bobvan, if you see this, you better hide your email, else i'll can see LOTS of spam in your future

sorry for the offtopic.

Agree with BB, my rig is a celeron dual@2.0Ghz with only 2 gigs in ram, and I'm able to put, say 5 to 9 figures(this is counting clothes) an have the same speed... well that was made just to test, I usually work with 2 or 3, max 5 figures...
that rig isn't VEEEEERY expensive.
so if you're lookin foward to get a new rig...  first you might try to see how much money you can spend, and stick to it. nowadays computers are gettin cheaper every day.

Ok. from my point of view you have 2 choices...
1.- you can play it cool and change your avatar an take the oportunity to AMAZE this people one again or
2.- You can fire up poser, load that koi-man shader, sit your wife in front of it, and show how much effort you put on it.

(just hopin' it works)

by the way, judging from the skin template in the VSS i couldn't imagine the mess thas has to be that koi shader

Hoping to Help
Jason Blood

I sometomes have the same problem EXPORTING some daz figures to an obj.
 belive that it has to be with corrupt files, since cr2 and obj files are just plain text is easy for them to corrupt. I'm only especulating here but, to be on the safe side I make backups of those files
also remember to DEFRAG your HD!!!!!!!!!!!
it's the first source of problems and the solution of some...

hoped to help
Jason Blood

okay if you are using d/s 2.x + it will AUTOMAGNETIZE, now what magnetize do is put magnets (deformers) into conforming figures, it helps to reduce the number of morph needed in the figure.
those magnets control for example the breast movements as in v4 they ARE magnets. normally in poser you should load V4, load its morphs(4.2), then load,parent,magnetize each confoming figure, this is to ensiure the crosstalking (morph follow).
the inj_ pose you have to load in actually injected in the clothes, so it will follow the morph when you load it to V4...

in few words: with v4, load, parent and magnetize is the workflow in poser since dazstudio does it itself.

hoped to help JasonBlood

I've been using poser and d|s for a long time, first i have p4(pp) and D|S(1.2 or so) and at first studio impresed me in that it haves a faster and accurate render than poser.
Okay from my point of view that's a goood point for D|S, but when I came across with the shader system in p6 it shoked me, i havent see something similar(powerful yet easy to use) since Flamingo(Rhino photorrealistic render engine) but now D|S came with the same thing ..... I don't know why all that noise about, P8 will be released soon and, what it will be?
To me, poser have some good reasons to still be on my hd, i.e. it's easy to make the pose you want, the shader system is powerful yet stable, of course we all want a mighty program that let you render over a network, make caustics, volumes, hdribl, gi/radiosity, full raytracing and more!
but, that program, as far as I know, does not exist (yet) so if Daz makes a bettes Studio, and give soime of that for free, hey I'm happy with that, and if charges for the plugins, we're taking great programs for our money, and the D|S base release always have behaved great to me

...wow that sounds like some at daz wrote it...

and last but not least I can only make daz run into my Slackware!!!!
:thumbupboth:

well.. after givin' it a Rhino pass I've seen that ALL normals are in the right way...
I've loaded the aarose model into poser ans also have that problem, i give no mat to the rose and still ALL the back sides were black, when rendered with no shadows it looks right.
Just in sake of completion I have a try in Daz Studio(3) and have no problem, it looked right in preview ans in render so I think it have something to do with the way Poser handle bakfacing polys...maybe if you separate the petal mat group in let's name it "layers" like "petals1... petalsn"
it might help. If you want I can send you the file with subgroups made...

hope that helps(someway...)

well I have some experience with both programs, and have released a couple of freebies so...
if you think I might help count with me!!

Cheers Jason Blood
hell_cajun@yahoo.es
hellcajun@live.cl
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Have you tried with Rhino4???, there you can explode ANY mesh to its base blocks if they are grouped... I'll give a try and post what I find...

I'm starting to create content, and I've followed those guideline that you mention(calling MOR those that actually depend on morph packs an INJ to those who include custom geometry), I'm frankly against putting rules on this kind of work, artistic, but it seems to me that these rules or guidelines ARE nesesary....

Hopin' not to bother but to help
JasonBlood

Man nevertheless what those Inquisistors out there may say, I sing up for this.
Jason Blood
hell_cajun@yahoo.es

Thanks man!!!

Sorry for make such mistake, I uploaded the file and didn't notice the "10 download limit"
what a nonsense, any way I've followed bobbystahr advise and put the file in sharecg...
Again, sorry. Please tell me how to fix it, and it'll be fixed as fast as I can