I guess I'm gonna keep adding things. Might as well.

It would be nice if Poser 9 had a folder or some kind of collapsible grouping structure for all the figures and props in a scene. A scene can quickly get overloaded, especially with props, cameras and lights, and that list can get pretty long.
I'm doing a scene that has 2 book shelves in it and between the two there are 60 book props, parented to their respective shelves.
Now I'm thinking, wouldn't it be great if I could take one bookshelf and make it a folder, and have all its books in it - as I said either a folder or a collapsible hierarchy - a layer.

I guess the hierarchy editor could be used in this way, but it would be cool to have it available through the drop down lists too.

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Just lettin' you know it wasn't "Obvious" it was just an opinion since it wasn't stated that it was an opinion. It was framed as a fact grammatically.

Well you're wrong about that. It should have been obvious it was an opinion because nobody can say "There is no God,  no hell, no heaven" as a fact.

How it was phrased grammatically should make no difference to anyone able to follow the context and understand what was being said.

Hence, it should be obvious that it was an opinion.

Just so happens it's also a fact. ;-)

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I believe that anyone seeking a proof, for or against the existence of god, is on a fool's errand. Many people have tried to prove or disprove the existence of god, over many hundreds, and probably thousands of years. To anyone undertaking that project, I wish you luck, but I won't wait up for your result!

And therein lay the dilemma for the religious, or even more for the so-called "agnostics"...
("Agnostic" of course being a word always used wrong, but it suits its purpose well enough here. ;-))

The "seekers" have nothing to go by but faith and probably a good dose of what they would like to believe in the first place.

Hey, I'd LIKE to believe that heaven is a place where I can go hog wild, partying down, abusing my system with all kinds of intoxicants yet causing no damage, and fornicating wantonly with multitudes of hot women and never getting complaints from my neighbors about the loud music... where the God just gives you eternal life and eternal health at no cost - none of that salvation this or thou shalt not that - then just leaves you alone to do as thee will. ;-)

And if there were a serious religion that espoused that, I might have already become its pope. :-D

I  may be wrong about this, but I don't think you can run dual monitors off of a typical SLI setup. I think you would be better off plugging each monitor into a separate video card or disable one and use the dual monitor connectors.

Far as I know, SLI doesn't offer anything for windowed apps anyway, only games.

Quote - Same goes for those of no faith who claim science disproves god. Where exactly is this theory that disproves the existence of god?

Well like I wrote above I feel that science has disproved God, or more specifically, the Creation; the idea of Intelligent Design.

I should elaborate on that though - not exactly "disproved", as in definitively and positively, but close enough in terms of how religion presents their idea of Creation, which is supposedly given to them straight from the words of God himself.

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If people of religious faith are not inherently followers (and I'm not knocking being a follower of something), then what are they? I am not asking out of a desire to be argumentative, I really want to know. It has always seemed to me that being of a religious faith is synonymous with following some religious teaching. If I am mistaken, could someone please set me straight?

I think she probably just didn't express what she meant properly.
I took it to mean that there are those who claim to be believers, but don't really follow the religion strictly. The "lukewarm" Christians mentioned in the Bible book of The Revelation - those who pay lip service and go through the motions, but aren't fully immersed.

I'm sure all religions have their lukewarm followers.

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Maybe she meant "followers" as in mindless sheep.

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Strawberry cornetto is fine, mint at a push :), seriously my point is if there is a an powerful alien/god that can control the universe, then shouldn't she/he/it be able to materialise a tasty cold snack into my hand? 

Well according to the Bible, yeah, no problem. God could do that in his sleep.

Then again, the Bible also says that God doesn't perform miracles like that just for proof. In fact, it's all supposed to be taken simply on faith and God has no intention of proving his existence to anyone.

So the Bible says... and if you think about it, they couldn't possibly have devised a better way to get around that whole problem of proof.  ;-)

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Right, religion predates science.  That's why it's up to science to disprove god.  Before science, religion didn't have need for proof of god.  Only if religion had arrived after science would it need proof of god to base its claims on.

Science can't disprove God. Science has already come pretty close to explaining the creation of everything from the universe as a whole to how the 92 natural elements came into being, to the creation of RNA, amino acids, DNA, life, evolution, intelligence... gravity, light, and all kinds of other things.

If that's not enough to disprove at least the Creation theory, then I don't know what is.

And even that's not enough for the religious people. They just blindly write it all off as science fiction or whatever. They can appreciate that science tells them the next generation of cell phones will be more advanced than what we currently have, and eagerly grab them up when available, on the "faith" alone that science told them it would be good...

But when it comes to Creation...
"Nope, sorry, science may be right about everything else, but it's dead wrong about that."

The real religious people who can't accept the scientific proof of creation yet who worship the feats of science along with the rest of us heathen out here... I'd say it's almost some form of blatant hypocrisy.

So it won't matter even if science does somehow one day definitively disprove God, because the religious people will still believe anyway. Otherwise what's left for them? it's not like they're gonna hear the news and say, "Well, there ya go kids, now we can sleep in on Sunday." ;-)

Of course, I feel that science has in fact already disproved the existence of God...

Proof requires not only the evidence, but also for people to accept the evidence. Many people have accepted that science has disproved God, but no matter how blinding all the proof ever is, there will always be a multitude who simply don't accept it.
Hence, science will never disprove God.

