I second Rex's post above! - these people are inconsequential in the scheme of things. try to switch off from the juvenile and illiterate hate mail and get on with it! {And THAT is exactly the attitude I was describing that's led me to quitting. Renderosity will have its traffic, and what happens to individual members is of no importance to them.} Well I would hate to thnink that was completely true, and as a vendor, you have (like it or not) more value to renderosity than a non vendor, since your sales help pay for it to continue anyway. It's a viscious circle, because as an artist, people expect you to be sensitive, how would you create art without that!? - but sadly, you have to detach your sensitivity from the talentless and jealous wankers that prevail here. If you ignore them, maybe they will go away!? Best wishes

No offence here, but that isn't a good example of the bryce render engine compared to posers. There is no hair texture other than trans on that example (bryce version) and as has been pointed out, with a little tweaking with materials like bump, specularity et al, the results can be much higher!. Posers only real advantage IMO is it's pseudo soft shadowing.

{Anyway, I'm glad I have a pc and usually feel sorry for mac users, not because it's a bad machine, but because they gotta pay 3 times as much for everythign, to get the saem results as on a pc, for 1/3 the price... :) } Eh? - I am a Mac user and there isn't anything that I can think of that costs 2 or 3 times more than for PC!?!? I for one am very interested in the abilities of Vue 4 but I wont even consider it til I know that it is stable.

I read the read-me. That didnt sort out the problem, even following the set of coordinates I was told to punch in. If I had had time to email you or Daz and wait for a reply that might have taken a few hours or days to come, I would have. Anton, I don't know you, you don't know me, but you are over reacting and being patronising in the process (especially in your IM) The subject is closed as far as I am concerned and was hardly worthy of this much attention in the first place.

I did not call you an idiot - i said it was an 'idiotic oversight' for an item such as this, at that price, to require extra effort just to have the thing fit the model it's supposed to. {Zero your figures hip and body and you will see that it fits "out of the box"} Didn't notice that in the blurb when I bought it!? Anyway, as I said, 'calm down', you are being over sensitive. I was annoyed and under pressure at the time and so retract the severity of my comment now (hence it's removal) but I do not need to 'save face' for anything. My criticism of the product (for that one problem) is valid and remains, and you should be a big enough to accept that. I have bought other products of yours in the past, and if necessary, I will again. And from what I see, they are of a high quality in most cases. Best wishes kromekat

I removed the apparently 'offensive' comment , but as I said in the IM, you should be a little more open to criticism, it is afterall an expensive item(s) (on the scale) , despite its versatility, and too have to spend time actually getting it to fit a completely 'out of the box' Vicky1 when you have a deadline to meet is infuriating! - ah well, job done. :)

Ok guys thanks! - special thanks to Cin! ;) - Sent a smaller version of your render to the client and they liked that style so I had to but Antons packs... $89!!!!!! - A tad steep me thinks - but a tax offset anyway! ;)

Its for Vicky! - I tried to download Taura's model but it just kept searching forthe connection!

Thats closer! - cheers Cin, I'll check that out too!

Thanks! - I'll check it out!! Any others out there can come up with anything else, i would be really grateful! ;)

Cats & Dogs

Yup on all counts!

Ok, well I did a test earlier to see the viability of creating 'presets' of my textures, and I took the moss/twigs from Ultimate Woodland as an example. I made this into a material with all the required bump, diffuse and ambient settings etc., exported as a single mat file that you could then simply import, but the file size (uncompressed) of that one file was 3.8Mb as opposed to about 500k!!! - this would make for very large downloads of a package or genre, ie: barks, mosses etc. The only way that i can see around it, would be to knock down the resolution of the textures to about half (500px) which theoretically, would lower the individual map size to about a quarter of the above - but, detail would be lost for larger, or closer to camera rendering. I will experiment some more and let you know what could be done!

Thanks for the feedback! - yeah, I was intending to add them to the available options!

add carrara, infini-d, cinema to that list! :)