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I don't know, it looks like a case of warez paranoia to me, but then I'm neither an equestrian nor a modellor. What convinces me that it's not the same saddle is that I can't understand why anyone would take your great saddle (thanks I dl'ed it) and morph it into this mediocrity. If you really think it's yours why not post a pic from a similar view. Oh I hope I haven't upset anyone by posting these pics that don't belong to me, but before we bomb the guy with hatemail we should at least examine the evidence closely.

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Is it true that he was sinful buddhist monk with bad karma that got reincarnated as a search-engine?

Ah shucks! Ok then. "Post and be damned". BrOken - I originally gave it a slight transparency but it takes down the boldness of the motif, so I rendered it solid until I make a Transparency map. Also, a freaky thing with Poser is that you can't get the shadow of the figure projected on the back of the screen to be visible (via the transparency) on the front. You just see the figure through the screen illuminated by the light coming through from the front. The best that can be done (that I can do) is to light the front but not the figure, and then use the figure's silhouette as the shadow. Poser really is funny about transparencies, I had exactly the same problem you mention with the lightly transparent paper walls in a teahouse, that should let in less light than an open doorway - like hell they do. The workaround I'm using is to render overlit and underlit, and then find the balance using layers in Photoshop. - Just had an idea, the transparency values in the render window only permit light to pass or not. Perhaps the transparency map will let you set how much light passes or not - you wouldn't have seen it with your louvres because you used b and w bands. Off to try will post result.

And just a thought. Why not go for a pair of unlaced combat boots with a scuffed up texture - they look great and it might be easier to do with magnets than modelling buckles from scratch.

If that's pathetic then I am a worm! Really one of the most stunning things I've seen. I cannot make your boots. I'm not even fit to kiss them!

Hey glad to oblige, drop me a line at the address above and I'll send it along. Tell me if you want hi or lo res for the textures. angola

Cheers Fox-M, you always seem know what I didn't think I needed until you reminded me I didn't have it!?!

The model is a 'teahouse' it's not my model so I don't get to name it "hot'n horny geisha house" as i would have liked. This particular 'teahouse' is serving as my 'geisha' house' in which a young lady is being washed by a Geisha - the story is for you to imagine. Bath houses are, of course, entirely another thing but I believe young ladies, then as now, sometimes took care of personal hygine outside of purpose-built communal facilities - and much to my chagrin as unlike you, I find the idea of a wet kimono rather appealing. ;-) angola

So you were smart before. You're still smart now! :-@

When I grow up i'm gonna get a real rendering engine, for the moment I'm stuck with Poser :-( Setting the shadow to 0.5 just tones down all the shadows for the frame and the panels - same problem. The workaround sounds like it'd work Ockham, but before taking that direction I'll probably just render twice, once with and once without then rejig the thing in Photoshop. The problem is that's with and without for each light... BTW, Geisha were sometimes highly trained and talented 'entertainers', but the references to their being prostitutes are rife. If my experiences of Korea are anything to go by, prostitution often hides behind other 'services' so the suspicion that they occassionally offered more than conversation might be more than just a western perversion. My Geisha is not a prostitute, she is having a bath (or will be once I complete the scenery). It' just that Poser does clothes so badly and skin so nicely a litle bit of flesh can realy change the image (honest!) Thanks angola

Getting somebody to sit in a chair and not fall half way through it is not bad for a first. I can't do that. If you fiddle a bit with the scales on the chest and collar you'll find that you can reduce the "I've got three weeks of laundry in my inside pockets" look on the P4 jacket(I've never got rid of it.) Also turn down the shadow dial on your lights and turn up (way up) the shadow map value. It's hard to see the quality of the render in jpg (tip: export rather than save image) but when I began that's the two things I wish someone had told me. You'll be very satisfied with the improvement. Bravo! Why don't ou think about some textures? angola