Hi P5 is Fantastic value and a wonderfull tool. (present bugs aside. That are being fixed as we speek) as to scale a 100 <-- not an xtra 0 here. this poser upgraid if the most far reacing upgraid i have seen any company put out every aspect of poser has been upgraded and not just a few dials andded moved and renamed as many companys tend to do and call that an upgraid. if you want pro power for your sceens with cloth hair texture and volumetic raytraced rendering for 350.00 Us I chalange you or any one to find the list of features now in poser at any where neer this price. YOU CANT FIND IT!!!! Period. so Guess this answers your question in spaids. Laters Vel

one thing to mention here in the colide against window set colision to less than one for tight fiting cloting the lower the ofsetnumber the closer the cloth is to the skin. also in setting set draping number to the amount of time you want the cloth to settle, IE 30 frains = 1 second. So a drap of 30 fraims lets the stock shape settle for total of 1 second in simulated time. a dress droped from waist hight wont setal out in 1 sec time and light silky things will float down and not even be all the way down in 1 second. So you need to keep this in mind when seting up your sym for calculation. hope this helps Vel

looks to me like the model was imported with a uvmaper texture apied to the UV's then the UV's corupted or the model not saved with the map so the map bmp is aplied but with out the UV maping in the model so its deformed as poser aplyes it. make sure the model is 1 maped and saved with maping. and that your not loading the resulting bmp with its grafing lines. hope this helps laters vel

got love people compairing 350.00 P5 to a 2K + base program cost plus there plugins and calling it a toy. P5 is far from a toy, thow not as advanced yet as the hi end pacages it is still a very viable tool for pro useage. I use it for my productions as its far far faster the rig and pose a charicter in poser than in my other pacages. I dont use Max, but do own and use Maya and True Space the second also toughted as a so caled toy. But yet TS render engen is one of the most advanced built into a pacage that is available and its nurbs at the fastest to use in (My opinyon) <--- Personl preferince here. P5's firefly render is a fantastic advancement the cloth and hair rooms also very usefull and the Material room works well also. For many simple productions stills short animations with simple sceenery Poser now creats a useable finished render of excalent qualaty for productions. any program has potential as a pro tool. if used for its stron points. admitedly most of the lower proced or free ofering have few if any strong points to utalise. I get so tired of these flames there totaly unproductive. Take up Bandwidth, and serve only one perpose and that is to bash something by some one that hasnt the desire to dig into a program they paid good mony for to learn to use it. so they wine bitch and bash and get no where in the process. Time to take that negative energy and put into learning to use the tool you spent your hard earned cash on. I say they payed for it dont even want to acknoledge the ones that didnt pay for it as there not even worth notice. Laters Vel

HEHE We all have to much poser time on our hands :) Just gota love IT! Thank you so much for the giggle Vel

ps weld the seems on export. when you add colition be sure to include the ground or you will have the train haning a mile below the figure grin. have fun and fidel the settings between densatie and fold resitance to get the look you want :) have fun Vel

hmmmmmm :) has some wiled posabiluties :) the colar you need to remove from the sym by editing the dynamic group, click the lil - sign and select all the dots in the colar to remove it :). puffy sleaves and light ripples for folds of the train part of the dress. set fold resistance to some where between 5.0 and 8.0 as a gestamation. this looks like it would be farly heave so set cloth dencaty to around 120 or so set streach and sheer to bout 80 and see how it looks :) cant wait to see what you come up with :) ohhh patent the dress to the neck so the colar will follow the neck/head twists to a digree :) if this is a conforming dress load it select it then export as an ojb then reimport it so you can clothafy it :) let me know how it goes :) Laters Vel

it is something i have been considering. if there is interest in my clothing designs for Judy and P5's dynamiccloth room i can put together a pacage of say 5 to 10 items. let me know if there is interest for this. Laters vel

I have had this happen with my styalist II tablet a number of times. the way i was able to fix it was as follows. this is with win XP so you need to aply OS stuff as needed for 98. first shut off the puter. second unplug the tablit let sit for 60 full seconds. fire up the puter with out tablet conected. this will clear out the info in the wacom files. turn off the puter. conect the tablet and plug it in. boot computer. if the tablet is still working all should be ok. and the tablet back up and working. the total fix for this is to have your tablets power sapply turned off when the puter isnt running so put it on a protection strip or something if it isnt yet. leaveing it powered on all the time the tablet seems to get confused or something after a while and it just stops working till its unpluged let cool down then restarted by pluging it in. I have a master power control box under my moniter i use. and turn it off with the puter and moniters when not in use. and if im browsing i leave the tablet off and use my intelapoint for brosing or what ever and turn the tablet on only for drawing. hope this helps. Vel oh PS I did have a power saply go bad once, went to radio shack power saply in hand and got one from them. :) problem solved tablet worked fine after that and is when i started leaving it turned of when not in use as the power saply runs 24 hts a day even if the tablet is not in use if pluged in. byee and good luck Vel

Ps my system is a 900 mhz athon 793 megs ram ATI 8500 EL vid card system works fine and speeds are defenitly on par with my othere software rendering programs, TrueSpace, World Builder Maya and Bryce5 Laters

in my opinyon P5 has made poser a viable tool for pro useage. I have used poser sence version3 from Meata Creations as a rigging platform to set a pose then export to use in my Maya for cloth and hair aditions. Now for most things i can do it all in poser :) saveing me even more time in my production work for customers. still learning hair and material rooms, the cloth room is fabulas as far as its goten way to go CL. looking forward to tweeks and aditions to it. With very few tweeks and aditions the P5 cloth room will exceed the cloth abiluties in Maya a program far far more exspencive, and by the way the calculation speed of P5 for cloth sym is bout 10 times faster than Maya's cloth sym. again way to go. only twweks needed are beter impingment handeling and the inclution of inertia to the symulation. If inertia is presently there havent figured out how to use it yet. thow can see how to fake it I think. Laters Vel

thanks it was fun :) I did a x back also and yes to the fixed points i was trying to see if i could use stressing to get the gatheres and there by reduce the total requiered number of pollys. the sim thow with out a lot more playing on my part dosent look like it will do it. so will have to model the gather into the dress or texture it in if it is nodeled in will have to remove the points from the sym for tacking this works but for a full area hmmmmm,,,, would think it would change and make the drape un natural.. I knew Phil could do the main one you where asking for :) and as this was adressed to Him i left it alown :) love Your work Phil :) the X back makes a grat nighty :) and done short would be a great tedy :) wish i had a way to host these id put them up as freebies. any takers for that ? Laters Vel

click colide against and put in the objects you want to colide with ope this helps Vel