Either that or I got banned...    I can't log in.  It wasn't supposed to go off until tonite...

The last post was by 3DProclivity about 40 minutes ago...

EDIT I should add that the Store seems to be up, although I didn't try to buy anything...

It was supposed to be noonish DAZ time, so no your not banned at the moment.

All the best.

LROG

It's up and down for me. Mostly down now. 

Same here, I received a forum notification, I can browse forums but not login...

Quote - It was supposed to be noonish DAZ time, so no your not banned at the moment.

The operative phrase of course being "at the moment"  :lol:

For those who may not have read, the new website is being put up;relevant info here.

http://forum.daz3d.com/viewtopic.php?t=190542

You can't log in, but should be able to read.

From Cris' link, 2100 MST makes it 9pm MST.

Yes I had the banned thought too because I was just debating why DAZ made the EULA so restrictive by not allowing copying rigging for an injection pose into DAZ figures (which would make it easier to weight map them in poser and then sell injections to people.  It makes a good starting point for tweaking Im told) to me that doesn't seem any different from selling a character package that uses morphs ++ etc.  You still need to own V4.

Anyway i'm stopped in my tracks for the moment.

Love esther

anyway that's good that i"m not bannedhehe. I hope.

Quote - From Cris' link, 2100 MST makes it 9pm MST.

Which would make it Midnite EDT, if I sprung forward properly...

I was trying to post a link to some morphs a fellow was looking for, and my computer crashed hard and repeatedly.  I think the motherboard chipset was overheating as the heatsink was too hot to touch and was wiggly.  I took it off, cleaned the chalky stuff that used to be silicone grease off the sink and the chip (Carberator cleaner still has its uses in this digital age!), put on some Artctic Silver and we'll see how it goes.  Anyway, by the time I got back online at about 2:55, the Forum was closed.. 

Oops, my editing time expired...

PS, I agree with you Esther about the rigging; every peice of conforming clothing contains the rig.  However, they said that sharign the WM conversion isn't allowed, and  I don't have the legal firepower to argue.  W&W just pawn in great game of Life... (with apologies to Mongo.)

Doesn't bother me if the forums are up or not, got perma-banned a few years back so I can't use them :biggrin: :lol:

Thats a b*gger, I'm working on a model with someone over there and it's been going rather nicely. So hope they fix it soon.

Aha, I think I know as I saw a post about a model in another thread, that had a sci fi type of scene with monitors that threw light for poser 9 and 2012.

Love esther

PS

That did look great! 

Quote - Thats a b*gger, I'm working on a model with someone over there and it's been going rather nicely. So hope they fix it soon.

There will be a brand new forum. The old one is read only now, no log in and posting anymore.

Quote - > Quote - It was supposed to be noonish DAZ time, so no your not banned at the moment.

 

The operative phrase of course being "at the moment"  :lol:

I know the feeling...lol.

Seems like something has gone wrong with putting up the new website. They were supposed to go down by noon (yesterday) and be gone for a few hours..... I guess they miscalculated that a little.

Quote - Seems like something has gone wrong with putting up the new website. They were supposed to go down by noon (yesterday) and be gone for a few hours..... I guess they miscalculated that a little.

They were talking about being up again Thursday morning, hopefully.

 24 hours seems to be what most people are looking at, so its a bit early to start saying they miscalculated.

It is up now, but they apparently still have a lot to do - forums still read-only, store filters don't work properly

That did look great! Thanks - though thats a different model. As for daz - can see forums but "Invalid GET Data" is all you get when trying to login. Though I guess it won't be long before they fix it.

Ah, I see... take it the whole site is now migrated to the ExpressionEngine CMS...

...that has presumably been a huge undertaking!?

Well, now I can see the count of items in my wishlist from top nav bar.... not the total value though... which is probably just as well ;-)

My available downloads are still exe and zips with Mac Install builder files...

Quote - My available downloads are still exe and zips with Mac Install builder files...

If they're going to retro-actively change all that, this will surely be a truly massive undertaking for them I would have thought...

...are these installers not all going to be precompiled, for each operating system, OS X and Windows?

I had more interpreted it that they were going to swap to zips for newer items?

But I don't know... I guess if they have all the content source files stored somewhere in a standardised folder structure it just a case of running a script or two to reorganise and zip up each product folder...

