"People work with so different things and from so many different viewpoints they could just as well be from Mars and Venus"  or maybe even a little farther away lol

Sorry about you having to join the forum (mind u might like it lol ), I have joined so many its a joke, then u find an interesting thread go to make a reply an notice the last post was like 3 yrs ago  opps !back out slowly lol

guess I still do it the old fashioned way but that was the only way when I started lol , did make a couple of things for v4(when she came out) but NO MORPHS couldnt get my head round them(then left it all alone for a while , heath issues, starting again with clothing, doin some bits for m4 but again the morphs are driving me nuts

if I was just making stuff for myself would build the cloth around the pose!! so much easier

Mus uni non fidit antro  ok ok so I looked up ur latin (not done it since school) 

well looked up this link its from last oct http://pfdlives.com/pfd/index.php?topic=838.msg9534#msg9534

 (dunno if you'll see it without signing in! but its not a bad group, ps I'm only a member there so cant change the rules ) got rid of MD an all files made with it around christmas time, was no chance of me ever buying it lol

if you cant see it guess I could rip the pics out and post them here

as for autogroup editor I'm sure its a usefull tool but I can group without it and my time is a lot more plentiful then my money lol

Obj2cr2 is good (like most of Phils stuff) but again I do it in a text editor with help from cr2 editor and morphman

Do plan on buying morphing clothes tho!! just tried adding them by hand and its soooooo tedious and not as easy as I thought it would be and it seems like I get some working an break others 

when a prop file dosnt have external geometry its usualy embedded in the prop file(poser does that)

better if its extracted an put in the proper place for peeps to find an make morphs/uv maps etc

another thing that can stop you finding an obj is they can be obz (poser compressed files)

they can be opened by poser scripts or winrar (not sure about other zip progs)

Like a lot of peeps I had a good play with MD when it hit the forums

will admit to being impressed with its abillities and even made a couple of the dresses I made into conforming and dynamic  they worked fine (not better but no worse) the dynamics in MD is a LOT better then posers but then I guess its cloth sim an render are designed for the mesh it makes

I dont use autogrouping tools and doing the grouping by hand was a pain

things like shoulders/collars are very hard since the mesh isnt symetrical

never tried to add morphs but think the lack of any symetery would make that a lot more dificult

and lastly is the price, for me at least I would never spend so much on such a limited tool

the fact is it was made for fashion houses where one dress design might sell 1000's or 10000's of copies, IF they stripped out all the bits I dont need for poser an put it up at a sensable price I would consider it

Hexagon is the easist to use (an I used a few over the years)

do find its displacement brush needs a fairly high polycount

dont forget you can add wrinkles in poser using a displacement map

c7 was a gave away on one of the 3d mags in the last yr

might be able to get a back copy?

forgot which mag but there aint that many

opps just chucked the shaders on in carrara for the render and to show the dif areas

just load any shaders (daz or poser) theres lots of good free ones for both proggys

and the zip

http://www.4shared.com/file/BNyucklA/bongs.html

have fun

and just in case !! I never seen you before ;-)

heres a couple of bongs and a grinder, grinder is in 3 parts for posability

just the obj files and they WILL need scaling to suit

I made a "joint" for someone once! prolly find the obj  if u want it

and a bong/pipe should be easy to model,I can do that for you if you post a pic of what you want

not sure if this is your problem with the chain, but when I had chains break it was because the links was touching before the sim started

as for your tower ! did you turn bounce to very low (off even) that solved my fly apart wall

quote
"One thing you learn with age is that you really don't give a rat's ass after awhile what other people think. Maybe you should come around to that mindset ;o)."

thank god for old age ;-)

if the feet movements are too large
drop a couple of scaled down balls in the scene
place on/under feet
then parent the feet to them
will with luck let you make a "dance"  type animation
but large feet translations will still be a prob

wish I'd known about the copy/paste keyframes

oh well
next time ;-)

have you tried the puppeteer??

once you have set up the "dots" for the start frame just go over it again at the end frame

5 mins with a pencil an paper (for the maths lol )
then use multireplicate on a metaball
and u got a metaball torus