Hi Robert, Robert Covington wrote: <snip> > A 30 day demo can be downloaded at > <http://www.curiouslabs.com/PoserDemoDownload.html>. > > But for the a more real bunny of the Emily type: > Poser allows for cyber dudes as well as babes, children, robots, dinosaurs, > and whatever else you can import basically. All can be animated, rendered > and it comes with a ton of models already there, even a snake and a bass. > With morph targets, you can basically make anything. Luckily other people > have done all that work already for the most part. Tons of these can be > found via <http://www.renderosity.com> > > Morph target being a same ordered and number of vertices object that is a > little bit different from the regular object. > > For example, pretend object 1 is regular nose in a head object, Morph > object of object 1 has nose vertices dragged out to make a Cyrano. > > The program interpolates to that new location depending on the slider setting. > I have had Poser since it was v1.0, a true classic in my opinion that > version. Was originally made as a sort of artist's model program. Now it is > the premiere nookie maker 3D app for better or worse. > > Metacreations absorbed it from Fractal Design, then Curious Labs bought > them out when Meta dumped all their software to go down the tubes with just > Metastream. > > FutureBasic 3 will be proud when my own Poser type app gets released some > time later this year. :) > Still have to get my image editor "Compositor" out the door soon. Near > release time for v 1.0 The first of the year I purchased the MetaCreations 3D Suite at a bargain price. It included Bryce 4, Canoma and Poser 4. Are you saying that there will be no 5s of these items - that they are defunct? I haven't even gotten around to using them, except in the most superficial way. Actually, I wanted Poser to model the 3D versions of my Astro-Chess Game Pieces, which I suppose it will still be able to do, rather than human-like figures. What is MetaStream? and are the products I purchased now owned by "Curious Labs"? TIA, Joe Wilkins PS -- When you get around to beta testing YOUR "Poser", maybe I could model some of my Game Pieces with it as a test? If you'd care to see a photo of the physical Astro-Chess Game Board, there is one in the article I wrote on Piracy and Software Protection for MacInstruct, called [Black Beard & Captain Kidd! "No Kidding!"] @ http://www.macinstruct.com/tutorials/Piracy/Piracy.html This was done in 1975-76, so my copyrights are about to expire in a couple of years, and the Design Patent for the circular game board has already expired. The FB version of Astro-Chess is still years away.