Congratulations Mike,
I'm glad your persistence has paid off. An orginal and impressive entry.

My apologies. I'm afraid it's an option that comes with the AnythingGrooves plugin from www.digitalcarversguild.com/.

I've had the plugin so long that I'd forgotten that that particular option was one of its features.

It's not in the Modelling Room, it's in the Assembly Room, towards the bottom of the Edit menu. You may need to click the blue arrow to show the later items.

Going back to the original question, have you tried 'Convert Deformed Object to Mesh' towards the bottom of the Edit menu. That works for me on a boned Carrara model (I've not got Poser installed). Make sure that the Vertex object (rather than the group) is selected. You can export directly as an OBJ or convert to a Vertex model for editing in the Carrara VM.

HTH

Some fun stuff, enimaticredfrog!

I think it is more of a challenge, in that the only prize (that I could find) is being displayed on the home page. The main problem in my view is that the top rated tend to get most views and therefore most votes. If you don't get a good rating early on then you drop quite quickly and don't stand much chance of rising to the top.

Here's a link to the Carrara entries:

Carrara entries

Dang, I shan't be able to make a coffee while the page loads now. ;-)

Cool. I like Antoine's entry :
www.cgsphere.com/gallery/details/

All of the above plus a convincing expression. IMO, that is the most difficult to achieve.

I put this together to demonstrate how a decal design would look.

Yeah, I'd heard they had strong arms in adminstration. ;) Seriously, I can't think of a better person to take over the forum. Thanks and congratulations.

Many thanks for your steady hand on the helm and all the best for the future.

Resetting the Preferences will often sort out a problem like this.

In C5 Pro, just go to File>Reset Preferences.

Quote - I’m sure Leonardo did not give formal credit to the model who was the basis for the Mona Lisa, so Leonardo must have lacked some artistic ethics – according to your post.

Actually, as Vasari (writing 30 years after Leonardo's death) states that she was the wife of a Florentine businessman called  Francesco del Giocondo there's a good chance that it was well known who she was when Leonardo painted her. Anyway, I get your point.

I find this reluctance to credit others surprising. I don't regard it as a 'silly practice' for much the same reasons as Eric gives above. 

Quote - Yes, but should all this sharing be done in the galleries and should it be required?  Weren't the forums created for those who wanted to share their ideas and to help others?

I never said all the sharing should be done in the galleries. Obviously the forums are the place to discuss specific issues (as we are doing now).  I wouldn't want to see giving credits as any sort of requirement for gallery posts either. I'd encourage artists to do so though. Useful assessment or criticism of work in the galleries is impossible without some idea of what the person has done for themselves and what is imported content created by others.

It seems to me that there is some basic misunderstanding about what is meant by 'crediting' someone else's work. Perhaps I am partly to blame with my suggestion that mentioning where you got something would give the guy another sale; I didn't mean 'free advertising' , simply acknowledging what was and what was not your work. Perhaps I'm wrong but I had thought that Renderosity was an 'artists community' and as such it was for sharing methods and helping each other. In the context of the galleries (as Eric has said in his post above),  that means making it clear what you did as the artist. How else can anyone make any valuable judgement about your work?

Another analogy would be academic or scientific papers, where the work is invariable based on the work of others. Any paper submitted for publication or peer-review would be rejected without proper references. This is an extreme example, agreed, but the prinicple is the same.