Quote - I have also found out that that someone defiantly has been getting access to my yahoo account. I found a yahoo page that lists my "Recent Login Activity", it says I have logged in from Poland and El Salvador. I have never been to those countries! Below are the IP addresses that logged into my account:

Well, if you was not using a proxy server then someone discovered your password. How he/she/it did it is a big question. Changing the password probably will solve the problem.

Is a good advice to run some antivirus to scan your whole hard disk. The problem with anti-virus is that they are only able to find virus known by the anti-virus. If the virus is a fresh new one the anti-virus will not find it. The virus must be known for anti-virus work. Also sometime the anti-virus software finds a virus in something that is not a virus and is an headache to make the anti-virus shut up its mouth.

A good practice is to open the task manager in administrator mode aand look at all the tasks and services that are runing in your computer. You will see a lot of runing tasks and if you have little experience with this you will not know what is this. With time you will discover what is each service and to whom it belongs.

Once you have a good experience knowing all the tasks, it is very easy to discover a virus, a spy or anything else that some program has installed without your knowledge (Google update, hollyschit notification, blah, blah, blah).

Quote - If you are using the web version of Yahoo mail, get to another clean computer and change your password. The e-mailings will then stop.

It solves nothing because is not Yahoo that is sending the emails. It is a virus SMTP server that is using your email address as "reply to" or "from" address

Quote - One thing I don't understand, if it has nothing to do with my computer, how come they seem to have access to my yahoo contact list? The only thing I can think of is that they have discovered my yahoo password, and are able to log on as me.

First you must understand what is a SMTP server.

A SMTP server is something useful that allows you to send emails from your computer without having a POP3 account. Used together with a group emailer you can send scheduled emails to a group of people from a list or data base, for eample once you configurated the emailer each time you have a party with a single click you send an invitation email to all your friends from your own computer. If you have a company you can notify all your customers each time a product is updated and so on. Of course spamers work exactly in the same way.

Now you have a SMTP server, a group mailer and a list. The SMTP server is a piece of software that allows you to send emails from your computer. The group mailer allows you to send the same email to a group of people from a list. And the list is just a list of email addresses of people that will receive your email.

The next thing is the configuration of the SMTP server and you must setup who is sending the email and you can put any address you want, even ones that do not exist.

In the example above about the company you set the email address of your company, but let now suppose that you have no company, only you are doing a service for a company from your home. You are sending the emails from your computer, but you don't want that someone that receive your email to reply to you, is not your business, you want them to reply directly to the company. For this you set the SMTP server with the email of the company. You are sending the email from your computer, who receive the email will see that who send the email was the company and not you and will reply to them and not to you.

Now the virus, a virus does exactly the same thing. It has a SMPT server, a group mailer and a list of email addresses. The virus is installed in some infected computer, the list can come together with the virus or the virus can acquire the list conecting to some hacked or malvare site.

Once a virus infects a computer it scans Windows address book and send all the email addresses to the hacked or malvare site creating the list and the begins to send spam or virus emails from your computer using the email addresses from the list. The information for the SMTP server of whom is sending the emails comes also fro the list, picked in a random way.

In you case as you use Yahoo web mail, I suppose that you have no addresses in Windows address book, so even your computer is infected the virus has no way to know the emails addresses that you use in Yahoo.

What probably happened is that some of your friends or people you know had is computer infected, he use Outlook for email and had your email in Windows address book and probably many yours friends and people that you know were also in the address book. The list was created with your email and many friends too, but not all.

Once the list was created and propagated, your friend can clean or shut down the computer and this will change nothing because the list is alive for itself and so you, your friend and other people that you know begins to send eamils one to each other from computers of people that you never heard in your life.

The person that had his computer infected not necesarly needs to be your friend, only your email addresswas in his address book.

If you receive that your bank account was cancelled, how to enlarge your penis, the magical vitamineses, the lonely Russian lady and the classical and unforgetable Nigerian, it was not me that send the email.

Don't worry, time to time I receive an email from myself.

If you use Yahoo web mail, your computer has nothing to do with this. Someone had his computer infected and had your email in his address book, of course he used Outlook for email. Your email is added to a list together with the addresses of the address book and other's computer addres books. Then the virus begins to send email with spam or virus where the addesses of "from" and "to" are picked from the list. Some stupid virus don't check if "from" and "to" is the same address and so, you receive email from yourself.

