That's great news about Poserworld, epecially with the promotion extension - now I just have to get it to accept the code :o/ Great ideas on the organisation of things as well. So much to learn !! Thanks guys.

Hi Lyrra. Great links page - I have it bookmarked now. I've started reading up on organising, and I think I can structure as I like under 'downloads' so long as I put the characters themselves in the main runtime... correct ? I certainly intend to keep things sorted from the start, and I also want to seperate out items that aren't allowed for commercial renders, just in case. I also found the link somebody posted which has the Dr. Geep tutorials in PDF format, so I'll grab them over time. I'm using Vue for solidgrowth plants, but I do have a RuntimeDNA account as well. The PoserWorld subscription does seem very tempting, even at the normal price, considering the amount of content, but I'm wondering how much of the content will be of use to me...

Thanks again Doug. I'll probably do scenes in Vue or another package rather than Poser, so I'd only look for scene stuff if it was exportable/multi-format.

Ahh, type of image. Umm. Probably have ago at everything, but I imagine realistic and Surrealistic to start with.

Thank you all for the replies so far. I have plenty of HD space, and 2 gigs of RAM, so hopefully the hardware should be fine - I'll try to exercise restraint on the 'buy' button, but that one seems a bit sticky at times... I'll certainly check out all of the freebies mentioned first. My intention for images is to use the figures as props in landscapes and other renders, but I have a sneaky suspicion I might get somewhat addicted and the landscapes become props to the figures ! I think I have UV mapping and texturing covered soon (Modo 201 will rock for that) and file conversion isn't too bad (I do also have Cinema4D which handles a lot of formats). The Daz Platinum club is another one one my list (I have the content paradise passport) and I was also looking at the poserworld subscription deal, but I missed that one by a couple of days. Anyway, thanks for all the advice !

Hey Esther. Not to worry - The devs have just replied to my message and provided a new installer which works great under 10.4.4 - I have both my PC and Mac rendering away !! It'll no doubt trickle into the main release real soon now, and the links are on the knowledgebase entry anyway. The support seems excellent.

Hi. I don't have 10.4.3 anywhere, but they've confirmed it's a known problem with the installer on some machines. I'll just have to make do on a single machine for a while. Thanks for the help !

Hi Esther. The problem is, I can't get the installer to run correctly on the Mac. It falls over when I first try to install it.