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More work-in-progress for Victoria4; she's wearing another merchant's clothes and hair, but the body paint is mine and gypsyangel's .

I often render other people's characters for "portraits", and I like to have a spotlight effect. There is some kind of ambient, allover light built into PoserPro 2012, which makes things that should be dark look light, like in this scene: I finally thought to look at the properties of each of the lights, and just unclick the "on" box for the IDL/IBL lights-- and things looked a lot better to me. This is just "spotlights" now: (character is Tomo for M4 by fu-minn and the props are from LukeA's Captain's Galley, both from renderosity.com.)

I'm still learning Poser Pro, and part of that is adding content to the "Libraries". Poser Pro is complex enough it has it's own internal browser to find your 3d stuff on your hard drive, and between the two of us we can almost find everything. I'm having to reload a lot of things by hand, partly because of the way they were sold originally. Hint--if you are making add-on software, don't assume that the parent software is always going to be called "Poser". I had to make a fake "poser" .exe and folders to get a lot of my older Daz files to work, and then manually move all kinds of little files, because of course I am now working off of "PoserPro.exe." Here is Pinky (aka Pixeluna's Ruffa) and her Hello Kitty breathing mask, a present from Laura. And here is what she looks like to the computer (it knows where each of the corners of the polygons are in 3d (there is a number for each on a x, y and z axis, and the computer wha...