Poser is a popular program used to generate 3D animations of people
and animals.
This page has a collection of all known tutorials relating to Poser software.
Click here to see how many there are.
Other programs are useful when using Poser. One of them is Bryce 3D which is
made by the same company that makes Poser, MetaCreations. Many of the tutorials
located on this page describe how to use some of these other programs to
enhance your Poser creations.
If you have problems with any of these links, or know of another Poser tutorial
that should be included, please click
here to send me an email message.
The links are organized by category. Within the category there is little
ordering. Some related tutorials may be clustered. Use the following table to
jump to a category.
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 Poser FAQ |
| | This FAQ assumes you are familiar with Windows or Mac GUI terminology. If not, the GUI Concepts page will get you
started.
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| | Author: Jeffrey Howarth |
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| Galactic Backgrounds - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Moon & Stars - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
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| A PDF file from MetaCreations containing the basic Canoma tutorial |
| | Author: MetaCreations |
| 3D Text in Bryce - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| How to make a Poser figure in 15 easy steps. |
| | Author: Unknown |
| Portrait |
| | A very descriptive tutorial that guides you through creating your character in Poser, making a UV map, importing into Bryce,
using photos, creating and adding textures and fine details in
Photoshop. For beginners to advanced users.
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| | Author: Ralph Manis |
| Poser 3 for Beginners |
| | An extensive tutorial to help you learn the basic tools in Poser.
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| | Author: Kristin Bellehumeur |
| Poser Pro Pack Overview |
| | Viewlet demonstration showing the features of the Poser Pro Pack.
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| | Author: Curious Labs |
| The Poser file disposition guide |
| | This guide helps you place files you have downloaded so that everything pops up in the Poser library.
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| | Author: English Bob |
| How to avoid spending money |
| | The legal way to create 3D graphics on a shoestring budget. |
| | Author: English Bob |
| Undoubtedly useful utilities |
| | Tools to get for the serious 3D artist. |
| | Author: English Bob |
| How to keep using Poser 3 |
| | Keep using Poser 3 even though Poser 4 is in widespread use. |
| | Author: English Bob |
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| Forming poseable clothing and figure colouring without the use of texture maps. Poser 3 |
| | Author: Phil Cooke |
| Clothing For Eve |
| | Convert P4 Fem clothes to eve with a few simple steps! |
| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| How to Make the Hooters(tm) Outfit |
| | This advanced tutorial shows you how to create the Hooters outfit using Poser 4, UV Mapper, and Adobe Photoshop.
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| | Author: John Hoagland |
| Making superconforming clothes |
| | Author: Serge Marck |
| Roy's Max Clothing Tutorials |
| | Basic description of 6 methods for giving your models cloths. |
| | Author: Roy Riggs |
| Roy's Mini Skirt Tutorial |
| | Editting geometry in Max - Difficulty Level: Easy |
| | Author: Roy Riggs |
| Roy's long skirt Tutorial |
| | Editting geometry in Max - Difficulty Level: Medium |
| | Author: Roy Riggs |
| Roy's Tank Top Tutorial |
| | Editting geometry in Max - Difficulty Level: Hard |
| | Author: Roy Riggs |
| Using Transparency Maps |
| | Use Transparency Maps to cut objects instead of editing the 3-D object itself.
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| | Author: John Hoagland |
| Assigning materials to body parts |
| | Here is a little trick of to apply tights (aka pantyhose) to Posette's and Victoria's legs
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| | Author: English Bob |
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| "Angie" Modeling in Poser, rendering in Bryce and Photoshop textures |
| | A very descriptive tutorial that guides you through creating your character in Poser, making a UV map, importing into Bryce,
using photos, creating and adding textures and fine details in
Photoshop. For beginners to advanced users.
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| | Author: Ralph Manis |
| Digital Hair Mania with Photoshop |
| | Author: Adobe Systems Senior Creative Director Russell Brown |
| Map a photo to a poser model |
| | Author: Neutron |
| Hair Tutorial |
| | Here is a quick tutorial on how to make your hair look more like the real thing.
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| | Author: Zone 5 Graphics |
| Hair Tutorial |
| | A tutorial on my own personal techniques for drawing hair post-render.
