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Are they going to remake the original with Johnny Depp filling Han Solo's role?

For making trees greener:

Load a 1 sided square.  Then you are going to want to use a combonation of an image map, and an HSV node.  If you only want to enhance certain areas, you're going to have to muck around with blender nodes and image map masks.

You can also use a color math bias (or gain, forget which) node with a math add plugged into the bottom part.

Yeah, the sploches are keeping me from using emitters.

No, I'm guessing he's just being lazy.  He should have known that what he suggested wouldn't fix my problem as it was unrelated but stopped short.  This is why people hate dealing with customer service.

Quote - "Apologetics" somewhat different than a straight apology.

Yes, an apologist is someone who defends something or another. 

Quote - IE has nothing to do with the material room. It's the library that uses an IE component. And it doesn't use your whole browser or make you use it for your browser. It is (or was at the time) the only reliable way to use an HTML/HTTP UI to host the library component.

 It's about a library component that should be part of the operating system or the .net library, but instead is packaged as part of IE. In case you must know why - it was done to so that a single implementation of the library component would work on every platform and every SM graphics product.

Thanks for the why Bill. I like MS for some things, Windows (before 8), Visual Studio, Big, Hotmail, etc. but IE (like the xbox) isn't one of them.

Now I have to yell at CS for telling me to install something I needed (library worked fine) but had no relation to the problem I had.

I did not know this.  I started with poser 7 and didn't see the requirement change as it is in small print on the back of the box.

Quote - But getting back to the original topic: what would really be exciting to see is what they've done in the material room.

If they don't make it less laggy, I'm going to rage.

Yeah, since they keep hitting the gun to their left breast during drills, that one is getting growth.

I'm more curious as to more what the "what" will be and not the "when".  What is going to be the main area of improvement in the new poser?

Caustics?

Particle effects?

Modeler built in?

Cloth room?

Less bloody lag in the mat room?

Better Gene compatibality (maybe without DSON)?

Automatic breast upsizer?

One click nude vicky with a sword in a temple?

3D printing: the lover of your dreams made on demand in one hour.

Well, if you play that one star wars game, you'd know robots think of humans as meatbags.

V4 comes in flat chested?  No one ever told me that!

And here for the past few years I thought XL boobs were the only option she came in.

vasmpchild: play with size, natural, flatten, and droop.  Maybe diameter too.  There might be a few manget systems out there to help you out.

1.  Starts with the mats.  The best lighting in the world won't help you if you've got the wrong mats, the mats aren't gamma corrected, they were designed and tested with certain specific (different) lighting.

2.  Now the lights, they need to match your scene.  This is very important to photograpy, but is slightly less important in poser just because of the nightmare that is all your materials in a complex scene.  They set up your lighting.

3.  Poses, this one is pretty easy to get wrong because it's easy to go from real to this looks nice without noticing it.  While I'm thinking about it, if you are doing dynamics and there's any transition at all, what frame you character stops at is important.  I was using one of Biscuits dynamic outfits and when vicky stopped too soon, her lack of panties soon became appearent.

4.  Expressions.  This needs to be right.

5.  The camera.  I think this is the easiest one for someone to forget about.  Angle and location are important and people often overlook this.  They too often set the scene to the camera instead of putting the camera in the right location for the scene.

6.  World clutter.  This weakness annoys me a lot.  In the real world, there isn't just one or two things, there's a lot of things.  Getting enough stuff in the scene to look right is a challenge.

7.  Render settings, these are the finishing touches so you can have mirrors, IDL, SSS, etc, xyz. 

Yeay, my art is too bad for people to want to steal!!!  :D

Oh wait...

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Should I feel good or bad about this?

Simple: a lot of women are jealous and envious.

• A lot of porn stars have big (often fake) boobs.
• Most porn stars and girls who display themselves have nice long hair.
• Some, not all, porn stars are rather attractive .
• All of the above make a number of women feel unattrative or inferior or feel like they are competing against a high standard.  Women can be very competitive with each other and get nasty about it.
• Add in to the mix, seeing their guy checking out a clothed woman's boobs while you are out and about is enough to piss some women off.
• Of course you also have the hypocrits who'll reread the trashy parts of 50 shades of gray then get angry at men who do the partake in the same sort of thing but in a more audio-visual manner.

Of all the things I listed, I think it's the competition thing they are most afraid of or getting worked up over.

PS.  Don't forget the shower heads with "massage" functions in addition to toys.