Meet the Rais Abdul ibn Abdullah. He is a character in my Iskander Series. 
Rich, powerful, cruel.

As a basis, I took Apollo Maximus which, as it turned out, generated a 
number of challenges to me as well as to Poseray. Not all resolved, but I am 
working on them. Apollo Maximus is a terrific - free - character for Poser 6 
and up, and Daz|Studio, at 
http://www.antonkisieldesigns.com/~akfiles/htmlpages/ApolloMaximusFree3dhumanfigure.htm.

One drawback however is that the shaders provided are so complex that they 
do not translate well through Poseray, so you have to be creative.

The clothing, made in Silo 2.0, are almost finished. The boots come with 
Apollo Maximus however.
For the turban, I used a path extrusion object rotating 360 degrees, then 
was much helped with the displacement brush provided by Silo.
Shalwar (trousers) and Pirihan (shirt) are based on patterns found here: 
http://home.earthlink.net/~lilinah/Rashid/. On the way I learned that it is 
much easier to model clothes using boxes than using cylinders or truncated 
cones. In particular the Pirihan is modelled entirely from boxes.

Still missing here are a sash and a Caftan. Those will come next. The sash 
in particular will be modelled similarly to the turban.

For the textures, I thought it would be interesting to simulate Damask 
cloth. I googled a number of patterns and made additional specular maps from 
them. The result should be that the design is slightly highlighted by the 
specular finish. It is rather subtle though. I used the technique for all 
three the clothings.

The Shalwar is tucked into the boots through simulation in Poser. This is 
not working entirely correctly, some pieces still sticking through the 
boots. I corrected that using the Morphing Tool that comes with Poser 7. 
Wonderful! I still need some training there, but it helps immensely to 
correct simulation errors. While this works fine for stills, I believe this 
would not be so useful for animations though...

OK. I am shutting up. I have still some sewing to do. So if you'll forgive 
me...  <shuffles back to the table>

Thomas

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