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| | Author: dac |
| Hair Tutorials |
| | Tips for working with hair in Poser. Topics include applying hair, post editing, importing, stretching, adapting hairstyles,
and sources for finding hair models online.
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| | Author: Angus McIntyre |
| Xtinction's Tutorial |
| | Using PhotoShop to enhance the look of your character. |
| | Author: Xtinction? |
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| The Queen tutorial |
| | How Martin created a beautiful magazine cover using Poser and Bryce.
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| | Author: Martin Murphy |
| Karate Woman |
| | This tutorial shows how my Karate Woman figure was made using Rhino to transplant Nude
Woman's feet onto Business Woman.
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| | Author: Dave_L. |
| Making Extra Arms / Limbs in Poser |
| | This is a short and sweet tutorial on how to make limb only charcters for P3-P4. Another Compose utility tutorial and a
quick look at editing a .cr2 in a text editor.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Making Poseable Figures with the Hierarchy Editor |
| | Use the Hierarchy Editor in Poser to make imported models into figures. For Poser 4.
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| | Author: Richard Hatch |
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| Mac Compose Tutorial! |
| | Website details how to set up and use John Wind's Compose
utility on a Macintosh computer.
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| | Author: Michael Barnes |
| How to import Poser 4 figures into Bryce 4 |
| | Author: Spike |
| | Special Note: This is a PDF file. |
| PC to Mac Conversion |
| | Author: EJewett |
| | Special Note: This is a PDF file. |
| From Poser2Bryce |
| | Author: FastTraxx |
| Poser3 to Bryce3D |
| | How to import Poser figures into Bryce. |
| | Author: Lisa Casler |
| Importing Poser 2 Textures into Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Importing Poser 3 Textures into Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| External .obj Calls in Poser Prop Files |
| | A neat prop file hack to make poser read and store the .obj file externally instead of storing the file in the prop file
itself.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| OBJ File Format |
| | Learn how to edit OBJ files with a text editor. |
| | Author: Roy Riggs |
| Poser 4 to 3D Studio Max R3 |
| | Author: Steve Shanks |
| Poser 4 To Cinema 4D XL V6 |
| | Author: Steve Shanks |
| Pro Pack Flash Animation |
| | Viewlet showing how to Export your animations to flash files directly from Poser and Pro Pack.
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| | Author: Curious Labs |
| Using Poser Figures in Bryce |
| | This tutorial explains how to move figures and props from Curious Labs' Poser into Corel Bryce, keeping all
the mapping intact, with a minimum of effort.
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| | Author: Robin Wood |
| Text file hacking for fun and profit |
| | Most of the files used by Poser are in text format. This makes them more enormous than they would be in some other format, but
on the positive side they can be hacked if you know what you
are doing.
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| | Author: English Bob |
| Pointing to a different .OBJ file |
| | This is what to do if you want to put your .OBJ file somewhere else, or if you have created a new version by editing it.
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| | Author: English Bob |
| Editing the materials list |
| | This is what to do if you want to alter your materials list. When Poser loads a new file, any materials which are not
defined are given random settings.
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| | Author: English Bob |
| Stipping a pose file |
| | This is what to do to make a pose file that affects only a limited part(s) of the body and leaves the rest alone.
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| | Author: English Bob |
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| Amorphium Tutorials |
| | A collection of 4 tutorials. |
| | Author: Mark |
| Applying a Morph In Poser 3 or 4 |
| | A step by step on how to use morphs. Complete with illustrations.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Breathing Figures |
| | Learn how to create the morphs for a figure that realistically breathes. For Poser 4.
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| | Author: dan [dd] |
| Deleting Parameter Dials |
| | There are a couple of situations where it may be advantageous to remove a morph target parameter dial from an object.
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| | Author: Curious Labs |
| Enhanced Morph Control Explained |
| | This tutorial is geared toward Poser 4 users that have some knowledge of how cr2 files are constructed.
