"Ding-Dong?

Knock-Knock? 

Would all intrudes please move over to their own sides? 

We do not CARE about the Diezel System"

This sounds so childish to me. What would make me not an intruder? Owning poser? Check. Products for poser? Check again. Content provider at this store? Check again. If you were the owner of these boards and want to run away customers and content creators it would be one thing but I'm not aware of a proprietary relationship that you have with Renderosity. If you are in fact someone who has the right to run off other users that is different.

 "But the less items that depend on shaders and the material room and more on actual maps and textures, the better."

I would think that would be key. Perhaps the simplest solution would be a material file in poser that stripped out nodes on figures and so forth with a user check to make sure that all the correct maps were in place. And another that made the specularity and bump adjustments. That way the user would be working where they were most comfortable to get those initial files sorted and so there would be less chance of errors that would nuke the pz3

"I was thinking more along the lines of something like reality that translates materials/settings in an intelligent way."

I understand what your saying. That is done via the plug in as I understand it. In theory there could be a poser plug in for studio for Iray but gads.. I believe that studio does that translation for surfaces set up in studio via the base shader (which adds all the new properties etc). And to some extent it would convert some of the settings that poser files arrive with. It would very much depend on the original set up in the material room. More complex material set ups (deep node trees and so forth) have never ported over very well. And specularity and bump/displacement have always been off as far as a base import goes. I do think though that someone who really understood what was going on with the code for the iray shaders could do a "poser for studio" shader base set up since that is sort of did for studio. It would simply need to take into account the variations that are there between poser and studio as far bump and spec go maybe. I guess since the render engine is free that even if someone had to pay 20 bucks for a product that added some extra shader bases that wouldn't be a bad price to be able to use the engine with less work.

"I don't believe DS will read a pz3 scene file,"

I think they use too. But then the issue would be all the surface conversions. Adding just the iray shaders that a presets wouldn't be to awful but the conversions over textures etc would be a bit of a hash since the surface settings would be off compared to studio settings. It is possible that alternate base shaders could be set up that take into account the levels for things like bump and spec when they import into studio and that could be used instead then it might not be as big a pain to make adjustments.

I can't help it if a simple question, to a friendly user upsets you all so much."

Actually it is your ongoing war between apps and the need to be negative toward individuals that is bothersome. I know you don't see your behavior as bulling but it really comes across like that to the reader. I don't often post here because all to often the bullies push through as if they were the injured parties and that goes on till the thread is locked. If you have such an issue with a DAZ related thread in the poser forum you should have contacted the admins rather than go on the attack or simply don't read the thread and let it go and avoid an antagonizing situation. 

Glitterati how much would you like to bet that it does not do SSS? Want to put your money where your mouth is? Though really, it isn't fair since I am sitting right here looking at the settings.. The third thing was it doesn't use shaders from a different render engine as standard. That is a surprise right? Because ever other render engine can use the shaders from each other..Oh wait none of them can. You got me on the motion blur though.. I've never used it so I'm not crushed and I doubt many other people will be. I don't care about the big program vs program battle your so into but I really dislike to read an out and out fib in print.

I know that both Renderosity and DAZ have a pretty solid international representation as far as content providers go. Not just from english primary countries like Australia or England but Spain, Greece, Italy, Germany and so on.

Religon? On these forums? Your kidding me right?

Do you mean do I own poser? Yes and have for about 9 years. In fact I have even done poser only products in the past (yes they are in this store) so is that enough or do you have some other sort of requirements to post?

Cries to remove desenting views.. Saying people don't have a right to post for this or that reason.. These are the reasons many people stopped posting here long ago Aldebvrand40. Your just reinforcing the negative impression about who can post here and that all are not welcome unless they are part of the "party" line.

"So I guess the answer is Daz is not longer supporting Poser except via dson"

PA's get to choose how and which programs they support for their own work just like at other brokerages. I think DAZ requires both programs to be supported, where possible, for products that they buy but they leave it up to the content creator as to how that is done as far as I know. Pretty sure there are quite a few PA's who still do all the poser versions first and then simply add surface settings for studio after.

There is some painting with a pretty wide brush here. Not everyone who sells Merchant resources is against the products being used to create other products. Nor is every resource out there a copy of someone elses work.

The knit example given is actually just as good at showing why it is just as likely not to be a copy of someone elses work. I've no clue how easy or hard it is to make changes to the texture in filterforge but you can get the exact same sort of textures with genetica and making changes in it is dead easy.

As far as the EULA goes that needs to be compared to the licence which says that there may be addional permisions or limitations as far as merchant resource use goes and that those are listed in the read me. If the limitations in the read me of a merchant resource indicate that it may not be used by merchants in products for resale then you should contact customer service and tell them you want a refund because the product was falsy listed as a merchant resource but the readme says it may not be used as a merchant resource.

-I suspect this is just full of spelling errors but the page is preventing my spell check from working and the use of copy/paste so I can't take the text out and check it. Sorry about that.-

You may have picked it up someplace that ought to be trust worthy. CNET comes to mind these days as an example. They stick a few things at the front of downloads and unless you uncheck boxes they install them. It may even have been somewhere that use to be safe to download from in the past but has gotten sketchy.

At the bottom of your pop ups it says "by CrossRider". I would say they are responsible for your issues not Rendo or DAZ. You may want to contact them about it.

A scene will load a NEW scene. Meaning it closes out the old one. Scene subsets are pretty wonderful. You can save all of what is in the scene or just one or two things. That means if you only want to save a character that you have fixed the surfaces on you can or a whole outfit or what ever. No deleting the extra bits before a save any more.

They size to your monitor. Unless you are moving between a regular size screen and a noticeably larger screen you won't get variable sizes.