Attached Link: Index of free DAZ|Studio scripts

In Daz's forum I have asked if some can be included into DS as standard so the scripts can be compatible with each new DS release/update. Not sure if that will ever happen. Sigh!

Also now I am learning to use Sculptris. It's a free 3D modeller available at Pixologic. It is absolutley FUN!! Link to Sculptris  = http://www.zbrushcentral.com/showthread.php?t=090617

@Xerxes0002 - Thanks! Hopefully it will help with some of those tutorial YouTube videos posted by others. Kind of hard to see what their doing and even worste / more grainy image when enlarged.

Quote - Good to point this out!  One I will add, that if you get downloadhelper for firefox it will download most video from most sites and if you want it to, can convert it as well.  For youtube its menu will bring up all the various resolutions so you can pick which one you want to grab.  It is free as well. 

Hi Xerxes0002, the ability to choose the resolution sounds great. I typed in "downloadhelper"in the search box at Firefox's Add-On site and there are about 5 add-ons with that name. For the one you recommend can you give us it's full name and who it's by?

Quote - That's with we need the breakroom*.*lol

AMEN brother!

Quote - i like it.  i think you have provided a very solid approach.  If you have the time, talk with the others, get their input and have something i can present to the investors by apr 30th

Well I was even more afraid someone may ask that!

Thank you for your confidence in me and I hate to dissapoint you. But my day job is normally busy enough. Actually a little too quite at the moment because of the cascading effects of the Global Financial Crisis. Hence some quite time taken to check out Rendo's Galleries & Forums.

I understand the Certification process from what we do for our Company products and from what I learnt in Management classes (4 years of wishy washy stuff, except Accounting which seemed more solid). But I come to Rendo to relax and not do what I consider as their and the Content Creator's job discription to provide <> quality in products to the market.

Just thought I'll add to my above certification process "guide" that this doesn't happen in any Company. Instead the Company creates a QA department.

At worst the QA department asks noone about how the work is actually done in each department and makes procedures that have nothing to do with the workflow and are a burden to all.

At best the QA department may ask the depatment managers how the work is done in their depatment.....as if they know!!! And then the QA department makes procedures that have nothing to do with the workflow and are a burden to those actually doing the work.

Let me reiterate my previous comment "All very boaring stuff that sucks the fun out of the job."

Quote - How would you set up the certification process?

I was afraid someone might ask me that. LOL.

But seriously the certification process has to be a measure against a standard / criteria that has to be agreed with between the stakeholders (example - SM / Rendo / Content Creator). In this way a check list can be made such as the following example:-

001 Are all geometries in the Geometries folder? yes / no.

002 Are all textures in the Textures folder? yes / no.

003 Are there absolutely NO exclamation marks in the file/folder name? yes / no / depends!

999 And so on....

This check list can be part of Rendo's package to the Content Creators so that the CC's can check it themself and submit it with the product to Rendo for verification.

The check list should be reviewed often based on customer feedback (we customers are also stakeholders) on the products.

The check list should be realistic and applicable, and not just a wish list.

I'm not sure if the check list should be made public or included in the product package sold. That maybe a bit of a touchy point. Just like all other manufacturers our company does not publicly display it's internal quality check reports or neither should it. At the end there is always a warranty period and of course the Law.

Most manufacturing companies have Quality Assurance accreditation, but that is a huge overhead of time / labour / costs that someone (dearly beloved consumers) has to pay for at the end of the day.

Therefore the check list should be part of the natural workflow and assistance to, but not a burdon to, the Content Creators.

I work with industrial equipment and for us quality checks are part of the manufacturing process at every stage. You have to maintain a structured process to ensure a level of quality. It's quite rigid. To translate this process to vendor content creation (or a Certification process by others) it would mean the vendor (or Certifying body) would have to have a certain amount of self disipline and a systematic approach to content creation. All very boaring stuff that sucks the fun out of the job.

I made a couple of freebies and I used my runtime to see how others structured their content. It was quite a learning experience. But as I was making them I was always doing checks along the way. It just comes natural to me from my day job. Anyhoot I wanted want I made to work for myself too! And since the content had my name attached, it was also a bit of personal pride to get it right. But I didn't quite get it right the first time. LOL.

