Quote - So you guys are saying Lux  render is not really that impressive or dififerent than Vue?
I thought they were hyping it up cause it is supposedly really awesome.

I was starting to get excited but it's not worth it?

I dont have Vue.. but i used it before. And i was thinking Lux would be better

I'm not saying any such thing. I haven't even TRIED Lux Render because I don't feel like commiting any time to something so new and under developed and also because I DO have Vue, Bryce and Carrara if I need better renders.

I'm certainly not knocking something that's free. I'm just saying that it's not the only game in town for Poser users just as Reality isn't the only game in town for DS users and certainly not the cheapest game for DS  users.

Quote - The net is still in its infancy.  I have a very strong feeling the social and political changes it brings will be immense, beyond what we can imagine at present.  Facebook is, IMO, a tiny step on the road.  

Who know's what we'll end up with if we loose Net Neutrality to the big corporations because of Google and Verizon?

 Not to mention Carrara and Bryce as well! DS3 can directly send your scene into Bryce and Carrara can load Poser Content. BOTH are cheaper options than Reality....

 Well let's face it. The stomach is not that far above the intestines. I was close.

 Anytime.

 If my American Memory serves me at all I believe it's Sheep Intestines.....Similar to what we'd call "Chitlin's" in the south here.

Quote - How is this "OT"?????  It's 100% pertinent to Poser.  IMHO it is borderline spam as there are already a few valid posts about LuxPose! 

We should just concentrate on the other posts like LaurieA's wishlist & general questions posts!!  

Hope your throat is feeling better Tebop!!

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I believe he felt it was OT because of his optimism which is QUITE OT for the Poser Forum. :tt2:

 I'll take my 50 cent box of stovetop lasagna mix with ground turkey over haggis anyday!

Well just like Microsoft Windows is the most Virus affected OS because of it's size, Facebook too is the victim of it's own size when it comes to security issues. I don't see this sort of thing EVER changing until someone develops virus proof and hack proof code for all of these large systems. Renderosity hasn't been immune to hacking and Malware, or need I remind people of the attack not so long ago?

Will FB be the final answer? I hope to God not! But does it offer more options for less than Renderosity and DAZ? At the moment, I think it does. And you yourself said you don't put anything on FB that you don't want others to have access to. That, quite frankly, is how it should be on ANY online site that we use these days. You can't blame the online social media sites for lack of security or breach of privacy if you're on the site going streaking in the buff now can you?

 This can be done using a Blender Node with 2 different 2D Image Map textures plugged into it. You also have to click on the little key's in the material room that turns material animation on and off. Then it's simply a matter of changing the strength of one image map to 1 while lowering the strength of the 2nd image map to 0 over the course of the animation.

Quote - > Quote - I'm not a Facebook member, and don't plan to be. I find all the social networks to be irritating time wasters. So, no... you won't get my business.  

 

You can add me to that list as well.

What do you think Renderosity and DAZ are if they're not a form of Social Network for Artists?
 

Quote - Maybe I'm missing something.  I haven't seen any attacks on the OP, or anyone telling him to leave this site.
 

Then you skipped over HeyDork accusing me of Advertising Spam when I had no links to my Facebook presence whatsoever and Mackis3D basically telling me to Ignore Renderosity if I didn't like it so much. That to me was an invitation to leave. Almost everyone has zeroed in on the remarks I made about opening a store there but have completely ignored the actual topic that the article I linked to generated. What's the topic again? Anyone? It's not my store, really. I could care less if you don't want to buy from me personally.

What I'm asking you is, with a social network as HUGE as Facebook, how long do you think Rosity and DAZ can compete if merchants start moving en mass to places that actually give you decent privacy settings and Ignore User features and all the other things we've been asking for around here for years now?

Right now I hear a lot of "I won't give FB my credit information", but Who's saying you had to? Certainly not me! The store setup I'm looking at isn't handled by Facebook at all other than as a front door to an outside selling site which is using even further outside credit and payment sites to access payments. Right now, I'm only setup to accept PayPal payments through E-Junkie. Facebook will never see a thing from your credit cards.

Right now, all I'm hearing is a lot of uninformed or under informed prejudices against a site because of underused privacy settings and overused gaming spam and TMI from people you are calling your friends. Imagine a site where you don't have to see MatrixWorkz spam at all if you don't want to. Just Block it. Don't like Ron Knights? Block him. Poof! Gone.

Imagine that you can sell using whatever offsite merchandising site you want to use because you can past HTML code to your pages that allow you to sell without giving the host 50% or more of the take. Oh wait, you don't have to imagine it. Just look into the options.

So please, if you have something to add to the discussion about whether or not big social media can overrun sites like this one that have nothing to do with your fear of facebook, please, jump in here. For Pete's sake don't just assume I'm bashing on Renderosity here either. I've been here just as long as most of the rest of you under one screen name or another. Who knows? Maybe this topic could open the eyes of the programmers around here enough that they'll finally implement that ignore user feature we've been pleading for for well over 10 years now!

 Facebook goes one better than Ignore. They have BLOCK which means even when people comment on the people you block you don't see it even if the commentators are your friends.

I'm just sayin'.....

 Correction: I meant to say "Renderosity IS a social network but it's becoming less and less like a community" in that last paragraph.