Thanks for the replies.

GKDantas - when you say "you will have to do some textures adjustments" does that mean I would have to apply textures to all surfaces, or that some would import but would need tweaking?

Thanks,

Klebnor von die Kuche

Total income tax share (percentage)   Descending cumulative percentiles Total Top Top Top Top Top   1 percent 5 percent 10 percent 25 percent 50 percent (37) (38) (39) (40) (41) (42) 100.00 39.43 59.82 70.45 86.08 96.89
Quite right, I mistook the 60% who pay all for 60% paying none.  Still, 40% paying nothing makes the point just as well.  Also, the above table is from the IRS (check their website) and reflects 2006 tax collection.  Interesting, no?

The top 25% of taxpayers pay 86% of all federal income taxes.  The top 10% pays 70% !!!!!

One out of ten is paying for 7 out of ten.  Well, that seems fair ... although it might not if you are that one guy.  Of course, anyone who makes that much money is just lucky.  It couldn't be hard, diligent work.  So if he got his fat paycheck by luck, he should share with everyone else.  Eat the rich!

The two term limit for presidents is a relatively modern introduction, not ratified until 1951 (the 22nd amendment).  It was a response to the three terms of Franklin D. Roosevelt.  Two for that windbag would have been quite enough.  He actually set the groundwork for the current crisis, but that is a tale for another day.  And that limit works well - the principle should be extended.

There is no inalienable right to keep electing an overage, overweight, senile gassbag senator - Ted Kennedy notwithstanding.  You put your finger on the problem.  Everyone hates the congress as a collective group, but loves "their" congressman.  Since they are all such sterling individuals, there must be something in the water in the D of C that causes them to act like asses.

Klebnor

I don't know of any way to remove all content other than to start over.  Here's what I do, I'm sure others have more advice.

I maintain a separate folder called "Poser Runtimes".  Under this folder I have about 20 different folders like this:

Aiko3
Buildings
Daz Characters
Environments
G2 Males
G2 Females
Interiors
Props
Sci Fi
V4 Characters
V4 Clothing
V4 Hair
V4 Aery Soul
V4 Poses
Vehicles

You get the idea.  Basically these folders represent the different runtimes I have set up.  The categories should be logical to you, and split up your content so no one category is too large.  You then need to set up similar runtimes in your efrontierposer directory.

Whenever I obtain new content, I install it to the proper runtime, then store the zip or Daz Installer file to the corresponding poser runtimes folder.  This way, when I need to do a reinstall, I can just open a folder and install everything into the corresponding runtime.

There are probably several tools, but I use 3d Content Installer (about $10 at here at Renderosity).  This lets me drag the entire runtime once, then installs everything (including Daz content without my having to click through endless bloody installs).

If you haven't kept things separate, you would have to go through the separation process first.  I suggest you do this, because you will likely have to open a bunch of zip files or go on the Daz website to determine what the various install files are and where you want to file them.  It's easier to do this once and get it all organized, then install all at once.  Plus, then you have the structure so when you add content in the future, you have a spot to put it (and it doesn't get all jumbled again).

The only tricky thing is content which must be in the original poser runtime.  This is usually characters themselves (V4, M3, etc)  I keep a separate folder named "Poser 7 Runtime" and install it to the poser directory (this finds the master runtime which is in that folder).

Hope this helps.

Klebnor

Brian:

Thanks, I'm obviously still learning.  What I meant by parameters of movement of manipulation tools was the amount of change seen on the workspace for a given movement of the mouse when a tool for manipulation of the selected object is chosen.  Generally the main camera is moving and it can either pan gracefully and slowly around the object, or it can jump a large distance for a small movement of the mouse.

I was unaware of the scene magnitude setting - I'll have to play around with it.

Thanks again.

Klebnor

Elected office should be a public service, as originally intended.  There was no plan for a permanent political class who would remain in office for decades.  It should be a penurious experience, with term limits, and one should be forbidden from profiting from the job before, during or after.  This would eliminate the showboats (you all know who they are and they infest both parties) from spending their entire lives directing the general populous who are obviously too ignorant or lazy to get about their own business.

Think about this for a minute.  60% of Americans pay no federal income taxes at all.  If I spend my money, I am careful to be sure I get good value.  If I spend your money, I'm not sure I care all that much about whether it is well spent.  Combine this with a cash circulation system sucking up funds from individuals, shipping it to Washington and handing it over to politicians who can send it back (reduced by their "expenses") to their districts to buy votes.  Sound efficient?

Subsidiarity.  This is a policy developed in the UK (under Thatcher) that basically said spend money as close to the populace that provides it.  Instead of the inverted pyramid we have where all the cash flows to the top for redistribution, the majority of funds should be collected and spent at the most local level possible.  Town, county, city, whatever.  Only a small amount should go on to the federal level for defense and national capital projects (like interstate highways).  If people who are directly accountable (and who the taxpayers see on the street every day) make the funding decisions, we'll get less pork and more local needs funded.

