Poppi, Something similar happened to me today too, except I didn't recieve an IM like you. I checked in on one of my images and it had dropped 2 rankings too. And guess who left a comment? Yup, RNKarenER. She left an alright comment, but I'm pretty sure that she gave me the worst ranking availible to drop my image. I thought she wrote something to this effect "Personal attacks on others are both unprofessional and are hurtful." Who's the immature one here??

to create new objects, click on the double check mark. If you click on the single check, it will replace the current object. Make sure you have the obj's for the item you want. Are you using default poser 4 clothes?

Dialyn, When I meant quality, it should be an image that you want to create. Not just putting images out to get views or what is popular i.e. naked vicki's (i'm not trashing nudity, but really it should be something tasteful in my opinion, not soft porn). I understand that renderosity hosts a wide range or artists, postwork shouldn't be everything. Postwork isn't the quality I was talking about. (Heavily postworked poser images should be in mixed medium anyways!) It should be an image that comes from you and your feelings. But somehow it seems like the artists that constantly post images each day, nonetheless 2-3 PER day usually make images that I often dislike (i.e. female standing about with no expression or reason to be standing there). But that is my opinion. Anyhow, you're right, the best advice that came out of this string is to "ignore the voting, ignore the hits, and do what you most want to do without letting the popularity contest get to you."

well, what i'm getting at is that it's ok for friends to vote for your image.. if they truely think it deserves it. Not telling a friend they have to vote for an image or just out of courtesy. It should come from the heart of what you think is good, not by someone telling you to vote. Images should be quality NOT quantity! Putting out 3 images per day would be quite difficult if it were to have quality. Instead there are people who are just cranking out images left and right, a figure standing in front of a backdrop staring into space like a vegtable. I personaly think an image should come from the heart and that you try to put all your effort in it. It's not a contest on how many you can post per day or how many views you get.. Really it should be for your own personal satisfaction, but originality is quite lacking these days...

I do feel pretty sorry for people who need to have friends vote for their image. Sad to see that they need that kind of self-assurance. And yes, the poser hot 20 is corrupt, it should be removed.

Renderosity should have a protection where you can't right-click (internet explorer), or whichever and save-images and steal them. The moderators should really try to give us a little more protection there. Plus they should have a way where people can't have clone accounts, it just makes things even more messy.

lol! I guess you didn't read the post about people cheating in the halloween contest by voting for their own images! I'm sure if those people cheated for a contest, they wouldn't give it a second thought about clicking on the button voting for the hot 20.

Follow Genny's instructions and the textures can by changed via MAT file in the pose directory. The expansion pak uses a remapped version of the eagle, which is different from the original. That's why the textures don't fit.

Usually with wings, you would want your figure in the default poser postion (when you load the figure), then parent the "base" of the wings to the chest of the figure. Then when you move/pose your figure, the wings will move with it. You would need to have textures for vickie and the wings.. you can get some for free in the free section, or if you want, you can purchase great textures in the marketplace. You need to apply the textures to vickie and the wings. The parent option is under the figure menu, look for set figure parent.

What's up with naked chicks just staring out into space in default position riding on the P4 horse or people who post images 24hrs a day non-stop?

Get the poser patch from curious labs, it should help. Had similar problems before and after I got it patched, poser 4 was smooth sailing from there.