Looking for a tutorial or any information on how to add detail to a forehead (specifically adding klingon style ridges to the forehead) Is it possible to do it through poser or perhaps even lightwave?

Any morph is possible with lightwave.

use displacement map if insufficient polygon density to support morphs.

Scratching head<---- someone pays for lightwave but does NOT know it can edit a mesh?

Attached Link: Khrys's Freestuff

Try link above - theres a neat M3 Klingon Morph by Khrys.

How about BLACKSMITH3D..? I haven't used it, but have heard that it is good for morphing existing figure meshes.

made a stab at it once; imported M3 into Wings (just the head..;) and made the ridges in there. Put back in as a morph, and Poser smoothed all the details out...sigh..;)

It makes no sense at all to buy blacksmith d if you already own lightwave. All my morphing is done in lightwave.

As far as klingon bimps, they are suttle. If you have a dense mesh, you can pull ethem off, but if the mesh is a lightweight, you'd need a bump map or displacement map to apply them properly.

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Was that a typo... or a Peter Sellers Inspector Clouseau impression..?   

There used to Klingon morphs in free stuff.  I think they were purged by the copyright police, though.  Perhaps they are still available elsewhere?

Take 2 Mars Bars... skim off the top surfaces and apply to forehead with sooper glue...

"There used to Klingon morphs in free stuff"...
Just search for klingon...Thats how I found the ones  by Khrys. 
You'll find a bathleh as well.

One trick for finding stuff thats been re-named because of the trademark rules is to look at the artists profile. Many artists work on regular themes.

Course, if you wait for Poser 7, the new displacement brush would be perfect for this!

or you can just glue a cornish pasty to your head.

MMMM cornish pastry...MMMM....... ;)

I always thought Klingons had lobsters on their foreheads. 

Quote - MMMM cornish pastry...MMMM....... ;)

thats Pasty! lol I dunno what a cornish pastry is ;)

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That's because the lobsters......
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BaDum DUM!

one other thiing they do in glasgow and yorkshire is to "deep-fry" mars bars. I dunno how it works, as i would have thought they'd melt :lol:

They probably freeze them first. They do that with fried Onion Blooms. (or at least I think they do, since Spike mentioned it to Andrew in a Buffy episode I just rewatched....)

Attached Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_fried_Mars_Bar

*A deep-fried Mars Bar consists of an ordinary Mars Bar dipped in the batter usually used for preparing fish. This is then fried in the same [deep fat fryer](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_fat_fryer "Deep fat fryer") as the chip shop's usual fare (including fish, [chips](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chips "Chips"), [black](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_pudding "Black pudding") and [white pudding](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_pudding "White pudding"), [sausage](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sausage "Sausage"), and often [haggis](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis "Haggis")). If the Mars Bar gets too hot it will melt, contaminating the frying fat. For this reason the Mars Bar is typically chilled before use, though a cold Mars Bar can fracture when heate*d.

What did we do before Wikipedia?

Yep it's true. Chippies in South Leeds used to sell these.  

Though in defence of Yorkshire it is also the home of Brains, Tetleys and Theakstons. Some of the finest beers known to humankind.  

 

They have brains in Yorkshire..?? Things must have changed since I last visited.

not to mention sheffield. anybody who wants a good laff can look up george orwell's descriptions of wigan and sheffield :lol:

I mostly do starships etc in lightwave...havent really used it for organic modeling...suppose this would be a good way to learn organic stuff!

Well if you've familiar with modelling in lightwave, the same poly manipulations you'd do on  lightwave mesh you'd do on a poser object.

Just remember NO adding polys or points. JUST reposition points.

if ya wanna do a good klingon fore-head, try gowron - the one with the exopthalmia. they useta say his fore-head ridges reminded them of a certain anatomical feature found much lower on the anatomy of an human.

you're giving all the phrenologists palpitations..;) the thing I ran into was when I did the morph, it would complain about the vertices order.

yeah man, some of those modellers will re-order the vertices on import. I recall in amorphium ya could fix that by importing the thing, exporting it, then re-importing it to get the vertices in the right order. but I dunno if anybody uses amorphium any more. and the last time I checked, the blcksmth3D forum was somewhat inactive.

Yeah, I considered BS3D, but other then a lot of free characters, I didn't really see a lot of people crowing about it.

With lightwave, you jst load the base mesh, copy the body part you want to work on in another layer, and then massage it as needed, and then export it out. Nomuss, no fuss, and no dirty rings... er lost point order.