Hey... I want Carrara 5 pro to....( even though I don't use the version 2 or Raydream 5.5 I have now ) ...But while y'all are there buying Drac stuff...why not spend a few more and buy some of mine to.....Marcfx...if you buy one of my brokered products...I'll build you a new spine with Carrara 5 pro when I get it ( if I take the time to learn it that is.....)

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I to have seen copies of materials ( or slightly changed materials ) sold or distributed under a new authors name or logo.

There are 2 or 3 versions of Clay's fire, that have been in free stuff ( here and there ).

I think for the most part it's a matter of a person ethics and morals, when it comes to something like Bryce materials.

It would be hard to prove that someone plagiarized another's material. But it's usually easy to see when someone copies

another's creation.

I have used others peoples materials as a guides to create new materials. But I do not take their material into the DTE and change it. I start from the ground up, I have a base material called default nothing. Which is just that, a material with all properties set to 0 or none.

Win 2000 Pro, and IE,  I've had no lock-ups so far so good
On the other note...Daz Studio never crashes on me

......because I never launch it.....

I to have noticed a significant slow down ( and I'm on broadband ) the first few days it was so bad I didn't even browse long enough to read any post. Although the speed has increased since the first few days, I still find it much slower than other PTB forums I frequent. You do make some valet points, I wonder how many other Renderosity members fell the same. I have the feeling the majority want the new Forum. I do like the fact that I can put in a personalized signature. But I do hope the speed comes up some.

Sure hope the slowness is just temporary...

I threw in the towel about the first week of using 5.5....yes I have tried it after applying all the updates to...

6 Hrs isn't bad....I think the common time limit for having a substantial complaint about Bryce rendering is a 6 days and over. lol

Poles.... so we can quiz people on good or lame Q&A

Well that means the image files are fine. Something I have always been suspicious about B5 is it has a problem when more than one command is activated. Have you ever experienced the pause after it appears to be done saving a scene file. I have tried selecting other commands while in this pause and it corrupts the saved scene file. ( this has happened on more than one occasion ). I know when many programs try to call up to much memory at once ( like hitting multiple undo at once ) they are prone to crash. When a large scene file is open, it seems Bryce will do the command, and while it's still loading the info into memory ( or swapping to disk ) it lets you do another command, but then has a problem storing the info to memory and crashes. Thinking back I do recall a problem when using the Mil 2 Dragon. I was loading high rez textures ( mil dragon ) body, head, bump, trans, spectral, and I always uses the same image in the alpha window. I never mix trans or bump with the color channel maps. And sometimes when I copy/paste to the alpha window. Bryce crashed. I had a large number of tex maps in the Image Library when it happened. As soon as the image loaded I would copy/paste to the alpha window. After the second crash trying to load the same texture to the alpha window. I tried again but waited for 1/2 a minute before copy/pasting, and it worked, so I figured sometimes I just had to wait for Bryce to catch up to itself. Same as when I save now, I never click anything while Bryce is in that pause after saving.

Yea usually the long file name problem only hits when you try to save. I seem to recall this happening to me in B5.5 a few times ( I don't uses B5.5 very much ). I believe it hit me once or twice in B5. It struck when I entered the material room via the light or tree lab. After I restarted it worked okay. 1. Is it crashing when you try to load 2 textures to one object ( via 2 texture windows ) 2. Or are you trying to replace the texture that is already loaded on the object? 3. Or are you trying to load the second texture in the Alpha window of the Image Library ? My point is if you can narrow down the steps to reproduce the crash, you may be able to find a work around to avoid the crash. Or at least warn others what makes this bug strike. Something else to check: 4. If you launch a new project and try to load the textures ( just as a test ) does it crash ? ( if it crashes a new launched project, every attempted to load the tex, It could be a problem with the tex map ) If that's the case make a back-up tex and try saving it out of and image editor. Here's a bug, I found will crash Bryce every time ( I posted it at DAZ forum, But not here ) Grouping Bryce Trees, saving to the Object Library then export/import the file ( like if you were sharing it ) When the file is imported into the library, it will crash B5 and B5.5 whenever the grouped tree object is selected, or when attempted to add it to the scene The work around this bug is to create new empty library ( I keep a blank back-ups of all Bryce Libraries ) then load the group tree objects ( as many a you need ) to the new empty library. Then the library can be shared by browsing to the Bryce preset folder and making a copy of that library. With instruction that it needs to be dropped into the Preset/Object folder of your choose. instead of importing it into the object library.

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(( and the second is 1024 x 1024 that's the one Bryce keeps crashing on.)) How many characters are used in the image's file name? Bryce does not like file names to be over 32 character ( including spaces )

I believe textures for DAZ originals are 60/40 cut with DAZ getting the higher amount.... Submit it to Q&A. Besides brokering, items can also be sold to DAZ out right, as daz originals, or platinum club, or for Free-Product. Tip...selling items for free products, will boost the sells of your brokered products....Many people checks out all your products when you give away a good free-be.