As someone else mentioned in another thread in this vane, remember to use the code that's on the sticker that accompanied Poser 4 (the one that says "Important: Don't Lose This") and not the one displayed on the Poser 4 screen. That's very important!! Kuroyume

Cromwell1, dude, CL is trying to keep up with like three weeks of PRE-ORDERS and you're complaining about ordering Friday and not getting a tracking # three days later? There are literally THOUSANDS of orders pre-dating yours. You can't blame CL for not bucking your order to the front of the queue. Get in line.... Kuroyume Ordered 8/28/2002

And they didn't even give him a nice new set of clothes and hair... shameful, I say, shameful (lol). I think that I've possibly spotted a Dork or two on TV, in commercials mainly, but it is decidedly difficult to tell with a one or two second blurb (and the mesh could just look similar or they imported Dorkie into 3DS or whatever). Kuroyume

I just received my shipment confirmation from CL. Curiously (haha...emmmm), they used Airborne although I remember selecting UPS Ground (???). And about that problem that started this thread? The tracking information doesn't list my address either, so it's probably just the info that's displayed. I hope they can find me as my embattlement is far off the beaten path. If you heard about the tornado in Colorado recently, well, my house is about a mile or less from where it touched down. I actually saw another funnel forming and heading directly for my house, but I guess it didn't touch (I and my dogs were in the basement with my head in the same place you'll find most dogs' ;). Philywebrider: Really nice render there!! Kuroyume

c1cle: That buggers all, doesn't it? Good thing to remember is that there are actually people who have received it, so CL will definitely get down to the rest of us in good time. :) SAMS3D: Agreed. Though, I'm neither disappointed nor too edgy. When it arrives, it arrives. Even used UPS Ground instead of overnight because there isn't that much of a rush on my end (I am titilated, though, by all of the possibilities). It is great that you have received yours and am eagerly awaiting the juicy details about how it works, what the renders look like (don't forget to post images here!!! :), and any problems to avoid. So, get to work, slave!! (hehe) ;0) Kuroyume

Don't feel too neglected, our friends from over the pond. I pre-ordered mine two weeks ago and have yet to receive even an e-mail that it shipped. My credit card has been tapped by CL, so that's a good sign, but the wait is going to drive me INSANE! ;) Actually not, I've got a web site design that'll keep my mind off of whatever the program's called... As you can see, not even thinking about it. Really, I'm not. (Damn, where is it?!) Kuroyume

Sorry about going on a tangent there. Have visited your site's temporary home and it looks marvelous. Great work on the book, characters, and cool stuff! Swift speed on getting your site setup on your new ISP!!! Kuroyume

Had an Amiga (Atari ST, Commodore Vic-20, C-64, and TI at one time) and Genlock setup when I was doing short movies as a teen. They were great, and had a LOT of potential ... ahead of their time for sure. C-64 was my very first computer. Learned to program (BASIC and assembly) on it. Eeks! I'm givin' away my age!! ;p When I finally sank a full-time drafting/design job in '94, I was using an A2000 with AOS 2.1 at home for programming, 2D and 3D graphics, BBS surfing (before the internet became widely popular and available), among many other activities. At work, on the other hand, I was forced to use WFW and Generic CADD (think about a CAD program you can get at CompUSA for $20 and you've got the general idea). Abysmal comparing the two. Much effort was spent in exporting DXF from GC so that I could more efficiently work on a much better CAD system on my Amiga. Ahead of its time and some of us still think that they were intentially targeted (i.e.: the major stock holders and BoD) to be put out of business. The truth will probably never be known as those intimately involved (i.e.: the major stock holders and BoD :) will never divulge their reasons for withdrawing their megafunding of a booming computer company. The first hint that something smelled fishy was when their entire marketing/advertising department was obliterated (soon after their first TV commercials). As a business, you don't kill your access to potential customer expansion and expect to expand your market (and I'm as clueless about business as about speaking Swahili). Kuroyume

