Posted this over at Daz, but figure it could be open to anyone as long as they have the correct models.

Had the idea of trying a play-by-pose game for a while now and am looking for a 4-5 brave souls to be my guinea pigs!

I've made a set in Hex and imported a few .obj that are okay to share. Characters are Victoria 3 RR and Mike 3 RR, along with a few Platinum club items (you must own or purchase these items to play! We will not be breaking any rules, terms of agreement or anything for this game!) and tons of freebies. I will provide links for everything and upload the set and poser file to an on-line "drive" I rent. These files will not contain anything that cannot be legally shared.

As the title says, it will be Shadowrun. So I'd like people who know shadowrun. This is experimental enough without needing to teach someone the rules of shadowrun. As it is, I'll need to refer to my rather dusty source books a lot. Dice rolls will be on-line using one that automatically sends out an email with the results.

I will have the player create their own character, both on paper and in Poser. Your "avatar" should be as close to your paper character as possible. You are welcome to use any free or $1.99 items/figures. Ask me about others, I might have them. We can discuss more if anyone's interested. But everyone will need to own all the same models, so try to use as many freebies as possible.

Players will get a freebie list they need to have, plus a list of Daz Platinum club items they will need to own and then download a scene I made in Hex so there is no problem sharing it -- complete with NPCs and any action they may be doing. The scene will be a number of frames. The player will place their character somewhere in the scene and apply whatever action they are performing and then delete everything but their character (and all they are wearing/carrying) and upload it. Just the poser scene, not obj files, textures or anything that you don't have the rights to share. I will then place that scene in the set and make an animation from different camera angles so everyone can see what is happening from their point of view (a first person view from your character). Then I will place the completed scene back up (now with the PCs) starting off exactly where the previous one ended (last frame becomes the first) complete with NPC's doing what they are doing. And repeat.

For combat, we'll pose in reverse order so the highest initiatives get to see what the lowest are doing before they act. The lowest initiative will pose their character first (or NPC) and make an animation of what they are doing from a couple of different camera angles (it doesn't need to be fully rendered, an anti-aliased preview will be enough). The next character makes their pose, and so forth. Meanwhile I will be collecting all the poses and putting them all together in the scene, making some fine tune adjustments and making an animation of it.

I'm not looking for Pixar quality animations, just enough so we can tell what the character is doing. Though, I will be giving bonus points for really good pose animations.

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