I had a great time at your "Poser" Party yesterday and as always, you were a delightful and wonderful hostess. Sorry I forgot my camera and didn't get any pics, but the memories will be with me for always. (:

We want pics!
We want pics!
We want pics!

Can ya tell ... we want pics!!!

I was there ................... in spirit ... but I'd still like to see any pics you might have ... pretty please with a parameter dial on top ... ;=]

cheers,
dr geep
;=]

...especially when the hostess is half-brained. I took a double dose of the migraine medicine and went back to bed for another half-hour, so was still vacuuming when Kate and her hubby Jim arrived early. They cheerfully set-to, though, and soon had the chairs moved and cookie tray assembled and food laid out. And folks brought goodies... shrimp sushi and home-made bean soup and deviled eggs. I'm supposed to say that we dutifully talked about Poser 6, but, even though it was running, none of us ventured back into the computer room. Leave the chocolates? Leave the conversation? Alas, we were all too human and sat comfortably in a circle chatting about everything but computers. Well... I see monitors everyday, how often do I see friends? Attending? There was Kate the Shrew and Jim, Marque and Dennis, Bobbo, donsimpson, Patricia, and Genny. Bonnie, a friend who uses Poser but not on Renderosity, showed up later, too. The weather was lovely and we were just being casual, but I only took a few pictures. By 7:30 when the last folks left, I turned down a dinner invitation and slipped back flat again. My cat came out of hiding a few minutes later. But it was so lovely to see people and be human for an afternoon and exchange hugs and smiles all around. Thank YOU everybody for coming and making the day special. Carolly

S'ok ... I still got some left here ........ somewhere. ;=] Thanks Carolly ... and ... Please disregard my last IM. ;=]

This old computer acts up a lot. It pasted a message from several threads (2 days!) ago. And it wouldn't edit it to replace it with the right message. Deletion was the only choice then (sorry about your curiosity). But I think this thread is tidy again. Carolly

Yup, thanks Carolly. ;=]

Nice pics, Carolly! It's really nice to see some of the faces behind the names. 8-)

Cool shoes! I'm so sorry I had to miss -- was working two shows back to back and was on the edge of collapse all weekend (It's now eleven PM sunday and I just got back from tech rehearsal in Albany). Lemme know next time there's a get-together, even a drop-in. I'm an apple's throw from the Berkeley Bowl (I manage the ugliest building on the block).

nomuse, This was the third one... which might be an indicator that something about the mix of people is right. From the smiles in the pictures, it seems that (gasp) we like each other. We certainly are not anonymous web zombies! Folks who are chattier or who make things or who solve problems tend to be interesting to get into a group... the doers. And anybody willing to drive fron San Jose or Sacramento just to meet people is probably a nice person. All it takes is knowing that there is one thing in common (some excuse), and conversation goes willy-nilly from there. (How did we get from modeling a flea to grand-parenting and dogs chewing on furniture and black radishes?) :) We'll do this again! Carolly

carrolly well when I get out to the left coast in a few months in the Imperial Battlecruiser I'll at least drop in and bug you :) and maybe we can arrange another one of these ... it looks like fun! ps I bought my RV finally ... a 1978 Holiday Rambler model "Imperial 5000" .... its 35 feet long and is technically considered by most states to be a house 0.o

Woohoo! The pics turned out great, Carolly. We had a wonderful time and Jim's allergies didn't bother him nearly as much as the last time we were there. I still think we need to do a summer BBQ gathering at my place one of these years. I've got a new chili rub for my ribs I'm dying to test out on youse mugs... hehehe... and the apricot glaze is killer... Kate (she of the 4 BBQ grills and the large brick patio)

That looks like fun!

