I R Giant idiot.

Y'all get virtual cookies for putting up with my dumb self today since I can neither read nor see what's in front of me. Thank yous.

Curling up on the couch with a book is sounding better and better as the day goes on. Can't be trusted with a computer it seems.

Bugger that. I must be missing an update or something because I don't get the pretty little remove button.

Life seems to hate me recently, so I'm not all that surprised.

The medals were on long ribbons that went around their necks - so that the cameras could get a good bust shot of snooty princess leaning over the guys.

Chewie could have easily been included in the medal ceremony. That was clearly discrimination against large furry humanoids and is an issue that needs to be addressed.

As said a few posts up - unless someone is nice enough to make some adjustment morphs to give something like a suit jacket cleaner shoulders, we're limited by the rig in the base mesh. And that goes for every single figure out there.

V4's shoulder and clothing in that area are no better than M4 - or figures before them. Just that V4 tends to have more skimp ware than M4 so it's not always as noticeable.

It's not just slap some polys together, call them clothing and off they go. It's a fairly involved process that doesn't always cooperate 100% of the time like we content creators wish. I've got lots of unfinished projects gathering dust because one little thing after I think I'm done crops up and it doesn't want to go away. Or I fix one thing and another problem crops up and pisses me off. 

As for lack of bulge - that's something easily forgotten/ignored because if you're modeling around the M4 base mesh it simply isn't there (which does make it easier to model to tell the truth). But considering how often many of the regular Morphs++ for either figure aren't included in clothing, the lack of bulge isn't something that riles me up as much as having to add my own morphs to something I've purchased because it doesn't fit a character I've dialed up.

If they don't show up in P6, then you'll need to download the Content Legacy packs from CP....unless they've gotten rid of them in the switch over. All the old poser figures/critters are in that.

Thanks for that Les!

Will save the script for future use on other projects. Was pretty easy to run through CR2Builder and just delete everything but the dial keys for the needed ones.

Now that my brain has finally woken up, turned itself on...and all that jazz.

Never mind me....I did answer my own question and everything works like it's supposed to.

I need a vacation.

Running Vista Business at home, and have P6 installed to Program Files(x86) folder, and my P5 installed on its own on the harddrive. Haven't had any issues with either of them outside of ones I cause myself (and those are generally more than enough).

Wondering if Poser is loosing it's "brain" with the fact that you've parented the prop? Or does it still behave like a smart prop after it's been loaded to a fresh scene?

Thanks all!

I feel rather stupid now....of all the things I fiddled with, I didn't even think to turn texture filtering on. I think I have a mental block when it comes to that little check box. /sigh

That's why I come here! ^_~

I'm running Vista Business and installed P5 to the harddrive on its own outside of the Program Files (either one). Been working fine along my P6 installed "normally".

Granted, I don't use P5 much anymore, but it's behaved normaly when I've opened it.

No worries. Sometimes simpler can be better...and sometimes you need the specific groups in. Just depends on what you're making really.

I'm still learning with everything I do and new figures and such. ^_~

Glad to be of help.

Aye - for the hip, you can make the grouping like a g-string selection (shapewise) or you can simply group the whole bottom area to the hip bone itself, but leave the thigh bones in the rigging as "ghost" bones. The mesh will still be affected by the bones from the main figure when posed (may take some tweaking with the joint editor) but it generally works well for clothing.

It's how I do skirts and such anyway. Process would be the same for a shirt, just without the extras.

Even if the verts are in the same place, if the grouping is "too far" outside what Poser thinks it should be it can cause the gaps. I found that out in my early days of making conforming clothing. The more exact I got with my grouping by cutting in Max ahead of time, the less I had problems. Not 100%....but generally saves headaches.

Poser is a very tricky little snot at times and no matter how many chickens one offers up as sacrifice....some days it just doesn't cooperate with us (or me at any rate).

It sounds like just an issue for this particular article of clothing that the grouping is just a tad off hence Poser being a #(#$#$ when everything should technically be working right. A wireframe shot or something showing us where the groupings are and what figure it's for might help narrow things down.

I'm assuming you're cutting the mesh in Max before you send it to Poser, so a few things that I can think of here at work this morning.....if not, I guess just ignore me then:

Are you matching the shape of the base figure's various parts as close as possible when you cut the clothing in Max? If the clothing group is too far off from the body zone, it can cause problems like this on occasion.

Do you give each piece of clothing the same internal name as the base figures bones? While this isn't necessary, it saves a heap of trouble in the setup room - all you have to do is delete the bones you don't need, open up the group editor and just run through the list making sure that each one matches up correctly.

As long as you have the grouping right, and everying left the setup room correctly, Poser should weld the groups for you just fine. I'd say go back and have a look at how the clothing is grouped. In Max, I set the clothing to see-through, and then do each body part separately. I'm probably not describing this well at the moment....but I can do a little better after work if needed.

M4 Ehanced does have such a morph, seems stupid a 3rd party had to make one, but pdxjims did a good job on it.

Helps when I remember to use it..../bonks self