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Quote - *NB: I see the source for "futuristic." In the context, I should have said "speculative."
*Read (your own), before you rant.
Kalon: you quote one definition of "Science fiction" with approval and then blithely assure us that "the War of the Worlds" is "science fiction", too, even though it fails to satisfy the definition you have just so airily endorsed.  Nothing in "The War of the Worlds" has anything to do with science, beyond the final scene, which I shan't reveal, because there may be people viewing this forum who don't know the ending, just as i am pretty confident that a certain individual never got past page four of "Gulliver's Travels".
God I love these PMS moments. I have a PhD in Eighteenth Century English literature, with a focus on the novel, and I have taught Gullivers Travels in addition to reading it a dozen times or so in my life. And if "I don't know where you got 'futuristic'" is your idea of a rant, you must be fun when you are upset. I didn't go back and read my first post because if I had, I'd have lost my reply window. When I did go back, I conceded the point immediately.
Sheesh. Why bother?
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Sigh. The error message (including a Dr. Watson) apparently was a spook. Carrara is installed and runs. However, I tried to load my latest PZ3, made in P7 with V3, Heavy Horse, Harvey Mann's "I Dream of Jeannie" hair (Allura?), and the Environment set from DAZ, and it harrassed me for 20 OKs demanding a bunch of ...X.bmp files that I don't have. Needless to say, Poser loads this file without them.
Sure enough, loading PZ3's uses the old, unreliable Import approach. Haven't tried setting up the Runtime "transparently" yet, but the importer demanded that I identify my default Runtime, so the question may be moot. I'm with the folks who were given the distinct impression that TransPoser WAS the "transparent Poser load" tool. How silly of us.
For the record, here are the "non-transparent" elements of the imported PZ3:
That's enough fun for today. I have a Saturday to live in. I recommend waiting for the reviews of C6P 1.1. This looks like a not half bad modelling tool (of course, so is C5P), and it may integrate nicely with DAZ Studio. But as a tool for rendering Poser scenes, it's worthless. Unlike C5P. I recommend finding an old C5P and looking for some techie solution to loading P7 scenes into it. I think the only problem is that you must be able to point TransPoser at a pre-P7 exe file, so if all you have is P7, you are truly out of luck.
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Thread: OT Sci Fi Obituary | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Hold the phone. My install has crashed twice while installing the MS VC++ Redistributable on W2K and a year-old machine. Not sure what that means, but I'm not upgrading Windows when I can Wine etc. most applications -- reportedly even P6 -- under Linux.
Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Regarding the problem I had with the serial number: Someone at the Carrara forum pointed out that DAZ issued a new serial number, listed on my "serial codes" page. Using that, I am installing C6P.
This does not address the P7 problem. If Carrara doesn't support P7 3rd party items, it will be of limited use to me. Really too bad, since it was my exclusive pro renderer for Poser when C5P worked with P6.
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Thread: Daz puts one in the foot... again | Forum: Carrara
"Should not have been free..." I was taken aback by that, but I certainly wasn't going to argue with them. Thanks for the suggestion about the serial number; I'll check it out.
Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
" According to the features page at DAZ I can import pz3's etc. into C6 with no problem!"
I'm sure the marketing hype that claimed this is no longer visible so it never existed. Welcome to the happy valley. Also I distinctly remember being told by someone semi-official that C6P would read P7 files just fine. This was a decider for me because C5P chokes on P7 but not P6.
And there's one more problem to think about, if you are planning to upgrade from C5P. I registered my C5P at DAZ less than two weeks ago, giving them my serial number to verify and succeeding to the point that I qualified for a free upgrade. Fine, except my free upgrade says I have an invalid serial number. So I've had C6P since Wednesday, but I can't install or use it. I e-mailed DAZ immediately. Got a responsemore than 24 hours later that their Tech people would "look into it." So now it's Saturday and my C6P is still not installed. No word from their "Tech people."
I considered buying another upgrade, but what if the problem is that it can't read my serial number? Then I'm out a small but useful chunk of money. I even considered buying a new full license (a similar problem occurred with my Hex 2.0 license, and I gave up and bought a one-month PC and a new Hex 2.1 license), but based on what I see here, I think I'll wait until the product catches up with the promise. Who knows? Maybe what I have already was worth every penny?
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Thread: OT Sci Fi Obituary | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Morgano:
First off, he's not my Pohl. I hardly know the man. I recall one wonderful short story worthy of Theodore Sturgeon. I also read about science fiction, however, and I know that Pohl is considered one of the important figures of one decade of the genre's history. He's a bit of an authority on what came before and during.
Secondly, I'm puzzled by your angry tone when you refer to the quote. There's nothing authoritarian about it. It sounds like Pohl was asked to define science fiction and he tried to. You might read it again, since you seem to think he left out "science." What about: "relationship between man and technology? Does it enlighten me on some area of science." Given that "science" embraces everything from talking dogs (Was Monster Dogs science fiction? No.) to telepathy (Are the Darkover books science fiction? Yes, but Mists of Avalon is not.)
I don't know where you got the implication that science fiction needs to be futuristic, but I expect you will find a slew of scifi writers and readers who disagree with you. Technically, science fiction set in the past is considered fantasy, I think. Not that I care. These categories are not some sort of gauntlet a book must pass through to immortality. They are helpful in the library. They determine -- at the whim of the reader, not generally some authoritarian ruler -- what books are eligible for prizes. They make a context for discussing authors, a way of looking at them.
