I dont even use the content management service but like to download the content and install it myself to various external drives which I can use with various computers. such as my desktop or plug it into my laptop. From what I've read it means you cannot move your content around. If I can no longer do this I will not be buying any new stuff from them.

IJust picked it up earlier today. Only had chance for a bit of a play with it so far but looking good to me!

Cheers :)

Yea noticed that, nice to see him back on the dinos :)

What I  find  hard to comprehend  is why people would do commercial projects with Rauls models and not even bother to credit him. Seems like such a simple and obvious thing to do. Even offering to get  him on board for the projects would be a good idea as far as I can see.

It’s a shame though that its people like us who come here,  who are dino enthusiasts and make images for that reason (I’ve only ever spent money on my dino images and never made a penny from one so far) will be priced out of the market and the very people who are making money from them  and may be able  to afford it will carry on.

Quote - Hi, everyone I was wondering if anyone could help me with something.

Recently I was disappointed when I realized that some of Dinoraul’s models are no longer available for purchasing here at RMP, two dinosaurs: Shunosaurus and Achelousaurus. Various other DR models disappeared from RMP as well. Fortunately, those other models appeared shortly after at CP, just not two dinosaurs I mentioned and it has been a while.

What do you think? Is there any chance or a way for these models to reappear again here or at CP? I really need them! Especially Shunosaurus (sauropods are my favorites).

Anyway, thanks for your help.

Interesting, I hadn't noticed that they had gone as I got them ages ago. I've looked in all the usual places and cannot see them anywhere.

Maybe he's planing updated versions?  

H'mm acording to some people in the daz forum they have it running fine on a single core so I think there must be someting else it dosnt like about my PC.

whoops. I didnt realise it was 64bit. the link I clicked on to download says:

Win32 Download.

I'll try it on the lap top them :)

H'mm just says it as encountered a problem and closes when i try to run it for some reason .

Ho no! it looks like my wallet is heading for life support! 

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - I am always looking for ways to increase the realism of scaling and rough skin textures. Any suggestions?

Welcome to the forum! Are you looking at creating your own textures, or increasing realism through rendering? What softwares are you using?

The short answer to that is... both! I would love to know how to get the most out of existing textures through render settings (I am self-taught and have never used "bump" which I suspect may be important) and I would also love to create my own textures since I always have specific ideas of what I want scales and rough skin to look like (as I'm sure we all do). I am using Poser 9 and Photoshop cs5 extended. Though I did take advantage of the free software downloads offered at Daz3D of Hexagon, Bryce and Daz Studio I haven't delved into them as of yet.

When It comes to texturing bump is really useful.

Even better still is getting to grips with displacement.

Though I started with poser I mainly use  Daz studio now, haven’t used poser for a good while. I really like the way displacement works in Daz Studio now I’ve got to know it. I assume its similar in poser but the settings are probably different to get the same effect.

The main thing is to not have it too high or the mesh explodes all over the place. In daz studio I use between O.20 to 0.60 and -0.20 to -0.60.  The size of the dinosaur/model makes a difference as does  the size of the part. For instance a small part like the claws may need the lower end and the skin the higher end of those settings though as I say this may work differently in poser and you will have to try different settings.

Another thing I find important in bringing out the skin texture is lighting and the balance between light and shade. I tend to go for quite a dramatic look myself :)

So can DS3 and DS4.5 still run happily together?

This is annoying as I like to have a version of DS3 and 4 installed as I still prefere Ds3 for some things as it is faster on my old system.

Seems I'll have to skip the DS4.5 update.

They should make it so you can have more than one version installed if you want to like I have always been able to do in the past. 

I've had Ds3 and Ds4 working happily together for ages why have they changed this? 

Quote - Hope everyone got the notice that Dinoraul is today's Vendor Showcase and his entire store is 35% off!Sale lasts just for today, so hurry!

Yep just been contemplating what to throw in the cart, so many things on the wish list! decisions, decisions!

 A few more trees I think and tempted by the Talarurus as I'm a bit lacking in ankylosaurs in fact I realsie I actually  haven't done an image with one yet.

Yes I've been using quite a few of the sets in Daz studio they seem to work well and look really good.

I've been experimenting  with creating some flat picture Plaines with a mask  for backgrounds and just having a few actual trees in the foreground.   

Now I've got my eye on some of the latest ones that I haven't got yet.