Along the same lines of huge out-of-size images, when I go to the marketplace to look at a vendor's item, I only see a portion of it. I'm getting the theatre nose-bleed sensation of being too close.

Flinks Instant Meadow2, Flowers 6, one of the Prime Classics Items I'm looking at, and expiring today 6/24 takes three screens paging down just to see all of the promotional image.

I agree with the filters. And the failure of a search to find something I KNOW is there.

One more filter I'd like to see is for receiving email notifications.

Yes, I would like to know when items in my wishlist are on sale.

But my interest in some items is negligible if it's 10 percent, moderate if it's 30 percent, solid if its 50 percent and high if its 70 percent.

Can you please add a filter for SALES by percentage?

If I can't screen my notifications by percentage, then at least I'd like to see the percentage amount listed in the title notification of a wishlist item on sale.

This won't hurt lower percentage sales, but will help high percentage sales. Here's why:

As a practical matter the way email notifications are structured means I almost never click on a  wishlist item on sale beacuse the bulk of the notifications are for 10 percent off.  Ten percent won't cause me to click unless it is in combination with something else I'm doing or if I want a specific item from a vendor pretty badly, and then the messages won't tell me that anyway. The messages are generic telling me that something is on sale somewhere and there are so many of those notifications.

Would you go to MACYs or Home Depot, if they told you they had SOMETHING on sale in one of their departments by one of their vendors and you knew it was likely at most a sale for 10% off?  If you had one message a month, maybe. If you had 47, would you check them all?

So far I have kept the email notifications coming because once in a blue moon I used to be looking for an in-fill product to meet a price quota or something for a discouunt.  Now, though I mostly use a prime $3.50 product  to do that, so the email sale notifications are superfluous and I may just drop them altogether.

I'd also rather see direct text notifications if a vendor is having a BIG 50% off sale rather than having them in an attachment. Maybe a filter so I can have that notification in my Rendo Mailbox.  I don't always go in to look a the pretty Renderosity sale attachements so I have sometimes come in right after a sale has ended.

Filtered notifications such as those would be more useful to me, and possibly more profitable to RENDO.

Thank you.

I have a broad opinion that Renderosity happens to be click happy. They don't care how many clicks it takes to see something and don't realize how much time is wasted.

It's not an angry thing, just a longtime UGH! type of frustration.

I really feel they don't have anybody on staff that says, "HEY wait a minute, do you know how many clicks it takes to do this and how much time it will take if this sequence has to be repeated each time?" The fact that I feel nobody is watching is why I say 'they don't care.'

I agree with anything that makes click through faster. Bigger NExt buttons would be better.

Pointy figners. That's funny. Painful visual. But funny.

Thanks basic Wiz!  Just what I was looking for. Apparently it's one of a set of four in the download and done by Chris Cox.

http://www.sharecg.com/v/39163/browse/11/Poser/Stud-Earrings-for-Poser

Cool Render BBill!

 Hmm Chris Cox.

The name rang a bell and I checked my files. He did a nice gold necklace freebie on Dragonspace if you haven't seen it:

http://dragonspace.com/wordpress/?p=305

And DaremoK3/SpookieLil one made a freebie pendant to go along with it. I can't figure out how to get a picture to load here, but I'll pass along the link:

http://www.sharecg.com/v/39054/View/11/Poser/Faerie-Star-Pendant-For-Victoria-4

By the way. if any rendo moderators are reading, when I go to insert a link to make a line an active link (as above) the pop-up comes up blank and takes what seems ages to fill. It's not just this time.  Using Firefox.

WHAT I WOULD LIKE TO SEE IN POSER 2016:

(1) Some form of instancing would be nice. When making a crowd scene it would be nice to be able to replicate things like seats or signs or tables or trees or bushes or whatever without it hogging memory.

(2) I have already reached the same conclusion you have regarding low poly figures. I have purchased some of predatrons and Greenpots (for his gymnasium) and would like to see some more development along those lines. 

(3) ROPE ROOM I like ships, dinghys, in particular sailing. I would like to see development of something called a "Rope Room" which could set the modeling of ropes and knots. Rope is a unique figure with unique properties.  I don't think this is that difficult; I could almost do it myself, and that's not saying much.

Basically I'd like to be able to pick two -or more- points in 3D space and have it return the distance between any of the two points. For that nominal distance I would have the opportunity of entering a diameter and I would have a dial that would increase the distance. When the dial is spun, the rope length would then droop or sag between the two points as the distance is increased beyond the nominal returned initially. I should be able to rotate the peak/trough of the loop about its axis between the two points.

Somehow I'd like it to be parented at both ends, like a real rope would, but I haven't figured out how to do that.

I'd also like to have a button in this fictional rope room that would ask me how many segments and then automatically convert my rope into an easy pose figure.