The books on the history of science fiction, by the way, will answer your question as to why Swift (and Cyrano de Bergerac) are considered early writers of "science fiction." Personally, it's not a question that interests me. And whether someone is or is not "a science fiction writer" is even a sillier question than whether something is or is not "science fiction." Ursula Le Guin put that silliness to bed years ago, but it keeps climbing out again.
Finally, there is a huge difference between trying to define science fiction as one of many respected and knowledgable practioners and "dictating" what people should do in some restrictive, totalitarian sense. Pohl's tone is tentative and deferential, but more important, he is not in the position of a Picasso. Or a Goebbels. And frankly, I see nothing wrong with a Picasso defining good modern art. Sturgeon's 95% will consist of people turning out trash trying to be Picasso and people turning out trash trying to NOT NEVER EVER be like Picasso because he's a ---- Whatever. The painters with vision and a story to tell will paint, and fate will follow. Likewise with writers. Meanwhile, certain books will reach the mainstream by a combination of luck, hard work, and appeal (Lonesome Dove, The Andromeda Strain) while others equally "good" (whatever that means) simply become classics of the genre (Riders of Judgment, Well of Shiuan). That's life.
Thread: OT- Oops. Yet another possible Sony Root Kit :( | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - > Quote - Windows Vista is a root kit.
Surely you mean "Windows" is a root kit ?
Exactly. There is, you know, Linux? And it is possible to live your life for years, even, without purchasing anything from Sony?
I am reminded of a racist joke I will remove the racism from:
A man discovers that a guy he knows broke into his house, killed his dog, defecated on his carpet, murdered his children, raped, mutilated, and killed his wife, and stole his favorite shotgun. He goes looking for the guy. Finally, after many years of searching, he tracks him down in a bar and confronts him. "You better watch that shit," he says.
Thread: OT Sci Fi Obituary | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
The announcement that the novel/the western/science fiction/the tango/polytonal music is dead generally is made by old farts who don't like the young farts hogging the spotlight. John Fowles wrote most of his novels, and Margaret Atwood many of hers, after the novel died, and Dances with Wolves, Silverado, Lonesome Dove, and Unforgiven were all made after the death of the western. Scifi is alive and well, I suspect. It's Mr. Ridley's imagination that has died.
I don't understand what about the Pohl quote is getting the purists' thongs tucked. I agree with it completely, myself, and I've probably read 10,000 scifi novels (maybe it's skiffy in the UK; in the US it's sigh fie), including a few published this year, a slog of the historical, and piles in between. On the other hand, trying to define a genre (or even a setting; is 1984 futuristic in 2007?) that encompasses such varied treats as Hunter of Worlds, War of Worlds, Gulliver's Travels, Shadow of the Torturer, Neuromancer, Always Coming Home, and Mission of Gravity is pretty hopeless. And then try to shoehorn the Conan books into the box, along with Mists of Avalon (but not The Passion of Mary Magdalene... uh, right). Oh and anything else I like....
Pohl's is as good a definition as any. What he has to say applies to all lasting fiction, except for the one line that points out there ought to be some... you know... science? in the pot. Ultimately, if you go to movies to watch shiny objects spin, I don't see what difference it makes what you call the genre. And when CGI is used transparently to tell the story, this is no different than using linguistic skill to tell the story.
Thread: IPoserworld recommendations | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
PW is the only site where I would consider a lifetime membership. First off, I trust Steve to honor his commitment to the site and make a lifetime membership worthwhile. Secondly, the CDs are a diskload of stuff, hundreds of items. Perhaps not for the toon figures (I don't have them), but with more variety than any commercial offering I know of. As has been mentioned, PW is also quick to do requests, like the Apache costume. And finally, their orientation is toward the real world professional, not fantasy chic and burlesque heroic. i don't need another set of "Guardian" armor or Burlap Bikini for Mike's MFD.
Oh, I didn't say so explicitly: I have a lifetime membership. No regrets.
Thread: How do you prefer to view the Galleries at Renderosity--if at all? | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
I miss the handful of good artists in the galleries, but I abandoned them for good in one of the monthly rounds of Puritan hypocrisy (Larry Craig is looking for work, I hear). When I feel the urge to check them out, I find that the best way is to begin by turning off the monitor. Eventually I get bored and find something else to do.
Thread: OT:Rendo Poser Forum Week in review... | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - Damn, I hate posting under David's spam.
Don't think of it as hijacking, think of it as narcissism. Then you'll feel much better. It's a bit like television -- you know: actual program, commercial, more program, commercial, more of pro--commercial, attempt to show more pr--commercial, one mor--commerical.
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Thread: Anyone use the Ground Control plug in? | Forum: Carrara
I used it on a trail basis when I needed a quick way to turn topo maps into 3D. I would have purchased it if the project had been funded. Absolutely no problems with it except minor user unfamiliarity, and that was cleared up quickly with an email.
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Thread: Informal Survey for Vendors and Customers in the Marketplace | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
I buy quite a bit of stuff I never get around to using, and wouldn't post in R'osity galleries for pay. And I'd say, echoing Neyour, that the sheer crappiness of P7 has pretty much squelched my willingness to render. Add to that the fact that P7 screws up in C5P and my P6 has gone missing, and the result is no renders to speak of. I might work on one, on and off for three days (got four going right now), but when I'm finished, they won't be right, because I have never, ever gotten a render from P7 that was worth showing anyone. With P6, I could haul the junk over to C5P and finish it up. Hoping for C6P and a revival. P8 I'll watch for in the $10 bins.
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Thread: OT Sci Fi Obituary | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL