I agree with face-off, for some reason she looks more realistic in profile than head-on. Maybe she needs a little bit of asymmetry? Excellent work nonetheless. BTW, in profile she immediately reminded me of German actress Franka Potente... - Graham

Rachel I had similar problems with disappearing reflection maps when I used certain pieces of Serrge's Louis XV furniture (DAZ) in P6 for the first time. The problem seems to be that P6 gives you not only colour options, but colour value too. With the chair, the diffuse colour was white, the value was 1. In P4, the white material seemed to be treated as a blank canvas onto which the reflection map was projected, but in P6 it seemed to be competing with the reflection map, so I tried a lower value (much lower). Also, Traveller's P4 technique for getting metals to look the same in renders as they do in the preview window doesn't seem to work in P6. Hope this is helpful. Cheers Graham

An uncanny likeness...

'I've taken XP in the spec's to mean there's no support provided for any problems, to make things easier for CL.'

I think nghayward has hit the nail on the head.

I know of some software that categorically won't run on anything other than XP, but in this case I think it's just a way of CL managing their technical support obligations - not unreasonable IMO.

P3 800 MHz
512 MB
ATI Radeon 9200

To be honest though I only installed it out of curiosity to see if it would run at all - whether or not it runs well, I can't say. So far I've done a handful of FireFly renders of the default figures, and opened and rendered a P4 .pz3 file - nothing fancy or particularly demanding on system resources.

beryld - I use a combination of UVMapper Pro and PSP7 for all my texturing. Hopefully this is what you mean by getting UVMapper Pro to work in PSPS...

Make sure than in UVMapper Pro you set 'Texture' to Auto Update. Now, in PSP whenever you hit Ctrl-C (or Ctrl-Shift-C if you're working with an image with multiple layers) your image is copied to the clipboard and then automatically loaded into UVMapper Pro.

A word of warning though, big textures with multiple layers (say 1024x1024 with three layers) will take a long time to copy over, and may cause UVMapper Pro to hang.

Usually I have both programs open in fullscreen windows and then Alt-Tab between them, but if you set UVMapper Pro's 'View' menu to Always On Top, you can have it running as a little preview screen with PSP underneath.

Hope this helps.

• Graham

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog, it's too dark to read." -Groucho Marx

Katherine, another serial number reject from here in the UK :(

I've IM-ed details as requested.

House Mouse + violence flag = me immediately clicking to open the thread.

LMAO :)

• Graham

(who has nothing against mice in particular, but who finds anthropomorphic animals slightly unsettling. Not as unsettling as clowns obviously, but probably on a par with ventriloquists' dummies)

'Fraid I haven't worked on it since my initial post. Actually, there's not much left to build - just the pylons and the sensor dish. I should probably pull my finger out and get it done. She might be ready for launch in late February... or possibly early March ;)

Cheers

• Graham

Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?ViewSoftgood=32566

The link for Silent Smile, as recommended by butter. I thought the character name sounded familiar, then realised it was on my wishlist lol!

Attached Link: http://www.ebonshire.net/tut-posb/index.php

You might want to have a look at the tutorials on Cresent's site - he's got one on poser file locations - plus he hosts 66 of geep's tutorials :)

Cheers

• Graham

In all fairness, this was never intended for renderosity freestuff - I made my own decision several months back to have all my rendo freebies be suitable for commercial use, and this was never going to fall into that category LOL

Of course, wherever it does end up, I'll be posting a link to it here in the forum :)

Cheers

• Graham

Message edited on: 12/18/2004 17:24

...but I've been working on this Poser-ready Enterprise for several months now. BTW, excuse the single warp nacelle floating unattached above the centerline, that's just there to help me get the scaling right ;) I'm attempting to duplicate the detail level of the studio model, so you'll be able to get quite close to it. The hanger doors will be poseable and there'll be a hanger interior. I'm trying to keep the whole mesh to below 100,000 polys - to help with that, the hanger interior will be an optional smart prop. Of course, I suppose then I'll have to build a shuttlecraft to go in it ;) I've no real idea when it'll be done - I tend to work on projects in fits and starts and I'm allergic to deadlines, but perhaps weeks rather than months. Possibly. Cheers - Graham

Heh, actually I'd thought about that - or something along those lines... The basic Amphicat is actually a bit dull, but it may well be back in a more 'post-apocalyptic' incarnation ;)

Message edited on: 11/30/2004 17:10