35' ??? Imperial Battle Cruiser???????? :blink: I thought you were going to refurbish a trusty old VW bus! Someone tricked out his car to resemble a fighter: complete with R2 unit, glowy lights under it and scorch marks from laser blasts... I'll have to see if I can find his website again. But at 35', you shouldn't have any trouble commanding the road. ;^) We'll of course have a party when you get here! Basically, I need a nudge or an excuse of some sort to get out of the normal ruts. Christmas, a guest, a celebration... something. Hmm... 35'... that means you'll have room for the costumes as well as the machine shop! :) Carolly

Ribs? Apricot glaze? You know that I never stand between a woman and her barbecues! (And the barbarian in me loves meat-on-the-bone.) If you ever need rosemary for throwing on the coals, we have one in back besides the one in front that I have to keep pruning. I'm glad that Jim's allergies didn't kick up so badly this time. Between Tabitha and Skrogg, that sofa probably has cathair all the way through to the ties, so avoiding it in favor of the other chairs seems sensible. That way he can enjoy the conversation more. Skrogg usually waits for the first people to show up before hiding, but this time she was taking no chances. Definately a shy cat. As for reasons to hold a party? Dodger is supposed to be moving down here to go to school, Lyrra is supposed to be coming out on walkabout, Anton sometimes visits his sister, you have a birthday, or you could simply pick a day (conjunction of planets, project finished, roses are in full bloom). The weekend before the 4th of July isn't good... I might be out of town and folks generally seem to be doing things already on the holiday weekends... but the rest looks clear. I'm probably going to reserve the goth party idea, with all black foods, for when Dodger or Lyrra shows up. Oh, you didn't see the panicked look on my face when Marque asked if the coffee was fresh? There was a justice scale in my mind: one pan had a thought balloon: "it is 3 hours old" and the other: "but I ground the beans today". :gulp: I suspect that Dodger is a coffee snob from some conversation last year, but if the coffee is black, too, it should be drinkable. ;^) Carolly

Yup, apricot glaze. Well, actually it's an apricot jam/chili rub mixture that I boil down on the stove into a yummy glaze that goes on at the very end of cooking the ribs. It got rave reviews last year and everyone was oohing and ahhing at how the meat was just falling off the bone (I didn't bother to tell them that I bake the ribs in a 250 degree oven before I throw 'em on the grill... a girl's gotta have SOME secrets. wink). This year, at some point, I'm gonna try a pork roast. I haven't used the rotisserie that we got with the gas grill yet and I'm dying to find out if I can do a pulled pork BBQ right. Plus I finally found a recipe for Carolina Mustard sauce (Yay!!) that I'm gonna have to try out. Hmmm... Now just gotta pick a day when it ain't raining and most folks are still in town. My favorite excuse to BBQ? "It's too hot to cook so I'm gonna fire up one of the grills." Kate, Queen of BBQ (at least in my house, anyway)

Ooooooh, another party?!! I'm up for it :oD That was so much fun--thank you Carolly! And I was glad to talk of anything BUT Poser that day, since P4 has been choking on the huge scenes I always seem to put together and has now crashed 3 times...once requiring a harddrive utility repair disc run :o( And I still don't have P6. So I enjoyed the chit-chat and seeing so many friendly faces...it's always good to discover that perfectly sane people ALSO are addicted to Poser LOL

And now back to my thrice-crashed scenes and my bottle of Ibuprophen (vitamin I)...

Patricia

Pat, Let's talk about whether you really need that particular dragon (since there is a selection of dragons available) and how you are doing the butterflies, and what sort of environment (modeled or image)... there has to be a way to curb the texture count (which is what I suspect is throwing everything off). Carolly

Another Poser Party????? Sounds great to me, I really had a great time and it is just so nice to finally meet some new folks from the forums......even though I feel I already "Know" them. LOL! The week after the 4th of July, would be bad for me as I have a wedding to attend (on the 9th, I think) but anytime after should be fine.......as long as my daughter's don't have a new "crisis" that I have to deal with, I will be there. (: Just let me know.

