I've tried 3 versions of the texture. One was a res of 2048x2048, the other was a res of 600x600, and the third was a res of 800x800. No go. On an interesting note - when I do pull the boots into UVMapper and remap them, then save the OBJ. If I import THAT obj of the boots into poser, it textures and renders w/the texture intact perfectly. However, if I try to plug the 'new' obj file into the Ccr2 at all, then it either loads the figure up with me back at square one (non-rendering texture), or else it 'loads' a figure, but the figure is not actualy in the scene visually. It is only listed below the window as being there. This particular set does not have any Geometry files - the obj's are all in the character folder ... I've tried plugging the 'new' obj into the current cr2 both by putting it in the Geometries folder and pointing it there, AND by overwriting the 'old' obj and by adding the 'new' obj to the character folder and pointing it there. No luck yet. But they DO texture as an obj file... not too sure what is going on with it - I don't know enough about cr2 files to be able to dig through all that code and find the spot that's gone awry... ~Seliah

Ron- Yep, I tried that too. I loaded up the rest of the entire set, and discovered identical problems with part of the chest armour. *points to the pic up above* I've been experimenting with the set now... I think it's just a matter of not being UVMapped? It's a v.07beta ... I'm going to pull the boots into UVmapper I think. And see what I come up with. ~Seliah

Ajax - I rebooted the machine, absolutely nothing else but Poser running. Started a clean (new) scene. Loaded ONLY those boots in. Applied one texture - no reflection or trans or bump maps. Just the base texture. Same thing. :( sigh Alright. Guess I'll have to find a different set of boots... because these are just NOT going to take a texture. It applies, it shows the texture pre-render, and then as soon as I render it, it renders white... I don't know what else I can do with it. I can't force the blessed things to render. :( ~Seliah

Ajax - thanks, I'll double check the pz3, but I think the only texture files in use is the leather texture on the clothing, the eyelash trans, the figure's body/head texture and the hair... And Ron - sorry, but what on earth do you mean by shadernodes? If it's a Poser 5 thing it doesn't apply to me.. I'm still running on Poser 4. ^.^ ~Seliah

Attached Link: http://www.digitalbabes2.com/

There's the link for Digital Babes. Kozaburo does absolutely wonderful work with hair objects. I think that's pretty much the only hair objects I use in my stuff are Kozaburo's. LOL

I like it! Way ahead of anything I can do with the programme yet... ^.^ ~Seliah

Sure; I appreciate the answer, Clint. That's all I was asking. I was not trying to start a huge disagreement, and I apologize if that happens. ~seliah

Ok - simple task. Upload an image to the gallery, right? Not that simple. 1st try: Page Not Found 2nd Try: too many connections (some SSQLerror; didn't catch the wording except for the connections part) 3rd Try: Page not found 4th try: SQL5: MySQL server has gone away 5th Try: Time out. Page Not Found. 6th Try: Timed out AGAIN (page Not found) 7th Try: Timed out YET again (page not found) 8th Try: Page not found ... AGAIN 9th Try: Page Not found, one MORE time ... 10th try: It is STILL trying to load the page. (Incidentally, I timed it, and it took me FIFTEEN MINUTES to even get this thread to load again, another FIVE minutes to get the reply to post without hitting a PNF.) The gallery upload that I am trying to do, STILL has not gone through, and for what it's worth, I've been at it for fourty five minutes now, trying to get it to go up. I don't know if ya'll are having connection issues or database issues or what, but it's realy wonky, and needs help. I didn ot have any of these issues until the changes were made to R'osity. system specs, in case it will help... cable modem, Road Runner ISP IE 6.0 1.47Ghz processor 384MBs of RAM 20GB HD Win XP Pro Firewall (Norton) Anti Virus (Norton) No adblockers or popup killers ... ~seliah

There IS a filter on the Galleries page. It's called the "Gallery" and "Category" - nifty little dropdown boxes and all, right above where the thumbnails load.

Select Poser, or Photography, or whatever gallery you want to view, and click apply, or even select the category within that gallery you want to view, and voila! Nice filtering!

My reason for pointing this out? For those of you mentioning about how we need a gallery filter, we already HAVE one - and it works well, too.

~seli

lmckenzie: Limiting the numbers should, at least theoretically increase those desired results.

Just one hitch in that. What happens the NEXT time? And the time after that? Will we be reduced to one image per WEEK? How about one image per MONTH? Or better yet, one per quarter?

No matter HOW we fry this fish, there are ALWAYS going to be a LOT more images being uploaded to this site than any one person will be able to see. That comes with the territory.

So the staff here decides to limit artists to one image per day. Well, then all of a sudden we have another upsurge in membership, and folks start screaming AGAIN about how HARD it is to keep up with the artwork.

What happens then? We revisit this entire debate? Reduce the limit AGAIN to one for every three days, or on per week, or three per month, or whatever?

It's not going to solve the problem. It's not going to do anything but throw a sprinkle of water on a three alarm fire. It's going to frustrate the artists (yes, myself included) some of whom will likely speak by walking away.

I'd rather not have to leave. I like Renderosity, I like the forums, I like the people, I like the potential that is currently here to LEARN. But frankly, if my hands are tied in that process, then what point is there of staying?

The 3 a day limit I think is fine, the 3 a day limit is already far more strict than MANY, in fact, MOST of the sites out there, and the 3 a day limit is downright extreme to a lot of sites.

I think 3 a day is fine. I think 3 a day is reasonable. I think even if we limit it to one per day there is STILL going to be NO way for anyone here to 'keep up' with every single image that is posted. It just cannot happen in a community the size of Renderosity.

I can't even figure out why this is an issue to begin with, but there's my piece, I'll take my backside out of the thread now.

If the staff wants to lose artists, lose viewers, lose possible revenue - that's their choice. If it's a bandwidth issue, I'll more than happily swallow the stricter limits.

But if this issue is just being brought up because some folks are complaining about the sheer amount of work being posted, well ... it goes with the territory, I'm sorry. Newbies, intermediate artists, experts, all of it. It comes with the territory.

I think I'm done now.

drops her ten bucks, and steps down

~seli

While I really don't think limiting folks to one upload per day is going to help all that much with the problem of the sheer number of images going up ... I did vote on the poll.

Personally, I think what's in effect now is fine just as it is, those who are uploading images that are not all that well done are going to continue to do so I feel, until either A) They start improving, or B) they just stop bothering.

I don't think changing the upload limit is going to really do anything but frustrate the artists.

My ten bucks worth.

~seli

System date and time are set properly - perhaps something to do with the IE, then? Cookies are not kept - I flush caches and cookies and other temp files on a nightly basis. Oh well. Thanks! ~seli