From what I recall it was never intended to be a stand-alone way to do art but rather to create posed figures to give the new digital painters a layer template upon which to for their painted art. It caught on while Zygote was still the to go place for amateur Poser stuff but seeing the potential of using it as a stand-alone animation and rendering too especially to export into Bryce which was popular as was RayDream Designer. It took off from there as more and more people saw the potential for amateurs to get into 3D arts relatively cheap and easy and Zygote turned to DAZ and helped the market along at a great pace giving us better content than Poser had out of the box! I hated the Poser 4 figures look and unable to get images I really liked deinstalled the app. But when DAZ released Millenium1 figures especially Vicky 1 I happily went back to it and have been squatting there ever since, my wallet a perennial captive of DAZ! That is of course until DAZ forgot who put them on the damn map and went their own way leaving Poser and loyal long time Poser users in the dust. Good business for them but not so good for us. For a while Renderosity has been offering good Poser content but I see the trend as I saw it with DAZ of more and more product for D/S and less and less for Poser.

Cool! Got it!

is there a simple step by step tutorial to set up self illuminating props like torches or your orbs or can those setting be copied and transfered from scene to scene prop to prop for non-jointed character props of course....but simple props?

the orbs are beautiful. So they are not only glowing but work as light emitters to light up other objects in set?

Thanks so much for all the help. Look forward to getting these props especially the lowing orb! :) I asked for a Silvering MAT file someone created and tried something I never could figure out and that was copying the MAT settings from the human figure to other figures and it seemed to work with a bit of bashing. I know it probably sounds stupid but I was so excited I actually learned something I just can't tell you! So If i find other light sabre handle models I can do the same thing to get the glow effect transferred from yours to them?

ok I can start there. Where can I find them?

3 family member deaths within 8 months, depression and anxiety and all the freaking meds that followed and now at 65 my brain stopped working properly. No way I can do that. Dipping my toe is now tightly choreographed to soaking my feet in a foot bath. :( THanks

just tripped back in here and was wondering what happened to the posts Tomas1975

Sounds cool. How do I get that and for what version of Mac OS is it compatible with?

Great! I hope it will be available as a freebie for a while. My damn computer died and have not been able to work in anything since May3 and frustrated beyond belief. Unable to afford a new on.....Yet!....I am hoping to eventual.y get a new one and start up where I left off in my work soon. Hope to be able to get it then.....If still available!

Reading some info on-line it seems the MacBook has a function that shuts the system down when it overheats to protect components. I tried restarting it right away but apparently it must not have yet been completely cooled off enough to work. Have not tried refiring it yet. Too much stress and not enough brain cells to slog through it. Heavily medicated for pain and infection and the freaking hives I got to deal with as bad reaction to the strong mess, I am sleeping all day. Getting better and hope to soon stop these mixed poisons. Gotta get better at doing freaking back-ups dude. Still can not get myself disciplined enough to do that on a regular basis so I wind up going insane worrying about LOSS of important stuff and that is why I still haven't been able to sit and work on it. Aside from no mind to do it yet, choked with fear everything is gone! The guy had an insurance card that indicated it had expired in 2014 but his assurance he was covered were correct. As soon as I got home I called and he was right so thank God I am covered. But, as I said his will cover all damages -to be completely repaired with new side panels, trunk base, trunk Hood, bumper, lights and all related electrical including rental car until all is made right. But despite it being brought to almost new original state from rear window back I will still not be able to get collision coverage so next time I might need it I'm SOL. BAD MONTH DUDE!

Point. I don't. But I don't have the freaking patience jury rigging a vow prop onto a mac truck for a scene in a series just to turn around to get another view and res crunch it all over again. I wish I knew how to use the more advanced tools in Poser to make all tha shit easier for myself but as you know dude WAY beyond me now. In fact I jhave not been able to do anything poser since May 3, 2 days before my birthday my laptop overheated and shut down. Attempts to restart failed. Buying a new one is not an option now not to mention the freaking loss of stuff on the laptop. Then 3 days later got a bad case of diverticulitis and have been on massive antibiotics since. As I was returning from gastroenterologist en route to go to get cat scans, some son of a bitch used my car stopped at a light as his personal brake pad and ran into me w/o stopping. Dumb old fuck was on a phone. Of course no cops to be found and I had to go get my emergence scans done. The insurance found my 14 year old car with only 61,000+ miles on it totaled. Oh they will fix it but won't be able to allow me to get collision coverage when they rebuild it. Been eating mush and liquid diet all month, have nothing to do all day long except practice my freaking typing skills on this worthless iPad and can't stop hoping no more shoes drop. Happy freaking birthday to me m'fckr!

Works fine if you are using pumps or flats. But, when using boots it is a whole other matter. You have toe, foot, shin, thigh to deal withandI have tried your suggestions and any others offered and it is a paininthe arse trying to get around. Same issue whenusingconforminghairfor onefigureona lther figure. Sometimes the chests the base, sometimes the neck and almost never the head. Oh, it's easy to parent the head of the hair to the character's head but if you need to adjust flow of longhair or other poseable functions it starts to jump off the head like a cat on a hot tin roof! Again, a pain the arse. No need to even discuss conforming clothes! ;P Body shapes are too another curse. Many third party creators do not always take in the full range of body morphs using the ++ functions to to mention extra body morphs for specialized body shapes and movements. 6Yep, another pain the arse.
Naked figures is definitely easier!

If that is the KISS'n truth then why re there so many shoes made as conformers as well as so many hair props? Personally I hate working with many conforming anything which is probably why I leave most of my figures naked even it it get boring. Occasionally a pair of shapes or hair. I can simply parent will work with. Shit old of rigging but it gets old quick if the figures need to be repsositioned for a series. I hav hundreds of dollars invested in conforming clothes accessories and hair I hate using and positioning many .cr2 figures ca be just as big a pin in the butt is trying to get conforming objects to work they way they were supposedly made to work. No real easy solution just what pain in the butt you are willing to tolerate!

SamTherapy posted at 4:02PM Sun, 23 April 2017 - #4303235

Hmm... For Jeri Ryan, I'd say the nose needs to be larger and a more square jawline. As for Ms Rossellini, she has a definite "Roman" nose, not the petite thing shown in the pic above.

Yes you are right about the nose but cover the nose and eyes and look at the shape of the lips and I see Isabella. A few fixes and voila! Also I misspoke. Her mom was Ingrid Bergman and not Judy Garland who was actually Liza Minnelli's Mom!