Hey Elfwine! Got your bow for ya. It is a self Yew long bow with a full draw morph (that looks good in partial draws) it is done in the Teuksbury style (rounded on the heart wood side and flattish on the outer wood side. It has Black horn string seats a simple suede wrap handle with arrow rest ensuite. As you know being an long bow archer, the quality that makes Yew great Bow wood is that its outer wood resists stretch and its inner wood resists compression, I did a rather simple texture and did not differentiate between the heart wood and outer wood.. The arrow is fletched with Hawk feathers and the point is a standard medieval broad head. The bow uses a texture map but the arrow is assigned material settings so that the broad head has a nice shine. This also means you can export the arrow as a 3ds object and change the shape of the head. Enjoy (and I would love to see the renders you do with it). I am putting it in the freestuff area just to keep upload simple. Being late saturday night it may not clear till monday.

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Absolutely, As a classical archer, bowyer and fletcher I both make and shoot Yew bows so I know them well. I will make you a Yew bow that bends and an appropriate arrow, you can just import multiple copies of the arrow. I will do a full draw pose and if the morph does not look good at half draw I may do a half draw as well. Do you mind if I put it in the freestuff section as well? It will take about 48 hours with my schedule to get it done. William

You rock marque! I have removed all bravenet features from my page. Please give it one more try and let me know if you get any further Gator threat. I really appreciate all this. Let me know if there is a prop in .3ds that is on your wish list and I'll build it for you to say thank you(whether the Gator crap is gone or not).

Marque,
Firstly I want to thank you for bringing this to my attention. I for one am very glad that there are people like you that spread the word when something like this presents itself. It makes me very angry that folks cant go on the web without being hammered by web herpes like Coolweb search and Gator. Have no worries as far as bravenet they are the host for my free hit counter, I am going to remove my bravenet hit counter and use the crappy one from tripod as I dont want any unknown cookies scaring people. It is the whole Gator thing that worries me. Is the Gator prompt coming from a pop up or from my page? I wrote a second email to tripod and as soon as I can get the funds together I am most certainly going to get a domain name and get my stuff off of Tripod. It may seem rediculous that I cannot afford 10 dollars for a domain name at this point in time, but as I have already explained I am on a fixed income and every penny is accounted for in my budget. My next income will be about Dec 3rd and at that point I will be getting a domain and hosting. I'll go without poptarts and coffee this month :-)
What concerns me the most is that I have been putting the free stuff up as a way to thank folks like you that have been so great...

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Marque, I am most distressed by this (the fact that it happened again). I have contacted Tripod and I believe that a 3rd party pop up is involved in this mess. Tripod replied to my first contact and said that they NEVER install Gator or any other software via pop up or page visit. They suggested that a third party pop up is the culprit and asked that if anyone can identify the popup they will see what can be done to quash it so that it is stopped. In the mean time I am seeking another place to handle my files. Laver's place was suggested to me by admin here at renderosity and I did indeed sign up with them. They are ones that I had the FTP propblems with. They have an FTP login on their site and it will not accept my login, I have emailed them but recieved no response...

Hi I would be happy to make you a bow and arrow set. what do you need?

HI this is diviner,
Firstly consultant.com is not a domain it is just part of my free email address on mail.com. Secondly if you have gotten Gator or any other stuff it is not from tripod or my site. I flew to the site in a full panic because I would be furious if something like that were going on. I contacted tripod and I also downloaded, unpacked and virus checked all the files to be certain that they were virus free. I also checked my machine to be certain that it did not have Gator or any malware that might be piggy backing on my files as I upload them. The files are virus free, my machine is virus free (checked with adaware, spybot search and destroy, mcafee and norton). If Gator is involved in this I will remind folks that Gator is packed into a number of freewares and also jumps on through some other sites. I have several sites through tripod and a community of users that have regularly visited my other sites for over 3 years. None of them have ever had problems with Gator or any other ware (most of them are personal friends and would tell me of it immediately). I am very distressed over all of this because I have wanted so badly to give something back to Renderosity and the Poser community in return for all knowledge and products that I have gathered here over the years. I am still waiting for a reply from tripod / Lycos. Frankly I use Firefox as well because it has such a great popup blocker. If anyone can tell me a good place to host my site and my files I would happily leave Tripod. I tryed the recommended site that the admin told me about but I cannot get the FTP to work. My situation is such that I am building as I go. I am on a fixed income and cannot purchase a domain until my first products are on the market. It took forever for me to save up the money to puchase Poser 5 and the other software that I use. I am VERY unhappy about this. I have had almost a 1000 downloads of my freebies since I put them up and this thread is the only place there has been any mention of anything happening. I have received dozens of emails complimenting my freebies and inquiering after custom made starwars and Mech type models. None of these folks has mentioned any malware. I have had some comments about there being some tripod popups though.

I am deep in investigation of this as I would rather have my freebies removed from Renderosity than think that I was infesting your machines with Gator!

William