For animations the easy pose figure could have a dial that allows elasticity, so that in a bungee cord scenario it could stretch.

My rope should also be able to drape like dynamic cloth does, but still hold its diameter. I suppose the way you could do this is have the path settle and then map the easy pose rope to the path.  Jewelry necklaces should be easier to model and could conform dynamically if a Rope Room existed.

In poser physics I still haven't figured out how to make and animate a tire swing. That is, To have the rope anchored at one end and be able to drop or push a tire at the end of it. It's just not easy to do. I'd like to be able to set this up in my ficitonal rope room.

In my fictional rope room there would also be a knot tying utility that would, as a first pass, enable you to trace a path and then be able to create a knot in obj. As a second pass, I'd like to be able to convert this to an easy pose figure.

The first pass of a knot tying utility has already been done.

There is a UK piece of free software that is called 'KnotTyer3D"  by Steve Abbot of the UK that is pretty awesome, but horribly out of date. I use it on my old XP machine but haven't tried it on newer platforms. It needs to be written in Python (Steve - if you google your name and this comes up are you paying attention?). The windows to do operations in are small and not up to snuff, but the darn things works really well and can export to an obj which can then be scaled and have materials added in Poser:

Link: 

http://www.stevenabbott.co.uk/Knots/knottyer3d.html

(4) I would like to see continued improvements in poser Physics. In particular I'd like to be able to "Pin" a character or part of a character in a scene and then let gravity do the animation.  You can take my tire swing example above, but also the one I am primarily thinking about is having a character hold on to a parapit with one hand while trying to climb up, or hold on to a tiller as a boat rocks. In this example the hand would be 'pinned' to the parapit. We can almost do this now.

(5) I 'd like to see some kind of integration of the face room with a 3D Hand scanning device such as the one put out recently (November 2013) for $399 by 3D Systems.  I saw it in operation at a recent trade show and would love to somehow convert what it scans into a poser character. From what I saw, it does a really good job of scanning heads and boots and things.

Link:

http://www.3dsystems.com/press-releases/3d-systems-delivers-sense-consumer-3d-scanner

I'd include I couple of images, but am not sure how to do it.

(6) This is probably asking more of Poser than it can deliver, but I think I would like to hafve some sort of nurbs capablity. Maybe I should ask this of Mirye shade. I like how Cinema 4D can model an airplane the way balsa wood models are built. You model the bulkheads and then add the stringers along the sides. This converts an exterior to polygons. Having this capability allows you to intuitively model things like airplanes and boats.  Given the choice, though, I'd like to see the ROPE ROOM first because I think it is easier and more in line with what people use poser for.

That's more than a mouthfull, but it is some of what I would want to use in Poser 2016.

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Part of the "creativity", part of the "fun and personal satisfaction", is to build the content yourself.

That's what YOU say!

All teasing aside, Tony, I've spent over $1500 on modeling softwares that ***I can't begin to understand! ***And before everyone starts berating my intelligence, I'm not a dummy. I have degrees in mass communications and film, electrical engineering, and psychology. I've written books. I'm good enough at Poser that people hire me to illustrate for them.

I'm not an idiot, (contrary to popular opinion) but no tutorial I've run across has made Wings understandable to me. Sculptris... Blender... ZBrush... they all make no sense to me! All I wind up with after spending the money and hours and hours of grief is a shapeless nothing!

For my purposes, I can either buy content or go do something other than Poser. 

I doubt I am alone.

 

Nope, you are not alone.  I have tried some of the Digital Tailor tutorials and that has been the best for me, that and Silo.  However the most I have done so far is to modify items purchased for my own use.  On the whole I purchase content and then modify the materials either within Poser or, for figures, I use Paint Shop Pro and layers.  I have added scars, tattoos and freckles that way and I enjoy it, good as Silo is I don't get the same buzz from that.

I just cannot see me spending the time to build something that could take me a week (plus the year gaining the skills) and yet I could buy of $10.

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Wheatpenny -

When Poser 5 came out Creative Labs or Efrontier, or whatever the dominant company name for Poser was had a partnership with a software program called Shade. Shade is kind of like Hexagon, and is oriented for gamers. It also has a poser fusion that allows you to bring Poser Characters into it.

Mirye Shade 7 and Shade 8 had a fantastic set of printed literature and there was a step by step tutorial that got me started. It went through how to make a basic table and vase and then set up a room and stepped you through the cameras to go through it. 

If you can get a copy of this tutorial, it would still be applicable to their current version which is 14.

I like it for creating *.objs and I have learned a lot. I am still not good at editing polygons and manipulating them. In fact I have what I thought was a simple task of creating a chamfer on a cylinder that has me stumped for the moment. But that's probasbly because I haven't had the manual for the latest version (it came out in Feb and I just ordered it today - its free but you have to register for it)  and some of the command buttons have been relocated and changed.

