Hey everybody, here's a desk I'm working on for a 50's style office set. It's based on a pic from a book called Populuxe about 50's styles. I've got morphs for the sliding doors and drawers, and the hinged doors and lamp are seperate child objects that rotate around the hinges.

Here it is again with a lighter more natural wood texture. Which do you prefer?

The darker texture looks better with that woodgrain. The lighter woods usually have finer, straighter grains with not so obvious a pattern. It looks like you have both square and round knobs, which seems unnatural... if this is a new unit, the knobs would match. If the round ones are finger indentations so the doors can slide over each other, maybe that can be more clear? Middle unit upper section of sliding door... it almost seems as though you can see the left shelf behind the post? Many desks have small upright sections for bills and such: vertical pigeonholes for really skinny pigeons.

It might look better too if you split the verticies then you will not have any rounded look. But the model looks great. Sharen

That sounds like a good idea, how do I split the vertices? I'm modeling in lightwave and rendering in poser. Thanks!

If you download the free version of UV mapper, you can import the .obj model, then select all of your model,(control A) then, got to Tools, click Verticies, and first weld, then, go back to Tools, Click Verticies and then click Split. Save your model and you are good to go. Then import to Poser and your set. Also, if you have your model in the geometries folder remember to first delete the .rsr, then import your new straight model. Sharen

Wow, it was a lot of work to redo all the materials and morph targets, but the results came out great! Thanks for the tip, I wish I'd learned it earlier. I've actually never even looked into that part of the menu before.

It should not have been any work at all, what did you do...you should have just had to click a few button and it would have been all done.....well anyway it did come out better huh. Been doing that for years on our models and for Poser it is perfect. Good job. Sharen

Once I reimported the altered mesh, my old morph targets didn't fit anymore, so I had to redo those, then redo all of the material settings in poser. They were simple morphs (drawers and doors sliding) so it wasn't a big deal. Anyway, I made a lamp to go with it. This is a pogo lamp that uses a spring to hold it in place between the ceiling and floor, and also features a small table. I couldn't find a photo of this one, so I had to work from old drawings.

Those were wonderful lamps! ...could aim them over the book or needlework and the table was just big enough for the tea. ;)

One thing you have to remember, is once you import a figure into Poser, after having redone it in UV mapper, before importing it again to poser, you must delete the file .rsr that sits in the geometries folder. So remember: If you ever change your model after it was in Poser, delete the .rsr file located in your geometries folder. If you don't, the rsr will keeps the last information about the model and that is what you will see. Sharen

Here it is again with better lighting

I added a globe to go with the office. Getting the map to map correctly (no pun intended) was a lot trickier than I though it would be, but I think it came out pretty good.

LOL...thsi is all very nice. Good job. Sahren