Sorry if there already is a topic like this, i didn't see any.

I want you to post here about the tips or trix you have discovered in Poser. It can be anything, a new use of props, something that speeds up render time.. anything.

A discovery of mine that i thought i'd share. You can do more with hairs. I ususally use free hairs and most of them are very good. But sometimes i don't find the kind of hair that i want. So i experiment with the hair that i got. I have discovered that sometimes hairs change into a better hairdo when u flip the dials to the extreme. Below is a pic of koz wave hair. It is a shoulder length wave hair, but if u spin the dials to the extreme, it becomes a very long straigth hair.

anyone else discovered something good?

  Interesting idea, have to think about (most of the time I'm tricking myself )
Your one on the hair is astonishing. I never liked this base too much, but in the extreme it looks realy good...

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Thanks. I don't really like that base either. but spinning the dials to the extreme makes the hair work for me. I have not made any morphs or used magnets on it, just spinned those dials to 3-4 000 i think.

Another tip is that v4 clothing fits Posette if you conform the clothing, choose the hip and move it down.  

"...if you conform the clothing, choose the hip and move it down. "

I'm, uh, not sure how that would work in P4, but there's some neat, non-dynamic V4 stuff I was going to try to rework...

Speaking of hair, you ever have Posy all set up just the way you want her and then start going through your pose library. Sometimes you apply a pose and it seems that the hair flies off and you have to go about putting her hair back on. I grew tired of this years ago and decided that once I have her hair on and before I start posing I lock it in place, even though it is parented, and that seems to fix the problem of the flying hair. No really.

Thanks Marv, I never tried this, it would lock all the styling and movement morphs, too.
The Problem is, some of the pose files are saved for a Character with a particular hair on. If you use another hr2 (internal name is allways figureHair) it will jump  off in most cases.

I tend to this Procedure:
Load the hr2, change parent to Universe, load another hr2, re-parent  the first hr2 (Poser will tell you "figureHair already exists" with the option to change it's internal name. Change it!), delete the second hair you loaded, re-save the hair as pp2 (Prop!). That will do it, and you don't have to lock it

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One trick I found a long time ago, and is handy when on a mcahine with limited resources, is for altering an items color without needing to create or purchase lots of texture maps.  There are a couple ways to do this, one is to set the textures strength for an image map to a lower value (like 50 to 75%) and change the default color - though this may require some test rendering to get the mixing to look right.  Another way is to create simple greyscales of all of your textures - enhance the contrast a bit and use them at 50% with a base color on the figure.  I orriginally did this for Hair files that didn't have a color texture I wanted, and to save valuable HD space by not having hundreds of texture maps for one item just in different colors.

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