...in a DS4 friendly variant and a Poser friendly variant ideally, otherwise there will be cross-pollution of unneeded files I guess...

...pure speculation from me here! It will be interesting to see what happens with the product deliverables ;-)

As an OS X Lion user, when it comes to Poser, the older (PowerPC based) installers can be a real pain to extract stuff from!

Yikes. 

Cannot order itemized order history by date, and there are no links to the product pages.

No links to artist name on product pages.

No dates for end of sale prices on product pages.

There don`t appear to be any PC discounts on Daz Originals, other than $1.99 PC items.

Some items in my wishlist have gone up in price -- still on sale, but at a lower discount.

And judging from the way the category filters are working, it looks like they`ve vaulted half the store.

I think it must still be very much a work in progress.

Quote - Yikes. 

Cannot order itemized order history by date, and there are no links to the product pages.

It is in alphebetical order by product name. :blink: Plus the maximim is 50 per page; I now wish I'd updated my spreadsheet yesterday... :sad:

Hopefully it is indeed a work in progress...

Quote - > Quote - Yikes. 

Cannot order itemized order history by date, and there are no links to the product pages.

It is in alphebetical order by product name. :blink: Plus the maximim is 50 per page; I now wish I'd updated my spreadsheet yesterday... :sad:

 

Hopefully it is indeed a work in progress...

Someone recently mentioned creating a spreadsheet to keep track of orders -- it may have been you -- and I decided to do so myself yesterday.  I'm truly glad I did and thankful for the suggestion.  Sorry to hear that you didn't think to update it yourself. It will be a PITA -- also when resetting downloads.

The spreadsheet is only a week or so out of date, but I bought a bunch of Dream House stuff on sale.  Hopefully they'll at least re-sort it by order number.....

EDIT  On reflection, I realized I had accessed the order history last evening, and I was able to load it via the browser Forward button.  My lucky day. 

And today's hint to website programmers........

LINK TO DAZ

Don't use light grey text on a white menu background!!!!!!!!

All the best.

LROG

They must have fixed that one, Richard, as the only text I see on a white background is... 

"FREE 3D Art Software
for a limited time

Grab the tools while you can, and choose from
over 10,000 different 3D models available."

...unless Noscript is stripping something else out..

Quote - And today's hint to website programmers........

LINK TO DAZ

Don't use light grey text on a white menu background!!!!!!!!

All the best.

LROG

Why do you have to constantly knock Daz the company its Pa's and its customers. It makes me feel very unwelcome here and find this place full of nothing but companybashing it leaves me with very little respect for this site and poser users despite the fact that I know that you are in a minority.

Daz have repeatedly said that his will take some time, and will be constantly improving.

Because sense tells you not to put light grey text on a white background as most people cannot read it.

All the best.

LROG

I wonder if they are testing colours????

Now I have a light grey menu with white text.

All the best.

LROG

Richard was commenting on the website format, as I was. 

According to the FAQ, the Forum logs you out after 20 minutes. Firefox is storing and autofilling the password for the Store, so hopefully it will for the Forum as well...

Quote - > Quote - And today's hint to website programmers........

LINK TO DAZ

Don't use light grey text on a white menu background!!!!!!!!

All the best.

LROG

Why do you have to constantly knock Daz the company its Pa's and its customers. It makes me feel very unwelcome here and find this place full of nothing but companybashing it leaves me with very little respect for this site and poser users despite the fact that I know that you are in a minority.

 

Daz have repeatedly said that his will take some time, and will be constantly improving.

 

 

Why do you want to start a fight? The DAZ forums are at least as unfriendly as this site towards users of the "other" side. So far nothing extraordinary has been said in this thread

Commenting on the web site is one thing being bitchy about it is another, unfortunately its what I have come to expect from these forums.

Quote - I wonder if they are testing colours????

Now I have a light grey menu with white text.

I've been getting pale grey dropdowns with dark grey text.  Is there a colour scheme option somewhere?  I think I had mine at the default for the old site...

I can't check the PC as I have now lapsed out of it, but there is an option I think for it.

From the front:-

CommunityForumsMembers Only

I know people won't like haveing a eye burner site as it was mentioned before about it.

