Figure Pose Backround texture on the figure, hair clothes lights Render fix light Render fix lights add another figure pose clothes hair The pose usually dicates what is going in the rest of the render, but when I'm doing a story I already know what I want and whatever my Runtime opens up to is what I'll use first

Hair does it for me, I'll see a hair style and wonder how it would look on Aiko. The fashion sense of Japanese girls here in Okinawa is ...different, and I stare at the girl wondering how I can re create that outfit in Poser. Marines are sticklers for being on time...if not 15 minutes early, yet every now and then I'll try to do a render while I'm getting ready for work and end up being a minute or two late going to work because it didn't come out right and I have to change whatever was that was messed up and wait for it to render again. It takes me 30 minutes to get ready for work on Mon, Wed, and Friday (physical training at 530 AM, another 30 to get to work...I stay up way past midnite playing with Poser (in between 12:30 and 1AM) then get up at 3:45 so I can try to force out a render that I was dreaming up before I went to bed.

I always do it the other way around, there's a really helpful tutorial here in forums and someone correct me if I'm wrong it does work both ways...doesn't it?

I gave up on Poser several times in two years then finally a light went off and I actually had the courage to post something...that's back when I was working with Koshini, I thought she and Ichiro were the only models I could "understand" enough to use and thought I'd be stuck with it forever. The tutorials here helped, but the free stuff is where I really learned, I would see how what made it do A and how I could then use that applied task to get B. I didn't post my first thing until 2002 and have been taking baby steps...but stuff is coming out more and more the way I think it will when I start...sometimes dare I say it even better. Persistance and Patience!

I'm not even going to answer the question, but the other half reminds me each time I purchase something new about how much my tally is. It's not pretty, not pretty at all. :(

Attached Link: Clother Jean Example

Is Clother worth it...YES! Most of my renders use it, Look at my gallery and check out "Oriental Lace" and "BCuz " (they're on the first page) in OL I use it with normal clothing but in BCuz...it's all Clother. The second to last one I posted the bruises and clothes on one of the figures is Clother and Masker. The initial 40 bucks is steep, but the packs at 5 bucks a pop...is great, plus with the slew of free stuff, I think it's a very good buy!

Thank you all! you're much too kind.

Thank you...looks like I'll be doing some shopping there at the end of the week. :)

I'm cautious and with my job a lot of times I can't be home as much as I like, but do I monitor what my sons do (I have two), yup, you betcha. What parenting technique is better...to each his own. The last few years I've been learning what worked for my 15 year old has nothing to do with the 8. Do I force my values on my children...hell no. But will I guide them to what I think is right...yup, guilty as charged but at the same time I give them the space to be their own person...love the way my 15 year old is turning out...sure he likes boobies what 15 year old doesn't...heck what man doesn't but will I let his PC grow into a haven a porn...no. Will he swear at me? No. Hopefully, because I'm a Marine (going on 17 years in service) means I'm different and I "need things my way or the hiway". I treat him with respect, just as I do my subordinates because I was 15 once and if I had the internet...I shudder to think what my parents would have found. LOL

I'm going to give Bel Bel another shot this weekend. Thanks for the great feedback. "Anime" feel...what was I thinking? That was just stupid. I currently live in Japan and Anime is anime....more "Anime" feel...yeah slap me twice on that one...especially if my gallery is any judge of a different flair of "anime" feel. Oooh I'm a hypocrite.....bad, bad almeida. I retract my "anime feel" comment and once again state that Ms. Lewinsky and I had a purely proffesional acquaitence.

Gordon_S...right on! I have a 15 year old when we used to share the same computer, his access was extremely limited. Most of my renders here, he wasn't able to view...even after he changed usernames (various times) and clicked over 18. Now he has his own computer and I'm just as aggessive with that one, if not more. Along with NetNanny I check what programs he has installed, check his temporary internet files for the things that still manage to dodge NetNanny (he's a boy...you know what I find). When something is found, the power cord goes to work and stays there for awhile, my computer is locked, as is his mothers.

Potty mouths happen with or without the internet...what is important is the WE guide, mentor, and love our children enough to find out what they're doing, being able to spot what isn't appropriate and then explaining and making them underestand why it isn't appropriate.

All the talking I do hasn't stopped him from trying to look at other stuff, but he has been either A. Smart enough not to do it under my roof or B. learn how to cover his tracks better....hopefull C. wait until he can buy his own stuff.

One more thing before I get off my soapbox. I teach my children there is nothing wrong with any word, it's how they use the word, my older one used to shout "ice cream" when he messed something up, or was angry....we all knew what he meant...that is a curse word...and he get's punished for saying it...in that way.

Luckily he isn't brave enough to say anything else such as "I have to go ...it." I know the day is coming.

Ok, Almeida off.

I wouldn't ask for a refund, like I said earlier, I'm hoping someone can say.."what about..." like you did. Also, like I said even if I hated Bel Bel...the hair is worth the price

as many times as I've been banned or told to take an image down...it's still in place. Mind you, most of my stuff is a lot tamer than some of the stuff you see in the galleries, my guess is the mods haven't caught it...but oddly enough always catch mine if I have a man touching a woman's breast (not sexually). I suppose you could always contact a mod and tell them what render is offensive and let them be the judge... Or get the hate grup that been shooting me tons of IMs about how my renders are offensive and the offender takes my route and just gives up.