Poser3.01 help? 1. Can I: I can preview a wireframe in P3.01 - can I render the wireframe image out of P3.01 as a tiff or bmp file? if so what are the steps for doing it? 2. Where can I: get the manual for Poser 3 (it was not included on the cd of the free copy that I got) - I have to buy it or can it be downloaded for free as an pdf file? BTW I have downloaded the Poser3 advance users guide from Curious Labs and it is corrupted and will not open - is there another link to download it? 3. How can I: render out or what file is the wireframe image map of the P3.01 nude female - the file that or the rendering out of a file to paint on? 4. Can I: turn off all the lighting on the model? if so what are the steps for doing it? In other word I do not want any shadows or very little shadows. 5. Where can I: get tutorials for P3.01 on creating (changing) the body parts for the P3.01 female. 6. Where can I: get commercial product females for P3.01 7. Where can I: get a book (and what are the names of the books) or ebooks or pdfs on how to create (or re-create) a female figure in and for P3.01? Free or commercial - links please. 8. Where can I: get the P3.01 female joint centers list - I have seen this for the P4 female. 9. How can I: get a posable very long hair prop for P3.01 for the P3.01 female and/or tutorials on how to make it. 10. Where can I: get more information about magnets?

heyas; oy! what a list! 1: yes. use the document display balls to show wireframe, or lit wireframe, etc. i believe you can 'render' a wireframe the same way you do in p4. you have to do a single frame animation, and when you do the 'make movie,' you set it to use the current display style, instead of the current render style. otherwise, you can just export the wireframe preview image. 2: if you can't find it at the curious labs site, you probably can't get it. if the advanced guide is corrupted, you might need to try to d/l it again. 3: go to www.uvmapper.com, and you can extract the templates for anything. (well, anything that has an obj file.) there are supposedly some templates included with p3, but some of them were not accurate. 4: try double-clicking the lights; there ought to be an option to not cast shadows. if you turn the lights off, your scene will just come out all black. if you need soft and/or ambient lighting, you may have to export your poser figures to another 3d app to render them. 5: if you want to use morphing to change the shape of the body parts, that works the same in any version of poser; look for morphing tutorials. 6: it is possible to get victoria to work in poser 3. look for english bob, the poser 3 guru who accomplished this. :) as for purchasing clothing and hair and other add-ons for the p3 female.... there's tons in the free stuff and stores. clothing for the p4 female will fit, any hair can be made to fit. the only thing that won't work are the skin textures. if you want new women... hmmm, i think eve and azura were based on the p4 woman, so you might not be able to decode them with the p3 version. but you can ask around. 7: i'm working on a figure creation book, and it will include p3 info. but that's down the road a bit. the advanced techniques pdf details the figure creation process, so try to get that again. look in the tutorial section for figure creation. you'll want the phi-file method, which is what p3 uses. 8: the joints for the p3 female are exactly the same as the p4. use those ;) 9: long AND posable? you can use any of the commercial posable hair (like the ultra salon i think it is? the long braid thingy and whatnot), but keep in mind you won't be able to use the trans-mapping to make the hair look realisitc. posable hair works pretty much like a posable cape. there's a buncha free capes you can download to have a look. 10: look in the tutorial section under magnets. morphworld has a good detailed magnet tutorial at www.morphworld30.com

2. http://www.curiouslabs.com/products/poser4/html/poser3AdvancedUserGuide.html

3. Instead of turning off the lights, you might try increasing the Ambient colour values on all of the materials.

4. Renderosity's Tutorials section

5. Try DAZ 3D. They made most of the figures in Poser 3, and some of the oldest items in their online store (like the Nude Young Woman) should be completely Poser 3-compatible.
   Link to Cheapskate Graphics (EnglishBob's site)

6. Morphhair 1, by Confusius, in Free Stuff

7. Planet-3D.com (tutorial by the3dwizard)

If you got poser with a magazine recently, try looking on the directory of the cd...that is where I found the manual after going half mad searching the net for it. It only showed up when I went through Start/Run/letter of your disc drive/Browse (using windows) You could try downloading advanced manual again, it downloaded fine for me a fortnight ago.

ok update reading all the information posted so far 2. I found the Poser3 188 PAGE manual in pdf on the cd in an extras folder (thanks) And I opened the advanced pdf at the Curious Lab site and got it to download that way (ABOUT 77 PAGES)- I TRIED THE ZIP BUT IT DIDN'T WORK AGAIN

ok update 2 1. I can get the wireframe and lt wireframe to display by using the doc however I can not render and get the wireframe effect that I am seeing on screen however again I exported as tiff and it saved the image I see on screen but about a 1x1 inch file however again again (lol) I went to WINDOW > DOCUMENY WINDOW SIZE and I get a window and the largest I type in it is W785 H585 Is this the largest size I can get in Poser3 And can I use the render to render the wireframe in the render frame - which I can save at 2000 x 2000 at 1200dpi

I haven't used Poser 3, but here's how it works in Poser 4. Go to Animation --> Animation Setup, and set the width and height for your image. If you're creating a single image only, and not an animation, set the frame count to 1. Set your document display mode to wireframe, as you did before (or cartoon mode, or whatever). Go to Animation --> Make Movie, and use the following settings: -- Sequence Type: Image Files -- Resolution: Full -- Quality: Current Display Settings -- Antialias: On (optional) This will render a single image in the file format of your choice, at your designated resolution, in whatever display mode you wish.

As to your other question, the size of your document window is normally constrained by the size of your workspace. For instance, if your desktop is running at 800x600, the document window cannot be larger (and, in fact, will be a bit smaller to leave room for the menus and controls). However, you can have Poser render to a new window, rather than the workspace's document window. The new window can be larger than your actual desktop (it's scrollable). You should be able to set this up in Render --> Render Options.

Little Dragon Your steps worked for me in Poser3 THANKS :-) One note- I did a 4000x4000 but the default dpi seems to be 300 - which is ok (there is no way to set the dpi from the animation make window in Poser3 - but hay 300 dpi can be printed out) 2 questions completed eight to go :)

Here's a tip for you on bitmap files in general... DPI in a bitmap is nothing more than a number in the file's headers. If you think about it, a 4000x4000 bitmap contains the same amount of data, regardless of what the DPI is set for. You don't need to worry about DPI at all until you go to print, at which point it establishes the printed size of the image. To size your image for printing, you just need to change the file DPI setting in photoshop's "Image Size..." dialog with "resample image" unchecked. Of course, depending on what type of printer you're using, it may be advantagous to downsample the image a bit if it will save you print time with no loss of quality (for example, if you're printing it out really small, or you have a low-DPI printer like an older inkjet). -Adam

Hey folks, as usual, great info given. For #10: Magnets were new in Poser 4. Also I seem to remember that Poser 3 had a limitation of 100 dials on a body part; newer figures often have more on the head. - Elisa/gryffnn