Requesting Refund, Please.
Software is unusable to me and didn't properly list the requirements.

HELLO? hello.....hello.....hello...

I've contacted the vendor, too. So far, no response.

Thank you for weighing in. It sounds like there will be little support for the Poser version, which is what I am looking at.

Appreciate the link. I may buy it on sale just to try it, but as I said, I don't like programs leaving orphaned files all over the place.

Thanks to both of you. Very much.

Really the only thing that bothers me is the incomplete files removal. I don't like bloat in my system with orphaned files.

I really enjoyed Jen's review. In addition to being informative it made me smile!

Baginski89543, might you possibly have a link to the Reality forum? I'm going to try and look for it after leaving here.

I filled out the buyer's survey and I'd like to add one thing that can use improvement that I hit again today:

Whenever you have a sale on vendor items you don't allow their clearance items to be marked down. And I'm not even talking about being marked down from their clearance price; they are not even marked down from their full price. There are items I would have bought today, but they were way out of line with everything else that was on sale from the vendor. It seems like it should be a very easy oversight to correct. I can see no marketing reason why you would not want to give a fair chance to clearance items when everything else is on sale. It costs renderosity to remove them. It deprives a vendor of recurring revenue, and it is annoying to me, the customer.

And, if I ask for a refund, I want to make it clear that I will need a refund, please, to Paypal and my credit card. No Store credit on this. I'm on a budget and really need those funds back if it's not going to be for the expected investment in new software.

It is possible I could arrange a one-shot of internet access as long as it went directly to the proper server. But to have it automatically die after that is a deal breaker.

I'm frankly surprised that Blacksmith hadn't considered the people who are increasingly firewalling their important machines so as not to have to deal with viruses and malware. There is too much invested in these machines to put them at risk.

Most software I know of these days has a means of allowing users to work offline, even if they expect most to use the same machines for internet access and say their software needs internet access. This is the first time I've encountered software that absolutely won't work in any fashion without a connection.

I do not buy software that has a kill switch.

I have Blacksmith 5 operational, and I had Blacksmith 6 waiting for a recent computer upgrade but since 7 came out just as I did that I thought that would be better.

If there is no way in the forseeable future of running offline I will probably need a refund. That machine is simply not allowed to connect to the internet. Too bad because I really liked version 5 except I thought the interface was a bit rough.

Thank you, Jenn. Everything worked just fine!

oh, the new process is potentially painful. I can't just apply them. It looks like I have more than $15.00 worth or reward points, but less than $20.00.
Since renderosity only has $10.00 and $5.00 conversion certificates and only allows one certificate code per purchase, that means I can only use $10.00 of my reward points even though I have more that I could use right now.

I think I'm going to convert to one $10. and one $5. and ask the staff to combine them to a $15 I can use today and see what happens.
I was ready to checkout on a purchase this morning and have been counting on redeeming some of the reward points. Either that or some items have to go back into the wishlist.

Thank you. Here goes...

I remember when the rule went into effect, and it hit me too in the last couple of purchase attempts. In this case I wound up simply not buying the item or getting the discount.
It was annoying because I didn't feel like being held hostage to get an item on sale. Before Rendo staff jumps on me, I can uderstand it from a company perspective. But as a consumer it is my option not to buy.
If I really wanted it I would have purchased it.

3-d-c posted at 2:16PM Sun, 06 August 2017 - #4307691

I still do poser exclusive. .. so check out my store too ;) https://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/?uid=502620

I look for your stuff all the time. Not to short Kalea or renapd, or Karanta or any of the others. From each of you I have some of your work. Quality art, thank you.

Super!

Thank you so much, Jenn. Have a great.... whatever is left on your weekend!

whbos posted at 12:22PM Sun, 06 August 2017 - #4308301

I have the Hivewire figures and I'm not too impressed with either Dawn or Dusk. The clothing line is limited and if I can't use M4/V4 clothing on them then there's no point in investing more into another soon-to-be obsolete figure. Besides, just like V4, most of the content is made for the Dawn.

I don't find either Dawn or Dusk attractive or authentic-looking figures. Especially Dusk who has a weird face. He looks like a Ken doll that's been run over a few times. And they wonder why things don't sell. Most male items are made to not sell.

I have very recently come to like the DAWN character.

The main thing that I like is an extra Abdomen bone that was designed into the character (there is also an extra neck bone, but I'm not sure what this does for me). The extra abdomen bone allows me to extend or shorten the character in a more realistic manner. With the Victoria (4) products you can scale them but the torso has limited "y" (height) manipulation properties whereas in real people torso dimension and leg dimension carry a lot of weight in how two people look side by side.

The thing I don't like about the DAWN base character is that the face is relatively harsh. We need one or two vendors to give the character some better control of facial features. Also I would like a morph that make both eyes move together, as was done in V4++. In 99% of the time eyes point together, yet in 99% of the characters the only conntrol we have of eyes is one at a time and it is, well, time consuming.

While there is limited support for DAWN, there is even less for her male counterpart.

Also I was just looking for a character put out for "Pauline" by tempesta 3d Called "Posy." It was a fairly recent creation yet I cannot find it anywhere. I'm guessing because it was RDNA Daz my have just quietly dropped it.

Smith Micro was spitting out characters but never really putting support behind them. Pauline is an exapmle of a good character thrown to the wolves. I am convinced Smith Micro doesn't understand this space or the people in it. They treat POSER like boxed software. They even have what I call a download tax so rather than keep your purchases on file they expire, unless you pay extra for them t o keep you on file for two years. Most venomous of all, however is the 'kill' switch that says if you have a stand alone computer your Poser 2011 will die if you don't make a special effort to contact Smith Micro and get a code that helps keep it alive.

Eventually I expect there will be a universal mesh standard because not only will we use it here, but I can see it being used to design, fit and sell real clothing for real people who are body scanned, as well as in the medical profession. I don't know, maybe that will take a real group or committee that we don't have yet, something like what exists for other software, transmission, and electronic (Ieee) and mechanical (asme) standards.

I signed up for PRIME about the beginning of July (My account says July 9th).
It looks like the first notice I see for the Prime Anniversary items is from Preston W. on July 21st https://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/?thread_id=2915085 I personally became aware of a reference to them on July 31, and when I went to pick up the characters the next day the pointer said it was still the first week but was pointing to the second week of items with the first being de-listed. So, strictly speaking even if I had checked in at the middle of the month I would have missed them anyway because they weren't announced until a week later.

I know it seems I'm being petty, but _**** I'm trying to get through to management that I'm really annoyed. It was cumulative petty things like this that caused me to drop PRIME in the first place, after I had been a happy charter member from the time it started. **** _

I'm told how great something is that I can't get at it, and there is NO.. GOOD.. MARKETING OR SALES REASON behind the rationale that I can see. I could understand if it was costing Rendo sales or if it was costing a tremendous amount of space on the servers.

At a minimum I would suggest a well-publicized 'Catch-Up' like Daz does which would not only make me happy but would also publicize PRIME ANNIVERSARY. I feel that an even 'More Better' approach would be to have the Freebies available to PRIME members for the duration of their membership under the PRIME forums section, accessible only to PRIME members.

It's one thing to do limited time promotions to whet customers' appetites. But I don't see that this falls into that category. It's not like people are going to hurry and sign up for PRIME for PRIME ANNIVERSARY items they can't see before they're a member, right? So why make a deal about Anniversary items that can be missed by a couple of hours? For me that week is wasted effort by the artists who created whatever was up there.

Ok. That's all. If management is interested they might act on it or not. The got my $30 for the year.