Very, very cool. I wonder what the Department of Homeland Security will do when they find out you can get Stinger missiles right here on-line? hehe. Any plans for a flame coming out the back or smoke?

Question for the court here... Are the promos in the Product Showcase already copyrighted? Since you are showing items in a reproducable form does that constitute copyright? It seems like the item is not yet finished. What if someone has an earth-shattering idea that will be sort of out of the bag, so to speak, if they promo (not saying I do have such an idea). I always wonder about someone elso doing a "rip off" of something they see in the PC. I have heard that it is difficult to protect form. And from what I have seen it would be possible for someone to go hey that's a great idea and make their own pack or product. I know this happens in brick and mortar business all the time, so I suppose that is just healthy capitalist funtion.

I know of course that promos are good things and that the general spirit here is one of great generosity.

About lower quality items. We have to be very careful here. I imagine that modelers and texture makers that make our great film animation works these days would look at EVERY item sold here and at DAZ as>.... well you know where I'm going. We have to face the facts, Poser is a low end program we can all afford and it cannot model. Anything outside the scope of the primitives has to be modeled by someone. We can't make motion picture level stuff at all.
There is fantastic stuff out there though, and the people that need it are going to have to buy it if they can't make it. So we should allow anyone to sell their stuff as always. If renderosity can host it all, then it should be there.

I don't know for sure why my time looking at peoples stuff I don't want to buy should be enough reason to say they can't give it a try. Usually I can see from the product images what the deal is with the item.

Renderosity recommends all of the good suggestions of previous posters as far as looking at other products and free stuff and charge correct prices, and so forth.

Now as far as someone advertising a product that does not live up to their claims, that is a different story. However we all know of a certain product that did not live up to claims when it first came out. Now it works very well. How do we as customers get refunds from merchants when this happens? From what I can see we may not be able to. I may be wrong on that though. Doea Rosity have a return policy?

Try SAMS3D home page, they have a tutorial for making a pirate type chest, that should get you started with the process. If you have propack or poser5 these two have special set up rooms for rigging. You can rig it as a prop or a figure. There are probably other tuts around also, but SAMS3D is the one I know.

If you can add memory, go ahead and do that and keep Poser 5. I have 512 megs and I can do anything I can bear to wait on. I will say that the learning curve for first buyers (a year ago) was steep. I am only now actually able to use all of the features that come with Poser 5. Now, however, there are great tutorials around here for Poser 5. I'd say that not everything has been spelled out by friendly Rosity people quite yet, but all the main stuff has been figured out. I would say to expect a certain level of frustration with Poser 5, but I am very happy with the "printed on the box" improvements.

Oh, Poser also does this when you try to just close a render you don't want to save. It will hide the "do you want to save" box behind the external window and wait for you to click on the program box on the windows taskbar.

Sorry mac, I indeed know you are right. That same idea was forming in my head right after my post. Thanks, caravaggio

If rendering to the internal window, I think you have to use export image instead, this will not save it as a pz3 I think. Somtimes, when saving an image from an external window sometimes poser 5 hides the save window behind the image and I have to click on the program in the windows open applications bar and this brings it around and I can save the image and continue working. This also works for me when poser hangs sometimes. Just something I noticed.

I like the cr2 method also. No big reason, but it was the first way that some of the old hands around here taught me how to do. I did not even know this alternative method existed! What happens when you want to replace an opening door that suddenly needs remapped or altered? I think this will be hard to do the cr2 way. Would the pp2 route be easier? It sounds like if it were a pp2 then one could delete a door and reposition a new one and use the same procedure to remake the new prop. With cr2 wouldn't we have to totally reset up the figure? Am I missing something here? I hope so cuz I have some things I need to replace in a cr2, and I don't want to just make the part invisible and have to shlep on the new one... sigh. Thanks everyone!

I am needing help with stonemason's leg bindings. I am trying to get them to work on V3 barbarian morph 2 (1.000). Of course I already know that conforming clothing doesn't do that unless all of the same morphs are applied to the clothing. Will this character Spriteling and smart scaling help with this? It sounds like only the Spriteling morphs made with poser magnets will do this, not V3 stock dial morphs. Does Spriteling have a range of morphs for muscle/fitness types?

Hello Sharen! I will love to learn your technique for Autocad models, but since I use it at work and am having AutoCad nightmares at night, I will cheerfully wait for the tut you are writing! P.S. I have 2000 and not any mechanical/architectural desktop add-ons. Thank you in advance, caravaggio

Uh... we back up on CD's at work! Holy Possible Lost Data Batman! I know we Poser folks might be able to sneer at some old V3 model someday, but I was regarding the verified, well-stored CD "with years of production files on it" as permanent. We actually need three backup CD's in different locations for security? I'm revamping the company backup policies tommorrow. Thanks for the heads-up!

Oh about the drawers and moving doors and stuff, each "part" must be material zoned and made into a poseable "limb". Then boned and have translation dials created for them that have limits and specific axes of rotation, whether "opening", or "sliding". We can do this in Pro-Pack or Poser 5 set-up rooms, but Poser 4 alone is a cr2 editing thing. I am sure if we can come up with a way to get autocad models set up with material zones, the rest is not at all quick and painless, but doable.

Hey! Good question! Unfortunately I don't know how to get the dxf from autocad to work either. "I get Object has no surface information" or some such... I remember about a year+ or so I was having a similar issue, and some kind soul posted that an autocad solid could be exploded and somehow told to have vertexes. If indeed PhilC is right (by the way PhilC I owe you a bow for your efforts with Poser 5 dyna clothes and your unbelievable generosity in the way of free stuff, tutorials, and advice) that there is no way to get the autocad dxf into Poser in a useable format then we go to 3ds which in general I havent had luck with either. Sirkrit? could you please, if you would be so kind, maybe do noobie step by step for autocad to poser through 3ds? (Lousy just took autocad off system two days ago...) I also use autocad 2000 at work, designing signage, and I am so fast with it that any other modeler seems like starting all over. Plus, raydream doesn't boolean for a crap, and I was hoping that autocad might do a much better job at just about everything when it comes to machine/archetectural models. Also, I can design neon signs, channel letters, logos, etc. for use in poser scenes. Ryamka, I also have a bunch of files to convert, but sadly the intellectual property of the clients. I don't know if this would apply to you, per se, but I'm sure I'll be having to design all new stuff if I want to sell it. Anyway, here's to hopes we can find a way to convert autocad models!

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I had the same problem, but was able to fix it by loading the exact .cr2 of the figure I was creating a walk for. As soon as I did that, the walk designer started working again, except for when I change the path, and reapply, the figure still follows the same path as the first one I assigned. It will change the style of the walk and reapply, provided it has at least as many frames as the first one. Do you have this other issue as well, or does the fix CL reported work on this also?