This is AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!

BIG Congrats to Wolfenshire and RedPhantom! I've seen what both of these guys can do, and this is going to be GREAT for Renderosity! Two thumbs-up from me! 👍👍

Best wishes to Carolyn for her future endeavors.

As far as I'm concerned, that would be the final nail in the coffin.... 😥

Halle-freaking-lujah!!!!!! 👍👍

In other news:

Has anyone else noticed that Rendo has lost FOUR vendors to the "D" place in the last week?? Maybe a little communication with the vendors to see what would help keep them here might be in order. Just a thought.

I am totally, 100% in line with both Giana and pjz99 above. Giana's comment on the 3D art communities' views of Rendo is right on, unfortunately. I've encountered that in a couple streams lately.

"my workflow is a totally erratic chaos.." Oh, man...... You've never seen my workflow (or what passes as one...) And don't even get me started on my file system (dis)organization! I spend most of my "creative" time looking for stuff! 😂

I like it! Much more convenient, and looks great! Two 👍👍!

I would LOVE to see a poll! I agree 100% with your assessment, Giana! 👍

The sad thing is, it seems like those who could make the changes this site sorely needs don't appear to give a damn. Scroll through this thread. How many Mods have responded in any way? One. And that reply simply states that Renderosity doesn't allow AI-generated images. Like the ones clogging the galleries on a daily basis. Sigh...

And, Y-Phil, those renders do look good. I hope 3.2 continues to work flawlessly for you! 👍👍

OK - here's one of the older renders - before I started mucking around with things. To me, she looks a little flat on the skin tones (I'm NOT telling her she looks flat, though...) What do you think? Do you like it like this, or with a little bit of specularity?

Just be careful what you say or she might use different fingers.... 😁

I do like a reasonable bit of sheen (check my gal in the yellow bikini - is that too much sheen?) as long as it doesn't go overboard. On the other hand, I don't like the skin having a "flat" look over the entire body. It looks like a heavy layer of makeup has been applied to the entire figure. I'll see if I can find one of the flat renders and post it.

Everything seems to be back to 'normal' (whatever that is....) with P-12 now.

Finally got everything sorted after a couple days of fighting with it. Apparently no one reads this forum - thanks for all the help.

I don't know what EZSkin 3.2 did, but it has TOALLY screwed my Poser 12 to hell.

When I installed it, I followed the directions:

1. Extract all files from the zip archive to a folder of your choice. This can be anywhere you like.

2. Copy EZSkin3.py to the Runtime:Python:poserScripts:ScriptsMenu of the runtime installed in the same folder as the Poser executable. Note that while this location is recommended, EZSkin will in fact run from any location.

3. Set up the custom shader engines folder: Create a folder anywhere on your computer to which you have write access. Then copy the files from the zip's 'Custom shaders' folder into your newly created folder. Run EZSkin and open the settings dialog. Set the 'Custom shader engines' folder to the newly created folder.

Did all of the above. Opened a Poser file and went through the "Edit Skin" dialogue, which showed the settings imported from EZSkin3.1. Hit the 'render' button. My dual monitors flashed a couple times, then the SSS screen opened, and showed the SSS being applied to the figure.

Then the 'render' screen opened with the render progress bar. Then.... Nothing. It just sat there doing nothing. I left it for 10 - 12 minutes, and there was zero progress. Top of the screen showed "Poser Application Not Responding." Poser was completely locked up. Had to CTRL-ALT-DEL to get out of it.

Started Poser up again, opened the same figure, re-checked the "edit skin" settings. Tried again with the same result. Same for the next 3 - 4 attempts. Re-started Poser (again). Same result. Re-started computer, tried again. Same result.

Removed EZSkin3.2, tried rendering same figure. Rendered fine. Re-installed the older EZSkin3.1 which had been working fine (other than the super-flat skin tones), and tried again. Locked up on render. Tried another figure. Locked up on render.

So, now it appears EZSkin 3.2 left some nasty little something behind that's totally jacking Poser to the point of making it unuseable.

Removing 3.1 from the "Runtime:Python:poserScripts:ScriptsMenu of the runtime installed in the same folder as the Poser.exe" brings Poser back to working status. 3.1 worked previous to trying 3.2.

I know I can add SSS from Poser's Material Room, but it's such a pain in the a$$. You can't apply it to the figure's full body (at least I've not stumbled onto a way to do it), you have to do it a zone at a time (I.E: chest, abdomen, hip, right thigh, left thigh, etc.)

Is there another plugin out there that does what EZSkin is supposed to do without sending everything to hell? I've been fighting this all day, and have pretty much had enough.

Any ideas out there?

Installed EZSkin 3.2. Wish I hadn't - it's jacked up everything to hell. Poser 12 won't even render now. I'm hoping I can uninstall it and go back to EZSkin3 - although it's results are flat shin tones - no natural skin shine, no matter what I do. 😪

At this point, I'm thinking about going back to PP 2014 on this machine.

Got it! EzSkin 3.2.

I'll post the link to this library of Snarly's scripts - maybe help someone else..   https://cobrablade.net/snarlygribbly/poser.html

Thanks!