'I gotta say, it's about d@mned time, you ungreatful b@stards!"

Oh, my!  Gasp!  Such language...:-)))

Just kidding...that's funny.  ;-)

Of course, someone will want your freebie!  I've got a game textures book and half of it seems to be fille with signs.  Evidently, some people love to make signs with bullet holes in 'em or writing on 'em or...just like to put 'em up for stop or go...

Your sign could be used for many purposes.  One day an artist will come along, looking for a sign -- and there it'll be, right your freebies.  :-)

Cool sign, too.  You made the studs look really natural.  Love the glare of light at the edge...

P.S.  Yes...I know...I'm gonna stop flooding this thread with posts...(rolls eyes at self -- that takes some doin', too)

"Call me anything, but call me three times a day."  :-)

That's my motto -- except I don't eat breakfast much.  Scrambled eggs look...well, scrambled and fried eggs seem to stare at me like eyeballs. :-)

Guess I could eat cereal...

Anyhow, it's Lzy!  I will remember.  :-)

Hugs, back!  :-)

I don't mean to flood this thread with posts but I got a notice that someone had responded to the thead and I was curious.  :-)

Farpa, I'm so glad you spoke up.  :-)  It's a lot more fun to talk and interact with the wonderful people who are on the 3D forums.  I've not posted a lot on the Rendo forums either...although I surely have frequented the market!  :-)  And the Free Stuff area.  I honestly had no idea that such nice people 'lived' here.

Anyhow, it says a lot about you that your first post would be a 'thank you' post!  :-)  That's VERY nice!

Greetings and Happy Halloween and I hope you and everyone else have a wonderful day!  :-) 

However, people like me who upload freebies do do it for own satistsfaction I think (I do do anyway :)) and people who download do us service, especially when they use our freebies in a picture they make.

I believe you've got lots more download than me so I'm not a freebie maker on your scale but I do it for the same reason.  It gives me tremendous satisfaction.  And yes, people who use freebie stuff are doing freebie makers a service.  If it weren't for the users, we wouldn't get to experience the joy of uploading and sharing!  :-)

Still, it is wonderful when people say thank you and that they like your stuff.  So encouraging.  Makes me want to just fly to Lightwave and say, "Okay, what can I do next that someone might like?"  :-)

So thank you to the users! It is an incredible rush to see something you've made in someone else's render!!!  :-)

LOL!!!  I doubt I could shoot down a Boeing.  Maybe a cropduster...hm, never thought about it from that perspective.

I kind of moved away from the pistol-training.  When the dog's hair started falling out.  No, I'm joking.  It didn't fall out.  That dog's got hair that'll grow to China if I don't keep it cut.  But she is so stubborn!  One sight of that pistol will bring her fat little body right to the door though.  I swear, that training method was born out of sheer desperation.

Oh, boy...after I got permission to use those beautiful textures for Lady Anne...now, I've been poisoned!  I honestly think someone slipped rat killer in my chicken pot pie.  Either that or I didn't cook that pie long enough...may be salmonella or chickenella.  Anyhow, I think I've got to drink some baking soda and go to bed.  (That's my remedy for upset stomach...baking soda).  Of all nights...

Oh, well...I'll do Lady Anne textures and work on the site links tomorrow.  I've got more good links that I want to put up.

Oh, jeez...I'm gonna be ill again...

Will see you all tomorrow, lord willin' and the creek don't rise.

I'd like to say "thanks," too.  :-)  Not only as a free stuff user, but as a free stuff maker.

It is so nice when someone makes a gesture like this -- just to say "thanks."

It's also nice when people offer up stuff that you know they could sell!  I've picked up free stuff in the Rendo free stuff area that's often as nice as 'boughten' items.  ;-)

Really nice of you to start this thread, Acadia.  :-)  This might sound trite, but you're a very good person.  Sweet at heart.

P.S.  Edited to correct mistaken identity!  :-)

VERY nice!  :-)  Looks elaborate.  I can't wait to try it out!  Thank you.

