well if you put it into euros i paid about 1150 for it all.
that includes the cpu, memory, motherboard, graphics card, harddrive, gigabyte case, power supply, liquid cooling system.
i didnt buy vista, got a copy from a mate.

and this is all with the exchange rate, so im sure you would be able to get a similar system for under 1000 no problem! if you are not gona run a 64-bit operating system you dont need 4GB of memory, 32-bit operating systems only see about 3.25GB in total. So 3GB would be nice, it makes a huge difference!!!

with an onboard graphics card it will use your system memory(ram) as video memory, and this will make the memory available to windows and applications less, depending on how much physical memory you have you get some pretty good onboard ones that you can bump up to 512MB if you want, but then i would suggest at least 3GB of ram in your system. a completely new graphics card is the better option in my opinion. and as i mentioned one that supports hardware shading will greatly improve your preview window.
i cant help you with prices, im in south africa and stuff here is waaaayyyyyyyyy expensive!

Well........i would also suggest getting a whole new pc!
if you want a pc that would last you a looooong time with minimal amount of upgrades here is my suggestion:

a new motherboard that supports intel dual core, core 2 duo, quad core cpu's. If you dont want to spend too much on a cpu right now go for a dual core like 3.4Ghz. You can always upgrade it to a more expensive one later if you buy a good motherboard. Now, RAM, 1GB is....ok......you must remember one thing, if you have only 1GB in your machine and you are using poser windows is probably using half that just being on, and rendering with hight resolution textures will eat the rest up like cake and it will crash!! I would suggest getting at least 2GB. Poser on a good rendering day will use at least 1GB while rendering, if you have memory to spare it wont crash! and your rendering time will go down. Memory speed with a new motherboard should be DDR2 800, i suggest 2x 1GB chips. harddrive, if you buy the new motherboard get a new SATA2 drive, one with a 16MB cache on it. these drives are nice and fast and windows will allocate data on it much faster that other drives. size is up to you! graphics card, well this is up for debate! do you play games? do you only use poser? any 7 series card should do nicely, the GT based cards are faster but they cost more. the only difference with graphics card would be hardware shading in poser, your preview would be better if its enabled. if you also play games get a card with lots of memory and one with 256bit memory on it.

a new multicore support motherboard will take you far.
i upgraded my pc a month ago and poser is flying now! the pc i got is as follows:
3.4GHz Dual core CPU
4GB DDR2 800 Memory
500GB SATA2 harddrive
Geforce 7950gt Graphics card.
Windows Vista Ultimate.

i would also suggest a 64-bit operating system but i dont know if poser supports that.
hope this helps you!!

since i started working with V4 i cant seem to go back to V3! V4 just has a way better body shape to her, and the morphs in my opinion are way better that V3. After a full body morph on V3 it always looks a bit rough, like it still needs something, in V4 simply doing something with one morph you get something great! She is much more 'real' to me than V3.

the content for her is growing slowly and there are lots of great things out there for her already.
i wont go back to V3 easily.

i would suggest investing in V4.

mine is in the post! expect it early next century!!

it sounds like you are double clicking the clothing or hair and that is when it replaces the figure, in P5 when you have selected the clothing or hair at the bottom click on the icon that says add to scene, then it will add the clothing and then you can conform it to your figure.

i think there is a setting in the prefs where you can turn off replace by double clicking but im not sure, check it out.

hope it helps!

hey that works!!!!!! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

thanks a mil!!!!!!!!!! looks like i can finally do what i wanted to do!!!

ill give that a try!!!!

obj import has the morphs still in but then it looks like the picture above.

im giving up now! lol!!!!

im using vue 5 infinite, if i import the pz3 the hair comes in ok but any movement i have added to it is then gone, if i import as an obj the movement is there but there looks crappy! so im not sure what to do or what to use! it doesnt matter what hair i import it always does this, transparencies is not really the problem.

the only thing im having problems with is the hair.

thanks for all your help!!!!

well even if i simply open the pz3 it does this, but this one was imported as an obj.

well!! good question!!!!
i think you will get lots of different answers, people that have been using poser for a long time might have some other ways of doing things so ill just give you my observations and experiences!
FaceOff has the best tools that i have seen out there for poser! i would suggest getting at least one of his tools, you can go with his SSS tutorial but thats quite involved! ibl lights make a big difference in any render you want realistic, combine that with some SSS and you are bound to end up with a winner!! but i will say that a good light setup is the best way to get a realistic render even without any tool! but the basic building block before all these is most sertainly a good texture! pull out your wallet and buy a good one! look at morris in the store or shahara! in my opinion they deliver the best textures out there! or wait! even a better idea if you dont want to spend money yet!
check on as shanims website in the freebie section he has a texture that is awesome! Luna is the name! tru it!

hope this helps!!!!

hi

thanks for all the help!!! i got it working! it was the saving to the pose library that was the problem, at least i know how to save a morph to the library now too!

thanks!

ah ha!!!

i think that is what i have done!!! i did save it in my pose library!
ill give it a try again!!!!

thanks!!!!!!!!