No

OonaTheWild posted at 8:30PM Sat, 20 February 2016 - #4256329

Renderosity now is time to start paying attention. This is NOT in the best interests of your site, community or business. Why will you not see that and stop this descent into madness before it is too late?

Nobody with the power to change anything is paying attention, Oona. They are all in panic mode and have adopted a bunker mentality. Just look through the threads here and see the valid points raised but to which there has either been no response or a trite one. Look at all the pertinent questions asked that have been completely ignored, until such time as it becomes so embarrassing that the thread is locked under some pretense. Speak up and you'll be censored or banned, even if you're a valued vendor and champion of the community, such as happened to 3-DArena just because someone was so insecure that they saw a personal attack where no-one else could.

It's all too late and futile. Best now to just sit back and watch the train wreck happening in slow motion.

It's not good on desktops either. It only works ok on desktops if the browser window is wide enough. Shrink the browser to a size akin to that of an iPad's resolution and you get the same issue.

Thank you for your post, Jen. I'd forgotten that Renderosity staff could show wisdom, and now you and Doug (BasicWiz) have both reminded me, all in one day! Kudos to you.

basicwiz posted at 7:20PM Fri, 19 February 2016 - #4256085

All of this saddens me... I care enough about our community that I personally host the archive of Dr. Geep's site as well as the archive of all of Snarls' abandoned scripts and other abandoned things. But now, apparently, I can't tell anyone where they are. And no... I'm not selling a blinking thing nor charging anyone a penny. And I run everything through a virus scanner. But, it's "for your own good."

Well said sir, and thanks for all you've done for us over the years. It's truly shameful that the organisation that you served so well should act so poorly, preventing you from continuing to make such a valuable contribution to the community. I urge to continue despite the efforts of the current administration to ruin everything: eventually the idiocy will result in consequences that will bring home the reality to even them and then, perhaps, things will change for the better.

hopeandlove posted at 5:33PM Fri, 19 February 2016 - #4256047

Hi everyone-

I know that I am the Community Manager, but these decisions aren't just made by me, they're decided by the Renderosity staff as a whole. So, please stop saying it is just me who is enforcing this, it's all of us.

How do you reconcile that with the statement you made on page one, that said:

"Another is, we had instated this policy a little while back, but it was not followed through. And, so, I decided to bring this rule back because it's unfair to link to other sites." (bold formatting added by me)

Can you see how we might have thought it was your decision? It's a bit unfair to blame others for thinking it was your decision, isn't it?

Maybe it would be a good idea to see if their are any staff at Rendo with communications experience to cast an eye over posts first, to make sure these misunderstandings don't occur?

KristiS posted at 12:22PM Fri, 19 February 2016 - #4255909

Hello all -

Please do not shoot me, I have come here to give my opinion about a few things.

I have been here for a total of 7 years now and yes, I was gone for about a year for some reasons and then came back.

This has always been and will always be my love and home.

I would like to say that Hope did explain why there would not be anymore off site linking, through the entire site as well as the Freebie area.

This was NOT just her decision as I did and still do stand by that decision and here is why...

Say there is a Freebie I like so I click on it, it take me to Daz or another store, I then go one step further and start looking in the Marketplace for something else to go with what I downloaded. I find a nice product that is $15.00 so I buy it.

I am now putting money in some other vendor's pocket instead of a vendor here at Renderosity.

Thanks for clarifying that the latest attempts to shaft the community are not actually for our benefit, as previously claimed, but an attempt (misguided in the opinion of many) to make a few extra dollars for Renderosity. We appreciate your honesty.

KristiS posted at 12:11PM Fri, 19 February 2016 - #4255909

The other reason I agree is because my 17 year old son downloads freebies from here and has gotten a virus on his system from a link one day...not good at all. Now I know a whole lot of you are well aware of what to stay away from however to someone who is just starting out (age does not matter as new to this world is new no matter how old you are) does not know and most of the time finds out the hard way.

If that really happened then I'm sure a respectable company would immediately alert its members, who may well have already followed the link, to the possibility of getting a virus from a link published on their website an advise them to check their system for potential malware.

I don't recall seeing any such public alert here, so to avoid any possibility that someone might mistakenly think this incident was made up to score a cheap point it might be prudent to provied a link to the public warning, so that all here can see the seriousness with which Renderosity takes our online safety.

