Okay, I know this is the biggest noob question ever but I've never found it in any tutorial so here goes. How can i create clothes/armor? Is it directly on poser or does everyone import it from another program? I'm so confused .

They have to be modeled and UV-mapped in another application. Poser has very limited tools for content-creation, geep's tutorials with the grouping tool notwithstanding.

Plenty of free and inexpensive modelers out there ... no need to invest in something like Lightwave or 3DS Max right away. Give Blender, Wings 3D, or MilkShape a try.

Woot thank you so much little dragon!

Blender's a little hard to find sometimes, but has some good rep. Wings is free, sort of easy, and it can be done (I'm doing the first stumbling steps myself..;). To be honest, modelling clothes is hardly a newbie thing to do..lots of accomplished Poseurs (j/k..;) use stock models and textures.

I wish I'd said that.. The Staircase Wit

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yeah,.. I went thru this little dilema myself,.. I tried to make a "Good" Chainmail outfit for a character,.. what I mean by good is one that came out rendered looking the way I wanted to I checked out all the ones found for free and in various marketplaces and after investigation everyones looks a bit like chainmail if really far away or usually just like scalemail,.. not one gave the effect I was really looking for so the project has been shelved for the past few month,.. after a great amount of time making textures for it,.. and having better artists then I help me make them I still wasnt happy,.. only way I found close was too heavy and that was model the chainmail it self no just a piece with holes and a tex map of the appropriate metal but that many rings well the artists which I appreicate thier efforts declined to work on as the one sample piece they made me which might have been a small percentage of the whole was already a huge obj anyways Im rambling,.. if your looking for plate or scale types theres plenty out there to get ideas and it'll go alot smoother,.. and also if anyones brave or has any ideas on chain reply I could finally finish this idea

search forum for "tutorial". Google for "Poser tutorial". Search the Wings 3D, Carrara, and Rhino forums for "Poser" -- to see how people use those tools with Poser. Start with an existing Poser cloth. Follow some tutorial for taking that into one of the above 3D modelling tools, modifying it, then getting it back into Poser.

Toolmakersteve I dont mean to come of sounding like an Ass but I have done that,.. to the nTH degree went thru many tutorials went thru a lot on the forums,..at the current stage it just didnt seem feasible or resource able to do it the way I envisioned it,... I might not have described in the most clear way,.. I get on rants at times.... BUT thank you for taking the time to reply :) I appreicate it Blarghd

Blarghd--"but I have done that..." Quite. I should have clarified that my comment was aimed at the ORIGINAL post in this thread, not at your post immediately above it. ;-) Since volteface asked such a broad, basic, question, I wanted to make sure he/she was aware of these ways of finding information. The kind of "hint" I would have benefitted from, years ago...

Cool I agree,.. :) as I said sometimes I tend to rant :P