I know..wrong forum..lol.. Ive got poser5 and am trying to do the most basic of things and get get it to just do what i want...ugh... Im rendering and cant get the pupils to show up...im like..wtf... sorry...had to vent... infuriating....

check material room

I'm afraid you have to earn the right to hate Poser. How? Well, for starters, read the tutorials and look in the manual. If you want a "Make Art" button, check out DAZ Studio. To use complex programs like Poser (or Carrara) you need either an on-site mentor or the patience to use the alternative: study. Go back, start over, and don't assume that installing a CD endows you with expertise. There are very few "most basic things" in Poser. There is just the off chance that your problems are your own fault, not Poser's. As for the pupils, my guess would be that you accidentally rolled somebody's eyes too high. Sorry if this sounds impatient or patronizing. I "hate" Poser too, but the way I hate my brother I love and will defend against all comers, not the way I hate things I don't understand or can't use. M

I'd guess a rolled eye or maybe a bad or missing texture file. Poser is not very good at keeping track of where particular textures are. Check in the materials room and see if thats the problem.

lol...Ive been with Poser since version3, so by virtue of paying for each upgrade ive earned the right to hate it. It used to be intuitive and fun, at least to me, but now...ugh...im waiting to be able to really use the daz3d and other figures in Carrara without any problems at all, so Im able to just use one program. Id click on a new eye and the new eye would be there, a quick render would show it to me, now if i don't check the materials room to make sure something is set to 0 instead of 1, then its not going to work properly... anyway....yeah ive read the books...gone through them..checked the tutorials... never seem to be any specific tutorials for the exact thing im having problems with, but... No, M, you didnt sound impatient or patronizing at all...i think it was more condescending, but thanks for your input...lol... i was just venting...in the middle of this project i wanted to do soemthing specific and it wasnt working out as well as it should have been...hence the reason i usually end up going back to using public domain photos... im looking forward to the day when theyll work out the computations to really get meshes to bend and react like a real body. thanks for the help sparrow and anx

Sorry I misread you. I am truly tired of the "Make Art" button crowd, and this sounded like a variant of that complaint. I work with people who think owning MSWord makes them writers, owning Framemaker makes them book designers, and owning Photoshop makes them artists. They regard the idea of actually learning how to use the software beneath them, and as a rule, I end up fixing their ouwees because they are too lazy to learn how the tools work. My comment was spillover. If you don't have Poser 6 SR2, you should get that. The interface was flaky, notably from memory leaks, in the first release. That may account for your lost eyeball. M

Did someone say; Make art? :) Erm, make omellette, make job done, make phone calls go away, make employees happy, make family shuddup, make bills paid, make model have perfect mesh, make plug-ins free... Oh, how I miss my Commodore 64 and the days when colored or blinking type made you giggle. Whatever happenned to the lite-brite? State-of-the-art graphics application for every 7 year old with NO BUGS! The only problem with that application was you ran out of black background paper. : When you turned 9 it was time for the Photoshop of Graphics apps, an Etch-a-Sketch. Cute thread. :)

"I work with people who think owning MSWord makes them writers" Those people are idiots. Owning MSWord makes you a graphic artist. duh ;p