Then you missed the post where she said it was her decision ...

Well done for scraping the bottom of the barrel with the viruses thing though :-)

<Copied from another thread - it seems more appropriate here>

A long time ago I used to post here. I started several threads, and many ran to dozens of pages, tens of thousands of views and hundreds, sometimes thousands of replies. People were excited by those threads, and came here every day to keep up with them. That was in the days of a proper community.

They were threads about EZMat, EZSkin, Pose2Lux, Subdivision in Poser, EZMetals et al. Hope, you probably don't know much about those projects, not being an actual community member yourself, but take it from me that they were quite popular among Poser users.

And what did they all have in common? They were all threads about freebies available offsite, with links to them.

Others used to create similarly popular threads: the Antonia thread, the Luxpose thread etc. And guess what? they were all about freebies available offsite too.

It used to work like this:

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to read more about it.

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to ask for help with it.

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to make suggestions for enhancements to it.

People would go and fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to buy products to use with the freebie.

Read that again. It's important. IT'S WHAT MADE THIS A COMMUNITY. People were excited about the forums, excited about Renderosity.

Not only are the originators of those threads no longer active here, but none of those threads would be possible now. With the new dumbass rules they would each have been locked on the very first day - every single one of them.

Nobody here has a clue about what makes the community tick, so they just make up rules instead. It would be funny if it wasn't such a joke.

Still, instead of genuine understanding we have the fake smiles and cheesy cheerleading instead. That's got to count for something, doesn't it?

Jeez.

Malysse, who once used to post as Snarlygribbly

A long time ago I used to post here. I started several threads, and many ran to dozens of pages, tens of thousands of views and hundreds, sometimes thousands of replies. People were excited by those threads, and came here every day to keep up with them. That was in the days of a proper community.

They were threads about EZMat, EZSkin, Pose2Lux, Subdivision in Poser, EZMetals et al. Hope, you probably don't know much about those projects, not being an actual community member yourself, but take it from me that they were quite popular among Poser users.

And what did they all have in common? They were all threads about freebies available offsite, with links to them.

Others used to create similarly popular threads: the Antonia thread, the Luxpose thread etc. And guess what? they were all about freebies available offsite too.

It used to work like this:

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to read more about it.

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to ask for help with it.

People fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to make suggestions for enhancements to it.

People would go and fetch the freebie offsite, then RETURN TO RENDEROSITY to buy products to use with the freebie.

Read that again. It's important. IT'S WHAT MADE THIS A COMMUNITY. People were excited about the forums, excited about Renderosity.

Not only are the originators of those threads no longer active here, but none of those threads would be possible now. With the new dumbass rules they would each have been locked on the very first day - every single one of them.

Nobody here has a clue about what makes the community tick, so they just make up rules instead. It would be funny if it wasn't such a joke.

Still, instead of genuine understanding we have the fake smiles and cheesy cheerleading instead. That's got to count for something, doesn't it?

Jeez.

Malysse, who once used to post as Snarlygribbly

I'm going to step in here even though I hate this fucking useless forum because i don't like to see SM maligned unfairly.

The advice you've been given above is nonsense.

Everything is installed in the right place. There is no .pyc script for the lights. You can't edit a .pyc script anyway.

The problem is that you've added the PP2014 runtime to your P11 installation, and the PP2014 runtime includes a (properly) installed version of the Reality addon that is incompatible with some of the new features in Poser 11, such as the new area lights. Reality is choking when trying to process a type of light it knows nothing about.

There is an update to Reality which makes it compatible with P11 on its way soon - you should have been notified about that. In the meantime, remove Reality from the PP2014 runtime, or don't link to that PP2014 runtime from within P11. Then get the updated Reality when it's available.

... is an anagram of 'stair'

If we get the answer right can we have our chat room fixed as a prize? (Would be nice if there was one part of Rendo that wasn't completely messed up, just for the novelty value)

http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=13501

http://www.daz3d.com/i/shop/itemdetails/?item=12613

Attached Link: Pose2Lux pro 0.5.1

Changes:

Materials can now be assigned both an interior and an exterior volume. Use the new XML tag <exterior_volume></exterior_volume> to reference the exterior volume.

A checkbox has been added to the Output screen to enable you to specify that all material definitions (and associated textures) should be written to a separate file. It will be placed in the same folder as the Lux scene file, with the extension '.lxm'