Perfect for Halloween, too.

Jan

Nice job, Phil!  Good to see someone modeling for Alyson.  :-)  Thank you -- I have one beautiful Alyson character that this will be lovely on!

Quote - I admire your work so much and am very grateful for your generosity.

Thank you!  :-)  I appreciate your comment.  Honestly, it is a real joy for me to make something and share it and know that people like it a little and can use it.  I stopped making clothes for awhile and I missed it a LOT!

I'm grateful that there are people like you who will use what I make, tell me 'thank you,' -- and hopefully I'll get to see some renders with the dress!

Whee!  The artist that created the beautiful texture pack is gonna let me use it and I'm very happy about that!  Some vendors don't want you to use their textures except on commercial stuff, which is totally their right and choice and I respect that.  But I just realized, I need to acknowledge the texturers who've been so good to me, allowing me to use their stuff on free items.  I do intend to remedy that oversight by linking to their stores!  :-)

All this interaction has done a wonderful thing to my mood...I'll tell y'all that!  :-)

Jan

Hi Jan,

**I love that new background color ... red is often a problem for eyes but this broken pale red is very eye friendly and the text size on the home page is well done. So I can second Alisa completely ... **

Thanks!  :-)  Good...I wondered about the red but I love red so much...and like you say, that's kind of a pale red.  I appreciate your critique, Jo.  Seems you were right on.  :-)

But you should have a look to the site builder if it's having something like a general default choice. Then you could set the text size a general default for new pages. For now on the links page you have the old smaller size.  In each span argument for the text parts and links the text size is defined as small ( e.g. ) and this is mostly refering to a normal text size like 6 or 8 in windows terminology. This also is condensing the link underline to the link text not looking so good.

Err...technical stuff!  :-)  There is a default size to that template and it is tiny!  I wonder if the text size is looking different on different screens.  It looks HUGE on my screen.  I even wondered if it was too big!  I'll need to compare it on different computers, I guess.  :-)

Hm, download entries ... with those sitebuilders this is often working like setting up a gallery which also allows more than one entry. May be worth a check in the help file if even such is there ...  I have tried 4 or 5 such sitebuilders (including the strange behavior of M$-Word for such stuff) and in the end I have found it is much less nerving to do it by manual html coding ...  :laugh:

Now that is giving me a few second thoughts...the organization of that template and downloads.  I may have to learn coding, as you said, unless I want someone to maintain that site for me, which I do not.  I love working on that site...it's a joy!  I get a book and prop it up beside me and wait while the builder updates and wait...but I get a lot of reading done!  :-)  No kidding, it's fun!  Right now, while there's only Lady Anne, not so much of a problem.  And next time I can put the maps in the Runtime.  But people oughta be able to read the ReadMe before they download.  Maybe I could just post the contents on a page rather than making it a download file.  I like the way the Gallery is set up though!  Pretty smooth, other than a thumbnail merging into a thumbnail.  I hope people realize they can click the second thumb and get a BIG picture.  :-0

But you will learn it by the time I'm sure ... good success for that by now ... :thumbupboth:

Thanks!  I built a free Yahoo site YEARS ago but that's the only thing I've ever done, regarding website building.  I think you can start from scratch with that builder and add modules but I'm not that confident yet.  But hopefully, I'll learn!  :-)

Thanks a LOT for the input -- I'm so glad you will tell me the truth and not sugarcoat.  :-)   That is very cool!

*A wee bit Ot but I'm reading a book now called The Boleyn Inheritance.  It's got a lot about Anne of Cleves in it.  She was your countrywoman, was she not?  She's presented as a very nice lady, very down to earth, very good-hearted.  Thank goodness, she survived Henry's temper.  :-)

Anyhow, thanks again and I'm really glad we reconnected!  :-)))

The dog is being bad...do you think I should resort to the pistol-training again?  Joke!!!  :-)  I stopped that.  It was fairly ridiculous, wasn't it?

