Other issues: 1. No hoof marks in the snow. How did the horse and rider arrive? 2. The skeleton would be unlikely to have its legs locked in midair like that once the soft tissue vanished. 3. The horse's pose looks a little odd. 4. The rider's cloak is good, but if its that breezy one might expect flyaway strands of hair from her coiffure. 5. The hawk looks as if its very low and on a near collision course. Unless it's her pet this would be unnatural. If it is her bird make it clearer. How about a falconer's glove and maybe an arm outstretched to the bird? Jesses trailing from the bird's talons? 6. Try having some drops or wetness on the horse's coat. It should at least have soaking wet legs up to the fetlocks from plunging through that snow. Even frozen water if it was cold enough. I've seen photographs of mustangs in winter with their shaggy coats crusted with icicles.

Mash your fingertips into the slot of your CD-ROM drive repeatedly. That should bring tears to your eyes ;-) Seriously: If you've got Photoshop and want to get the effect by postwork look at this tutorial: http://www.renderosity.com/~archange/eyes.htm If you are in possession of Max and abhor postwork then have a look at NeilBlevins.com where he has many excellent tutorials on how to use procedural methods, including one on how to get wet looks. I found the first link in 15 seconds by doing a Google search on "Tears" and "Poser" If you do the same I am sure you will turn up others.

"If I am correct, the Right Hemisphere software lock is done by another company, so I would imagine a contract of some sort is already in place." I hope that for CL's sake this hypothetical contract includes a hefty refund to CL if CL can demonstrate that a working crack to the protection scheme is extant within a set period of release of the PPP bug fix. If it doesn't, then the vendor of the protection scheme has done a sweet marketing job on CL, based on Steve's hopeful expectations for the protection for PPP that he has voiced here. Well, time (not a very long a period of time) will tell. On a side note; Discreet used a hardware dongle system for 3DSMax 3 and switched to a software lock system for Max 4. The reason I heard was that they had so much hassle (and cost) in helping out legitimate users having problems with the drivers for the dongle not working. This was one case of inconvenience to users outweighing the extra security of a hardware lock.

"Non HW: Max 4 uses it. I have yet to find a crack but that's not to say that it hasn't or won't be done. It's been out since around January." It has been done. Period. Maci is correct and you are wrong. The crack breaking Max 4 and making it a fully authorised commercial version has been out for some time now. We are in what? April. Assume the crack was only done last week (unlikely). Then that particular vaunted software protection (by a very large software firm for their $3000+ package) lasted 3 months. Poser is so popular (kudos to your product) that I doubt less energy will be expended by the crackers on cracking the ProPack bugfix than in cracking Max 4. I would speculate that the crack for your planned protection will simply fool the program into never asking for online authorisation, making duplicate serial numbers moot. By all means implement your protection, but at least be realistic about what it is aimed at doing; preventing picayune copying by people who never look at warez sites. It won't succeed in "curbing warez"

Guitta, What Vue plants do you use these flower and leaf files on?

Why don't you just use UV Mapper to get the new texture map, recolor it etc. save it, and then tell Poser to use the new texture map instead of the P4nudewwoman.bmp file or whatever you are using? The .obj file only has to get into UV mapper so you can generate the new texture map. The obj file doesn't have to go back into Poser.

Holli, I still use POV-Ray and Moray. I've just gotten Vue and Poser, but I'm staying with POV-ray/Moray for several reasons: Moray has a much more powerful modeller than Vue does, so if you want to create objects like buildings, furniture and so forth using splines, bezier objects etc, you need to model them and then import them into Vue. Vue is far superior to POV-Ray for organic things like vegetation and skies and atmospheres, but for modelling Vue is weak as a standalone program. Its very possible to use Poser to create human figures as Obj files and then inport them into Moray scenes and render them with POV-Ray using the texture maps and all. I'm currently working on a big image of this kind, but my main computer is in the repair shop right now. When I finish it I will post it here. There are some technical issues with importing Poser figures but it can be done, once done the POV renderer is far better than the Poser renderer! To give you an idea what can be done with POV-Ray and Moray take a look at the images in my gallery (links below) My POV-Ray images: http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=13908&Start=1&Artist=Rhialto&ByArtist=Yes http://www.renderosity.com/viewed.ez?galleryid=15109&Start=1&Artist=Rhialto&ByArtist=Yes Bear in mind that I am a real newbie and these images represent my first three ray-tracing projects. For the best POV-ray images go take a look at the winners of the Internet Ray tracing Competition at www.IRTC.org By using Moray you can sidestep for quite some time the need to understand POV's scripting language. All three of my Renderosity gallery images were created without knowing script and no doubt suffer from that lack of control. Bear in mind the following points... these share/freeware programs are supported better than the commercial programs since they have a huge user base of talented programmers who devote their free time to them. Updates are regular and well documanted and there is none of this business of charging for every little add on the way Zygote do for their models. There is a new (free) patch for POV-Ray called MegaPOV which adds incredible features such as Photon mapping, radiosity and so on. Moray also has lots of free plugins that allow easy creation of difficult objects and effects such as smoke, lens flare, water flows..... One thing I've realised is that artists tend to use programs like Vue D'esprit. If you just want to click on the terrain button and have a mountain appear, click on the vegetation button and have a tree appear, select a sunset setting start the render and hey presto! have a picture in 2 minutes then go for Vue. If you want full control and to understand ray tracing then go for POV, with Moray to make modelling easy for you. POV is great for technical wonks. Hope this helps. If you need more info/links just ask. Rhialto

Without. Nice work.

Vue crashes repeatedly for me. I have a Gateway PC with two ATI Rage Pro chipset cards driving 2 different monitors. Windows 98. Vue 3.02. All my other software (eg. Poser 4, Moray, POV-Ray, Paintshop Pro) is stable. I manage to get some work done in Vue by saving at frequent intervals. The crashes seem to be related to the Terrain objects: moving or resizing mountains = more frequent crashes.

The texture is off of course. I need something that gives it an appearance of rose-colored silk, but the design is perfect! I'll e-mail you.. thanks!