Is hanging is no longer an option?

chuckle  My favourite is cutting a hand off...slowly...with no anesthetic...in public.

...aaaand that's why I keep all my stuff on my hard drive.  Until piracy is beaten into the ground and scum like 'phuongdzu' are ground under for fertilizer I won't be selling anything.  These pieces of shit are talentless creeps and parasites.

They asked for it so I let 'em have it with both barrels.  Everything I love about the Poserverse and (of course) everything that I dislike, with a lot of what I hope are constructive suggestions.

This has always worked just fine for me despite using all manner of obscure browsers (Pale Moon, Vivaldi, Older version of Opera).  It's just about the only thing about the forum I don't have a problem with.

I had no idea this sort of thing was available/possible and after downloading and installing it for Blender, I stayed up way too late the other night playing with it.  This sure beats the stink out of fiddling with lights the traditional way.  We discussed this on another forum where I learned that Reality 4 from Pret-a-3D uses Sibl sets.  What's the difference between Reality 4 and what your doing BB?  Reality 4 is a very reasonable 34 bucks at RDNA which I consider to be good value, especially considering the results it achieves.  Should I wait for your script?

As always, this is excellent material.  Thanks BB.  Have you ever considered writing a book?  I'd certainly buy it. 

This is excellent BB.  Do you plan on selling this as a plug-in?  I'd certainly buy it, hopefully before the pirate scum grabs it and spreads it all over the Poserverse.

Damn - that brought back some memories :)

"Welcome to my killfile..."

We boomers have some great memories don't we?  I saw the Beatles on Ed Sullivan twice, I remember (vaguely) where I was when JFK was shot, I got to sit up at 2:00 AM with my parents watching Neil take that first step, I've had the privilege of having the worlds most beautiful car sitting in my garage for the past 39 years, and I got to live with the net as it grows up.  Wow...sorry for waxing nostalgic but you started it.  :-)

I second that suggestion.  I blocked the all-knowing pompous ass for a reason.  Do people get any indication that they've been blocked?  I used to love how the good old usenet worked.  As idiots where added to poster's 'Bozo' filters they would see a plonk.  This was the ultimate insult and after enough of them, the troll usually slunk off somewhere.

http://www.rideau-info.com/photos/mythdpi.html#top I kinda get ppi's n dpi's more or less. I know the more pixels the better.

I know gimp will max out at about 4000x4000 pixels and MS5 will max out at about 30,000x30,000 pixels .

I'm wondering what corel paint ,photoshop ,paint tool sai etc etc will max out at.

My version of Photoshop (CS5) hits the wall at 50,000 pixels at any one dimension.  I was making some panoramas from stuff I'd shot in Death Valley and was disappointed that some of them had to be split in two.

.. Please lock the thread, Shane.  

...or at least kick it back onto the rails.

Since the last "downgrade" of this forum, activity has dropped to an all time low.

In brief : The forum is a mess, and more and more members are fed up and leaving.

And as a result? RDNA activity (and others) has grown exeptionally high.

Want to rescue the forum? Restore to december 2010, before the last 3 downgrades.

Just look at the multiple and multiple and multiple headers here consuming . . . . . .
Tony shut up, go elsewhere.
Not a soul is reading any more. . . . . .

I don't see a lot of topical conversations anywhere.  Without having access to the numbers, my impression is that forum traffic is becoming more off topic and less of it. I can see why Snarly is leaving, I don't spend any real time here anymore either.

I hate to admit that I was a proud member of the file-thieving community for many decades.  Starting way back in the early 70's with 'shared' copies of Fortran compilers(?), then getting onto the Microsoft bandwagon in the late eighties with Windows 2.0, I've used hacked copies all the way to Windows XP and boasted that I'd never paid for any piece of software.  I got into games at some point and became hooked on Half-Life.  About this time I went back to school part time and learned a lot, not the least of which was how our economy works.  I also came to realize that programmers and developers where just regular people who also had mortgages to pay and kids to put through university.  I bought the entire HL (then HL2) series and felt good about supporting them.  I'd been dabbling in Daz for a few years and jumped into it when the HL2 series petered out ("C'mon, Gabe, where the hell is episode 3?!").  Although I snooped around my old file-stealing sites, I bought the content I used.  I finally moved from Daz to Poser when it went on sale last year.  I've been making items for a couple of years now but refuse to release them as I don't want to feed the punks.

The file-stealing punks have a funny mind set.  They love to use vacuous phrases to justify their thievery and associate themselves with journalists being censored in oppressive regimes. When the RIAA/MPAA (or other group) sues a torrent site or gets a file-sharing site shut down, they scream bloody murder about freedom and democracy without understanding what either of these two words mean.  There is no such thing as a copyright monopoly.  Any person who creates anything original automatically holds a copyright on it (in Canada anyway).  Every silly shot you grab on your cellphone camera is copyrighted by you. How is this a monopoly?  There is simply no excuse for file-sharing since consumers already have a mechanism to fight perceived overpricing or gouging.  By simply not buying an item and letting the manufacturer know why your not plunking down your money, you can exert a powerful influence, particularly if consumers ban together and boycott something.  Poser and Daz stuff is the ultimate expression of freedom since you can make your own stuff.  The tools are all free and there must be a billion tutorials available.  All it takes is time and a bit of skull sweat.

I took a beginners marketing course a few years back (needed a break from anthropology) and the class examined file sharing as part of the problems facing retailers.  I had a unique viewpoint as a longtime pirate and discovered that the biggest reason folks pirate stuff is simply because they can.  It's there, free for the taking, so people do.  Whining about lack of money is no reason.  You can't walk into a store and take stuff just because you wouldn't otherwise have bought it.  Requiring payment for anything is a powerful force for getting people off their arses and getting an education so that they can get a decent job and contribute to the worlds economy and culture.  and again, you can always make your own.

I'm gratified that this thread has taken off with so many well presented arguments against file-sharing.  I started it in the other vendor's forums and it was either derided or ignored.  While there doesn't appear to be anything that can be done about it; after all, if the huge economic power of the RIAA and MPAA can't stop it, what hope do we have.  I feel that being a small, niche provider plays into our hands. All content creators and their supporters can make ourselves known in the torrent and stealing sites.  Be polite but pointed; let them know that they're only cutting their own throats by stealing stuff.  The artists aren't making big money and seeing the items that they put so much time and passion into making being traded freely is a slap in the face.  I would dearly love to sell some items but will not tolerate it being stolen.  I've gone so far as to buy a few items of vintage clothing (quite cheap on eBay) so that I can photograph the lace and embroidery for some vintage wedding gowns.  Therefore I don't think that it's too much to ask that people pay a few lousy bucks for my item.  I know of two others who have stopped selling because of piracy and I wonder if this is the reason so many burgeoning content creators sell one item then disappear.  It infuriates me that a hobby I've come to love is being kicked in the head by short sighted, immature, uneducated and selfish file-stealing punks.  I spend a few minutes every day in one of the sites persuading folks to buy stuff and trying to educate them.  I wish the heck the rest of the community would join in vice throwing up our collective arms and crying that there's nothing we can do.  Moriador, your cockroach analogy is excellent.  There will always be a few under the floorboards but I'm sure we can 'turn' many of them.  I'm a perfect example of a success story although like a reformed smoker, I've probably gone too far.

I love your tutorials Denis and am eagerly awaiting this next one.  Following the math is a good exercise for me.

Yes please, separate them. 

Thanks for asking.