http://poserplace.phantom3d.net/V4.2WM/V4.2WM.html

I had given up even trying to get to this site.  I just tried, and whatever they did, I can now get into the site.

Looking at an image and trying to figure out characters and textures is very difficult.  Unless there is something really distinctive about it.

You might have better lock contacting the vendor and asking him/her.

Thank goodness they are switching to zip files!  Those blasted .exe files are a pain in the butt! Click, click, click....... from start to finish including accepting license and picking where to install the file, I think it's 13 clicks! Talk about excessive!

Quote - These are good, thoughtful, workable ideas. I do appreciate those who have taken the time to respond.

My conclusions are as follows:

1. Forum Challenges will continue.

2. The prize will be a banner that the winner can display in his/her signature line, plus the privilage of selecting the next forum challenge theme.

1. I am in the process of contacting the previous winner to get the theme from him.

2. I am going to request a Forum Challenge gallery be created for use by the contests.

I'll get back to you good folks when I know more particulars.

Perfect!  A challenge is just that! It's for bragging rights; it is not a contest for prizes.

If you need help with banners for the winners, I might be able to help with that. I can't guaranty they will be in 3D though!  I prefer to make banners in 2D in my graphic program.  And I must warn....my taste moves towards "pretty" when it comes to banner themes :)

Contact Winnston. He may sell it to you privately via PayPal or a gift certificate to a store of his choosing.

http://www.renderosity.com/homepage.php?page=5&userid=108077

Quote -> Quote -(What was it lmckensie said about a Moderator's job being "herding cats"?)

 

All you need is a good laser toy.  Piece of cake after that!

LMAO!!!  Too true!

Quote - Rattleback

I never would have guessed that in a gazillion years! I've never heard of it.  Sounds interesting though.

Quote - Ha Ha, you're kidding right?!

 

Shaped like this only made of solid metal.

No, I wasn't kidding :)

Other than what I posted, I have no clue what you are referring to.

Is it a kids toy you are looking for?

Love dynamic clothing.  I can't model things, but I use freebies, I buy, and I'm gifted with them.  Each clothing type has it's pros and cons.   What I love about dynamic clothing is the ability for the clothing to follow the pose, resulting in a far more realistic look/flow of the clothing in relation to the body position.

I've been asking for hair for older people for years. No one seems to want to make any.

As people age, even women, their hair becomes thinner and more sparse.

The existing hairs that I've found around Poserdom are not realistic as to the type of hair an older person would have. Yes, you can change the texture to a grey, white or salt/pepper, but the fact that they are so "full" and "lush", really doesn't lend itself to what is typical of the average older person.

Quote - I jumped from P4 to P7 and I read somewhere I had the option of making more than one runtime folder for it. Since I didn't know how then and didn't have the patience or functional brain matter to try it out, I went with the single Runtime Folder.

Unfortunately my Runtime folder is ready to explode and the more I want to try and put in to do so, the more I forget what I have and the longer it takes to find stuff.

So, I thought it was time to create that second Runtime folder so I can transfer older stuff to it and keep the original one for newer stuff.

Can someone tell me either where to find the info or how to go about creating a second folder in plain simple 3rd grade terminology.....please!  :)

 **Multiple External Runtimes
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It's really pretty easy.  The problem is that most **people over think it.  **

**Just remember that an external runtime is exactly the same as the runtime in your Poser folder, only it's just sitting in a different location.  **

**It functions exactly the same way. **

And files are installed / added to them in exactly the same way. 

And they have the same folders in them as the main runtime does. Well almost the same folders.  Scripts for example have to be installed into the main Poser runtime and won't work from an external runtime.

Here is a sample of an external runtime.  Simply download it and unzip it. You will have a folder called "Runtime_Sample"

www.divshare.com/download/8531562-1f6

Find a place on your hard drive that you want to have your external runtimes living. For me it's on my partitioned drive D.

Make a folder called "Poser Runtimes"

s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/Acadia_ca/

Then simply copy that sample runtime you unzipped into that "Poser Runtimes" folder and make as many copies of it as you want to.  Change "Runtime_Sample" to whatever name you want.  Here is what I named some of mine:

s263.photobucket.com/albums/ii124/Acadia_ca/

Then all you do is simply install your content into whichever runtime you feel it fits best into.

