This is going to sound weird but i'm looking for a hand that can be posable made of rock for an idea. Has anyone ever seen that or would be able to make one? :)

Thanks!

Poser comes with a poseable hand - could you use that and apply a rock texture ?

If you have poser, you could take that posable hand, attach rocks as props to each 'bone' of the hand (fingers, hand itself) and then make the material of the hand transparent. You would end up with a posable hand made of stones.

Cool trick agiel...I'm actually almost learning Poser as well from a bunch of the threads I've dropped in on....Gotta love this place....Now I gonna have to buy Poser as well...my ship better come in soon or I'll be a mass of frusteration LOL

Hi, Bobby ! instead of waiting for raining money to buy poser, I downloaded free Daz Studio from daz3d.com, just to see how things work. Not for making artwork nor animation, just to have something better in my scenes, than the usual AutoCad flatworld family with pushbuggy, and shadows always the wrong side. Well... that free thing works fine for me, and does more than enough for my needs, no frust, and freebees ;-)

GP...good tip, but a question,...I have a few Poser friends and it seems they almost need a second computer just for Poser,...it's allways seemed a tad 'bloated' for my HDD space...is DAZ like this as well?

ouhh... the program itself doesn't take much space, and when I render with that, the time needed isn't very high, doesn't overload my ol' puter. The result isn't very high neither, for that, I got Vue:-) But it takes MUCH disk space. I think that's the same for daz and poser : On one hand, the models and objects need space, much more than it used to with other 3D. I think that's because of the high-resolution texture/bump/transmaps. On the other hand, exported figures make millions of hard polys, big megas. The few 3D I do in my job, is not one-sided theater decorum, but detailed geometry, so I got much polys already at the start. For medium distance view, I try to burn down the poserettes with "decimate" in Vue, but that's long and risky, can foul up the geometry or punch holes. There must exist good PC programs for burning down polys without much loss of structure, but I'm on Mac (There are mac progs, but I can't afford those). All work done always goes to cd or dvd, including draft, tests and so on - off the HD, else I'd need multiple terabytes servers :-) I recently harvested freebee/lowcost-items on internet, and now try to clean up the HD : about 1.5 giga of zipfiles went to CD. I think I'll stow most of the dezipped ones on dvd too, to load them when needed, import the static props I like into Vue, save them as vob (or re-export with lower res textures ?). It will depend on how much I'll use it : If I use it more often, I'll free an external (startup) disk for that. Future will tell. Up to now, I don't do much with that, just pose figurines. I yet look for everyday clothing : There seem to be phantastic clothing mucho sexy, romantico, medieval, gothico and scifi, and kind of balloon dressing for inflated rambos (look like Michelin's bibendum), but few things ordinary people wear. I think I'll find that, too, just search in the right place...

      Great,...thanx for all this info mate....as it's a Freebie at least I can afford it financially, will make room for it some where, and I as well am moving to model collections on DVD...I figure to replace both cd s in my 'puter with dvd s so I can load a texture one in one and the model one in the other. Imagine doesn't come with an automativc Dir structure like poser, but I have recently developed a similar tree for my projects and that way once I'm finished working on a project I can save it to either a cd of it's own[likely as they're so cheep] or to a Projects DVD.

        There seems to be a lot of poser stuff available so as long as it loads into DAZ I'll be fine till I get more cash...but it's gotta be Vue5Inf first...this demo is makin me nuts with it's limits but I am getting better at that deep texture editor...LOL...necessity being the mother   etc., really do want to try animating in Vue but figures are really important to my writers story so Poser is gonna be a must and what with the chatter on the forums, I may in fact save up till Vue6Inf when they get the Poser importing together...LOL.

       At least stuff I build in Imagine3D will import fairly texturabley as long as I make all the parts seperate and save them as .3ds in a group fashion...Will post a render of 'my house', I modelled the house I inherited, when it's done, but it's also a slow render on this box [I am keeping demos on the slower internet box] but it'll get done, heh heh heh.

I'm not sure, if back- and foreward compatibility between poser and daz is ok. I don't understand their file systems, nor that 'runtime' thing, nor got Vue's poserimport running with daz (perhaps is that normal ?) probably made filepath spaghetti... :unsure: so I transfer as .obj files. Takes time, to load that into Vue. That gives still poses, not animation. Textures come ok, but i must load and invert transparencies manually. A person exported to .obj can make over 50 megs, where 45 or so are texture. Re-saved as .vob including texture, it makes about 10 megs. I don't like programs that use their own filesystems, is not transparent to me, is like following sibylline detour roadsigns in the night. There seem to be threads about Daz-Vue, but due to that allergic reaction, I didn't yet dive into those. Perhaps look in the daz and poser forums for the compatibility question, before you begin work with daz ?