I have amassed a large collection of freebies over the years, and I do use them quite often. But I haven't posted a render in years.

I have all the same memory issues as everyone else, and I admit to skewing the download stats because I've had to redownload something just because I couldn't remember what the zip was called and can't find it on my harddrive.

Licenses and readme's are crucial to giving credit, but when they're all named generically, license.txt or readme.txt and they're in generic folders they will get overwritten. I see no reason why creators don't give useful and specific names to their files. But ashtray.pp2 with a readme called readme.txt that came in a zip called ce34.zip is asking to be forgotten.

I don't want to sound ungrateful, but there are things even freebie creators could do to make it more likely they'd get credit, if getting credit is important or even just nice to see.

The thumbnail in the zip is a very good idea.

Of course, we see VSS in the poser forums so much that I don't think I'd ever forget what those zips are. I do use it, but it's not a sure bet. About half the time, the shaders look absolutely fantastic on the texture I'm using, and the other half, they are a disaster. With the disasters, I've tried tweaking the shaders, but I have to admit I lack skill in this area. The discussions in these forums have persuaded me quite thoroughly that the complexity is simply way beyond me.

That being said, the 50% of the time it works for me, it really works. And the light meter is a revelation in itself. Brilliant indeed.

The creators in this thread have made some exceptional things. I'm almost inspired to render something and actually post in the gallery here just because of this thread. Though, like others, I kinda worry that my render would suck... and well... in the end that wouldn't be very flattering to the freebie makers. So I'll just say thanks to everyone because the freebies really are what make rendering with poser as a hobby fun. :)

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PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.