Not in favor of the new layout, It's confusing and I cannot believe I'm seeing adverts for items not related to CGI art.
An Ad for a Law Firm at the bottom of a page, Really??? you guys that hard up for cash flow?
In all the changes it would really have been nice to see a filter that allows Poser Users to block out DAZ Studio Products That have overtaken the market place like the plague..

I wasted time looking at Hair textures to find out it was for Hongyu's V7 Hair prop. No mention of G3 product on the thumb.
You really need to address this or as someone said above, the Vendors will suffer.

Regards DML2000

It looks like anytime a thread consumes more than two pages we get a series of post thrashing this or that, Sorry but is it that hard for the average person to stay on the thread topic.  Even the OP requested us to not trash this or that, or start some flaming posts, and yet the trashing still happens.. 

Now to stay on topic.. I use V4 primarily because she is easy to work with, and I have an extensive runtime library of some 300+gb of V4,  items to use for her in Poser.

Although I exploited a few funds for a V5 pro pack and DSON  to try V5 out,  I found the process too time consuming, So I went back to V4.  Does V4 have mesh flaws, of course she does, and so BTW does the new V7 from images I view.  I am however skilled enough to correct minor flaws using post work tools and I still produce work for my clients in a timely manner.  And as long as I can find fresh content from vendors who still produce V4 items I will continue to support them. Yet sadly I'm discovering less V4 content in the store in favor of DS Items..   So a plea to any vendor reading this... Please do not abandon the V4 consumers. Not asking you to give up creating DS products, but how difficult is it to offer a V4 version at the same time?

Regards DML2000 

  Just because Renderotica fills a void for those who create material for many alternate lifestyles, does not mean that everyone there are deviants. Nor to say that all the props and art in their galleries strictly adhere to certain genre's, and nothing else.

  To say you have not gotten that bad yet is hypocrisy...   Tell me, do really think that all the textures and clothing for the DAZ children and teens are only used by good God fearing artist for G and PG images? Can you say with any certainty, that some of your adolescent textures and clothing props will not be used by pedophiles to satisfy their perverted desires and share said image with other who crave such trash?  

 If you look closely within Renderotica, you will notice no textures of  young children or teens offered within their storefront, their gallery forbids images of children even when they are clothed. Their TOS forbids images of any character that looks younger that 20 in their galleries, and simply trying to post an image that could be considered borderline, could cause an artist to be banned from the website.   Some may cringe at seeing BDSM props, Shibari Props and poses, Kinky collars, and ballet Toed leather heels being sold here.

I cringe when I see children and young teen textures and outfits, knowing that in the wrong hands, they will be used for even more perverted acts like incest and KP.

Think about that before you start pointing the finger at other sites..

Regards DML2000 

I'm sorry but for the person who posted this thread..  no one made you look at the sample images that clearly defined "Content Advisory.   And the actual Vendors Visual is so PG vanilla, yet you were curious enough to venture a peek at the actual sample images provided.

For years, textures supplied by vendors have always erred on the side of caution in regards to Female Genitalia, while depicting Male Genitalia in all it's glory, now yes it's in a flaccid state but it does not take any more imagination to fathom what it will look like fully erect..  Personally I thought the POV images provided were tastefully done without any real up close and personal spread legged samples or as some of the old gentlemen magazines used to refer to as showing pink.    

I respect your opinion, but to give up buying things from Renderosity  for a single item, or two, seems unrealistic..  Now maybe if you had complained about the general shifting of vendors posting an over abundance of items for DAZ Studio, I might sympathize with you,  but not for offering a useful tool as 1 click gen morphs for V4.

Regards  DML2000 

Only members who made purchases during Feb 9  to March 18th were notified, but there should be posted on the homepage in case emails were not delivered, or sent to spam.

I had only a single fraud charge of $600 to Best Buy Online and my card company blocked it and notified me within minutes. Four days later I got my Card and used it here only to find out the new card number may be in the wind as well..  for now I'll do a wait and see as no further attempts to use my card has been been made and I check my online account every other day.  I have been assured that any fraudulent purchases will not be charged to my account   

Now I get an email stating your site has given up sensitive card information to a third party, That's why I look for a Padlock icon and unfortunately my old card was hacked and now possible by new Amex card as well.. and it could have been from the lack of adequate firewall and security protection for this site   I'm glad I used PAY PAL for my last transaction but unfortunately I did use my new card once on or around Feb 28th, and I hold your company responsible if I have to ask for another Amex Card.

