Yay! Thanks, everyone! I just had the same problem- no charachter, white screen, freezing on renders. So I turned the VM down. (Bloody poorly engineered piece of digital don'tgetmestarted....) At that point, I thought, okay, I have two choices. One, burn my computer, move to Nepal, sit on a mountain and eat Yak. Two, search the Poser forum to see if anyone else had the same problem. And here it is! I thank you. Tibet thanks you. The Yaks really thank you! ;]

Can you save an "entire" scene as a single .pz3 file? It should be possible, then. Let me look into it.

By "the wrong people", do you mean the fine example of respect for others' properties, others' persons, and high degree of intelligence displayed by the erstwhile Mr. Name-of-the-moment? If we all could but display such sterling qualities, there would be no dissent or wrongdoing on the internet- none of us would be capable of locating the computer's "on" button. And a good thing it would be.

I agree, though. "2D" covers a lot.

What, again, Thor? ;]

LOL! It may be a tad bit more politic to say "pencils and things of that nature"... How about- 1) abstract fractal and geometric 2) photoshop, psp, painter, and similar 3) realtime (paintings, sketches, etc.)

That's part of the problem, and one I ran into early in my interest in CG- lack of organisation. Too many artists are taken advantage of, stolen from, and generally ripped off because of several factors. One, the necessary information on their rights is not easily accesible or even locatable. Two, most artists are to an extent independent, and may have the willingness to help each other, but not the time or means. And three, the only currently available "organisation" is the GAG, who are UAW and put self interest first. That is one of the reasons I saw this site as such a great opportunity- to be a place where people can find the kind of information they need quickly and easily. There need to be tutorials on artists' rights, copyrights, trademarking, when and how to take legal action- all those things. It isn't enough to display your art, or put your item up for sale, and hope. Knowledge of the professional side is essential. This site could be a great resource for accomplishing that. I am perfectly willing to do my bit to see it happen.

There you are. You just helped me clarify something I'd been thinking, Melanie. I think you could call it harmony. People can talk about the aesthetic appeal of balance, but gues what? That's cultural. Look at decorating (home). In european influenced homes, you see symmetry. If you draw a line down the middle, both sides of a room or wall will match. Many people find that pleasing. Most oriental decor, however, such symmetry is bad- it blocks the flow, or "chi" of a room, and is a negative thing. Perceptions vary from culture to culture. (I subscribe to the 'chi' theory, and hate symmetry in my suroundings.) When I look at a person, I react in terms of harmony. Do the apparance, the personality, and the spirit seem to flow, work together? Does this person seem to be happy with their uniqueness, at home in their body? If so, I find them attractive. If not, the can be technically "perfect", but I won't see them as attractive. Scientific measurement is a yardstick, but when it comes to attraction, people go by feelings. Who someone reminds you of. If they seem to have an equable emotional state harmonious to your own. (Not necesssarily positive, just equable.)

There's a thought. However, there is a difference between self-adornment for pleasure, and doing it because the person thinks that it is necessary to compensate for a lack of adequacy. Asking "why" is never pointless- you can never make intelligent decisions without an understanding of the basis for those decisions.

True, inner beauty is difficult to capture. It takes skill as an artist to be able to portray a mood so that the viewers can immediately grasp it. However, that aside, how did the "barbie" type become a cultural icon? In whose culture? Why couldn't it be someone like, well, Maya Angelou? Michelle Yeoh? What are the deciding factors in this sort of thing? And why do they seem to be so easily accepted? Is it the media culture of passive acceptance? Or something else?

P.S. You may want to be careful about mentioning any derivative items which have their own copyrights. (For instance, if the item is a blabla for Vicky 2, be certain to make clear that the open source rights apply to the blabla, but not to Vicky 2. Commonsense, I know, but it doesn't hurt to be watertight.)

So, the way I read it is that you write your own version of the open source license, and the open source website reviews it to confirm that it is legal and proper. In that case, I think the most effective thing to do is to create your particular license, have it "officialised", the submit a copy to JennyK (jhandley@bondware.com) along with your intentions. Then she can read it, and tell you if anything needs covered, or if it is usable as-is.

I see no problem with that, as long as you Pink Pony up the dough for the bandwidth, server space, and overtime and extra aspirin rations for the entire staff. ;]

Flam: (flam), n., v. , 1. a fabrication; falsehood 2. Deception, humbug, blarney. (I think that's already covered by the tavern.) also: 3. a drumbeat made by two sticks striking the head almost at the same time, but still heard seperately. (What happens when the tavern bouncers catch you doing 1. Ow! Ow!)