From what I've seen, my favorite renders have come from Lightwave and Cinema 4D. I have also seen some very good renders from Maya. I don't like Bryce renders, personally, although a few were pretty good. One thing you can do is cruise for some nice light sets. Blackhearted has a light set in the Renderosity marketplace that works true wonders for rendering within Poser. There are also some good free light sets, for example the set by Anton in the free stuff section is very good.

Holy smokes!!! That rocks!

What are you talking about? Milla did a fantastic job a Joan. She played the part very well. Her insanity was very believable. :) She was also great in Zoolander. That movie was nuts LOL

We don't have anyone locally that we know to play with, but my husband and I both like D&D and Shadowrun, and he like Gurps but I've never tried it. We got the stuff to play Gurps with Vampire rules but we haven't tried it yet.

Sick bay, mess hall (galley), engineering, hydroponics. My votes :)

Very nice! That does look like it took quite a bit of work. I can't wait to see what you're capable of if this is one of your first :)

Ahh! This is pretty cool. Must have take a while to do :)

I am partial to dethblud's entry. I like the two different types of spheres.

Disagree with you? Never :) I'm all for freebies. I'd love it if EVERYTHING for Poser was free, but then if everything was free, there would be alot less stuff to use. I think that a pretty big portion of those ccreating stuff for the store wouldn't be creating anything at all if there was no way to profit from it. It's just too time consuming to create items for free unless you have a decent income. If you have a decent income from a job or business or something, you sometimes have more time to play with. I, on the other hand, spend 12-14 hours a day just working to pay bills, so whatever I managed to create would be extremely valuable to me. Especially since my kids would have to deal without the extra mommy-time while I worked on it. Heh. Anyway, I agree that many of the items are low in quality and take up valuable space. I guess many of those merchants are just hoping to earn a little extra cash off the odd sale here and there to finance their own marketplace spending. I've even thought of selling a couple of items myself, but before I could get them ready to go in the store I had a HD crash and had to fdisk and I wasn't able to back them up :( I hate this old beast of a system. Anyway, my rant to merchants is: For god's sake, if you're going to offer a freebie that requires the purchase of your item, PLEASE state on the thumbnail that it requires purchase of (ITEM) and try to fit it in the text description, too, in case the thumb is broken, which happens sometimes. I hate getting really excited about an item only to find out I have to buy something in order to use it. Especially when I can't afford to buy anything at the moment :(

b e a u t i f u l . . . Look forward to it! GREAT work!

I know how you feel, Ron. I'm "in the sticks" too. Bellsouth has been promising us DSL "within 6 months" for about 2.5 years now. The sad thing is, it's in my CITY... just not MY part of it! Grr :)

Actually, I think my host leases his servers and bandwidth from elsewhere. He's probably never even seen the servers. So it shouldn't matter where you live if you can find a good server somewhere. If you want to run your own servers you're going to be up late alot rebooting and such :)

Ouch, nerd, sorry to hear about your hosting troubles. Believe me, I've had my nightmares with hosting companies. One tried to tell me I was using 50 GB per month when the server logs that THEY provided for me said I was using 24. NOT good at $4.00 per GB. The guy that hosts me now I talk to personally sometimes. He's a really nice guy. He's been on ICQ just about any time I've needed to talk to him and he's never taken more than a few hours to get back to me about problems through e-mail. His terms of service basically says no illegal stuff and no spamming or hacking. :) I've hosted picture galleries, zip files, and even movies etc. with no problems. I also have several aquaintences on this hosting and they're all very pleased. Some even do several hundred GB per month, I think. I don't know who he is buying his bandwidth from, I just know he said it's a very big and very reliable company. Must be really cheap for him to charge so little. But then again, I don't think he makes alot of profit off of his hosting company. I think he started it as a way to pay for his own hosting. You might look into it, where he is buying from.

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$4.00 per gig is alot. My hosting company is $1.50 per gig. And offers MAJOR space and bandwidth really cheap. And they offer hosting for adult sites, so they wouldn't be offended by any Poser stuff. I've been with them for a few months and I'm very pleased. It would have to be cheaper than $1.50 per gig. In fact, there are alot of "adult" hosting companies now that offer bandwidth as low as $.99 per gig. I even saw one that was $.50 per gig. (But they didn't have PHP or CGI, which I wanted.) I'm on their $25 per month plan at Chili Host (12 GB of transfer and 1.3 GB (yes GIGS) of disk space.) Maybe you could look into cheaper bandwidth.

Actually, PayPal has a subscription service. It is being used on a number of "adult" websites as their means for access. :)