Attached Link: Reiss Studio, Home of BodyStudio Professional Poser Plugins

For those that haven't heard, the official upgrade to the Pro Pack's Max plugin has arrived. There is now upgrade pricing available from Pro Pack for $179 - $50 = $129. It's currently available at the Reiss Studio website at www.reiss-studio.com and should be available on Curious Labs' website soon as well. Cheers,

-Jack Walther
Lead Engineer (BodyStudio 2.0 for 3ds max plugin)

Hi Toolstech! Great catch. We definitely want to hear about stuff like this. Do me a favor, when you find an issue like this, also send an e-mail to tech support at support@reiss-studio.com. We are not always on the forums here, but I think you will be surprised at how quickly we respond to issues like this when we hear from our users. For example, in this case we can probably just modify the plugin so it will set these settings more acurrately. Can you send an e-mail to support@reiss-studio.com? If we can get some examples, we'll look into this. (oh, and we also don't mind putting out intermediate builds). cheers! -Josh

heh, I know... funny huh? It was hilarious, I was sitting on the phone trying to figure out how to take it :)

Hi Fauve!
Thanks for the recommendation! :)
is it ok, if we let them know what happened?

Anyway, yeah, I feel the same way about copy protection. I wish we didn't have to use it, and if the whole community was like renderosity, we wouldn't have to!
Can you believe we actually had one customer say that he gave it a shot trying to find our software as warez, but figured since he couldn't do that he would just buy it!

Hi Ed, We actually just installed Cinema 4d v8. I should be able to offer more information soon. also, anyone with items they would like to see fixed in the c4d plugin, should send e-mail to service@reiss-studio.com (this is how we determine which issues to update, and also where we find out about people for beta testing) cheers, -Josh

Hi Billy3d, You can use this in some ways with Poser 4, but a valid Poser 5 installation is needed. The new features in the plugin require us to use the Poser5 libraries which means you do have to have Poser 5 on disk, there are also more features coming which should make this even more exciting. Here is the workflow we are recommending for people who want to keep working with Poser 4. 1) Install Poser 5 2) Use Poser 5's multiple runtime feature to add your poser 4 runtime directory 3) keep working Poser 4 Now you can keep working in poser 4, and the plugin will be able to load your files. You might need to just open, and save the files again from poser 5 before import, but you should be able to keep using poser 4 in this way. cheers! -Josh

Hi Clearstar, We are all for making the plugins smarter as we upgrade them. We're especially interested in looking at all the "little" things that really are not that little when you work with them every day! That was one of the big hit lists for the upgrades. We did it with the max plugin in a few ways (turns out with the new update you save 390mb when rendering a mapped vicky! and about 250mb just when loading) I strongly encourage everyone who uses the lightwave plugins to send mail to service@reiss-studio.com, and let us know about any issues you have. This is the best chance to get them fixed, and as our max users will testify, our main goal is to listen to how we can make these easy to use. Also, we ususally take the people who send us the best explained feedback, and get them involved in the beta program when it's available. cheers! -Josh

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, Home of BodyStudio Professional Poser Plug-ins

Hi tbird, There will be an upgrade discount available, and we should be able to announce the price in the next few days. We're actually looking for some people who are interested in purchasing to test the upgrade system in advance, if anyone is interested, please e-mail service@reiss-studio.com thanks! -Josh

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, home of the BodyStudio Professional Poser Plug-ins

The upgraded Pro Pack plugin for Max 5 has been released! You can get it at www.reiss-studio.com, it will be available at Curious Lab's website soon as well cheers! -Josh

Megalodon, we should be able to talk more about the lightwave plugin soon. As you know, we are waiting until we can release more accurate information. cheers, -Josh

Hi tbird, these are the plugins spoken about on curious labs's website. Curious Labs press release from march 5th (in their press area) introduced our involvement, and these are the result. Curious Labs will be updating their website with the new information soon cheers, -Josh

Hi 3ncrypt, apologize for missing your first post. There will be a cd in about 2 months. At that point we'll have the option for people who have already purchased to pick up the cd for a small charge (depending on cost, $20 or less) + shipping cheers! -Josh

Attached Link: preview of BodyStudio tutorial from 3-axis

Ray, I don't take it as an insult at all. So far we've had great feedback from the people using the plugin, and I think it's always a good choice to find out about a product when you go to buy it. We have a tutorial which we're giong to be putting up. The guys from 3-axis actually got happy about the plugin and put together a great step-by-step. I love the tutorial they did, because it also contains a basic cloth tutorial as well. we're still formatting it, but you can see a preview of the tutorial at www.reiss-studio.com/article/articleview/51 we'll also look into getting the documentation online for download. cheers! -Josh

Aleks, We're actually working through setting up the upgrade process as we speak. if you send e-mail to service@reiss-studio.com, maybe we can use you as a test case to do the first upgrade when it's ready. Daneil, no problem on the typo ;) Spaghead, we're not involved in a truespace, and I'm not sure what else Curious has worked out. cheers, -Josh

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, Home of BodyStudio, the professional Poser Plug-ins

Hello All, The Max plugin was released this morning. Other plugins should be coming soon. We'll be posting more information later today, including information about upgrading from propack cheers, -Josh