Once you have finished installing your content look in the Runtimes where you have Daz characters such as V3 or V4 etc.  Go into the Library folder and look for the !DAZ folder.  Make a COPY of that folder and place the COPY in exactly the same place in the main Poser Runtime. 

Poser looks there first so by placing a copy of them in there, you are helping Poser out.  Don't delete the !DAZ folder from your other runtimes though. That defeats the purpose of having external runtimes, which is not only to allow Poser to work faster, organize your content better, but also to not lose your installed runtime content in the even of a crash because hopefully you have also saved your external runtimes to a couple other places for easy access in case of the need to reinstall.

Hope that helps.  If you have more questions, just ask.

Oh yeah, never install anything directly to your runtime. Always unzip / install to a folder on your desk top so you can see what is in side and what the folder structure is.

So far as organization inside the runtimes, continuity of naming goes a long long way.

Let's say for example that LaurieA gave me a beautiful clothing package for V4.  The package consisted of the following:

Dress
Shoes
Purse
Hair
Poses

When I get that file I will unzip it into a folder on my desk top in order to see what is inside.  Here is what I find

Dress inside a folder in the character folder aptly named "superstar dress"

Shoes inside a folder named "LaurieA" inside is another  folder named "V4" inside is another  folder named "props" inside are 2 more folders: 1  called "V4 Flats" and finally inside that folder are the shoe files, the other called "V4 Purse" with the purse file inside.

I find the hair  in the hair library, deep inside several folders as I did the props

And finally the poses for the figure are found in a folder in the Pose Library called "Gotta Have Fun" and another folder that simply said "dress textures"

Now if I were to install all of that into my runtime I wouldn't have a clue later on when I went to look for stuff to use from that one package, of what went with what!

Which is why it's important to open things onto your desktop and look through it and rename some of the folders that the vendor created.

The example of above is a very real nightmare that for some reason many vendors seem to do.  Another nightmare is using there real names as names for the folders instead of their vendor name.  That only adds to the confusion.

Here is how I would sort out the mess above while it was still on my desktop.

LaurieA - Superstar Dress
LaurieA - Superstar Dress
LaurieA - Superstar Dress
LaurieA - Superstar Dress
LaurieA - Superstar Dress

Yes, each folder in each libary is now called the same thing.  BUT I now have no doubt that when I do to use the superstar dress, that I will know what I'm looking at when I open up each library.

You can get even more organized.

For example under Poses, if you have found 5 new textures for that dress by 5 different artists, you can keep them all in one place. For example:

Artist 1 - (superstar dress) - sequins
Artist 2 - (superstar dress)  - dragon textures
Artist 3 - (superstar dress) - metalics
etc. etc. etc.

Just plunk those extra textures you found, as named above, inside the LaurieA - Superstar Dress  folder in the Pose Library.  Now when you want to use the superstar dress you have all of the textures at hand in one place.

I haven't checked, but maybe Schlabber has some on his site:

http://www.schlabber.org/piaa21/index.html

http://www.schlabber.org/index.html

Quote - There was a fantastic item in the marketPlace labeled "Pharaoh's Coffin" made by someone named Poser-Ism Toshiyo.  I purchased only a couple of month's ago, but running a search I can no longer find the item or the merchant.  I'm guessing since that was his 9or her) only item, when sales dropped below a certain minimum, it vanished along with the merchant's page.

Look's like that is exactly what happened

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=200345&category=allitems

https://market.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?ViewProduct=72166

Quote - I can't access Poserplace neither. Searching the internet for solutions I found a test for IPv6 connections. I tested repeatedly with the results that I theoretically am able to connect with IPv6 sites, practically I get time-out-messages every time I try.

I didn't know you could test for that.  I searched google and found a site to test. Here is what I was told. If anyone wants to test, go here:    http://ipv6-test.com/

When both protocols are available, your browser uses

IPv4

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Your internet connection is not IPv6 capable

N/A

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unable to contact IPv6 test server