I think that is what some of these software packages are missing: A good basic tutorial that gets you started making the basic stuff. The fun startswhen you begin to spend more time creating than you do looking up commands to se if the software can do what you want it to do.

Going through that Shade7 / Shade8 tutorial is what got me over the hump of just buying stuff and creating scenes. I still buy, but I also add and am beginning to create more of my own. 

I can't help, but I'd like to know the answer, too.

I'm not as harsh.  But I agree and have told Rendo people before that their website does not fit my firefox page.  And any images they use as vendor promos, rather than click to a size that fits the screen, I have to scroll around each one to see the whole thing, or 'save as' and download so I view it with the msft viewers.  I figured it was a bug they'd get around to - too many variations of viewers - but it's beginning to seem like a stylistic choice.

Quote - Those items have been removed from sale due to a special promotion we have coming up at midnight. :) But I have placed the DM's Lost Moments back on sale at 60% off to allow people a chance to get that. It will be on sale for the next couple hours. 

Thank you, but I guess I missed it. 10:30 was late here, after a big family meal, and I hoped that it might be on sale when I checked again in the morning.

Likewise. I was going to purchase some of the gravy bowl items, inluding Danie/Marfono's Lost moments, but they are all showing full price. Similar with the conforming neccklace tutorial by Fugazi 1968.  ???

I agree with Ray, and I'll add one more thing, the possibility of creating more than one wishlist that can be merged. 

In the recent clearance sale I wanted to go through all the clearance items I was interested in and then pare them down.  To do this I had to put them all into my cart, then copy to a spreadsheet, one at a time, and then work in the spreadsheet. It would have been nice to put them into a separate wishlist from my long-term wishlist of clearance items, and regular items and then transfer to and from my shopping cart as I worked on it.

By the way, when I copy to a spreadsheet, the thumbnail image is important to me down the road for archving, so if you do get around to doing the export function that Ray suggests, I'd like to see one line per vendor item with:

PCC expiration date,  Regular Price,  thumbnail image,  Description, Vendor, and Sale price

I'd get rid of one redundancy right away:  Marketplace vs Market search.  I'd say 6-7 times out of 10 I wind up in Market Search first when I want to search for a vendor, then it's, "Oh, yes. That's right. You can't search by vendor in Market Search; you have to go and search 'Marketplace' without the 'search'".

I never understood  why the vendor search option wasn't considered a part of the search function and had to be in an unrelated tab.

Mostly I don't have any trouble with the tabs; I've gotten used to them. But Renderosity definitely seems 'click-happy' as a general characterization, I'd agree. The company seems to have the philosphy, 'why do with one click when you can have two!'

Promo Images on the slideshow, for example, never seem to display satisfactorily whatever computer I'm on. In Firefox they're always slightly too big, and if I want to see a promo I have to use the up arrow or down Arrow keys which is annoying.  Or right click on each image, one at a time to open them from a separate tab, which is what I wind up doing if I'm moderately interested in a product. That's typically 8-9 tabs and clicks that I view individually. Since they went to the active slideshow fomat I always felt it was slick but not all that helpful.

Previously all I had to do was scroll down the page to see all the images, and right click if I wanted to archive the promos to disk to keep with the download of my files purchase. Less slick, but heck of a lot faster.

If they had a slide show that worked 'properly' and where I could right click or save all the promos at once as individual jpegs to my machine, I'd go for that. Slick and useful.

Quote - I think therefore I am.
I'm pink therefore I'm spam.

I agree with you, Phil. The technical forum thread notification just wasted my time with the opening comment. Took a couple of seconds before the opening comment (non-sensical) and your reply set in.

 Hope the admin ditches this thread before it costs anyone else time and notes that the forum was spammed.

Quote - Just to clarify, when we see a blue button, dles it meanthat item is public ?

Thank you. I did notice a change shortly after I posted.

But the button colors still remain somewhat ambiguous. (Reference the quote above, I agree with the writer).

Which is private, which is Public, Please (I think I know, but I'd like  to be sure).  

The button at the top, which says "Make Public" is Blue. I'd feel more comfortable if it was Red or Yellow, the same color of what I think are the 'Public' Icons.

I'd also feel more comfortable if the 'Make Private' Button was Blue, like the color of what I believe are the 'Private' icons.

Quote - copy the folder and back up the registry section with the application info. For Poser up to P7 its only some file associations and the location of the Poser.exe file and folder.

 

on my system thats HKCU/software/efrontier      (HKEY_Current User)

 

Sounds good. The only thing you may have to do if that doesn't work is then go into your new Poser and one by one tell it where the individual runtimes are supposed to be. This is something you did if you originally created separate Runtimes.