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So why do you want gray people?

When you make couples poses, you generally have two codinated poses, one for person A and one person B. When you make the pair of thumbnails, you have a few choices:

• Put both people in each thumbnail. In this case, it is difficult to tell which pose is for which person, without putting additional text on the thumbnail.
• Put one person in each thumbnail. In this case, it can be difficult to tell what they are supposed to be doing.
• Put both people in each thumbnail, but make the person that they pose does not apply to gray, kind of like a phantom person.

I use the third approach. The only problem with it is that it is a pain to go through Michael or Vicky and turn all the materials to gray.

Over on the Castle Dev site, we just published a free command-line utility for changing colors in PP2, PZ3, or CR2 files. It was designed to let Vue d'Esprit users change the highlight colors when importing Poser PZ3 files into Vue. We found that an additional use for it is in making gray people.

All you have to do is change all the diffuse colors to "0.7 0.7 0.7" (a light gray), and the specular and ambient colors to "0 0 0" (black). You still have to turn off all the textures, but checking the "texture change applies to all materials" box and changing one of them to "None" in Poser will do the job.

Instructions for changing highlights for Vue d'Esprit and for making gray objects are included in the ReadMe file.

To get the program, go to the attached link, and select "Vue D'Esprit". Then select the "Poser PZ3 Color Changing Utility."

Enjoy...

Lynn Grant
Castle Development Group