Science's job is to answer questions and figure things out anyway. Any scientist who thinks he's going to "disprove God" is simply wasting his time.

Quote - No forum software I know suffers from that problem, the concept of paging works wonders.
It's more likely there's some other limitation of the software that requires this to be done or just simply that that's how they built it.

Yeah, I was gonna say that I frequent forums that have far far more forums and threads than here and never have any slowness issues.
Of course, those are mostly v-bulletin forums, and I'd suspect they're set up to optimize the situation.

Quote - It may be worth noting that other forums with (as far as I can tell) similar amounts of traffic don't fall over and die just because all of their historical posts are immediately available. The thread archive has been a feature of Renderosity since before the forum software was updated. It may be nothing more than a legacy hold-over which hasn't been reviewed to see if it can be safely removed.

Well I certainly hope they don't remove it, since it's the only way to find posts older than 6 weeks.
Unless you mean removing the date range selection feature, and just make it so the "archive" link shows the entire history. That would be alot better than having to select dates from the pull down thingies.

Quote - *"I'm not seeing any kind of option anywhere to make a forum permanently display all threads - is there something that I'm simply missing? I'd find it hard to believe that the forum default is to only show threads no older than about 6 weeks."

*They do that to speed up the site...Loading every post,in every forum by default would bring the site  to a crawl.

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Tom

Okay cool, I guess that makes sense although I don't know anything about site programming and all that.
Would it be possible for them to code it in a way that allowed individual forums to be set to show all posts, or at least all posts within the past year or something like that?
Assuming it were possible to do that, they could also disable the feature in high traffic forums.

I mean, it seems kinda silly to have a forum where a newbie would open and see no posts, zero, nada, zip, nothing to offer, and think it's just dead. And there are several here like that.

Better yet, would it be worth offering as a suggestion, or is that a dead end street?

Quote - I predict this thread will now go downhill faster than Gary Glitter's career. 

Who's Garry Glitter?
Oh... right... ;-)

Well, the thread seems to be surviving at least, no major downward spiral as of yet.

RE: morality...
Whose morality? Even among the monotheistic religions based on God/Allah/Yahweh - Christianity. Islam, Judaism - there is no consensus on morality.
I don't know enough about Islam and Judaism to give too many examples, but I know plenty about the various Christian denominations, and they all have their own versions of morality - what is a "sin" and what is not and so on.

The only real morality worth subscribing to is the societal morality that we really need...

One commandment, no God required:
Thou shalt not do stupid shit.

There's your morality for you, and nothing more is required. It's up to the individual to determine what's stupid and what's not, and if a person doesn't know what is or isn't, his society's laws have some pretty good suggestions, and the local jails and morgues and hospitals can offer some pretty good examples of why it's a great commandment. ;-)

I would like to see a couple things...

It would be nice to be able to cancel a render right away and not have to wait for any shadow maps to be calculated. As it is, you can't cancel it until all shadow maps have been created. You can hit the Cancel button, sure, but it won't do anything until the shadow maps are done. In a scene with alot of shadow maps, that can mean waiting a long time just to be able to cancel a render.

Also, while I realize that Poser isn't going to have an interactive preview render any time soon (and maybe never), it would be great if Poser 9 could have a limited version of such a thing.

For example, when I work in the material room I use the area render marquee drawing thingie alot to draw a small area around what I'm working on. And then after I change a material setting I have to redraw the marquee to get a new area render.
No big deal, but it would be cool if Poser could have an option for automatically updating a render when an area has been drawn, when working in the material room.

It wouldn't exactly be an interactive preview render such as many programs have, but it would be simply automating and eliminating the step of having to redraw the area each time a material change is made.

Actually, it would be cool to see that in the document window period, not just when in the material room - simply put, if an area is drawn out, it auto updates when any kind of change is made, perhaps also with the option to disable camera movement and posing or translating an object or figure from causing it to update. Or just limit it to updating automatically only on lighting or material changes.

Quote - > Quote - I'm not seeing any kind of option anywhere to make a forum permanently display all threads - is there something that I'm simply missing? I'd find it hard to believe that the forum default is to only show threads no older than about 6 weeks.

You're not missing anything, the forums here are set up to move all posts except announcements (yes, that does include supposedly "Sticky" threads) into the archives after 45 days.

Thank you for the reply. I was starting to figure that after searching for a way and not finding one.
Well, that kinda sucks...

Quote - > Quote - there is no hell. No heaven either.

While the man known popularly as Jesus Christ may have existed, and while he was likely an exceptional figure, he was nothing more than a teacher and a "missionary" of sorts. An exceptionally intelligent and brave teacher no doubt, but very human and there was nothing godlike or metaphysical about him.

No salvation, no Creator, no messiah... just space, matter, energy, chemistry and the laws of physics that all eventually led to an intelligence so consumed with its own self-importance that it invented gods, heaven and salvation to ease its troubled mind and make its existence more bearable...

I guess you have your work cut out for you to prove all this.

I wouldn't even try.
That's the conclusion I've come to after 35 years of learning about religion and science and overall human society, culture and nature. And half that amount of time regularly actively debating it both with many other people as well as myself.
I would have to write an entire book explaining how I came to that conclusion and I'm not about to do that, especially since so many others already have.

Besides, it's an opinion, which should be pretty obvious, and opinions don't demand "proof".

But if we ever get together with a case of beer, I've been known to go pretty far into discussing it all. ;-)