Jacqui: My T1 and ISP were SPECIFICALLY requested, installed, and paid for with a home-based web server in mind, so there will be no issues or shut downs. As for a domain name, yes, I am contemplating one after fleshing out the web site. I realize that Apache is the best and most used server (and being non-Windows and free makes it superior in all respects). My WinTel PC is reserved for not gaming but development among other things. Don't need users accessing my site while I'm compiling or debugging now, do I. :) Mac OSX has it installed and it can be activated with one, single click (I did it yesterday in about the 5 minutes to read about it, do it, and check it. That's how fast and easy it is.) Of course, to get the full power, you still have to tweak the httpd.conf file (very carefully) and so forth to enable SSI and do other things. Nonetheless, the entire backbone to serve a website is available, pre-installed. timoteo1: What brought the multi-tasking up? The Amiga (my first REAL computer) had pre-emptive multitasking while Windows was still a single tasking GUI entrenched deeply in its MSDOS roots (Windows 3.1 and WFW ring any bells). And, of course, Unix has always been multitasking (AFAIAA). AmigaOS from 87 to 94, Windows from 94 to present, MacOS just this year. Play with Linux on occasion but am too lazy to master the quatrillion commands and configs (IOW: I do have a life off of my computers ;). I just loath most web site providers because of the many issues involved: size restrictions, name restrictions, content restrictions, access restrictions, banners/popups, possibility of vanishing web site, uploading every change, and so on. The ability to make a locally accessible web site without these restrictions makes it worth the extra effort and cost, IMHO. Kuroyume

Well, all the complaints about Macs and Poser, but I'll tell you this one thing about OSX: Apache Server!!!! :) Who needs Geocities? We don't need no shtinkin' Geocities! All I need is a constant connection (check), a static IP (not absolutely necessary, but check), Web Sharing enabled(check), and a web site (long overdue update in progress). :P The only bad thing is that I don't have a domain name, so the only access will be http://ip address (yuck). Kuroyume

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I pre-ordered on the 27th of August and haven't gotten anything either. I must be behind a few thousand people. Are the pre-orderers put at the bottom of the list? I'm a little annoyed because CL's site says they don't charge your credit card until its shipped and mine was charged a couple of days after I ordered. Other threads are showing that people who ordered yesterday have already gotten their tracking numbers. What was the sense of pre-ordering?

I pre-ordered mine on the 28th and nothing yet either.

What's the sense of pre-ordering? The pre-order discount, I hope! ;(

Kuroyume

EricofSD, don't move the fridge. Just buy one of those 'office frigde jobbies. Stock up on beer, snacks, beer, and whatever other necessities of life and you'll only need to leave the computer to restock (unless you can get someone else to do it for you, that is ;) Oh yeah, don't forget the coffee maker. Kuroyume

There are a gadzillion tutorials on this subject. PhilC has one of the best. Check here for tutorials. Check Poser Arcana also. And check the links on the bottom-right for sites that have tutorials. To quickly answer your questions, though. You'll need a 3D object that contains UV coordinates (vt for .obj)representing the clothes (which it sounds like you have already). You'll also need a texture template to draw onto to make the texture for the clothes; this is the best approach. There is either an existing texture template (Daz3D supplies them with all of their models) or you will need to get UVMapper and make one yourself (which isn't very difficult if you just want the default UV's used). The size of the image really doesn't matter - uh oh :). The bigger the better up to a certain extent since you'll get better resolution from a larger image. But, of course, if it's ridiculously large (like 10MB), your rendering will go very, very slowly. Good luck and have fun with it!! Kuroyume

Java has the same feature with 'try catch()' which is very useful. As soon as I saw that in Python, I knew what it was for. Makes debugging and error handling easy as pi/0 ;) Strict OOP is definitely the wave of the future (well, until something better comes along, anyhow). Kuroyume

This is a little late, but Welcome Moderator!! Kuroyume