Our beloved voiceless protagonist nato man was cooking up something, don't know what but it was something.
Then he got a knock on his door. A visitor, of course.
There stood a particular Gorse, who was aptly named Mr. Gorse.
He handed a letter to our nato man, and he read it intently, thus...


Our very notable sire Mr. Gorse is the reason this guide was ever made. Now, lets not stall too long and get to it!!!

There are two ways to go about posing. One is what I call "active posing," and the other is "immobility posing."
Lets start off with explaining "Active Posing." Its the method I use to pose all my humans and goobers... it would be better to show it off in real time...

Hmmm... how about we use this idling Afghanka-wearing human as an example, shall we?
For this example, lets make him standing up aiming an AK-74.
Enable slow-motion and start moving his legs, specifically the lower legs and feet.
Now that we have the feet on the ground, you can pose the spine and other bones... which I don't need screenshots for. Now we give our soldier the rifle, adjust the layers, adjust arms, that stuff.
And there, he's ready to fight... but do you see something off?

If you noticed that gap between the two armor pieces on that 6B5, you'd be correct to assume we need to adjust it. (Make sure that, at this point, the whole body is frozen.)
Just rotate and move it a bit, and there its fixed.

And now, it is time to show off "immobility posing," the posing type that screenshot masters like Noobie use to pose his humans.
Of course, we'll need a Immobility Field caster, and we need to resize it so its larger than the human... but here comes the issue, we NEED a human... how about we use this dude with the Altyn, shall we?
Now, knock him out and place him inside the immobility field, and start posing. Since he's limp, his limbs and such can be easily manipulated with your cursor. Just move his limbs around carefully and adjust him until you get the ideal pose.

Now, freeze his entire body, place him, and BOOM, you got two dudes posed.

But, they look kind of plain just standing there without... scenery.
And that brings us to our second section!

I'll let our voiceless nato man join us in this section of the guide, if that's okay with y'all. He's good with scenery, I can tell you that.

OH LORD WHAT THE HELL IS HE DOING?!
Oh... is that a rose? How sweet of you... wait what is it for?
Oh yeah I almost forgot we were doing scene building... but thanks for the rose anyways.

Get out your assortment of props and START PLACING THEM... like so. We're not positioning them just yet.

Start off with the old classic grass. Something that is green, of course, and expand from there. Now it looks better... but still PLAIN!
If only we had something to spice things up, like a illusion or...
Oh, nato man is holding something. He's communicating with us, hear him out... well, he's voiceless so lets just read the letter...
Oh yeah, perception of depth! This is how I spice up screenshots. Copy-paste the grass, send it to the back (lowest layer), copy-paste the layered grass and then relayer it. If done correctly, you should get something like this.
Now, what about the excess props on the right, you may ask? That will further add onto the illusion. Resize it, lower it down in layers, that and that... if you do it correctly, it will look comparable to this.
Now, there's also MORE excess props. Simply resize them so they're about... uhhh, I dunno, small, and put them in the back layer and move them up a bit (no, not in layers).

And boom, you got a forest scene!!! But... it's not spicy. Its still a bit... plain. That's where we get into Lighting!

Here's the part of the guide where the true magic unfolds.
For this scene, we'll set it at sunrise... so we'll turn off the lights. Trust me, it'll benefit the scene a lot. Also add rain and fog if you want.

GET OUT YOUR LED BULBS NOW!!!
Change the color of one of the bulbs. This'll be the... uhh... "Global Light," aka the main light source. I'll make it orange for this example.
Resize it until its huge and... plump? Wide? I dunno, just huge. (MAKE SURE TO FREEZE IT AND DISABLE COLLISIONS ON IT!!!)
And... here's our example screenshot as of now...
Personally I don't think its enough, which is why we have that extra lightbulb.
Make it EXTREMELY wide and thin, change the color of it and place it far from the scene so it's more like a subtle but noticeable touch.
Copy the lightbulb if you want to, move those copied lightbulbs a bit and... BOOM here's the behind the scenes. (Yes I changed the bulb's light color.)

And here is the finished product. Real nice, spicy and favored.

Now that the scene stuff is out of the way, lets learn how to kitbash...
Maybe you've never heard of kitbashing. Perhaps. Well, kitbashing is mixing mod items to make a (usually tactical) fit that looks good.
Lets use Royce as an example... yeah, the guy from Quality Control.
And now, we get equipment. For this example, we'll be using things from Ickheria, LSA Forces Russia and HAW Vietnam... most of it is Ickheria stuff tho.
Place the stuff on the human, fix layering stuff and see the result. I kind of came up with this on the spot so yeah.
Now, if you're doing several humans, make sure they are sort of consistent (unless you're doing militiamen, then go crazy).