 Also why is the Hack Notice not posted on your site?  You need to provide this information HERE regardless of how bad it may look and  I strongly suggest your IT squad find out why there is no secured transaction padlock icon when store transactions take place using IE 11

Will appreciate you looking into this,  but after my recent fraud episode, if it cannot be resolved then I'll have to use PAYPAL as going through them for payment, I will get a notice of a secure transactions.  Amex assures me that that I am not liable for fraudulent attempts, but it's a hassle when you have to wait four working days for a new card and then notify trusted sites that you need to chance account info.

Regards  dml2000  

Stacy

I have sent you a png screenshot of the Renderosity Transaction page for coupons and Card information  

it will clearly display the lack of a secure transactions icon

Regards dml2000 

BB

I understand that and see those pixels sizes when I review my stuff using my ACDSee Imaging software..  I use one setting for my portfolio,  the other for my publication obligations.

The sofware also allowsa me to shrink images to a certain size and give me the option of applying the  exact aspect raio or not.  I try not to make DPI setting mistakes when doing my own work and work for others that require particular settings and the ACDSee visual scrren supplies all the data for my images involving format, pixel size and Overall size in MB for TIF and PSD images and KB for low res jpegs suitable for internet.

Jpeg size is very important at some websites as they restict the size of your jpegs uploads to 500kb.

Dml2000

The Poser window relating to size allows one to set **px/in and cm/in
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with that said  I would assume I am redering at  1020 pixels by 1320 pixels at 120 or 150 dpi.
I do this so should I decide to print a pinup or image for my 8.5 x 11 inch porfolio folder I will get good results from my home printer using some semi glossy paper.

DPI has bugged me especially when scanning documents. why does a program like Poser use 72 dpi as a default, and my comic software use 96 dpi.. as you say if it only matters in printing why would they not be the same..

As for other applications  The software that is used for some of the publication work I am involved with.. (not mine, their's) requires the 120 dpi setting for conversion to a PDF document

My comic software programs allows me to publish to PDF, but the publisher wants TIF or PSD images at 120 dpi images and they do the converting. My comic software allows this with a default setting of 96 dpi for TIF or PSD...   So I just follow protocal so it's just easier to leave my poser settings where they are

As we get a free copy of everything we are published in, I have been able to bring the PDF image onto my screen and see good imaging even if I increase the PFD doc to 125 or 150% of original. 

I am a little famiiar with printing as I worked for The A B DICK CO, a major producers of printing presses in the US for many years but is now defunct .. I remember how high quality printing required a master black aluminum Phototatic plate and then 3 additional plates for each of the primary colours. and how there were allignment bars on the corner of the plates to insure proper overlapping  Our company was also next door to a Local Lithographer  who did poster art . They had these huge printing machines lined up 4 in a row so they could do one pass printing.

Thanks for the additional data tho.. one should lean something new every once in a while.

Regards dml2000
 

A certain publiscation I sometimes contribute work  to requires images be submitted at 1020 x 1320 and at 120 dpi. Submissions must be TIF of PSD so it's just easier to set up my renders in this matter.

On m pinup work I usually do like to print them out  but on the norm I stay at 120 dpi and export the finished renders in PSD..  for my Illustrated Stories, The publishing program I use will only except BMP PSD and Jpeg.. Only the BMP and PSD images are used in my work, and once it's laid out an caption blocks are inserted and text all edited, I publish in TIF 120 dpi. then convert the single images to a huge PDF file for use with adobe acrobat. reader

regards  dl2000

I can understand where most of you are coming from, but this is not about prodcuing a single piece of work,  this is part of a **vast scene that will played out over several different pages..
and be viewed from several different angles. 
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This set is just one set of many, and the fugures I use must be able to prodcue good facial features and expression and be much more appealing to the eye than a G-2 figure.These figures will play a part in about 70-90 percent of the pages I produce regardless of close up or disatnt panel shots

There is nudity in my stories, sory but I have yet to see a decent G-2  male or female that campare to Mike3/4 or V3/4..  I know one artist at Renderotica that has done wonders with G2 Jessie, but he needed a outsite vender's morphs package and textures to make her look appealing.

Furhtermore trying to get a low poly figures in clothing that resembles the stuff available to DAZ meshes is next to impossible.  Now I do use G-2 figurs as background people that may be in one panel or two,, (see the image I provided using my main M-4 character a G-2 and two low poly Loretta meshes .). but from page to page, for the duration of a 112 page illustated story
I must create a series of characters and rely on them through my story.

For the scene I supplied earlier, durring the 11-12 pages there will be 4 different M-3 or M-4  characters and a single V-4.  I do remove the meshes when necessary to conserve space,

Three panels before this scene. The guy with the Briefcase sneaks up upon a M-3 figure hiding behind the fence and take him out whith a silenced shot to the head.  **(notice the blood by the fence).  
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** **Now we move the entire set 90 decgrees,  I do not need the dead guy so he's history and removed from the scene just like the guy that was going up the fireescape three panels earlier and hding behind a window is not needed.  Even the V-4 in the casket is not needed for the next two panels untill the bagman asks the kidnapper to show the girl .

