Quote - > Quote - I went to the recommended site for the Apollo Maximus free downloads, but was unable to find a download button for the figure itself. There are required three read-me downloads and three clothing and accessories downloads. Maybe one of those 6 files has the actual figure included, but I cannot be sure of this. Why download all the supporting files without the actual file they support? Something else I noticed was that the site seems to jump me back and forth between pages when I click on what I think will lead me to the actual download. It's frustrating to be sent back to the same page over and over again. It reminds me of those notorious automated phone services. 

Perhaps one of you or more knows what I need to do? Please let me know. I'm confused about this.

Hmm, let's see...  Well, there are some kind of webring-related text links near the top of that page that look like they ought to be download links, but they're not.  Those do some annoying page-bouncing.  The good stuff is about two-thirds of the way down the page-- big yellow bars, just before the thumbnailed links. Sounds like you found those. Also, just above them, in maroon text, is the password for the encrypted zip files.

Aha!  The little underlined read me links just get you previews of the readme docs included in each zip.  You want the big bold-face links to the zips.  The first three "Part 1" through "Part 3" ones are indeed links to the base figure. The remaining four zips are for clothing and Anton's clever "movie makeup appliances," as the labels suggest. Also, save a copy of the fourth line's ReadMe html page, which never made it into zipped-up documentation. You'll need to refer to that occasionally.

Just tried a test of one of the links. It sets a bunch of cookies (one hopes, DivShare related), then stops at a page with a big green Download button. Click that, get a 15-second countdown. Then, finally, the download starts. Not hyper-fast this morning, but sufficient. Looks like it's the same size zip file as the one I downloaded last year, and it seems to unpack okay.

One side note on dealing with a conforming clothing glitch in Apollo's genital area... Anton gives a gudeline for this in the (fourth) Readme page: rotating that group in the pants figure outward by 15 to 20 degrees.  However, when using DAZ Studio, I found that sometimes a larger rotation was required to smooth out the glitch, depending on the pose.  So be prepared to turn rotation limits off and experiment.

 

hope this helps

Alan

 

Seems a bit involved, but I think I can do it; if my internet connection will stop pooping off on me. I'm using free WiFi and it sometimes stops working right in the middle of downloading.

Anyways, Thanks for all your help. I'm pretty sure it will help.