Wow - this is great. That looks very realistic Bill.

Thanks for all the replies guys.

Very interesting. Thanks for that. It's quite impressive.

Thanks for the fast response guys. I thought it may be the case that I will have to use some kind of modelling software for this as the cloud needs to be 'flown through' as a 3d entity.

Cheers anyway.

Regards Mike.

Thanks Trekkie - Tried that - plus a few variants and still seems to be in stealth mode ...

I was hoping you were right Bill but nope - I've loked at it from every angle. I don;t think it has any texture at all if that's possible.

Thanks for the tip Red - here's the snapshot of the material room ...

There are also text to speech freeware progs that will save to .wav / mp3 or wma format.

I have used Text to Wave and it can be found here:

http://smart-butler.com/download.html#text2wav

It's free for personal use.

Microsoft Anna is probably the best voice you'll get from it.

You can't beat the real thing but if you are pressed for time or don't have a good soundcard or microphone or just plain shy, then it's a good option.

Serpently will now the background pic looks half decent. Thanks guys.

Absolutely spot on - Filtering = none worked a treat. Found it exactly as you said.

Cheers.

Mike.

That's great - many thanks for the replies - off to try that.

Regards.

Mike.

Quote - Does that ring a bell for anyone?

 That was Quasimodo wasn't it ? :)

Maybe you should have given her the job, then fired her when you got fed up of her ...

 ... just kidding before you say anything ...  Friday fun ...

Yep - agree the one on the left is much more natural.

Regards.

Mike.

I have imported one of these and then went into the setup room to add some bones. I have had varying results but can get a basic rigging.

I think there is a way you can save a skeleton from another figure and apply it to a different one. There is a thread on here. Sorry can't be more helpful.

I sidegraded / upgraded from Poser 8 Debut to Poser 8 and got issued a new serial number.

When I ran Poser 8, it had spaces for the new and old numbers but the old number space wouldn't let me type anything, so I entered the new number in the new number field and it seemed to work and didn't bother with the previous number.

Good luck. Smith Micro normally turn tech quesried around within the hour (for me anyway) during their working hours. Be sure to have all the info required to raise the tech ticket like the serial numbers, order number etc.

Regards. Mike.

I had a similar problem and turning off the shadows box in the item's properties cured it a treat.