How about a 2nd Face Plugin? Ohh actually that will be cool for damage effects!!! Let's talk about it. I am serious

Ohh shame on you guys!!! Asking people to spend 4.99 at Christmas time, when they are already almost bankrupt!!! Dont you guys think about peoples budgets before releasing such amazing stuff? :) Cheers, Umut. P.S: King Kong movie ticket 15 bucks and all you will have left is memories. The poser figure 4.99 and you can play with it for a life time!!! Sounds like a great deal :). I said King Kong, you didn't :)

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Dear ZEW3D Team, Thanks for the answers. I would like to get more in depth with some of them. "1) Of course. Masker Uploader will be available on our web site few days after MASKER release. It will look very similar to CLOTHER and CLOTHIM Uploader." That is a good step. It is always good to allow 3rd party support. "2) All masks and caps textures have shadows, so its will look natural. Color changing function available in MASKER do not change color of shadow, so our masks are available in all colors and shadow always look natural." I don't understand how that can be possible. Since it is just a texture overlay, it will just show simulated (painted) shadows. So the shadows will not be realistic. For example if the shadow was painted dark with simulating light coming from ahead and the artist was using light casting the shadows from the left, the simulated (painted) shadow wont match the scene. If in the application you can alter the direction of shadows, then you would have to create a lot of different texture overlays. How efficient is that? "3) Colors plug-in for MASKER (available for free at our web site) beside many advanced color and opacity changing functions will let you create transparency channel for masks and caps. This generated texture can be use for all shaders as a cutting map. Additional free bump plug-in will let you create bump texture for MASKER masks." That's a solution, however isn't that too many textures? "4) MASKER contains 30 items (masks, make-ups and tattoos). MASKER will be available in two versions. Regular price for MASKER is $39.95 (so each item available in all color options cost less than $1.40). All CLOTHER or CLOTHIM Users can buy MASKER with special discount - 15% off regular price. If you wish to know more about this offer visit our web site." I can never argue or question pricing. It is always about how much you want to sell your self and how much you can sell your self. However I am just trying to understand one thing. Since there was CLOTHER why did you ever make CLOTHIM or MASKER? since they are all unimesh, the same application would have supported all of these. Specially for CLOTHIM, just releasing male textures was enough, why make customers pay for the same base software? "MASKER let you use MULTILAYERING functions. You can use many layers with different masks, caps, make-ups, ear-rings and tattoos. All layers lay on skin texture so make-ups and tattoos are not moved away from the head. We added shadow under masks and caps but not under tattoos and make-ups so all look natural. Inside MASKER you can in real time mix and match all available items, change its colors independently for each layer and all this changes are accepted by one mouse click." But isnt that requiring to have a full head texture for each variation? User can end up with hundreds of textures just for matching 5 tattoos with 5 blushes and 5 lipsticks. Doesnt sound very runtime friendly. Please correct me if I am misjudging. I have to admit that ZEW3D makes very nice textures, but the problem I am having here is Great Textures being sold with a marketing strategy which I am having hard time to understand "WHY?" Kind regards, Umut B. Aydin (UMUTOV)

Look amazing. You are a true artist.

Dear ZEW3D team, As a buyer and also a merchant, I would like to ask a few questions. First of all congratulations and goodluck with your new software. Now I will leave my merchant status behind and ask a few questions as a customer. 1) Does your product support 3rd party extansions by other merchants? 2) As they are face masks&facial enhancements, and as far as I know they are texture overlays. Will they cast shadows onto the base texture once rendered? Cause if not, they really won't look like masks. 3) If I am using skin shaders over the texture (Such as Face_Off's, won't these overlays get affected by the Skin Shaders? Such as spots, moles, vains, blushes, etc...... 4) How much is the price going to be? Kind regards, Umut B. Aydin (Umutov)

You guys are all welcome. Hopefully we will be making more freebies in the future. As for now, we are a bit busy making the plug-ins for other character supports (Miki Plug-in is already in our stores here and Poserpros) such as Jessi&James, Terai Yuki 2, Koji, Ben&Kate, P5 People, V2&M2, and some other exciting characters. You guys are also welcome to make freebies. We will advertise your freebies from our main Promo page. I take that as a "YES", now I can't wait to see what you guys will create :). Regards, Umut.

"but are their others out there who are succeeding in this marketplace? Not just the top sellers." To be in the top 30 you need to have between 5000$ to 6000$ dollars sale in 90 days (It changes... Sometimes a little higher, sometimes a little lower). This is no private information cause I move around 34-39 and that's what it takes to be around that spot. So say that you make 6000$ sales to get into the top 30 in 90 days (now you are a top seller), you can see that you really can't make a living with that. 50% of that is Renderosity's share, so it will leave you 3000$ in your pocket in 90 days, and that makes 1000$ a month. Once you are in the top 30, you will be getting 60% from your sales (for the products you released after you got in the top 30), but that wont make much of a difference either. From the example I gave, you can easily see that even beeing in the top 20-40 out of almost 2000 merchants won't allow you to make your living. Atleast not here in Australia or any modern (Globalized) country. I can't comment on what the top 1-20 may be doing, haven't there before. But I can tell you that it is very HARD :). Not only making great products alone will be enough. It will take some time to get known + a group of people cheering for you :). I hope this information helps you. Cheers, Umut.

She looks very cool. I actually like the way you have modeled her. I hate characters modeled with very complex face shapes (Like heavily morphed look). Because it makes it almost impossible to make good morphs. That's why I like that you have kept it very basic with the Face Shape. Morphs can give her whatever bombshell she will look like :) As for the body proportions, She is pretty good actually. I just hate that you have made her legs already long. Grrrr no Super Model Legs addon for her :). If you want to cooperate with our 2nd Face Wow sytem, please contact me once you have your Final version. We can work a plugin support for your character. Regards, Umut.

Lol Xena. Get some good rest my friend. Huh by the way thanks for turning my advert into Aussie Chat :) lol. No worries M8, it's all good :).

Hey Xena, I am very sorry to hear that. Bonni, lol Aeroguard!!!! lol, Did you watch the Danoz Direct Stuff allnight long? :) Cheers, Umut.

What the hell are you guys doing up at this time? Considering some of the messages being from 2-3 hours ago, have you guys even went to bed? Cheers, Umut.

I bet Bonni is more Aussie than me, lol. I have been here since 2.5 years. But hey, the best chicks on the planet are here.... Really, it's unreal :). Cheers, Umut.

Oi, Bonni. Ya not a true blue Aussie. Don't take it on ya self m8. :) Hehe, I knew you were going to say something like that, lol :). Cheers, Umut.

Ohhhh that ring master looks awesome!!! I love every bit of it. Rebekah can I make Super Model Legs for him? I'm just joking about the SML, however I am very serious about the ring master being a master piece. Cheers, Umut.

Hey Rebekah, check your IM. I have a message for you. Cheers, Umut.