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So far Microsoft has lost me until I can modify colors on the task bar and menus etc.

From what I read online today, Microsoft has taken that color choice away from windows 10.

They call it accent color now and it effects your task bar and the window frames all at once.

Microsoft, Why?

What advantage is there in taking away things that people are so used to using?

Renamed Windows Explorer to something else, I forget what it is.

It almost seems like Microsoft wants to make people give up on Windows.

Really guys, what gives?

I am at a loss...

Tom

Rokket,

Try here. Windows 7 Pro

It is at New Egg

Tom

That is what I did after all the extra work.

Live and learn I guess...

By the way Doric, nice sarcasm there. Very kind of you.

Tom

Already contacted Smith Micro about it and they are looking at it.

I would love to see it in the next service release.

A work around is select the top item in the list at the same time as the alt key and everything below it is selected.

Tom

Hi Guys and Gals,

Just wanted to add a link here for a feature request I have had for some time now. Made a video to show why it is so important to me.

Regards, Tom

Will open in your view port if you give it time to download. 3.06 megs

A Plea for the dialog boxes

So you want several of those silver things to fill a city block?

I have a different plan in mind.

I am finishing up city block Twenty and it will feature around 12 more homes.

The next set I want to get off into industrial stuff for a while, as I really get a kick out of rigging things like cranes that travel on tracks etc..

You can bet there will be some huge tanks and conveyors and piping etc. broken out windows plywood filled windows and the like.

Also want to get a few more low poly sets after while but not sure how much people like them.

They are just for background blocks so I try to keep them under 5000 polygons.

Tom

I have some minor quibbles, like the street signs being too modern for 1950s, and no transformers on the power poles, but what do expect from a scale model railroader and someone who does cadd work in his spare time. :=3

Hi Lion,

The reason I don't go to the extent that Stone Mason does on detail, is because I put a self imposed limit of 100,000 polygons on each of my city block sets.

That way you can actually have more things in the scene. :-)

The street signs that I see in my home town have been here longer than the 50's and they are very similar to the ones on my sets.

Tom

Hi Lion,

I am not sure what you are trying to explain .

Would you be so kind as to post a couple images of what you are talking about?

Tom

Sorry it has taken me so long to respond but I have been buried.

Coleman, the Ocean Front comes with 16 Cameras that you can use to get close to where you want to go. Once you are close then you can move the camera with the crappy little move and pan tools. I really hate them because it is like walking through molasses, with mud shoes, while wearing a tar coated pair of pants. If you select the main camera then you will see the Transform spinners show up. Keep in mind Poser is not a high end graphics program so they have limited resources to work with.

Any way, once you select the camera go to the Transform section and double click on the names of the xy and z controls and set the Sensitivity to something like 100 if you want to move the camera a hundred feet easily. For a really big move set it to 500. Just think of real world when you change these settings.

Hope that gets you pointed in the right direction.

DrNewcenstein thanks for the kind words. Also what the terms mean.

Would it not be called EIL short for Enable Indirect Light? :-)

Tom

Impressive work! Keep going and be your worst critic until you feel he is complete.

Look at lots of photos and compare facial ratios and scale. Is his head the right size compared to his body,

shoulder width etc etc.

I will be watching this thread.

Once again I am impressed!

Tom

On the list.

Even though this is not the purpose of this post. :-)

Thanks for the suggestions.

Tom

Hi esther,

Glad you like my stuff. :-)

Not in the Planning Commissioner's adgenda for the near future.

Sorry

Tom

Hi Guys,

Sorry for the delay buy Ilona and I are deep into a new product and it is getting ready to ship off to Brazil to have her work her wonders!

Can't say what it is but should be in the store early next month.

In Order, here are my responses as I am still going like a cat covering up crap on a tin roof!

hornet3d Thanks for being understanding. :-)

puterdude  Thanks a lot! It is worth it to me to come in here once in a while.

Kalypso  I don't understand most of what you are asking because I don't get abbreviations.

Also, why is abbreviations such a long word. One would think there would be a shorter version of that word?

Please use whole words so I know what you are talking about as I don't come in the forums much. And I have severe

attention deficit disorder and get lost in terms real easy. Sorry.

Gary, you old Block Head, I think I would not have made it with out you man! I think you own every one of my blocks.

So because you are a good customer I will tell you when block Twenty is due. I just have to design and build it first before I can give you a firm date. :-)

Sorry bud, I am only one guy and can only do one at a time. But I will say I am back on the case so to speak when it comes to full city block sets.

They really are my true passion! Might even squeeze a car or two in here and there. Also want to do more with Ilona, if my mind can take it.

She is such a Peach!

Moriador,  Same response as Kalypso

I am actually hoping Ted will chime in here and ad his infinite wisdom to this thread. Keep in mind he has told me several times

there is no one perfect set up for every scene. They each have their own variables that call for different measures.

When it comes to Ted there is one right way, and it involves a googleplex of math. :-)

Sorry Ted You still are, and always will be the man!

ssgbryan   Those are good suggestions and will add them to my possibles list. No guarantees bud.

That is all for now as it is almost 2 in the morning and I am trying to get back on a day schedule like real people do. :-)

Tom

P.S. Why can't I click on my picture and have it expand to full size?

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Hi Paul,

Yes that would speed things up because transparencies do add to the time.

Thanks for clearing that up.

I am one who has to do renders in Poser only because my products are for Poser only.

Post work is generally a no no, for Vendors.

Adding things like text is permitted but tricks like layering are forbidden, for site promos.

What you see is what you get, so to speak.

Tom

Hi Paul I would not want to try adding in post as that would make me crazy. :-)

The snow does add to the render time but I am not sure how to figure out how much as this image was an 18 hour render.

Maybe Snarlygribby will see this post and expound on that.

Tom