Thanks for the support, people, but this is devolving into precisely the kind of stupid discussion that makes me snarky.

Yes I have an ego, but it doesn't get in the way of me helping people. What gets in the way of me helping is when somebody interferes with the free flow of accurate information, backed by facts, experiments, and evidence. Then, I pounce. Don't make stupid speculations, or I'll call you a dumbass, like when I beat the snot out of aeilkema a couple weeks ago, who is now my friend after all, because lately he's simply been stating his problems, instead of snarking about how I and SM caused them because we made stupid choices.

Don't say that Poser sux after you show me you don't know how to use it, or I'll beat you over the head. Just say you don't know how to get something done and I'll help.

Don't tell people to do things with Poser that are directly in contradiction to a point I'm making of which I'm absolutely certain, or I'll pound the snot out of you. Like all the times I explain that Poser's neutral displacement value is 0, i.e. black, and then somebody else opines that the neutral displacement value is 50% gray. I will eat your liver.

Here's a thread where everything is going fine, the way it's supposed to:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2781580

Sure, I make a couple of abrupt pronouncements. "No AO with pointlights". You wanna argue with me, you'll have to back your position up with evidence about why you're right, or discuss the situation that maybe I had not thought of or encountered before. But be prepared to be wrong, because there aren't many Poser situations I haven't already seen a hundred times.

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Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)