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| | Author: Robert E. Whisenant (a.k.a. rbtwhiz) |
| Extracting Morphs with Compose |
| | A short and sweet step by step on how to extract a poser morph target from a .cr2 or .pz3 file for use with other characters.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Morph Squishing 102 |
| | Reduce the size, help protect copyrights! Be a squisher! |
| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Morphing With Magnets Part 1 |
| | Making morph targets with Poser 4's Magnets feature. This part shows a single magnet, single body part morph
from start tofinish.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Morphing With Magnets Part 2 |
| | Making morph targets with Poser 4's Magnets feature. This part show you how to make morphs that span more
than one body part, as well as how to use the Mag
Zone's falloff graph.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Morphing With Magnets Part 3 |
| | Making morph targets with Poser 4's Magnets feature. This time we use the grouping tool to make the morphs
more acurate.
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| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Morphing With Magnets Part 4 |
| | Using 2 Magnets for Symetrical Morphs across an axis. |
| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Morph Targets Tutorial |
| | This tutorial is aimed at jumping the hurdles that are particular to using 3D Studio MAX.
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| | Author: Roy Riggs |
| Poser Morphs for Free |
| | Author: Steve Shanks |
| Squeeze Deform morphs in Poser |
| | Homebrew method of creating believable squeezing and crushing deforms of flesh, metal, etc. using nothing more than Poser.
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| | Author: Duane Moody |
| Using Morph Targets |
| | Using this technique you can create more distinct characters. |
| | Author: John Hoagland |
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| Animating the 'Floating Kick' Scene |
| | Recreate the jump kick scene from The Matrix in Poser 4. |
| | Author: John Hoagland |
| That Matrix Thing You Do |
| | You have seen the stop frame, move the camera, restart trick that the Wachowski Brothers made popular in The Matrix. It is
easy to replicate that effect in Poser 4.
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| | Author: Martin Gisborne |
| Controlling a Figure's Eyes |
| | Control a figure's eyes so that they can follow a camera in the scene as it moves through space (Poser 3
characters or later).
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| | Author: Curious Labs |
| Introducing Actions Mid-Walk |
| | This tutorial will show you how to introduce an event (in this case a wave) into the middle of a walk that has already been
defined.
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| | Author: Curious Labs |
| Lip Synchronization Tutorial |
| | Use Mimic by LIPSinc to lip synch your characters in Poser. |
| | Author: Unknown |
| Making a Centaur Gallop |
| | Combining a horse gallop with the walk designer to create a centaur animation.
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| | Author: Bloodsong |
| Smooth Looping Animation |
| | On looped animations it is common for a slight hiccup to be in the movie on playback.
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| | Author: Curious Labs |
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| Importing 3DS props |
| | This is a fairly full description of how to import models in .3DS format into Poser and use them as props.
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| | Author: English Bob |
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| Animating Ocean Waves |
| | Start to finish on how to animate an ocean scene. |
| | Author: Steven Sanvito |
| Animating Water Ripples |
| | This tutorial will show how to animate circular ripples of water.
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| | Author: Steven Sanvito |
| Creating space Scenes |
| | Covers all aspects of creating space scenes. Goes through the creation of rock planets, earth-like planets, ringed planets
and stars.
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| | Author: Alexander Rives |
| Creating underwater Scenes |
| | Shows how to create underwater scenes and include lighting effects such as reflection and refraction.
|
| | Author: Alexander Rives |
| Mastering the landscape: Distant Landscapes |
| | This tutorial discusses the creation of the image shown on the title page. It explains step by step how all the elements were
created and why the particular settings were chosen.
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| | Author: Alexander Rives |
| Building craters |
| | Bryce trick that kind of approximates Photoshop channel selection and produces really realistic volcanos and meteor
craters.
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| | Author: Andy Yue |
| Egyptian columns |
| | These Egyptian columns are inspired by a photograph of a room of the temple of Karnak.
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| | Author: Lann |
| Foreground Planets |
| | Lists the steps involved to create a planet in the foreground. |
| | Author: Steven Sanvito |
| Fractal Terrains |
| | This tutorial is on how you can turn a fractal into a terrain in Bryce from Metatools, although this concept can be applied
to most other graphics programs.
