You're welcome. And I did buy it too!

It might have been Martin Frost's Creepy Hollow Collection. I just stumbled across it while spending money :) and I remembered your post. This collection looks pretty cool, I might buy it...

http://www.cornucopia3d.com/purchase.php?item_id=4326

I'm starting to think this will never work. Should I contact support to see about a refund?


The reasons given by the server are included to help you determine why
each recipient was rejected.

Recipient: MyCat@renderosity.com
Reason: No such user (mycat) Cached lookup

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Quote - Never had that happen before...was a bit of a surprise ;-)

As surprises go it probably is one of the better ones! (MyCat goes off to eat up more of your bandwidth. TIA)

Edit: D/L's it. Thanks again!

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Received-From-MTA: dns; toip3.srvr.bell.ca (209.226.175.86)

Final-Recipient: RFC822; MyCat@renderosity.com
Action: failed
Status: 5.1.1
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Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 No such user (mycat) Cached lookup

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You can also make lower resolution versions of the textures and use those instead. A 2000x2000 texture uses just 1/4 the memory of a 4000x4000 one. If you're not doing an extreme close up you can't see the difference anyway.

Just don't accidentally overwrite the high resolution texture map with the low res one. Save it with a new file name, like facematLO.jpg.

Is "downgrading" to Windows XP an option? For me, Poser 7 works well under XP Pro 64 bit, except sometimes when V4 is in the picture. Othert time V4 is fine.

I develop for Linux in my day job but use Windows frequently. My personal opinion is that XP is not only better than its predecessors but also so far its successor. There's probably a reason why Microsoft extended the time you could buy XP from 2007-12-31 to 2008-06-30 or thereabouts.

Edit: s/it's/its/g, I have to learn to spel.

There's also the Ivy Generator http://graphics.uni-konstanz.de/~luft/ivy_generator/. It's free, it grows ivy around an OBJ mesh. It's also a bit addictive.

Rent or buy the DVD Ronin and listen to the director's commentary. Frankenheimer does not use special effects. He does the quick-cut-on-a-black-frame trick to shorten an otherwise long trip though a wide open plaza into a few seconds. Then watch what he does elsewhere and how he does it. Also watch the other ways he compresses time: the actor enters a building, the camera pans up to a third storey window, the we cut to him approaching the apartment door. In my opinion the lack of special effects adds to the realism and would apply to CGI too. At least that's what I hope :-)

(Then watch the car chase scenes. The actors were actually being driven through the narrow streets at 100 km/h. No wonder their reactions seemed so real. The drivers were Formula 1 drivers so hopefully they knew what they were doing.)

It's also a great movie!

That ghost! Thank you, A thousand times. My Internet access is wireless. Slow. Thank you again.

MyCat owes FrankT a next time FrankT is in Ottawa, Canada. We have Guinness. India Stale Ale. :) (Actually Canadian beer isn't all that bad. Often it's better than the imports because it's fresher. (The Japanese company Sapporo was using a Canadian brewer Sleeman's to make their products locally - either they liked the results or hated them, but they ended up buying the company.)

I'm running Vue 6.5 on an Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 - four 2.4 GigaHertz cores - with 8 GB of RAM. Wiindows XP 64 bit. Water cooled, sorry. Koolance Exos-LT cools the CPU, which is almost half of the heat budget.

My best Render Cow (besides the main one) is the Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 overclocked from 2.4 to 3.0 GHz with a Scythe Ninja as cooling. (Ninjas are cool, and silent. Unfortunately the rest of my computers more than make up for it.) It's almost as fast as the main Quad, possibly because it's running Linux instead of Windows XP. I have two identical 1.83 GHz HP Cows, I plan to install Linux on one and compare.

My worst Render Cow is the Intel Pentium 4 which at 3.0 GHz is about 1/7th the Core 2 Duo at the same clock speed. Possibly because it has no (0.5GB) memory. I'm going to check if I can upgrade the CPU and memory. If not I'll build another Linuix Cow.

The Render Cow licence allows five, I'm taking full advantage. :-)

Note: if you can run your cows under Windows, do so. I have to manually restart the Linux Cows after each job because the old ones don't close the network socket. If this bug was fixed I'd buy a lot more licences, but since the program isn't supposed to run on Linux I just count my blessings.

I just hope I don't need that kidney I sold to pay for Vue Infinite. Just kidding! But I wonder if "Infinite" is the price.

Also for some reason SkinVue is 32 bit only. I don't understand why, but this fact did save me from spending $50 :-(

Edit: speeling

I have XP Pro 64 bit also. I also have an XP Pro 32 bit machine, the old one. One of them usually has drivers. Happily, mostly the 64 bit one.

Wabe and Monsoon, I love the waterfall! It looks real.

Of course, since I live in Canada the snow looks artificial because it doesn't look like the mess outside my window!  Just kidding, but I hate snow. Your snow is an awesome stylized snow. It would work well in an animated show or a ChristmasFestive Season card.

I take it from your last post that you now have your hands on the machine :-)

A 64 bit OS lets you use more than 4 GB of RAM, so you can run more 32 bit things at once, or you can run a giant 64 bit application. Or any combination. Isn't Vue Infinite a 64 bit application? (I don't know because I haven't got it yet, the Personal Learning Edition is seeping in from the torrents as I type.) If so it could use 64 GB of RAM if you have it.

I am lusting for a 30" monitor that is on sale here in Canada, I think it uses the same display panel as the Apple Cinema 30". It's 4" bigger than my TV!

Sorry my avatar is in the same pose as yours, it's from another site and it's supposed to be, er, my cat Dolly. (It's really just the DAZ Millennium cat.)