How the hell did this arguement degrade from dealing with bullshit rendo policies to pictures of cats and infeminate guys in green tights?

Which further reinforces the statement.

Well said Zarat!
Regarding StaceyG statement:
"I can assure you that I am not in the least bit naiive" - never state what you can't imply.

Let me clairify ... People that don't feel that the changes or policies are a big deal are generally people that don't post images that now violate the new terms.  People that post fractals will not be affected by the TOS.
Get it?
And yes, you and the other mods have made it painfully clear as to the reasons, let me be as equally clear. I run many companies. Changes are not implimented unless they will improve/ and/or effect the course of business and therefore INCREASE business. You are either naive or not privy to the MOTIVATING reasons as to why these changes were implimented. Yes. I get it - here are the reasons (assinine as they are) - BUT WHAT PROMPTED THE NEED FOR THESE CHANGES. WHAT WAS THE MOTIVATING PROMPT?
Did I claify it for you now?

Someone prior mentioned that "renderosity is not my house...etc". Yes, that's true to a point. However rendo survives on people visiting their house, and despite the bullshit that karen spouts as to the reasons for the changes - nothing will change until the "outrage" that people feel effects rendos wallet. The underlying reason for any change in business is to increase the bottom line.
Yes, its rendo's house and if you want to use their house you have to abide by their rules. But the rules were once different. And it is THAT that bothers people. We once had the right to wear our shoes in the house, and now rendo won't allow us to. At the end, it is their right to do so, just as it is our right to leave or at the very least bitch about how we don't like the new rules - hoping that enough people will join in and force a change. Sadly, I don't see that happening. Some people don't "understand why the big deal", then I look at their gallery and understand why they don't get it. Im a published pinup artist - that is what I do, Im not into landscapes, or fractals or cutsypie pictures of fairys. And I would challenge anyone to say that, left to its own devices,  sexual pictures would be far more popular than any other of the aforementioned pics. And im not talking about the "hug club" pictures. Wherein, such and such posts a mediocre picture at best (Im not talking topic, im talking technical execution), dedicates said picture to someone and then receives endless praise usually ending with "hugs" or "kisses".  No offer of improvement, or truth anywhere to be found. And I suspect that is these people (I imagine they have lots of cats) that spend the most money in the marketplace and therefore have the biggest voice.

Karen, I just read the "reasons" for the changes.
Why the hell would you want the gallery to look consistent?? You mean a series of boring head shots, fractals and landscapes?
The ability to use shots in newsletters? Here's a sugggestion - don't use the "offending" ones in your newsletters.
The shock of seeing nudity when you open the gallery - better to err on the side of the mundane - you don't know how many people will fall into cardiac arrest seeing any form of nudity.
Rendo is being reduced to a homogenized bland site run by a group of anal retentives.
I think the reasons are assinine and there could have been better ways to address your concerns.
Noticed how many artists are leaving?

Anyway, I've had my fill of the endless debate. It is what it is...

I think jjroland hit it right on the head. If you don't want to see nudity you have the option not to see it.
I would just like a clear HONEST reason for the thumbnail issue. I can deal with whatever (inane) reason they come up with, however I would just like the true motivating reason for it.
At the end of the day sadly, you can either put up with it or post on other sites.  And as we have seen, there are artists whose style is on the racier side are leaving to do exactly that.

Excellent. Thank you Stormchaser and PXP.

My biggest problem with the nudity in the thumbnail policy is that the gallery looks like nothing more than a series of head shots. And if the reason for the "no nudity" is to prevent (god forbid) some anal retentive person from seeing nudity then why won't they allow the black strips to hide the naughty parts?

Thanks agiel

I've heard mention of 'rendercows' - what are they?

I, for one, am chuffed at the new release. Vue blazes through my scenes rendering 300 dpi images of 9x12 on ultra settings. I have no problems with importing poser figs, my resources stay around 74% with no crashes.
So...lol...I am finally at peace.

I actually tried it myself with a sword and map downloaded from Zbrush. It works fine. The displacement maps have to be GUV maps (whatever the hell that means).
Anyone?

I agree with Vorpalbunny - the body is much smoother. However I can't get past her face - can you say homely?? And again, as VB said, it seems you can get past the melonhead.
And Id like to know how you are supposed to define musculature? - with the morphing tool??

Victoria 4 has a dog face and thus far - the morphs that are available are nowhere near as attractive as the facial morphs for V3.
I also miss the muscle inj morphs for V3. How does one define musculature in V4?