I'll look into that, but I think I have the latest. Cards getting old now, updates don't come very often now.

It seems the file was loading but not showing up. The screen never refreshing. I was loading the file from the file / recent files drop down menu. I found that changing to another room then returning to the pose room clears up the issue.

Thanks, pokeydots, worked like a charm.

I have to go work now, but I'll check back here afterwords then I'll contact them if not resolved. I am using XP home too, and installing under Admin account. I am using the 3 rd content option (runtime with in poser directory), and installing the application on different internal hard drive than the windows OS.

I Checked that I had flash 10, explorer 7 (even though I only normally use it for windows updates). My machine is not a powerful machine, but it is quite a bit more than the minimum requirements for poser.

I unzipped the installers and the content, placed the unzipped content into the content folder. I also tried it without the content. I Uninstalled and reinstalled, reinstalled over an install. I tried to install over night and during the day. I do not like to install. I do not like it anyway.

I remember reading that thread about the smoke at RDNA , and was wondering if that's how this started. When you did the fog on the ground I tried to make that into smoke with no success.

Amazing work yet again, but wouldn't expect less. Could this be used to generate smoke coming from a lower object too?

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So, too, there are other, specialized, more expensive renderers that can do soft speculars with environment maps. Poser doesn't have this but it's actually easy to do. If they would let me work on the source code for the renderer, I'm sure I could fix it. That's not what I'm working on. :)

Oh I hope your working on hard  coding your shaders in Poser, so we can just click "use BB shaders" on the render dialog box, and thus they will be faster!

I was wondering what to do about the inner mouth with VSS PR3 shader. Should I just use Template skin with higher PM:Shine? Something tells me it's not that easy though.

I sure some marketing company that passes it's self off as a software company would like to claim a simple "hello world" program should be copyrightable. I think that's a load of non-gamma corrected render. 

The only sure way to find out what node set up is and is not copyrightable is to have it go to court in many different countries. But it would be nice to have a quick simple cheap solution on this first.

Where does Bagginsbill draw the line, or any of the other node gurus?

But, referencing the original shouldn't be an issue. I think the dicey part might be if they had a unique shader set up you modified. But when does a shader become unique and copyrightable? I think most artists would allow there material sets to be modified as it would add value to the original. 

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The notion of having to convert an entire runtime's worth of material is daunting, isn't it? So, you've been doing it too, have you? But gave up? What if you were able to obtain the GCed version of your materials somewhere... as a free download? Would that interest you?

Yes it was for GC, and I had started. Unfortunately when I got pro I got rid of those files, didn't think anyone would be interested in it. Had a few of the DM's sets done, many clothing sets and bits of other sets done as well. Basically I would do them as I went and save them to the runtime for future reference.  

Well I have pro now so the GC versions would not interest me, but the many other options would. Hair, metallics, glass, to name a few. What about bill's work on lights, with lighting sets made for GC for prop sets, as well as RsquaredLaw.

Would a free node site interest me, of course it would. Heck I'd like to help in someway if I could.

I'd like to see the material sets made up in GC, AO on and off.

How about an open source community of Materials and Nodes, someone might add displace maps for sets, transparency maps for effects etc. With each person able to take what someone else has done and add to it, making it all better for the community as a whole.

Of course this all goes on the assumption, that it's legal to reference someone's maps, when referred to a copyright map.

Once you use a GC shader of BB in a render, the rest of the render will look off if you don't correct everything else. I got sick of it, and broke down and got poser pro, should finish paying for it some time after poser 8 comes out.

But is GC each object enough? No. BB's shaders take use more than GC, there's that whole conservation of engery thing. Easy enough to understand on a physics level, but to impliment it in poser is another thing. Again when you halfway an image, the non BB shader part stands out again.

Even if BB ever comes out with his 1000's of shaders in a pack (which I wish he would), you'll hit something missed.

In bussiness there is the whole ISO debackle, and that's what I'd like to see function in a real function way for poser. BB aproved shaders.

Now a database of shaders, both general to be applied and specific to avaible props, would be great time saver. But they would all have to have the same quality.

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easily by-passed just say God of Nodes. :)

With poser pro and Gamma Correction on, for a colour coming from the colour picker you would have to anti-correct the colour. Will poser then correct the colour or does that only apply to texture maps?