Hi there, my name Zam and i'm new to this Poser stuff. I just want to know that how can i made my own cloth and hair? Is there any solutions to this? Different between poser 4 figure and victoria 3.0? Please!

Poser itself cannot be used to create the cloth and hair models; you'll need a 3D modeling program. I'd advise to first learn Poser itself, using the models and texture provided with the progran. Dr. Geeps tutorials are invaluable help. The next step is downloading freebies. Most of them are for the Victoria and Michael models, they're available at DAZ (www.daz3d.com). Right now, the base Michael 3.0 and Victoria 3.0 are free, but they're starting to become usable when you buy the head and body morph packs.

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Hi folks, I have had very good results making hair in Poser 5 thanks to NeilP for tipping me off to the curl tool. With this tool, you select the hairs you want to manipulate, then you can translate, twist, scale etc. It's not for the squimish--takes a lot of trial and error. After a several hours of practice, Excedrine, choice words, you can create beautiful hair. With clothes, I have had a tiny bit of success with one primitive, the square cloth, you can drape it over, say Judy, and make toga type dresses beginning at the neck, chest, hips (depending on what you have selected for the cloth to collide against.) It may not have the beauty of the clothes for sale or some of the freebies, but it's yours. With a lot of practice-hours in fact- you may like the results. Plutom

If you get Wings 3D (a free object modeling program) there is a tutorial on making hair using Wings 3D.

Since we seem to be giving you scattered advice, I'll weigh in on what svdl said; learn Poser first. Learn how the program works, get comfortable with it. On the one side, there is a ton of clothing and hair that is free or quite inexpensive. On the other side, modelling -- even the rigging of a pre-made item to fit within Poser, is not a trivial task. Best to have some practice walking before you begin to jog. (Modelling and rigging are also a ton of fun. If you get that far, be prepared to enjoy yourself).

Thank you all for your advice. I truly know that there is so many confirming cloth out there in many various and kind, free or payable. My objective is want to create my own confirming cloth like ours traditional cloth (Malaysia). Is there are some tutorial about making a cloth thats work? Please... Is true: "Best to have some practice walking before you begin to jog. (Modelling and rigging are also a ton of fun." Thanks NOMUSE!! ;-)

Please tell us what Poser you are using, my comments relate to Poser 5 only. Plutom

You've probably gone far enough now to understand that Poser handles clothing in two different ways. Conforming Clothing is, to put it simply, a stick man made of clothes. He stands in the same place, in the same way, and it looks like the Poser person is wearing the clothing. Dynamic Clothing, on the other hand, is a physical simulation with mass, stiffness, stretchiness, and other qualities of a real peice of cloth being calculated by the program as the Poser person wearing it moves around. In both cases the simplest way to make a new item of clothing is in another program. Once it is modelled, you can experiment with either clothifying it (Dynamic) or rigging it (Conforming) and seeing which works best. As a general guideline skintight clothing works best as a Conformer, and capes and skirts work better as Dynamic clothing. I would be very interested to see where you go with re-creating traditional Malaysian garb. I always enjoy seeing historical and cultural items (and less of the usual beachwear). I have a strong feeling there are other people who would be happy to help in this as well.

Thanks again to all who response to my questions. For your information, i'm still using Poser 4 upgrade from Curious Labs. I've made some research about making confirming cloth from the tutorial that curious labs provided. And i understand little bit about it. For now i'm trying to explore how and what in the Ray Dream Studio and 3D Studio Max for making the clothing. Does anyone know where can i get a program that can read, write and adjust hierarchy file? To NOMUSE, thank you very much for your advice and support. Yup! i'm really tired to see the usual beachwear and sexy wear. It's all plentiful!!!