Skimming the forum noticed this thread... Having been named specifically three times, all of which attribute "facts" to someone other than the responsible party, I thought I could/should clear up some apparent misconceptions.

"Crosstalk - This has been mentioned several times in this thread. I'd like to point out that crosstalk is nothing to do with either Metacreations or CL. It's an unfortunate by-product of advances made by the users themselves (specifically Charles 'Nerd' Taylor and Robert Whisenet), when they invented ERC. Crosstalk may be a pain, but don't blame CL for it."

"You mention Crosstalk, that was caused by us not by CL or poser, if Charles Taylor, Robert Whisenant & others hadn't found out how to use it there'd be no problem with it at all."

Both of the above statements are incorrect. Contrary to whats been said, MetaCreations introduced Full Body Morphs and Conforming Clothing [Figures] in Poser4, and while doing so created a problem we've all come to know and love as crosstalk. This problem existed long before I did anything with ERC (or EMC for that matter). When MetaCreations divested themselves of Poser, Curious Labs was formed (from the team responsible for Poser at MetaCreations) and took the helm... supposedly out from under the corporate thumb of MC (the MC PTB were claimed to have been the cause of friction slowing their development). After a couple patches and new software(s) over a 2 year 4 month (and counting) ownership by Curious Labs, crosstalk remains to be a problem... They [CL] inherited the problem from their previous selves [MC]. That said, I do know [via email and phone conversations with the PTB] there has been interest recently in addressing the issue. Fixed in five? Don't know, maybe...

"If I remeber right, CL only added a Phone-Home-Function to the Patch which were out on Robert Whisenant's Site for quite a time earlier."

There were a couple things addressed in the patches, some of which fixed problems created by previous patches... However, there were never any patches available on my personal website (links to the page at ghost effects website, yes, but no actual download link). My guess is that I'm being confused with Larry Weinberg and the patches he posted once on his website [ghosteffects.com].

I understand that the above comments are more than likely honest mistakes... I just wanted to help clarify the facts as I know them. Thanks for your time.

-Rob

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Robert Whisenant
Content Production Coordinator
DAZ Productions, Inc.