3 points to RJ001 Very powerful. 2 points to Sparr, simply beautiful! 1 point to ttops. I hope the next challenge lets you develope a SEP.

Speaking of April Fools Jokes... Last night we had tech rehersal for the musical I'm directing. It's Kiss Me Kate, for those who care. Anyway, the play involves a number of scenes with intense, highly choreographed and difficult to perform dance numbers. The hardest opens the second act, and is called "Too Darn Hot." At about 11:00, when we were finished with rehersals and the Directors were done with thier notes, I stood up and said, great... Now the Choreagrapher and I have decieded to run through Too Darn Hot one more time... Let's just say... if looks could kill... I'd be dead.

Oh boy, I'm pretty new to Poser, but I think I know what going on... You're asking poser to render "on the fly" and poser can't do that. You're going to have to look at each frame as a "still" (Not exactly correct, but close.) In order to see the "non-blocky" version of your animation, you'll have to render to disk, and then watch it in Quicktime or whatever.

I think the vast majority of any problems you may have with Vue on the new machine will be with OpenGL. If you can get the Vue OpenGL to work well with the new machine's OpenGL, you'll be great. I know that until I got those issues solved on my box, even though it is a Mac, Vue wasn't stable. Now, it is quite stable and runs like a champ.

Thanks for the image... and yes, I've got a softness point, but nothing I put in there seems to show up, and instead of the 0.00 that you show in your image, my image is always blank. Sounds like another message to E-on! Thanks!

Oh yea... I work in a presentation department, and I can't tell you the number of times people bring us a Powerpoint presentation that had links instead of embeds, and they are shocked when it doesn't work. Here's to hoping!

Well, it didn't hurt to hope. Actually, though, lots of programs have this kind of updating feature. It is/was a big feature of the whole Microsoft Office ebbedding and linking thing, and several other programs that I use can "relink" files, updating the current document with newer versions of older files included. I suppose I make this one of my wish list items for Vue 5. Right-click on a poser figure in the world browser and have an update option, so Vue automatically reimports the poser file updating the pose.

It was late. What I meant was exactly what you said. That in VUE there are real reflections, and no need to use reflection maps like in poser. I was tired, sorry!!

Propaganda not an acceptable kind of art? Shall we do away with pictures of happy children and flying doves? That's propaganda.

Shall we do away with the stop smoking/drinking/vice and other pictures? That's propaganda.

Shall we do away with advertising, for dear friend that too is propaganda.

Or shall we do away with the art in your gallary, dear dear Doro? Those beautiful images you create showing love, peace and romance? For my good friend, that too is propaganda.

And just because you, Doro, don't accept something doesn't mean it isn't art. And just because you don't get the irony, maybe because it is to forgien for your culture, doesn't mean others don't see the anti-war message in the pictures you dispise.

And what exactly do you mean by telling me, an American, that you, a german, know something better than I? The germans don't have a lock on suffering or war. Before you start telling me, or anyone else, that we need not tell others that we are superior, you had best first look in the mirror.

Your view, the German view, the American view and the Iraqi view are not absolutes. I despise this war. It makes me sick to my stomach to know that two of my best friends are in the middle of this war. But I also despise what Iraq has become, a haven for torture, rape and pain where people are killed at the whim of an insane dictator.

When they came for the gypsies, I did not stand against them. When they came for the gays, I did not stand against them. When they came for the jews, I did not stand against them. When they came for me, no one stood against them. That is not peace.

Doro, I think you are a good, kind, gentle, loving person. I admire you for that, I really do. I admire you for having strong feelings. But I caution you as well. I caution you that thinking so little and so hateful of someone else and their opinion is as short sighted as you can be. If you don't like it, move on. Forget about it. Move past it. For some day it could be your art that offends. Some day it could be your religion that offends. Some day it could be YOU that is offensive. And I will stand beside you and tell them to go away.

So let me be clear... To those of you who think this war is a grand thing, you are just as foolish as grasshoppers who won't hoard food. You lack of vision will come back to haunt us all. And those of you who honestly think that talking to Saddam would have ended this crisis... you are nieve. As is all to common in these situations, the truth lies somewhere inbetween, in that murky place outside of Black and White, and very very deep in the grey.

But I'll stand up against anyone attempting to do away with the right to expression or the right to speak. Tell me war is bad, Doro. Just don't tell me, or anyone else, to shut up. You don't have that right. Hooray patriotism or not.

If I may be so bold as to tell a superior artist to me what I might suggest to improve this fantastic peice of work, instead of windows a force feild would, imho, be quite cool. Sort of like the electro-storm stuff that protects Voyager or some such.

Looks like it is time to build earth. Put it someplace safer this time, okay? I love it!!!

I'm not satisfied with the pose used in these three pictures, nor with the room. I don't really like the lamp at all. So there are a lot of things that I'm going to be changing, but this is a rough draft, so to speak, of my idea's so far. I'm completely open to more ideas.