the rules)

If you need scans of specific denominations/years, let me know. I can provide you with b/w scans of most of the designs used since 1928.

Message edited on: 09/24/2004 18:48

Rauko, There is a canoe in the "Free Stuff" section. It's a 3ds object, but you can import it into Poser. Hope this helps, Scott