Once your address was added to the list it begins to propagate to other infected computer and spreads everywhere. As the list has a limited length, within some time your address extinguishes being replaced by a fresh one from a newer victim.

If you have a sword parented to the right hand, you pose your figure and sword and then save the pose (you can Select Subset option if you want only some body parts and the sword saved).

Now you have a sword parented to the right hand and a pose for your figure and you want to create a pose for left hand sword.

Change the parenting of the sword from right to left hand, repeat the same process posing the figure and moving the sword to the correct place, save again the pose this time with left hand pose name.

There is one step you must do, because the sword continue to be parented to the right hand when you load the sword.

With a text editor add a line in the pose in the sword prop before the channels line. You must add

smartparent rHand      for right hand pose

smartparent lHand     for left hand pose

Now you can load your figure, load the prop sword and the sword will move from right hand to left hand, left hand to right hand just applying the respective pose.

You can apply poses, MAT poses, inject morphs, master channels, joint parameters, JCM or anything else to a prop or several props. The only thing that is required is that the prop must be parented to some figure. With several props you can make the props parented to other props or different BODY parts. You even can change the parenting with a pose file, for example, right hand sword pose and left hand sword pose.

If you don't want to use any defined figure, you can create a fake figure that has only the BODY.

I don't know what can be. Upload somewhere the mesh so I can examin it.

When you import the obj into Poser uncheck the option weld identical vertices and tell me if there is any difference so I can have a clue.

Probably the mesh has two sided polygons and are deleted during the export/import process. Poser doesn't like two sided faces that have common vertices.

I have to reduce a little the size because was rejected by this post

In the scene you have a terrain with a tilled texture and a background plane with some "freezer" image that combines. The texture is nothing special, but looks nice when rendered.

Attached Link: http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2160081&user_id=12831&np&np

Returning to the gold question.

We must understand the behaviour of metals and the behaviour of metals can be very different depending on the roughness of its surface.

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Metals with very low roughness behaves as a mirror. In this case if we use Phong, Blinn or Torrance it will not make any difference. Just set the reflective color and use raytracing. With gold you set the reflective color to some yellow, with copper to some orange and with silver to white.

A metal with very low roughness it will act as a mirror and you will not see the metallic object, you will see distorsed reflections from the environment where the distorsion will depend on the geometric shape of the object. With planar surfaces there is not disrtion at all and you see a perfect mirror image on the object's surface.

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The other case are very rough metals. Very rough metals don't produce mirror-like reflections. Phong and Blinn are inadequated for this case. Torrance works pretty well. The main characteristics of very rough metals is that have a big specular area and illumination falling quickly beyond this area. You can approximate using Phong with very low exponent values (1 to 4), but is not the same as Torrance and don't produce off-specular peaks. This is what I used in my picture posted aomewhere above.

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For intermediate roughness metals there is no simple solution, there do not exist a simple model for this.

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In all the cases the diffuse compont of metals is very small or zero.

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For making images of metallic objects things get very complicated, unless we use simple geometric shapes as the famous metallic spheres.

The behaviour of a metallic surface changes dramatically with the roughness and roughness can be changed polishing the metallic object. If the object is not a simple geometrical shape and many times has a complicated shape the polishing is never perfect and so, we will have areas that have been polished very well, for eample the borders, and other areas where we were not able to polish.

The result is that we have a metallic object with areas that act as an almost perfect mirror and other areas that have a very rough surface.

Well, not all the monitors looks the same, the famous gamma story. But, forget the handles, we are not discussing wood that is other story. Our focus is gold.

Quote - In which image? The one just above your post? The handles show up brown on my monitor and look like wood. Might need to have a look at your monitor, maybe?

In the image above. The poles doesn't look as wood and look dark and flat 2D surface (RGB 48.8.0) no matter how adjust the monitor. But the room continue to look very good in my monitor

Some critics. The romm in the scene looks very good, but the covenant ark looks very bad. The poles or handles are completely black without any relief and un-natural. The ark itself doesn't look as gold. It can look as metal or painted metal that has suffered severy corrosion or have been exposed to the environment for some centuries. The object in the back has gold reflections, but looks more as a black magic mirror.