Edit to my previous post "my day job is in sales and my customers have given me a lot to treasure......."

^.^

@cvrad - true my broad approach to defining art does make a mockery of the whole rating system. But when I first started in the galleries I did give true ratings but after a really good artist that I felt friends with left after recieving less than 5 then I started to question the whole thing.

As MangusGreed pointed out this is not the first time the rating system has been questioned. I had participated in some of those earlier forums discussions too. Can't say anything ever changed.

I actually like the rating system at DeviantART where a word is associated with the rating. However I don't understand their ratings "mad / sad / fear"; must be some moderators joke that didn't come across clearly ;-)

@Warlock279 - I don't mine critisism as long as it's constructive. Confucius says "Treat one who has shown you your faults as if he has shown you a treasure". Anyhoot my day job is in sales and my customers have made me develop a very very thick skin. LOL.

Good answer!

@cvrad - I understand what your saying but I also agree with AnnieD; you can't change human nature.

There is another negative side of the rating system where budding artist may become discouraged and dispondant at low scores and give up too early in their efforts. High scores, even if they're meaninless, is an encouragement.

I like coming the Rendo galleries because I see them as a brainstorming of artistic ideas. None are bad and all have potetial to be great. So under my criteria everyone who has made the effort (and put up with those really long render times. LOL) gets a 5.

I may however leave some suggestions in the comments area. But there I am more cautious because the words that we type never true express what we mean. We humans communicate with more than words. So communicating with just words alone is fraught with danger. What one may meant as just a jokingly friendly remark becomes something else without that face-to-face communication.

Anyhoot most of us know where our own art truely stand when we look at the work/effort of others (that is, if we have the courage to be honest with ourselves).

And if one truely feels the need to have one's work judged (and has the courage to allow it so), then there is always the competitions that Rendo hosts now and again.

You may note I used the word "courage", but the word "humility" is just as equal in this case. It depends on if your a person who see his beer glass as half full or half empty ;-)

@gritcher - textwranger sound interesting but I use a PC (not Mac). Anyhoot I use Dimension3D RuntimeRepair to help fix up / rewrite filepaths so the file can be found by Daz Studio.

I find that moving files around within the official Libraries folders Camera/Character/Face/Hair/Hand/Light/Materials/Pose/Props is ok provided there isn't a geometry(obj), texture(jpg, png, etc), and pmd left in those Libraries folders as well.

All geomeries should be in Geometries and all textures should be in Textures. But I don't think the pmd file was well thought out by the Poser developers to just have it sit in the Libraries folders. Like the InjDelta.PZ2/RemDelta.PZ2, the pmd file should be in a special place such as "Morphs" outside the Libraries folder.

I just hope the Poser developers don't create a new official Room called "Morphs" otherwise that will give me a big headache. And if Poser developers give too much free reign for others to create folders then they will cause themselves a headache on future developments of Poser.

Anyhoot as I said, if I start moving files/folders around I have to be real careful because then content updates from Vendors will not work or take more file editing on my part to make the update work.

I don't want to be forever fixing up files. I just want to make art!!!!!!

Another issue is that Daz Studio is very specific with seaching files in accordance exactly by the filepath written. Poser is more flexible and as long as the file is in the Runtime folder it will find it even if the filepath is incorrect. I prefer th use Daz Studio. So you Poser users have got it easy in this regards. I have to be extremely careful to move files around. Files with exclamation marks (as anoying as they are) are the least of my woes. !!Sigh!!

Unfortunatley if I move all those folders out on "Libraries" and into a more appropriate folder called "Morphs" then all the links will be broken and the vendor updates won't work.

And this is just an example of the chaos in the first level of folders without going into the Libraries subfolders!!!!

Funny to see that Rawart made two folders "!Raw" and "Raw". Obviously thought the exclamation mark would help find their folder. Sorry mate didn't work! Use a truck load more exlamation marks next time!!!! LOL

Poser has passed through various distributor hands and so I suspect noone seems to have given much thought on all the content being created and how best to organise it to be shared.

Poser created a Libraries folder called Materials in Poser 5 (I think). So any Libraries folders previously created by others also called Materials in earlier Poser versions would a been a right nightmare to fix up after the new official Materials folder was created.