There's been at least two 'love' rooms released.  They feature goofy decorations, a round bed, tacky drapes and hanging things, and come across as just plain sleazy, at least to me.  How about something tasteful and refined?  Look up the Woolworth mansion for some inspiration.

Ooooh what fun!  I love this sort of thing and wanna thank BB for taking the time to show the math and figure this stuff out.  I've grabbed this entire thread and will go over it in detail at work tomorrow while my computer renders more boring technical video.  My personal project at home involves creating sheer organza-like materials for designing bridal apparel.  Some of the new real world materials being used by a couple of designers in eastern Europe have some interesting sheens.

...and thanks for dragging me over here Boni.  I'd've never found it on my own.  BG is correct in saying that the forum's search engine is horrific.

Thanks for both your replies but I stumbled over the answer at work today while beating the be-jesus out of a different project.   I noticed that the difuse value was at zero meaning that no matter what I changed the diffuse colour to, it stayed stubbornly black.  Changing the value to 1.00 gave me back control of the colour.  All is now happy in my world...if it would stop bloody snowing that is.

As for Davo....The man is either insane or a genius. I've yet to find one of his kits that couldn't be used in some way with any of his other kits (and that includes the sci fi and vanilla set kits). I don't know if he plans it that way, or it was just a roll of the crazy karma dice, but sum of his parts is greater than the whole, at least digitally.

chuckle  I like to use his stuff to 'Frankenstein' some ridiculously over-complicated machine for nefarious purposes.

Richard60,   what a brilliant idea...I love it.  Unfortunately there are too many sleazy (ie: greedy) jurisdictions where folks can set up shop for nothing and the admins will look the other way.  phoundzu has sites all over the place including Somalia and several Asian countries. She's in Vietnam and seems to see the pirating of western content as some sort of revenge.  

Doc is still very much there.  He's the one sending all the take-down notices. 

Davo kills me (figuratively of course).  Just when you thought that everything had been built, he comes out with the 'Prichard' series.

And it isn't just one or two 'copyright nazis' doing this; most of the folks at Rotica do a good job of covering each other's backs 

   Glad you caught that.  I've had a lot of fun with them for many years and we certainly had a tight-knit community of sick, twisted, perverted, warped, strange and just plain messed up folks.  Sadly, many have drifted away to other things and the community has changed.  There's a couple of small forums where the vestiges of the old days still hang around but... sniff, sniff

Morkonan,  We've obviously taken some of the same marketing and business courses.  I've been snooping around the pirate's butts long enough to understand (but not like) their attitudes.  A niche market like ours could easily die because of theft and I find that intolerable.  I'm hoping that engaging them in conversations will turn a few from the dark side and make them paying customers.  There has yet to be a software or hardware solution that's lasted more than a few minutes under pressure from the cracker/hackers so that method is a waste of time.  The vendors could also be doing a lot more issuing of takedown notices in the torrent sites.  This is the most popular distribution method and only Renderotica issues DMCA complaints.  There's one main torrent site for Poser/Daz stuff and I never see their stuff there.
     The vendors themselves could also take a little time to engage the pirates in the sharing forums.  If they saw that the content artists are just regular folks trying to make a few lousy bucks doing something they are passionate about, I'm certain it would turn a few.  I confess to having been a serious (and damned proud of it!) pirate for many decades but was turned by gaming.  I loved the Half Life universe and began buying the games and add-ons to support it.  It felt so good that when I left games for Poser, I continued supporting the artists.

Hi PhilC.  It looks like you're one of the few who understand the gravity of the situation.  I have an acquaintance who had a experience similar to yours with his sales dropping to zero after his first item hit the sharing sites.  He pulled his product, when into the torrent and sharing sites to give the immature and uneducated punks a taste of his mind (and was quickly banned from them) and finally vowed to never try selling his stuff again.  The Poserverse lost a talented and enthusiastic content artist.  This is why I'm keeping  my stuff on my harddrive.  I'd love to contribute but not with the pirates having a field day with stuff I've put so much time and passion into.

Morkonan, I like the way you think.  I've been making my presence known in some of the torrent sites and love to play 'you're a pompous ass and self aggrandizing narcissist' with that scumbag phougdzu, who runs a bunch of sites. I get banned then quickly join again under a new nym.  I've been through so many Gmail and Yahoo accounts I've lost track.

Excellent work.  It's nice to see our hobby being used for real world projects.

Yes!  Lots of us wanna know!   I learned a lot from your site and appreciated you sending me your DVD.  Perhaps you could sell the DVD here?  There's too much great information to just let it die. 

Sorry, but we're all too busy pushing snowblowers up and down our driveways to play guessing games.  Got another 20cm today.

Hi Denis, I love your tutorials and am always waiting for more.  Even the technical ones are a good exercise in math.

I've had a few of these calls and take the opportunity to screw with them and waste their time.  I put my headset on then continue doing whatever else I was up to while playing the fool and pretending I'm having all kinds of problems.  The last time I managed to drag him along for a good fourty minutes while I was fiddling in my garage.  When he asked what the noise was in the background I told him I was working on the motor of my vintage sports car and had been playing him all that time.  I mentioned that it was also being recorded (it wasn't) and that I'd be posting it on the net to show how pathetic he was, and that most of the world's population was much too smart to be taken in by their 'kiddee-scripts'.  He hung up quickly and I've never heard back.  Here's a group of folks playing with the 419 Nigerian scammers,  http://ebolamonkeyman.com/

 I want to encourage them to make more,

Glad I'm not the only one doing this.  I also email them and let them know how much I enjoy the product and thank them for their work.  I'm surprised at how often I'll receive a return message thanking me for the kind comments and sometimes expressing disappointment at how few people take the time to give them feedback.  Customers should be taking a little time to bolster the egos of their favourite content creators.