Now I open the Van doors and inject the V-4 + casket into the scene .  Once the kidnapper shows the coffin.  the bagman hits a detonator hidden inside the handle of the briefcase and Boom...  the unseen bad guy in the window is toast.

What comes after this displayed panel is the last kidnapper being dispatched and the bagman opens the casket and the V-4  mesh is revealed.

All this action follows a sript to make rendering faster and keeps a flow in the work.

Render, export image, rotate scene, remove M-3 figure
/repose  M-4 chactares, render, export scene,
repose characters, render scene/export image/
Unhide the explosion overlay/ repose guy by the van, render, export images..  etc etc..

This works for for me or at least it did with P-7..  with P-8 the memory crashes disrupts the flow of work.. and why all this works in P-7 with SR-2 and Not P-8 is beyond me right now.

BTW thanks for the complimetn on the explosion..  but credit goes to a local vendor in the Renderosity store  see Curio's explosions .. All I did was enhance it in postwork

**Doing story line art is totally different that single pieces so I hope this helps in explaing how these things work for me. Even the Movie people use storyboards and action sequence scripting to better evsision the overall scene

Regards  dml2000
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Lost in spaceman

Yeah the Shadows   I know they are missing and I must still postwork them in.
I just wanted to display something to show just how complex this redner was.
This is whats making P-8 run out of memory

 I Had just finished postworking the explosion's refection in the windows. and giving the alleyway a red tint..  then I noticed that how could the back of my guy in the forground be tinted red when it's facing away from the blast.. so I added a layer, tinted it red and opaqued the layer setting, then used an eraser tool to remove the red tint from the back of the guy in the forground.. 
 
The lightset used here was one of the few that did not make P-8 crash in midstrem.
It just runs out of memory after doing the render ... **or tells me that certain textures files it had just rendered flawlessly are now bad..  then it crashes.
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I figured get this rendered and I can postwork shadows later on.. still lots of work to do, but the lightset I had planned on has a grouping of 8 lights and the one I could use had a grouping of 4
all shooting straight down It gave the alley enough light but no distinct shadows

Regards dml2000

DAZ Backdrop, 2 M4's fully clothed  The V-4 fully clothed is in the raytraced caskett, The raytraced van and various props about the alley. The explosion is a poser overlay enhanced in postwork along with the reflections in the side windows.  The casket and top of van reflect part of the explosion. This is why I gave them reflective properties

Regards dml2000

Trekkie Grrrrl

As a beta tester for Windows 98 and Internet Explorer I was chosen at randon based of some surveys I answered from Microsoft. At the time I ran a business and they wanted to see how Win 98 worked for both personal and business sutuation.  I was also made  aware beta testers included average folk, IT folks, gamers and programmers.

I am quite sure  BB will be given the SRI program to test prior to it's release. If he has a hand in the scripting of the program so much the better as he seems to have a knowlege and explanations of things I cannot even begin to fathom..
Smith Micro had to even remind me how to engage MSCONFIG as I had not done this for several years and had simply forgotten

It was not my intent to tick anyone off but it would seem that his applicationa for how he uses Poser and mine are totally different.  PZ3's averaging 400 MB or more  are common place for me.

As I stated in my earlier post.. I was ticked off and wanted to rant, especially after doing everything the Smith Micro guys threw at me such as MSConfiging my system and requesting all the stuff I mentioned above resulting in over 8 pages of text that consumed 2.5 hrs of my time.
Plus the MSCONFIG did something to my system and I had to do a system restore and set it for two days befor the MSCONFIG and now everything seems to be working as it was.

I'm sure that some Beta Testers had huge libraries to create complex scenes and Push P-8 to it's limit.   It just irked me that Smith Micro tried to emulate my work without using Actual V-4 and M-4 characters  Casual Alyson and Ryan, or any G-2 figure does not compare to the slightly more complex meshes of M-4 and V-4 Personally I wish DAZ would make a M4 and V4 reduced resolution as they did for V-3 & M-3 

I even tried to create a lite V-4 and came up with a mesh using 42MB.. yet V-4++ is just 13MB larger so it really did not make much sense

I just want to get this software to work and I have been complying to all of Smith's Micro's demands to help resolve my problems.

And no disrespect here to any of the beta testers but  BB has stated he is not an artist. Are there any Artist here that were Beta Testers or did I miss anything in this thread Cuz I would like to hear some of the Pz-3 scenes that were used to test P-8s memory

Who kinows  when P-9 comes out Smith Micro could select myself or any other individual that went to the tech support page and filled out incident reports

Regards  dml2000