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| | Author: Steve Lareau |
| Modeling Chains |
| | Modeling Chains in Bryce 3D Using Motion Paths and Null Objects |
| | Author: Steven Sanvito |
| Making Chains - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Bat & Fairy wings - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| A Simple Waterfall - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Pouring Water - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Shells & Ram's Horn - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Picture Cube - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| A tutorial on how to create boxes with UVMapper |
| | How to create a box with UVMapper. |
| | Author: Steve Cox |
| Basic Poser UV-mapper tutorial |
| | This is a brief introduction for newbies on how to use the UVMapper to create a template for texture or transparency maps
for poser.
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| | Author: unknown (Symbiant?) |
| Rainbows by Numbers |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Gemstones from Pyramids |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Disco Light Ball |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Making Craters |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Simple Comets |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Crescent Moons & Planets |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Dishes & Plates |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Planet Earth |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Making Realistic Models of your Friends in Poser |
| | A step-by-step method for using photos to model your friends heads in Poser. This is NOT a tutorial on Photoshopping scans
into body texture maps, but a 'sculpting' guideline for people
familiar with morphs and/or magnets
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| | Author: Duane Moody |
| Poser 4 2 Max |
| | Using Poser 4 to produce characters for use in architectural Max renderings.
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| | Author: Baumgarten Enterprises |
| Poser Custom Model Maker's Guide |
| | Create your favorite super heroes in Poser 4 with this in-depth guide from Dave Hill.
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| | Author: Dave Hill |
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| Direct Path Editing |
| | Shows the basic forms of path modification. |
| | Author: Bernd Jaeger |
| Exact Sun and Moon Locations |
| | Shows how to place the sun or the moon at a certain location of the picture.
|
| | Author: Busse |
| Fake Reflection of Light |
| | Shows how to have light reflected properly in your scene. |
| | Author: Busse |
| Family affairs |
| | Use families to select a group of objects which should be animated together.
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| | Author: Busse |
| Object Specific Anti-aliasing |
| | How to keep a texture from getting blurred during antialiasing. |
| | Author: Busse |
| Organic Modeling |
| | Three step processing for organic modeling |
| | Author: Jac Grenfell |
| Rendering Wireframe Animations |
| | How to render a whole animation as wireframe or even flat shaded.
|
| | Author: Busse |
| Simulating Blurred Propellers |
| | Steps to follow to create the blurred propeller effect. |
| | Author: Steven Sanvito |
| Terrain Editor |
| | Shows some of the Easter Eggs that can be found in the terrain editor.
|
| | Author: Busse |
| Torus Editor |
| | A few steps to try in the torus editor. |
| | Author: Busse |
| Unity Concept |
| | How to set and use the unity concept. |
| | Author: Busse |
| Using Negative Lights |
| | How to use black holes (negative lights). |
| | Author: Busse |
| Anaglyphs |
| | Shows how to produce stereoscopic images with anaglyphs. |
| | Author: Lann |
| Boolean tutorial |
| | Two part tutorial in one: Creating a Building with Primitives and Working with Booleans.
|
| | Author: Gary Rea |
| Advanced Linking I |
| | In this example the little cage is the parent of the cones and it only transfers it's size, which you can set in the
Attributes dialog.
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| | Author: Busse |
| Advanced Linking II |
| | Like in the example before, the origin handle is moved to the cone's base.
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| | Author: Busse |
| Amplification I |
| | Describes what happens when a transformation is applied to a linked hierarchy.
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| | Author: Busse |
| Amplification II |
| | Describes what happens when other coordinate translations are applied to a linked hierarchy.
|
| | Author: Busse |
| That cool look where you can see portions of the wireframe overlapping the model |
| | Here's how to do it. |
| | Author: Tim Laubach |
| Advanced Techniques |
| | Only works with Netscape 4.5 or later. Does not work with Internet Explorer 4.0. A must read for anyone who wants to
learn all there is to know about Poser.
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| | Author: MetaCreations |
| | Special Note: This is a PDF file. |
| Head replacement using Poser and Imagine |
| | Author: Mary Aliandra |
| Dressing up the DXF |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Breaking Glass |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Streaming Light Rays |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Streaming Light Rays 2 |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Falling Snow - Bryce 3D |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Bright Eyes - Moist Lips |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Boolean Operations |
| | Author: Peter Sharpe |
| Recognizable Features |
| | Purpose of this tutorial is to illustrate a simple approach to quickly and easily produce a low-fidelity 3D figure of a
recognizeable person.