Hopefully they will put up a set of themes that will help everyone, otherwise:-

For FireFox:-

Link

IE:-

Link

All the best.

LROG

The PC Forum still is not accessable, Richard...

EDIT they still must be working on the Platinum Club, as the PC prices aren't showing up in the store either...

Quote - Commenting on the web site is one thing being bitchy about it is another, unfortunately its what I have come to expect from these forums.

The bashing of the other side happens both here and at the DAZ forums. I don't know why you single out Renderosity

I can't find any colour theme option at the moment, so hard to see whats on the menus.

I don't want to start playing with changing colours yet in case they change later.

There is also a new product in the store that has a faded out pic, so hopefully they will solve that.

At the moment I wouldn't advise anyone to to use the store. Wait until the system goes live instead of beta.

If I was testing and had to look at the screen for hours, I would have had a darker background and a light text. Less eye strain.

All the best.

LROG

Actually bashing of others sites is not something I see at Daz.

I came here for information, I apologise for my mistake.

Have they changed the address completely? Or have I just been unlucky and tried to access the site on the times when it has been down again?

If you think I'm bad, wait while the DAZ site goes live and people can start posting.

Then you will see the comments about colour schemes etc.

It happened the last time they did it and it will happen again.

All the best.

LROG

What are you talking about, tparo?  Most of those posting on this thread are Platinum Club members at DAZ, including Richard just until the other day... :rolleyes:

 They still must be working on the Platinum Club, as the PC prices aren't showing up in the store either.  I should go do some work-I have some OSs to reinstall...

Edit Since were noting website issues. the Notify box has suddenly started being checked by default here... 

Quote - Actually bashing of others sites is not something I see at Daz.

I came here for information, I apologise for my mistake.

 

It happens continuously. Difference is that DAZ moderator remove these posts very quickly - but usually after the reply has been read by the original poster and feels bashed by it.

But why did you bring this up when you seek information?

Link to site

All the best.

LROG

Quote - Commenting on the web site is one thing being bitchy about it is another, unfortunately its what I have come to expect from these forums.

Hi Tparo

As far as I can see, most folk in this thread are all, at least, themselves Daz customers... sufficiently enough to need to use spreadsheets to keep track of their ordering in some cases...and therefore have a valid interest / concern regarding the implications the current overhaul will have on their customer experience?

I would guess also that to some extent folk are commenting on all this here because they don't currently have the option to do that in Daz's forum? Just my observation...

Daz's web dev team have my every sympathy and I look forward to seeing the end result!

Cheers ;-)

Yep, no info can be posted at their site, so people are passing time for when it goes live.

Now, if I see any website that has text that can hardly be read then I let people know.

The person at the other end may not know as their cache could be showing something else.

That is passing info on, you do realise that teh DAZ team watches here and will be picking up things that are said here and passing it on to their tech team.

Beta testing takes a while to do for content, so imagine doing it for a whole site.

There will be problems, people will find those problems and report them.

Again, that is passing on information to make something better.

I had a problem with the new SR 2.1 for PP2012, so I passed on this information and due to this a new updater will be coming out to solve that problem. If I wanted I could have waited until someone else reported the error and wait for a solution, but I did my bit.

All the best.

LROG

Quote - Have they changed the address completely? Or have I just been unlucky and tried to access the site on the times when it has been down again?

I'm having the same problem using the link I have in my favorites.. I just can't get there from here,lol.

Also, I apparently "I am not authorized" to view the Members Only forum, even though my membership doesn't expire until April of 2013.  hmmmm... I'll wait a few days for all the wrinkles to fall out and see if they fix that.

As far as the color scheme, it appears to be exactly the same as the old front page to me, unfortunatly I use Chrome, so I don't have that cool change color thing, lol

Quote - As far as I can see, most folk in this thread are all, at least, themselves Daz customers... sufficiently enough to need to use spreadsheets to keep track of their ordering in some cases...

Now that it's updated, counting some Studio and Bryce registrations and PC renewals, 1242 items...  :ohmy:

Quote - Also, I apparently "I am not authorized" to view the Members Only forum, even though my membership doesn't expire until April of 2013.  hmmmm... I'll wait a few days for all the wrinkles to fall out and see if they fix that.

As I noted above, I don't think they are finished with the PC status.  They'll work it out... SOON!!!!!  :tt2: