I got V4 for right now, and I guess I am spoiled to Poser characters because I really don't like the base model. And as I stated before, I can't purchase anything right now, so getting the morph++ for her is out of the question until around August or September. So I may keep her and the small things I downloaded for her (wasn't much, a lot of things needed the morph++, so.....)

Although I did find bionic rooster's robe for V4. I just don't know where to put the UV file... That's kind of important. And embarassing.

And I guess I better go read that "Most asked questions" thread because I believe it covers how to load V4 into Poser. Thanks for the responses.

Thanks for the tip. But I can't buy anything right now, so I would have to stick to free stuff.

My bad. I went and took another look it's only kissing poses...

I poked around on the site yesterday. Renderotica does have a kissing bvh in their freebees section. I believe it said it was for V4, M4. Almost all the freebies on that site are for V4 and M4. Doesn't anyone use the other models?

Gave it a long look and added a rating and a comment. Very nice work.

Quote - I'll be uploading a Miki3 render soon with just one infinite light in the scene and oodles of goodies in the background.  Look for it.

I will. I would like to see what that will look like.

Quote - There is no ironclad rule to lighting, each scene has it's own unique settings and requires close attention to mesh and material content.  Too many lights can bog down your system.  However, high poly meshes, in combination with hires textures, can do just as much rendering damage with just one infinite light present.  So, the bottom line, consider each scene carefully and don't shoot for the moon by maximizing your settings.  You will need to strike a compromise somewhere to achieve the render you are after.

I figured that one out after attempting a few renderings with settings people say they used on here. That's when I figured out that I didn't want to wait for 3 days just to see that I made a  mistake in the pose, or there was some poke through I didn't notice because of this or that.

So basically, I render everything with the default settings first, then play around with bringing up the render settings until I get what I am after. So far, the only thing that has been hurting me is lighting. I need to experiment with it more.

I am not sure what you are doing wrong... I don't have any problems with using dynamic cloth. My only real problem is I wasn't sure how to animate it. After a few passes in the cloth room, I have it down. Now I just need to get my head around lighting, and try to find bagginsbill's rendering settings...

I want a high quality render, but I don't want to spend 3 days waiting for it. Especially since I am using a laptop and not my home pc for this stuff.

Ok, so several passes in the cloth room have shown me a few things about using dynamic cloth in an animation:

1. Start with zero pose, and have the first pose of your animation start between frame 5 and 15.

2. The first 30 frames of your animation are to drape the cloth, so you are going to have to trim them in post.

3. The cloth will drape properly and follow the character throughout the animation, regardless of the length of the animation if you follow point 1.

And I can animate dynamic clothing. It just takes a bit to figure it out.

And obviously, I don't want the mechanical arm...

I gave the cloth room a try. It didn't work out too well. I started her out in a pose, and unchecked starting from 0 pose. I know where I went wrong. I still think you have to edit out the beginning of the render in post. Unless you want your character holding their arms out straight to the side at the beginning of the scene...

If the test of draping from frame 1 works, I may ask you to create the Jedi uniform for her after all... ;)