As a recent customer, let me point out some things about the products from Vista Internet Products. I don't mean this to "bad-mouth" them, but to present the information about the products I received. Decide for yourself if their products are for you: 1) The folders are HUGE. The "Flamingos" folder is about 22M and the "Ultimate Ducks" folder is over 360M. However... 2) The products are not zipped. You receive the files in separate folders, such as "Lynes Flamingo Poses". The folders aren't even under a "Runtime" folder on the CD. I had to manually move the files from the folders on the CD to the folders under my Poser Runtime folder. I certainly missed the the convenience of clicking a zip file's "Extract" button and watching all the files fall into the proper place. One reason the files are shipped on CD is that they don't want to host huge files on their website. I can understand how a 20M file may be too large for dial-up users, but when I zipped the 20M folder, it compressed to around 9M, which is acceptable as a downloadable product. After I converted the tif files to jpg and the cr2 files to MAT poses, the zip file came down to under 5M. (Personally, even if I was a dial-up user, I would rather wait 2 hours to download a 20M file than wait a few days to receive a CD in the mail.) 3) All of the textures are tif or pict format and most are 2M to 3M in size. By comparison, a "high" quality JPG is less than 90k. Some products (such as the Flamingo) use multiple tif texture maps, with inflates the size of the product. 4) Many of the products are Poser 3 technology: they use pict files as textures, they include differently-colored cr2 files instead of MAT poses, props don't reference external obj files, etc. By comparison, a 5M cr2 file can be stripped down to a 9k MAT pose... again, multiple 5M cr2 files increase the size of the product. 5) The products are shipped on CD. Yes, you get your product on a CD so you have a backup copy, but that doesn't help if you need to finish a client project right now and you can't want 3 or 5 or 7 days for the CD to arrive. --John

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