:lol: Been a while since I've seen such a virulent outbreak of cranial-rectal impaction complicated by ego aggrandizement  and a severe infestation of fanboys.

Mat poses generally work well in Poser and D|S so if you go with Mats then more people can use the character.

But if you are going to take advantage of the advanced materials in the material room then you'll want to use material collections and create at least some basic Mats for Poser 4 and D|S users separately.

So how close is flexi-girl to being done?:biggrin:

Have you thought about installing a Windows OS to a Virtual Machine under Linux and running your Windows apps that way?

Take a look at this www.virtualbox.org/

You can purchase legal versions of XP for a reasonable amount from places like NewEgg, TigerDirect, etc.

I'll go with tired.

Quote -  Don't forget the Poser Materials Room.

I try valiantly though!:lol:

Use the Right Mouse Button to select the rose.

(Dropped a word the orig was supposed to say "RMB select the rose and press TAB")

This symbol ">" indicates a sequence, do NOT insert the character in the command.

Pshaw! Bunch of whiners. Remember the MS Bob OS? Vista is waaaaay better than Bob. :lol:

(I despise Vista too!! Especially the way it was basically shoved down everyone's throat when MS knew it is a piece of crap from the get go.)

Thanks for salving my curiosity!:biggrin:

(Just to be perfectly clear I wasn't complaining I was teasing.)

Being new to modeling will probably be beneficial since you won't be bringing any baggage along and you'll be able to focus on how Blender works, not on how some other program operates.

Learning your hot keys is a big help with Blender. When I started  I printed off the list of hotkeys and taped it up beside my monitor for reference.

Another thing is to relax and not worry about how hard you've heard Blender is to learn. Being nervous makes it more difficult retain information.

Keep in mind while you are trying to figure something out in Blender (or any other 3D application) that it's for fun, if it doesn't work you can try again, nothing is going to explode or burst into flames.:laugh:

On the subject of Blender's difficulty, any high end 3D application has a steep learning curve. It always amazes me when people that "use" ZBrush complain about the Blender UI......ZBrush has a horrible UI too and let's not even go into Lightwave.....complaints about hotkeys....3DMAX is full of them IF you want best efficiency.

Learning new software comes down to focusing on the task at hand, taking small steps and building a solid foundation in the basics before you try the more advanced bits. Go at your own pace and enjoy yourself.

One thing you may want to do that I left out is to scale down the UV layout slightly.

Before saving the UV face layout place the cursor in the UV Editor window.

press the A key to select all the verts of the layout

press the S key and enter .95

This will scale the entire UV layout down to 95% of the original and give you some space around the edges of the UV Map when you save it. Just makes it easier to work with the map in an image editor.

Now with the auto unwrap the various UV islands are placed randomly where the program finds space. There is a way to find out locations on the model for the polys but it's a little tricky so we'll leave that alone for the moment unless you want to learn right now.

Anytime you have a Blender question send me a site mail and I'll answer or point you to someone that can.

Import the object into Blender.

With the mouse in the 3D viewport press Numpad1 then Numpad . (decimal)

RMB the rose and press TAB

Press CTRL>N

click OKAY

press the A key

Goto the links and materials pane

Under the materials section cycle through the choices until you have petals current ( 6 mat 3)

Press select to select only the petals

press W>0 (numpad or keyboard)

hover cursor at top edge of 3d window when the cursor turns into a bi-directional arrow RMB and choose split

set one of the windows to UV Editor by selecting it from the drop down list at the lower left corner of the window

place cursor in 3D viewport and press the A key  all the verts should now be yellow

press U>1

in the UV Editor panel select UVs>scripts> save UV face layout follow the prompts

export the normal corrected UV mapped object

Well after all that I want to see!:laugh:

Quote - Now,  I'm thinkin' do I spend the next two weeks takin' the engine apart,  pre heatin' the block and weldin' it with Ni rod or do I just go buy another car?)

Change out the entire motor?

It's simpler than tearing down and rebuilding, cheaper in the long run when considering time and materials. (Had to learn a few things in self defense against an old tractor.:laugh:)

@nruddock

Would you be willing to send me the Poser version script as is so I can take a look at it and possibly build from it?

That's a great concept that I'm amendable to but, still get some wonky results when running the sculpt brush across group boundaries....results with Compose are consistent....shrug.

Plus Compose works in those situations that don't involve Blender. (some of us slip around and visit other applications on the sly)

Note: I'm not saying that the irregularities have anything to do with the update to .obj handling, which I like by the way.

Oh yeah, it's worth reading the doc that comes with Compose.

(Besides who tests updates to morphs, get it in one and call it done....sure,right.:laugh:)