"FrogRay" <nomail@nomail> wrote in message 
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> Hi all
>
> I am wanting to create reasonably realistic human figures to include in my
> pov-ray scenes.  By realistic I mean that the proportions of limbs and 
> body
> are correct - I'm not too worried (at this stage) about fine details such
> as face, hair fingernails, etc.
>

Hi,
In addition to considering Poser and DAZ Studio you may also wish to take a 
look at my POV-Person library, an Alpha version of which is at 
http://www.geocities.com/povperson/. This can achieve reasonably realistic 
posable figures (depending on your criteria for 'reasonably realistic' :-). 
The proportions of limbs can be adjusted as can be seen in the 'crowd' 
example on the POV-Person home page where the proportions have been 
randomised to give a bit of variety.

> I am using a program called Art Of Illusion which has quite a good mesh
> modelling tool.
>

Body parts in POV-Person can be replaced, so if you wanted to model a 
particular feature in AOI and incorporate it into one of the existing 
figures you can do that. Most of the faces in POV-Person are currently mesh 
objects, so if you wanted a new head on a POV-Person body you can just 
replace an existing one.

> What I am wondering is whether it is worth the time and effort to use a
> mesh-modeller such as AOI or whether I would be better off purchasing
> something like POSER.
>

This really depends on what you're trying to achieve, how quickly you want 
to achieve it and how useful the skills you'd learn will be to you in the 
future.

> Has anyone had much success with AOI ? (I don't think I've seen it
> mentioned)
>

I've never tried it.

>
> Also, I have heard that you don't own the copyright to your own
> objects/models created with POSER.
> Can someone please confirm or clarify this for me?
>

I had heard that too, but I've never seen that confirmed anywhere. I did 
look through a Poser manual a long time ago to try and work that out, but 
couldn't find anything on the right to redistribute 3D models generated from 
Poser. I concluded that there probably would be licensing issues with 
distributing a POV-Ray scene file along with a model converted from a Poser 
model.

For POV-Person I can confirm that you can modify and reuse anything from the 
POV-Person library, because I've written it all from scratch.

Regards,
Chris B.

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