Don't laugh :P I know it's not great..., in fact, it's not even good, but I thought I'd post where I've got to so far. The image was rendered at 1024, but file size limitations means I've had to reduce it in size and quality a lot... It doesn't look _much_ better full size, but there's more detail on the boats and buildings at least :P There's no texture on the ground (except default ground texture) and a very rudimentary bump map... This is really only here so you can get an idea of where I'm intending on going with this... This is the sort of scale I'm looking at for instance. I'll be adding some houses, shops, inn's and primitive industrial buildings (iron foundry's etc) later on... The time to open, load and save was getting excessive, not to mention the machine chugging when I tried to move anything around :) So I thought I'd add some buildings in post work, but have subsequently found this to be even harder.... Anyways, enough whinging.... I'll get it done... Oh, and I forgot, there's a forest that needs adding too... Whew, render overload here we come :) Wave crests, tracks, beaches, granite effect added in post work. The sea is a flat place with a texture... I'm dying to know how you made that lovely sea you have in your image above jenay.... Oh, and I know I need to do the lighting, but it was becoming impossible to work with, so I reset it to default for the moment :)

Hmmm, you see, my wife is far more strict than my boss, so I end up doing all my rendering at work :P Fortunately, I have 2 machines, so I set the render going on one, and then work on the other one.... Which is cool, as it means that I can happily do >72 hour renders without any issues :) Not that I've done any that big yet.... But I think this one might just get there this time around :)

What more can I say than thanx guys... It's so much more than I was ever dreaming of. The issue with the closeups isn't going to be a problem, I'm going to be doing a lot of post-work anyway (adding smoke trails, boats etc), and my original idea was only for a long distance shot (a lot like your top-left image). Having said that, I'm now just SO excited, I may end up doing close-up after close-up as well :) And I'd completely forgotten about magnets in Poser, I've had a little experience with them, so now's the time to learn :) And I dunno if you meant to have a URL in your post of where I can d/l it from, but nothing came out.... Thanx guys... LOADS :)

Woo woo :) :) :) :) :)

Wow I can really see this coming together now, you have NO idea just how excited by all this I am :)

A couple of quick Q's.... Is this going to be able to work like this in Poser (I'm particularly worried about the water here...), roughly how big is the .obj file, can the arms of the crater extend out a little more and would it be possible to lower the hills on the main land mass?

I mean the northern side of the crater (as it would be on my plan) is perfect, but I think most of the rest of it is a bit too hilly for a city to really take off in this location..

God I'm being picky when you're all being so brilliant... Please don't take these things the wrong way, I'm SO happy with what's there already, it's like 1000x better than I was expecting to be able to do... It's just... I'm so damn excited now :) (sorry, I feel like I'm reverting back to my childhood and my first Scalectrix track :))

A very happy Fychan... :)

I'll be more than happy to post the finished render to the gallery :)

Wow. WOW :) Absolutely fantastic. If I could be REALLY picky tho, I'd say that perhaps the river was too wide (about half that would be perfect), and the rock pinicle in the middle is again about twice the size I was thinking.... But then, that's about a thousand times better than any botch job I couldda done with a downloaded crater... :) :) Wow again. Thanx :) Fychan (Getting very excited about this project now)...

Unfortunately, I don't have Vue d'Esprit, and coz this is more of a one off than a serious hobby/job I'm unwilling to shell out the money needed to buy a new program for this one item.... I'll see what I can knock together for a grey-scale terrain map in a while (got meeting coming up)... Thanks loads for the offer :)

Knocked this together as a first draft this weekend.... As I didn't have access to this forum during that time, I didn't see your reply Khrys, so I left the teeth off for the moment, thanx for the pointer tho, I will try it when I get some more time :) Any comments? (Is it me or does the female centaur seem a little cross-eyed?)... Thanx for all your help guys, Fych.

Doh! Said it was a silly Q :) Thanx

Arrrgghh, just realised.... Somebody's just pointed out that my heraldic shield needs an oil lamp with flame at the top (oil lamp like a genie lamp, sort of like Aladdin's lamp)... Anyone got one of those? :) Thanx P.S. Promise to post finished article when I'm done! :)

Absolutley Perfect! That's exactly what I was looking for :) very happy man I'll be happy to host the file for you in return for it's use.... That's not a problem :) Thanx loads, Fychan

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Oops, ignore me. It wasn't eyeLash I wanted, but lashes... Ohhh confusion :)

Hmm, I found the translashes (thanx), however it still blocks off the lashes as one solid clump. I removed the texture map on the material called "eyeLash", set all the colours to black, loaded the translash.jpg as my transparency, set trans Max to 100% all others to 0, and still no joy. Is it concerned that the translash is 2000x2000 pixels, but my skin texture is 3000x3000 pixels?

Thanx guys, its been intrigueing (?) listening to this lot :) To clarify, basically I'm a lot better at creating environments & objects in POV Ray, so I was hoping to do both, bring my Poser people into my nice environments in POV, and to bring any objects I'd made into Poser so I could add them to my scences (bottles, glasses, strange objects, etc.) and make them look sensible (wrap Poser figures around them and position them in relation to each other etc.). I now have a copy of PoseRay (thanx FlyerX) and will try that out once I have my home PC working once again (currently being rebuilt!) and 3D Win (thanx Fox-Mulder :)), which will hopefully solve the problem in both directions... Perhaps I need MegaPOV as well, I'll have to do some tests to see for sure :) Perhaps once I get some nice piccies I'll post them somewhere & place a link back here, so you can see the fruits of your labour in helping me out :) Again, thanx for all the replies, I've been reading & researching them all, along with finding some other stuff out along the way.... Please don't think I've just sat back & waited for you all to help me and been rude :) Much appreciated, Fychan