try going to newtek and upgrading (for free) to lightwave 7.5

hm its true, neat as it is --it wont render normally. why? is there some way to coax it to?

hm its true, neat as it is --it wont render normally. why? is there some way to coax it to?

oh my god I never even knew this was there!!!! Is it me or was this not in the book?? are there any OTHER hidden features? tell! tell!

p.s. it will convert each figure (model, clothes, props etc) to a seperate lwo file. then its going to ask you to locate the first lwo figure it has made. after you locate it for lightwave, it should find the rest. It takes some coaxing and is not the fluid transfer we'd hoped it would be. But again, worth the effort.

first, make sure that in lightwave, you ADD the poser plugin. Then, open SCENE and set file type to ALL FILES then select your pz3 and click open. It should load it, animations and all, but be prepared to completely re-texture everything. its a pain, but the finished renders are well worth the effort

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:::gets up off the floor::: WOW sign me up!! But ok, here's my brief wishlist: 1) Id surely like to see a very simple method of organizing files. If all we already own (MAT files, clothes etc) are still useable (and they'd surely better be) it would be quite nice to, in poser, check a series of checkboxes next to all of the textures currently clogging up our POSES tab and with a single click have them all neatly moved into that LUSCIOUS new MATERIALS tab (etc). This would be a MAHOR benefit to those of us with huge numbers of added goodies. 2) If somehow possible, and I know this is likely NOT going to make it in but what the hey, it IS a WISHlist after all, can you make it so that when you have a TRANSMAP active (by active I mean with all transparency sliders at maximum) that ONLY the tranprarent portions of an item are "greyed out" and not the entire object? This would make this alot easier to work with and, well, it would stop shocking my mom to see everyone nekkid when theyre actually wearing clothes. 3) IF the MATERIALS tab pictured is not for a list of textures, transparencies and bumpmaps but instead intended to display RENDER MATERIALS as it is called now in p4, can there possibly be a tab just for textures etc? Poses and textures are 2 of the busiest areas for us and lumping them all into "POSES" makes for a loooooong list to scroll through. Pretty please? well thats my amazingly brief list and do let me reiterate: WOW! The movie with the dancing sinead o'connor blew me away. That kind of clothing effect is FAN-TASTIC. Good job to all concerned, you've really earned your gold stars for this update!

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thanks but apparently most of the interface i hear is quite different now with LW version 7. also poser 4 pro does actually have a LW importer/exporter...just not sure what all im doing wrong. anyone have insight?

hard to say how you'd go about it exactly, something like that is more stumbled upon. I'd start by selecting 2 colors (fore and back) and rendering clouds (filters>render>clouds) then proceeding with other filters to distort it further. brightness/contrast etc can also be useful. I'm not certain if there's a "recipe" for creating that exact effect, but with experimentation you may be able to approximate it, or create something you like as much or more. hope that helps.