Quote - [Ok, well while Some people's negativity is really and truely annoying. There is some historical reasoning behind it I must say. It was a few years back when we had some schmoe full of big talk about some 3D rendering package he was making for either Bryce or Poser, I think it was Bryce, who was completely full of it as well as himself. His big build up resulted in a lot of hard feelings when folks discovered it was just a big load of hooey and vaperware.

As much as the negativity annoys me, I know where it comes from so I've learned to just gloss over it and not reply.

Well, I don't start projects I don't finish, and while I can understand maybe people had some hard feelings about this other guy talking about a 3d rendering package that he was "developing" and then never released, I'm not this other guy.  Also I would wonder just how sad it would be that my life was so void of other things that the non-release of a non-program could upset me that much, that for years afterward whenever anyone started discussing software development I would instantly attack out of fear that my little feelings might get hurt again...

That scares me a bit actually.  Thats the sort of thing people really should get professional therapy for - lol - but your right, I probably should just ignore the naysayers from here on in, I've wasted more than enough bandwidth on them already.

Now if people really think that this project won't get off they ground, hey, everybody's entitled to there opinion.  But at the moment I've gotten a lot of really great suggestions from a lot of really helpful people and these are going to greatly shape the outcome of the final project, so this particular discussion is of great value in that regard.

If that upsets anyone else I guess I'm still not getting it, can't imagine why they would find the discussion of a possible Poser replacement or I'm sure what many people will use as a "companiion program" so threatening unless they worked for Smith Micro. 

As a programmer I never really have developed an emotional attachement of that nature for any software I've ever used or written, and I guess I just find it very baffling to see some of the very bizarre reactions, or in most cases over reactions, that this discussion has caused. 

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...