P.S. -- I dare anyone on this thread to show me a V4 bump map (which is what the OP asked about) that is "hand painted".  It is NOT difficult to make a high-quality bump map for V4. 

Quote - And, just to add on what Robyn and ManOfSteel have already posted, most of your best bump maps generated are hand drawn.

I have purchased almost every high-quality V4 skin available  and I have NEVER ONCE seen a "hand painted" bump map.  I don't know why everyone keeps telling people who are trying to learn that they are going to have to "hand paint" everything.  From what I have seen, most of the bump maps are grey-scaled images of the original with eyebrows, veins, moles, etc. corrected.  This is fairly simple to do in Photoshop.  I have also seen a couple of bump maps made using the emboss filter.  The best I have seen are made using (primarily) the high-pass filter. Even DAZ's "Elite" texture bump maps are not "hand painted".  I've been using photoshop for so many years that I can look at one of these bump maps and figure out either exactly how it was done, or at least how to recreate the effect in PS.  I was able to recreate this particular DAZ Elite bump map using a combo of greyscale, highpass filter, blending modes, then correction of the eyebrows and a buttload of sharpening on the lips.  The solarize filter can also come in handy for bump map and specular map creation.    Just play around a bit and see what works best for you... it's really not that difficult.   I'd say it's actually more of a matter of learning photoshop and everything it can do. 

Quote - i dont know if my computer is having a good day or what. but this is a test render. it rendered very fast. and the IDL is very good for those settings.  IC 30 and IDL quality 30. this is very low. and yet very good for a test render.

ice-boy -- Wow, that looks amazing!! I can't believe that it's only a test render!! 0_0

Quote - > Quote - Well, I just bought Poser Pro 2010, but I'm scared to death to install it.  I'm afraid of compatibility issues with some of my content.  Silly, I know.

I have P5,P6,P7,PP,P8 and PP2010 Installed.
I haven't encountered any problems to date. PP2010 installs as it's own program.

PP2010 is my Fav version of Poser.

Thank you so much for the info, mariner.  That is great to know!!

Well, I just bought Poser Pro 2010, but I'm scared to death to install it.  I'm afraid of compatibility issues with some of my content.  Silly, I know.

Unfortunately, no.  You can scale them, but there is no "arm length" morph form like the leg length one.

Iuvenis,

I think you've done a good job.  His eyebrows need some work , though.

I feel really dumb asking this, but could someone explain to me what a "Bishie Boy" is?

plus3d,

I hope you will be making more V4 characters in the future. :)

pjz,

No problem, I just remembered it's 'eyes almond' that makes her eyes more rounded.  The huge eyes and too-small nose is a pretty obvious problem with V4.  At least those parameters are easy to fix.

pjz,

On your second pic, how did you get her eyes so rounded?  If you don't mind saying, I mean.

I've already got a really good job, so I just do poser (and photoshop) for fun.

The first one looks very nice, pjz.  I just don't think I'm very good at face morphing/dial spinning.  Mine always come out looking ugly.

plus3d - Your Diva is one of the best V4 characters, particularly her eyes.

fls13,

Actually, I did.  And they look a lot better, IMO.  But if I'm wanting to create characters for freebies (which I'm wanting to do), I don't think that would go over too well.

Quote - I beg to differ. It's very hard to un V4 her face.

I used to disagree with this, but the more I work with V4, the more I agree.   Having said that, though, I truly believe it's her eyes that make her unmistakably "V4".

The only thing I don't like about V4 is her eyes.  I wish all the parts were mapped together like on V3's eyes.  V3's eyes look a lot better, IMO.

Wow, that's impressive!!  Do you have any idea when WW2 will be available?