Other than that, there's nothing much else to say other than to stay consistent, experiment, and the sorts.

Also, here's another ktbash. You can see the variety of mods. Try naming all of them.
Before this turns into a kitbash showcase, lets end this section off here.

Okay, welcome to the uh outdoor shooting area I conveniently made at this time. I'll explain why we're here in a moment, nato man.
See that singular target over there with the red dot? I want you to bullseye that, alright?
Guess you're up for the challenge. Just aim and...
Yeah you did it! Bullseye!
Okay so you know how I said I was going to explain why we were here and I explained? Well that's only part of the explanation, alright? Notice that smoke coming out of the gun?
Lemme just delete the scene real quick... stay VERY still so I don't accidental end up deleting you. Remember what happened last time?
Do you notice the smoke is not coming out of your gun barrel anymore? I'll tell you why, but you'll need to pick up that, er, device on the ground, alright?
This very thing is the reason why smoke was coming out of your gun. I know, shocking, but this is IMPORTANT, okay? It is called a Particle Emitter, and today we shall use it.

These emitters have three types of particles they can admit. Now, nato man, I'll warn you ahead of time that one of them emit fire, but it won't hurt trust me. Even a pyrophobe like you knows that.
First one emits smokes, you've seen it already.
Second one emits fire.
Third one, interestingly, emits electricity.

We'll be using all of these in one scene divided into three parts, or at least try to.

Flash-Forward to uh 3 hours later and here's the scene. I'll show the parts where Particle Emitters are present.




First instance is both the Smoke and Fire emitters. Combined, they're useful for making barrel fires (light source where you put some flammable stuff into a barrel), things that burn and other stuff.

Second instance is this broken TV, which has a Particle Emitter inside it... emitting electricity. This particle is useful for both broken electronics and, if you're sadistic, torture stuff. I sure hope you aren't though.



And... next up the breakdown of the scene, aka the more comprehensive look at scenebuilding.

In the last section, we looked at Particle Emitters. Now, that leads into our next section... Comprehensive Scenebuilding.

Here's the scene from last section, but more of a overall view of the workspace.
We will be mostly focusing on the building and the area surrounding it, thus scenebuilding.
First off, the building... section? That's right, it's only a section of the building!
Layer is a KEY part in how I made this building look like it was, well, a building, along with several tricks.
Lets start off with the walls and windows. The brick walls are just that, brick walls, but the windows... lets reveal them.

"GUHMUNGA?! ITS JUST A HOLE?!" Your may ask, and yes indeed it is... just a hole. But with the power of materials that contrast the brick walls, it looks like a window sill.
Along with that, the walls are just a copy-pasted row of slightly uneven brick walls. For the floors, I used wood.

Now, to actually explain since this went nowhere. At all.
There are THREE essentials to making a good scenebuild.

• Scenebuild.
  
• Lighting
  
• Things that compliment said build.

Without lighting, a scene is just going to look a bit less lively and more plain, without complimenting factors the scene won't look too unique. Without a scenebuild... your scene is just going to look plain and ♥♥♥♥♥♥ honestly, unless your posing carry the entire screenshot, which they shouldn't really.
Also, a fourth factor is obviously layering, but eh I grouped that with the "Scenebuild" itself.

In short, this is all over the place but, in a comprehensive summary... layering will be your number one friend in this journey.

"Welcome... you've been called here..."
"To be judged by the Funny Goobe Council! We didn't have enough chairs so most of us are standing up but... that's BESIDE the point."
"My name is Richard Marek and I'll be the judge for today's judgement-"
"Wait I think we got the wrong nato man. This one isn't speaking."
"Wait... oh ♥♥♥♥. Yeah we got the wrong nato man. Sorry mute one."
"You're... uh, free to go."

Well... that was quite awkward was it?

Now as you saw in that council meeting, a lot of the council members were kitbashed mfs... and you know that a new section means NEW STUFF TO LEARN!!!
So lets go.

So, for this example, we'll be using these soldiers from HAW Vietnam and HAW Falklands. Why? No particular reason they just look cool.

And a few hours later, here's the finished humans. I only used two mods (excluding a unreleased one for obvious reasons. Key thing is to make sure the mods you use in kitbashing compliment eachother or at least look good.


10 minutes later and here we are. Full scene. But, how did I make this, you may ask?
Well, its simpler than it looks.
Here's a full view of the scene, and immediately you'll notice that it's mostly made out of resizable housing. Most of the magic's in the layering anyways, and I only used 3 lightsources for this. Can't say too much about it other than resizing... resizable housing is a godsend.

If you read this guide, thank you for reading. And, my good sire Mr. Gorse, if you are reading this, I hope this guide has showed you how I do things. And, again, thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed somehow.