Texboy! There you are, you demon! Don't think I've forgotten your comments. Now, everytime I'm putting in the text I'm thinking, "#@!, I better get the grammer right." Even with spellcheck and I proof reader I just barely caught a typo yesterday* Thanks, for the nod, and keeping me on toes. cheers, Don *actually, it was a left over from a deleted line.

I use Dial Cleaner on a scene that I have already saved. Outside of Poser before I load the Poser Pro, I load the scene into Dial Cleaner, it returns, "4,737 dials have been removed" or words to that effect and then I start Poser and load the scene. It doesn't show up with a lot of empty dials. IBP, don't use it tons but I have successfully run it on characters I've created and want to store in the library. I'm sure DAZ has better info or tutorials about the whole IBP pipeline. So, short answer (but not as accurate): After. good luck

Thanks for the encouragement and taking the time to look and comment. This has been a huge diversion that I can't quite shake, I hope I can at least take the story to the end of this chapter. 'Cause, while I was making this up as I went along I have since projected a much longer story line. Too enormous to do at the current pace. Cast of thousands, that sort of thing, you know? But we've all got stories we want to do someday? Right? The smoke for the Drone Trooper is made with Peter Norby's (Trapcode) Particular, a plug-in for After Effects 6.5. Does an array of different particle effects pretty quickly. I've barely scratched the surface with it. Finding a practical way to learn his plug-in was another inspiration that started this Liquid Comic, that and a lot of 3D objects that weren't getting used. cheers to all

Daz has a plugin that lets you import quite easily from Studio to Bryce. Since Studio is free I would recommend popping over there and downloading that. If you do your posing in Poser save the pose, you can reload it into Studio and export from there. That's much easier than exporting an obj from Poser and picking groups in Bryce and reassigning materials. And, stay tuned, Daz is ramping up to release Bryce5.5 which should make the whole process even better (we all hope). While my home 3D experience began with Poser and Bryce, I have now included Lightwave 8. Really powerful, proffesional app but make no mistake, due to the more you can do the more time you can spend learning to do it. Don't know anything about C4D, so I can neither recommend or disuade. good luck

If nothing else it has helped me get organized in mangaging several characters across different scenes. As Liquid Halo pretty much is all I can fit into a shot, give or take some lightweight sets or props. As I move toward more populated scenes it will be more challenging.

OMG, diviner, so you're saying you're on of Six Nerds over Texas? You should start a franchise. : ) ... and I think Lewisville is spelled...well, like that ^^^

Bone Daddies up in Richardson (N. Dallas) also has good BBQ and all the waitresses provide great research on possible realistic morph targets one could make for Victoria or Stephanie, if they were so inclined.

The few times I experienced being a normal North American was usually when someone would say, "You are so wierd." Yeah, my general comment about people hating change came from many experiences here and shouldn't have been made in this thread. My intent was just to say it was working for me but it isn't my intent to invalidate any other experience. Oh, the other thing I really like about the new Daz site is now it only lists the Mac downloads and I don't have to wade through all the .exe

Maybe its been faster for me cause all the currents running down hill to Australia. I suffered through 56k for so long now that I have broadband I never really feel bothered by what load time I'm getting. Downloaded a bunch of stuff from there and it didn't seem so bad. But then my wife came in and complained that I'd been working too long for a Sunday, so there ya go. I'm not very good at sensing the passage of time. But I'm great at spending it.

WTB (et al), I didn't have any conscious problem with the old site other than the one mentioned way above. The unconscious problem was that I never ventured past what was new and now with the redesign I have checked out things that I had passed by a long time ago. I like now that when I say "move items from my wishlist to cart" it actually does it. It used to fight me on that. I'm really not trying to rub salt in the wound. At this very moment I'm logged into DAZ and about to purchase the new Dystopia stuff and some PC items. It's not slow, I can find things OK. It's working for me, at this moment. I hope you can get your prefs to work out, if V3 came up first for me and the load time was like it was yesterday, I wouldn't like it either.

randym77, It only started to sound angry when William the Bloody's response started with my name and began that repetitive question technique used in interrogation rooms when the police try and break your cover story. (as seen on TeeVee, no personal experience, here) Although I am used to people wondering what universe I live in. And then some blanket statement about what old people know about "a-holes". While "a-holes" Does show restraint it does sound angry, to me. As for who is older and can speak for what the entire octogenarian population thinks, that is an arguement that I don't want to win. The new Daz site is Very frustrating for some right now and I don't want to get in the way of anyone who wants to let off steam about it. I like that there is a vehicle section now that I can go and check if there are new tanks, planes, or sports cars.

Clearly I've got my emotional tolerance dials set to a different bias.
I noted the extreme slowness @ DAZ yesterday as well. I tend to log in and look over when it's finished loading and keep myself busy on another workstation until then. So, I can understand if I was sitting there watching it load it would be frustrating.

And as far as the Daz market goes I'm not interested in the new Daz teens or any of the 19th Century fashions so its been a welcome lapse in draining my wallet. Although, as long as Stonemason and Moebius87 (and the rest) keep putting out cool Sci-Fi stuff, my budget is in danger.

Look, I'm not trying to talk anyone out of their anger. If we were casting our informal votes for the new Daz design I thought I'd just sign in and say it feels more organized for me.
Everyone is free to hate it as much as they want.
Peace.
don

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Will the Bloody, Sorry for the long lag time responsding. I haven't been around. Thrilled that Renderosity now sends me messages when a reply to my post is made. (Don't ask why) Sure, I get your point about seeing V3. But, as I have now set my prefs for newest items so that isn't a problem for me. Giving me a choice to list things to fit my needs on a day to day basis works in the universe I live in because I change from day to day as well. Maybe you haven't found it yet, but in your account settings you can set things up to suit you, well, I don't know if it will suit you but it will give you some options. Speaking of old, there's that old saying that brings balance to any moment. When you're sad it will make you happy and when you're happy it will make you sad. "This too shall pass." I tend to get more annoyed at my favorite software moving menus around just when I'd gotten them all memorized. But then, I too shall pass. Hey Movida! My grocery store just moved all their stuff around to different isles, laughed and thought of your comments. cheers to all

I thought change just bothered old people. Let me rephrase that, change bothers those who have crystalized because it is more difficult to flow. When something doesn't work that bugs everyone except the repair person who depends on it for a living. Haven't found anything broken yet at Daz and I have enjoyed the site re-design so far. It says "freshness" to me. For any of you product developers out there, my pet peeve is a product page that dispays a long bit of prose or poetry in place of a description of what makes this product unique or worth buying over other similar products. Don't mean to be cruel to the would-be poets out there I just want to know more about what I'm going to buy. There, now I've praised and complained.

Was running ProPack on G4 733mHz 1.5 gigoRAM, it seemed Painfully slow. Like, I can't-wait-this-long-for-the-Pose-library-to- open-slow. So, I switched to a dual 2 gHz G5 and it now runs very smoothly. Seems like a no brainer but I've always suspected something else was going on with the G4 to make PPP run so slowly. Animajik, why is P4 better for animating? I haven't made the leap to P5, yet.