Actually a flat tax of 16% or so would provide the same funding, hit everyone equally hard, and ensure that everyone had a stake in how the collected taxes were spent.  As long as a majority makes no contribution, but decides how to spend, we are headed for continued trouble.  I highly recommend Atlas Shrugged to those re-distributionists on this thread.  There comes a point where those who work and contribute just give up when everything is taken from them.  The spiral from there looks like all the failed socialist economies of history (USSR, Pre-Capitalism China, Cuba, Nicaragua ... they're not hard to find if you look around).  If you tax something, you get less of it.  This is true of collective income as much as anything else.

Oh, and by the way, if you want to see where the current dilemma came from, it was Chris Dodd and Barney Frank using Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to ensure massive loans were made to individuals who clearly would never be able to pay them back.  This monster, pushed to new heights by the Clinton administration (it has been headed by former Clinton cabinet members for 15 years) were REQUIRED BY STATUTE to back loans with no equity participation by the borrower and with no verification of income.  Very sound business practices.  As soon as the economy stumbled, defaults went through the roof and the securities issued by these "lenders" became worthless, taking the banking system to the brink.

So spare me the right or left wing conspiracies.  It was all done in daylight and the idiocy was there for all to see, complete with intermittant grandstanding by the collective genius of our Congress.

Hang on, its going to be a bumpy ride!

Herr Gott Sacrament, kruzifix donderwetter gewitter hol es!

Was meinen Sie mit "google translator"?????

Das is fast perfekt 'verdamte Ami' deutsch!

Es seit so aus als ob, Nach ihre meinung, mein deutsch ist sehr schlecht.  ES IST MIR WUERST!

Klebnor der einzige

Jeder Zug Faehrt nach Nichteinsteigen

Robert:

Den "Katzen Fur" is nur mit Carrara (ein andere DAZ 3d programm) nutzbar.  Das heist est funktioniert nicht in Poser.  Es ist Moeglich das DAZ wird dein geld ruckgeben, aber Sie mussen direkt contakt aufnehmen mit DAZ fuer ein "refund".

Ich nutze beide programmen, und Carrara ist 50 mal schneller in den render bereich.  Es is teuer, man soll auf ein "Sale" warten.

Alles guete!

Klebnor von unten

Brian:

If I understand your response, the motion tab allows the user to define the parameters for movement of the various manipulation tools?  This seems logical, but, is it also true that this change is global for the scene and increasing this scaling will reduce the motion produced by a give input, while it also has no effect on the scaling of objects in the scene?

I'll play with it when time allows as this would seem to alleviate my navigation problem entirely.

Thanks again - great help.

Klebnor mit sicherheit

Another quick question.  When I put a terrain and a sky into a scene, then add a building, the building is tiny (that's ok).  When I get to the building so it fills the screen, the navigation tools cannot move around it effectively because every little movement is a huge jump on the screen.  Is there some way to re-calibrate them so I can move around and assemble a screen in the middle of a large terrain and sky?

Thanks.

Klebnor mit Schlagsahne

PaganArtist:

Uncheck.   Uncheck.

Re-read the post from Jules53757

Klebnor

Thanks.  I'm getting hyped again now that I've found a render engine that doesn't require coffee breaks to wait it out.

Klebnor

I see that Transposer 2 for carrara 6 pro is available in the Carrara downloads section under support at DAZ.  Is this a free plug in?  Once installed, how would it be accessed?  Also, how does one access the content browser in Carrara?

Thanks for any help.

Klebnor der mensch

Don't get me wrong, I am seriously impressed with Carrara pro after using Poser for a year or so.  I don't think I'll ever get used to the reversed pull / push motion for navigation on the z axis.  Is there any way this can be re-assigned in the opposite direction?

Also, I have a few questions regarding the interface.

Why are bulb lights so huge in the preview view?  Can these be re-sized?
Why is there absolutely no indication of what lights will do in preview?  Am I missing something - there seems to be a huge infinite light on all the time and point/bulb or spot lights don't show up at all until rendered.
Morphs don't seem to go over 1.0 - can this be changed?
Is there a good basic guide to get up to speed?

Thanks for any help.

Klebnor (Poser addict, willing to change)

Thanks, all.  I tried Carrara 6 Pro tonight, and I can't imagine rendering in FireFly again - life's too short.  The quality and speed are amazing.  It's a shame the interface is so kludgy - I think poser is much better for composing a scene.  I suppose I'll probably get the scene 95% of the way in poser, then switch over for lights and rendering.

Thanks again!

Klebnor

I like it.  The scene is bright daylight but has nice ambient occlusion beneath the vehicle and highlights on the glass.

Thanks again.

Klebnor