I was just looking at the tutorials for the materials room and I was thinking, man, I won't be buying anywhere near as many textures for clothing -- or anything else, with this feature letting me finetune satins, etc. I know I still buy some mats for Bryce-- like the real world stuff, so extra good textures will never go out of style, but it might put a hurting on those that aren't as elaborate. Raises the bar, so to speak. Not Eowyn's jeans, though, nobody does anything realer than Eowyn's jeans.:) Emily

On the other hand, by making the textures we do buy more useful, Poser 5 might increase the market for textures that are extra-flexible. Here is what I would like to see in textures: I am currently adapting clothing to Poser 5 figures. When starting from an existing textured cloth, it is painful to cut out the "non-stretchy" parts [such as buttons], from the background material, patch up the background, then re-position the buttons where they belong. I would like to see textures provided in THREE SEPARATE LAYERS: * a basic re-usable background (such as satin), which will simply be laid over the texture-map of the new cloth - to minimize stretching; * "rigid" parts, which will be re-positioned by hand in Photoshop; * "stretchy" parts, which are supposed to fit body parts, and stretching is okay. For example, the semi-see-through portions of an outfit really need to be in the right place ;-) I'm working on a software utility that will help with the "stretching". It will be a while before it is anything I would inflict on anyone else, but I'd love to hear from anyone who is adapting clothes (or clothing textures) for Poser5... -- "Toolmaker" Steve S.

I'm not worried. ;o)

Anyone have any estimate of, out of the whole Poser community (lurkers included) how many actually are using Poser 5? I'll keep buying textures because so far, the ones I've seen rendered in P5 look like early MAX (around 2 or so), just my honest opinion so far, and if it's user inexperience then they'll start looking better.

Well, I'm going to continue to make textures because, like movida says, not everyone will have P5. I'm still learning the materials room (I'd give anything for more hours in a day...that or a maid) so who knows, maybe we'll find a way to really enhance clothing textures in P5. :)

There will be a much larger demand for seamless tiling textures, now that Poser 5 can tile materials.

Miss Emily, yes, you, miz nikitacreed, you have no Need to worry.;-) Emily who just bought some of NC's texs for the new huntress. Wow, are they cool. Rdna.

In my case I do all the texturing in Bryce anyway.