Jan

Iz!  :-)))  Hey!  So you're Lzy?  I could've sworn I read 'Izy' at DNA!  I swear, I'm going blind.  (Calls eye dr. in panic)  ;-)

Thank you, hon.  I really, really appreciate you stopping by...very much. 

Had dr's appt. today and worked on site this afternoon so was swamped but will see ya in the DZ tomorrow.

Hug back!  :-)

P.S.  Will see the rest of you guys tomorrow, too!  I want to respond to some threads, especially since people have been so nice and encouragingly responsive to this.  :-)

This is so great. :-) So encouraging. You all have NO idea how much I appreciate your comments!

Alisa, thanks!  I'm glad you like the new setup.  :-)  So Jo was right...about the site being difficult to read.  I definitely want it to be user friendly!  Since it was set up for the user!  :-)  Thank you for letting me know that my afternoon's heavy labors were worth it!  Nah...it was honestly a labor of love.  I love to work on that site.  Just wish the sitebuilder was a wee bit faster...

Thunderstone!  A fellow historian!  Very nice to meet you.  :-)  Thank you for your comment and for your 'thank you.'  I hope you enjoy the dress.  :-)  Just got some cool textures and I'm hoping the artist will let me use them to make some more textures for the outfit.  If she doesn't, no hard feelings.  Those are beautiful textures though!  :-)

Thank you, Acadia!  :-)  Love your Santa icon.  It's that time of year...I appreciate you taking time to comment.

Again...this is wonderful...I'm inspired...and you all have filled me with new enthusiasm!  :-)

Jan

Thank you, Bakapo!!!  :-)  It's a lot of fun, having my own site.  So nice not to have to bum space off others.  And I find myself taking greater care with my models, knowing they'll be put up on my own space.  :-)  I'll bet I conformed Queen Anne 3 times.  :-)  Anyhow, thanks for commenting!

Good luck with that, Elfwine!  Would you let us know how that goes?  The conversion to Aiko 3?  I've had people before ask me to convert dresses to Aiko 3 and I have no idea to do it.  She so tiny!  So I'd love to see what you come up with.  :-)

Thank you, both, again!  :-)

Jo, I redid my site...how d'ya like it now?  It is better?  ;-)

Same format but darker bkg and bigger type.  I was afraid I'd have to totally redo it but the content stuck.  All I had to do was change the bkg color and enlarge the type!  :-)

Redid the links page, too.  I can't wait to add more links! :-)

Can y'all tell I'm kind of excited? 

Hugz all round,

Jan

Quote - Thanks for the link. It wasn't that urgent, you know - certainly not something to squeeze in before a doc's appointment. I hope that doesn't go with a bang, by the way. :)

Further to the footnote on your links page, your Renderosity link works fine for me, but bear in mind that Renderosity itself is currently broken. The front page and the freestuff have broken out in error messages.

Are you kidding?  :-)  It was urgent to me.  Besides, what if I'd gotten killed going to the dr's office?  ;-)  I'd never have gotten a chance to return the compliment.

All kidding aside, I'm tickled pink that you linked to my site.  Also looking forward to exploring your website so I can gather info and create a better description other than "artist whose skills I've admired for years."  :-)

Okay...back from the doctor (saw a robbery, too, or the aftermath of one) time to get the revamp on the road.  Can't have Jo unhappy.  When Jo ain't happy...ain't nobody happy.  :-)))

Oh, thanks for the tip about Rendo...it's got some strange code coming up when you click the link but I imagine that'll be fixed soon.  :-)

Okay...got it up.  :-)  Thanks, English Bob.

Infininity, I just realized that my comment to you sounded a little hurried -- it's just 'cause I'm trying to get ready to go to the appt. and can't stop fidding with that site (I swear, sitebuilding is obsessing) -- and I'm sorry.  :-)

Thank you much for taking the time to comment...if it were not for nice people like you all, I would not be doing what I'm doing.  So again...thank you.  :-)

Y'all have a great day!  You've certainly started mine off with a bang!  ;-)