If you bought the monitor with a credit card check that it may have a warranty extension program. I know American Express adds a year. 

I only have these suggestions:

1. Keep a versioning system for your products. Sometimes they are updated and there is no way of knowing if the current available version is newer than the one downloaded just a few weeks earlier. This may be important if a serious bug has been fixed. If a versioning system is too complicated then at least show the date of the last update for each product. I know that the cart is sometimes updated with a new product update but it is not always done for all the updated items.

1. The ability to easily create custom dynamic clothing in DAZ Sutdio is needed.

1. DAZ Studio needs full documentation. For a paid application, this is really lacking. Forum posts are not a replacement for a proper manual and the docs site is still mostly a placeholder. 

Thanks for your attention,

FlyerX

I was intrigued by the JPEG compression and I did a small experiment using Gimp 2.6.10 in Windows. Gimp uses libjpeg for JPEG handling.

I made an image with a gradient, antialiased text and two shapes: one curved and one aligned with the pixels. See below:

I loaded the image saved it to JPEG and closed it to make sure the data in memory was not used to save the image. The JPEG settings were 100%, optimized, no smoothing, not progressive, 2x2, 1x1, 1x1 subsampling and Integer DCT. I did this 10 times and the resulting image is shown below:

After 10 open/save cycles the image is basically unchanged from the original JPEG. Taking the difference between #10 and #1 and shrinking the color curve to cover only the part of the histogram showing data shows that the image does change but so slightly than for most purposes it is undistinguishable from the original. As expected the largest changes are around the sharp edges of the text and shapes. See enhanced difference below:

Obviously this will vary with other software implementations and methods but I doubt the differences would be too large while using 100% JPEG quality.

Although JPEG with 100% quality will work well I would recommend PNG. Hard drive space is cheap and with PNG there is no worry that the software you use would use a quality setting that may mess up your images at save time.

FlyerX

Here are some free ones that are just as good as commercial models:

http://dmi3d.comeze.com/

Most are in LWO format. You can use PoseRay to convert them to Wavefront format usable by Poser.

PoseRay: http://mysite.verizon.net/sfg0000/

good luck,

FlyerX

You can change the size of the video using Windows Movie Maker. See this link:

http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-SavingMovies-CustomProfiles.html

I would recommend getting the older windows movie maker 2.1 which has more features than the one included in Vista.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

You can also use VirtualDUB:
http://www.virtualdub.org/

good luck,

FlyerX

Attached Link: http://www.papajohn.org/MM2-SavingMovies-CustomProfiles.html

Windows Movie Maker: (Windows XP, Vista & 7)
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/updates/moviemaker2.mspx

There is the new Windows Live Movie Maker but it does not have as many features as the older version.  Besides if you are using XP SP2 or later it should be already installed.

If you want to create DVDs from the movies that you create then I would suggest DVDStyler. (http://www.dvdstyler.de/).

FlyerX

Attached Link: http://www.povray.org/

Main limitations with PoseRay is the material transfer. Since Poser moved to the new material system in version 5 most of the material is hit and miss particularly on specular properties. I was not going to rewrite a material parser. Many complicated materials in Poser can be done with a single line in POV-Ray.

The key is to experiment and keep one thing in mind: If you do not use PoseRay to convert the scenes make sure they are scaled at least by 100 during the conversion. This way POV-Ray does not have problems with the very small scale Poser uses. PoseRay does this scaling by default.

FlyerX

I did not purchase Poser 8 because, according to a message from smith-micro support, the library was still forced to have the same inefficient structure that it used for more than a decade. If I wanted to arrange the files any way I want I would have to use the favorites and that may not work if the library is too large because of memory constraints. Since I do not use the renderer, Poser 8 was no different than Poser 6 for my purposes.

So was this feature added to Poser 8 after the recent updates? If it is really in Poser 8 I may upgrade.

FlyerX

The Kerkythea exporter is done in the current version I am working on. This version is not yet available at the my site.

It takes me a long time to update PoseRay so I will soon upload the version I have as a beta to keep the latest changes available to everyone.

FlyerX

This is one of the many physically based ray tracing programs that are available. I will take a look at the developer documents and see if an exporter for PoseRay is feasible.  The one for Kerkythea was very easy but it was the geometry and materials only. LuxRender may require the camera and lights too.

FlyerX

Attached Link: http://www.7-zip.org/

7-zip is a good alternative and works well for rar and zip formats. It can also handle other less common compression algorithms.

Attached Link: http://www.technologyreview.com/communications/24414/?ref=rss&a=f

FlyerX

Attached Link: VirtualDub

Attached Link: http://translate.google.com

It does not work well if there is too much shear on the strips. I tried this a couple of years ago when I got Poser 6 and the strips look really bad if the head is tilted away from vertical. The strips need to shear significantly to properly simulate hair. I tried several settings of shear resistance and I could not get an acceptable result.

Maybe in Poser 7 or 8 the shear is better modeled.

FlyerX