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| | Author: Martin Hongsermeier |
| Poser texture map into Bryce bump into Photoshop fur! |
| | Author: Lyne |
| The great bump map disaster |
| | When the PC version of Poser converts a graphic file (.BMP, .TIF, .JPG) into a bump map (.BUM), it does it wrong.
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| | Author: English Bob |
| Glowing Eyes in Poser |
| | This tutorial explains how to make eyes (and other things) glow when you are using Poser to render your pictures.
|
| | Author: Robin Wood |
| Group Tool Tutorial |
| | A step-by-step tutorial on the Poser group tool, using a simple sphere as an example.
|
| | Author: dac |
| Group Tool What Does it do? |
| | Detailed explanation on how to effectively utilize the Poser Group tool.
|
| | Author: Doug Sturk |
| Installing Eve / Azura |
| | A quick step by step on installing Eve or Azura using Mover. |
| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| How to Make Reflections |
| | Learn how to create mirror image reflections in Poser 4. |
| | Author: John Hoagland |
| Illegitimate Children in Poser |
| | Poser parts can only touch one parent.... until now. Some techniques and theories, including adding weld commands to the
CR2.
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| | Author: Bloodsong |
| Joint Parameters for Eyes |
| | Setting JPs for eyes so they rotate nicely and do not smush your head, and so you do not have to turn off
the bending for the head.
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| | Author: Bloodsong |
| Inflating a balloon |
| | Author: dan [dd] |
| Lighting in Poser |
| | Author: Syyd Raven |
| Making Waves |
| | Learn how to use the Wave Deformer in Poser 4. |
| | Author: dan [dd] |
| Magnet Basics |
| | Some basic info and a short tutorial on Magnet Orientation. |
| | Author: Eric VanDycke |
| Radiosity Simulation in Poser |
| | Learn how to simulate radiosity in Poser. |
| | Author: dan [dd] |
| Remapping Poser figure with UVMapper. |
| | Title says it all! |
| | Author: Jeff Richardson |
| Scaling Ray Dream 5 props to Poser scale |
| | Clever method for keeping your Ray Dream-built props at the same scale Poser uses.
|
| | Author: Duane Moody |
| Superimposing Images onto Backgrounds in Poser |
| | This tutorial explains how to set up figures created with Poser so that they look real when using the Render Over Background
feature.
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| | Author: Robin Wood |
| Using the Objaction Mover |
| | Author: Jessica Riggs |
| Using UVMapper with Poser 3 |
| | Author: Stephen L. Cox |
| Welding RD5 props to avoid sharp corners in Poser |
| | Step by step method for ensuring soft corners on props built in Ray Dream.
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| | Author: Duane Moody |
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| Texture Presets |
| | Shows how to set up texture presets. |
| | Author: Busse |
| How to use Steve Cox's UVMapper program |
| | Author: Steve Cox |
| Making hair and eyelash texture maps |
| | Author: Tony Lane |
| Texturing Poser Figures in Bryce |
| | Author: Jeff Richardson |
| A tutorial on using Windows UVMapper to create complex texture maps |
| | More tutorials on how to use Steve Cox's UVMapper program
|
| | Author: Steve Cox |
| A tutorial on using UVMapper to remap Poser 3 models permanently |
| | How to remap your Poser models with UVMapper |
| | Author: Steve Cox |
| Beginners guide to applying tex maps in Poser |
| | This is a brief beginners tutorial for applying exsisting textures in Poser 4 using Zygotes Victoria model. It assumes no
previous knowledge of texture mapping, and covers only the most
basic steps in applying maps to your model.
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| | Author: unknown (Symbiant?) |
| Textures on Poser Figures |
| | Shows bringing Poser figures into Bryce for texturing. |
| | Author: Baumgarten Enterprises |
| Texture Maps |
| | Learn about creating texture maps for use with Poser figures. |
| | Author: Angus McIntyre |
| theTMSKGuide |
| | 19 sections includes everything you need to know about texture mapping in Poser 4.
|
| | Author: dan [dd] |
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