Hi Cridgit,

Glad you are at least somewhere doing well.  I was wondering, has it been updated or enhanced, and if we purchased this in the DAZ store, could we be eligible for updates?

Indi.

I was mistaken.  I had turned off a switch in D3D's XO (visible in render) that gave me the alpha... but didn't use the light.

I agree, there must be a better way.

Hi all,

Nevermind, I got it.  :)

Indi.

I hope this isn't derailing what was a great thread to go through.  And I apologize if this has been answered elsewhere and I missed it.

Is it possible to use the environment sphere for lighting, but not have it render to get the image to have a good alpha map?

Thanks everyone.

Indi.

I just wanted to say thank you for this thread.  I was lucky enough to get an 80% coupon from Smith Micro and was able to sidegrade from Poser 8 to Poser Pro 2010.

I am THRILLED with it, and this thread has given me some good pointers on the new GC as well as render settings and lighting settings.

Thank you!

Indi

Thanks Sean,  :)

I'll put together some pics and post the issues.  I'm passing out shortly, so it will be 24 hrs.

Indi.

Ok, I don't think it's legal to post any pictures of the kid's mesh, but after viewing the video from Phantom3d, I was very hopeful.  I had never seen the "necksmooy"  little adjustable line in Poser.

I managed to fix the arms and legs scaling using that method, it's fantastic.  However, I saw no actual parameters being changed in either the Joint Editor palette or the Parameters palette.  So my first question is, what exactly am I changing when I grab and stretch/compress that little line?  Is there anywhere I can see that parameter and adjust it manually?  When the joints are set up, is that an automatic joint parameter like twist/bend/side-side, or can I set up another one, like necksmooZ?

Why?  Because the neck was a different issue.  The neck in the toddler morph of the Kids is y-scaled down, not stretched out, and for some reason that's making the neck, in Poser (not Daz), squish out along the z-axis (didn't seem to affect the x-axis).  Nothing I did with the necksmooy joint (with or without falloff spheres) would correct that. 

Is there anywhere else I could look and adjust?  (hmm... perhaps I should duplicate this on a public figure and post?)  Is Antonia available to everyone?

Awesome video.

I wish...

Here's a pic of one of my runtime/library/pose files.  It's my hair runtime and so these are the hair mats.  I've scrolled 3 times (yea, I need to clean it up) to show you.

It looks like it is sorted alphabetically backwards at first, but you can see as I scroll down it's all a mess.  This runtime is on an external USB hard drive.

Thanks :)

So the XL library is fantastic.   Is there a way to get it to sort my folders/files alphabetically?

Indi.

Got it!  Thanks!  WOW!  Good bye Poser libraries that just insist on crashing Poser!  Goodbye blindness where I can only see a few of something in a library and cringe everytime I need to scroll or click on something because I know a crash is coming!  Wow, how cool!  I can see! I can see! cough

Indi.

Sorry to be so dense.  Is it for sale here or CP?

Indi.

EDIT:  I see something called eXtended Library for Poser at CP, and Poser eXplorer here.  Are they the same thing?  Sort of the same?

Thanks for the news.  Downloading now.

Indi.

Thanks for the advice.  I do like the Combat Grrrl, but even in the promo's it looks like the bullets bend a little.   I've got the Panko on my wishlist for now and Margharita on my wishlist for now.

Many many thanks for all the help.  Great renders too look at as well, Estherau, thanks.

Indi.