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Hey, I'm recently new to Poser, and when it seems I've made a breakthrough with something, I find out it's nothing big. I have a few problems concerning OBJ files and CR2 files. For instance, I downloaded a head of a goateed man, which was in OBJ format, so I opened poser, and imported the head. I kinda knew nothing would happen, but, how do I get Facial Hair on my figures? Another thing I have trouble with is Textures. I found a texture of a goateed man and it was JPG. I know this is to speed up the downloading process, so I opened it up, in Photoimpact, and saved it as a TIF. When I opened up one of my previously saved figures to try the texture, I went to Materials, and opened it up, and the result is a hidious abomination of messed up texture. Please help, any help would be great, links, e-mail, that would be good. My ICQ is 29606343 . Please message me if you are a Poser expert or suffer the same problems as I. Thanks! Stratosis rjt@penn.com

I am not an expert, but maybeleave it as a JPG and see if that works.I'm kinda new too, but maybe Poser automatically decompress' the file when you apply the texture. I am not sure though.

There are a few things you migh want to try before checkin into the institution. First, if you want to change the texture maps of your figures, open the figure texture templates that are included on the poser cd, and modify them in an image editing app such as photoshop. The model is uv mapped, this means to get the results you want you must paint in the right places, the templates can help you with this. To create the goatee, you may want to create a custom texture map along with a new bump map to give it texture, you do the bump map by makin the rest of the template white, while the goatee area is black, then useing the render menue>surface matreials dialog import the image as a bump map, it will ask if you want to convert the image to a bump map, answere yes. Set the intensity slider to -100% and you are in business. I hope this helps.

Thanks!

This discussion is news to me. i never had this problem. Are you sure your not trying to apply a Poser 4 texture to a Poser 3 figure or visa versa? Thats what it sounds like.