To tell the truth, I've given up, at least for now, on that image with the dragon. I embarked upon a surrealist piece on a mind control theme last week and I'm not sure what went wrong--the only large models were my Lily (V3 & Bliss Vision hair) and a MilCat, morphed into a kitten. But I had a lot of smaller props in it, plus a bunch of tiling floor props stuck together to make a very large black and white tiled ground area--but they used only the one low-rez texture, so....??? And only one butterfly in this one, and I hadn't even added it yet. If necessary, I'll do the sky in Photoshop and can render things in bits and pieces, but it seems to me that I shouldn't need to. Patricia

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Yes, I used a tiling prop, but I've forgotten whose it was and, way back then, you hadn't yet initiated me into the proper Poser canon wherein all DLed freebie props are carefully attributed to their creators. I found a black and white checkered floortile pattern, too, with lots of repeats, but it still required 20 of the props to give me enough distance.

I finally started over again from scratch to stop this scene file from crashing--I seem haunted by crashes since returning to Poser art, which sharply reminds me of why I quit a year and a half ago ;o) (You should see the number of backup copies I keep, despite their 110MG size)

Pat

Pat, When you reinstalled Poser... how much memory did you allot to it? You perhaps need to do that again. You are working with P4 and when that came out, figures were much less taxing on the system, so the recommended amounts are puny by today's standards. Click on the application icon (not the alias, the real one) to select it, but not open it, go into the top menu: file > get info > memory. Give it at least half a gig and see if that helps. Mine is minimum 200K and preferred 500K and I don't use the gen 3 figures. Carolly

Remembered to re-allot memory--I think I put it at 500,000--is that enough? The new iMac is a G5 and here's a copy/paste of its specs: Machine Model: iMac G5 CPU Type: PowerPC G5 (3.0) Number Of CPUs: 1 CPU Speed: 1.8 GHz L2 Cache (per CPU): 512 KB Memory: 1 GB Bus Speed: 600 MHz Boot ROM Version: 5.2.2f2 I can't do any kind of math, including the computer-related variety--what is half a gig in numbers?? Pat

1 Gig = ~1,000 Megs ... so 1/2 Gig = ~500 Megs (512 Mbytes actual) ;=]

OK... as long as your minimum and preferred allotments are both decent, you should be fine there. Don't run PhotoShop at the same time, because it is even more of a piggy at the memory trough. Being new, you shouldn't need to defrag it yet, but I'm wondering if all those crashed files have left temporary copies of themselves scattered around to trip over? (It's been so long since Poser has crashed on me, that I forgot the extension used.) Next question... that spiffy new machine is running 10.3 something? And your Poser4 needs to run under "classic". Are you booting into 9.2 on days when you plan to use Poser, or just clicking the alias and hoping that the machine knows enough to select the right OS? Carolly

Classic automatically starts up when I launch Poser. I did find and trash an odd file after two of the crashes, which I think had some funny prefix to the file name--my menopausal brain fog has neatly erased it from my memory, though.... I think that my min and preferred allotments may be the same--500,000. Could that cause problems?? [waves hi to Dr. G--I missed you! Is Miss Posey still leading you on a mad whirl?! :oD] Pat

[waves back] Hi Pat ... Yup ... that ol' Posey gal; keeps me ajumpin'. cheers, dr geep ;=]

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Sorry, couldn't resist the opportunity. ;=]
It onlee ka-nocks once, ya know.

cheers, <--------------------------------------- (?)
dr geep
;=]

GEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP IIIIIIIIIIIN SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE--!!! I like it! And since I was an astronomical artist long, long before that fateful day when I first picked up Poser and began the long, severe test of my always limited patience, it's just natural for me to keep trying to get more "space" in Poser.... On my way to the new thread that Carolly hath linked to-- Pat

So how much space is in between NaySayGuy's ears?

Um, the size of that number hasn't been invented yet.

No, ....... not even using scientific notation.

.................... Ten to the what?

See, I told you the size hasn't been invented.

;=]

Rendering galaxies in Poser isn't that hard... but visiting them might be! And yes, Pat was quite famous for her astronomicals before taking up the challenge of people. Considering that my bedroom is almost floor to ceiling with space art, I'm rather partial to vast reaches of stars, too. Hmm... I should update my textures for Anton's Magik to account for the P6 abilities and effects. The image I wanted to post here, won't... some sort of server error. sigh. Carolly