I'm sorry but I can't answer your questions, but both pictures totally rock. David

WOW! That was really amazing. I wonder how many hours it takes to get really good at the program? D :p

Hi. Thanks for the advice. David

Cool. That owl reminds me of the one in the movie Labyrinth. David

Hi there. Thanks for your reply. I will take a closer look at the website. David

Hold on I want to make sure that I understand this.  So if I create a scene in Cinema 4d and it uses Vue trees, but render the scene in Cinema 4d with the toon shader, everything will be toon shaded, except the trees?  That does not sound good to me.

Maybe I'm missing something...

David

Hi.  I just wanted to post an update.  I emailed several questions to the Canadian Intellectual Property Office (CIPO), asking how Canadian works are protected in foreign countries and also provided links to the Orphan Works Act, asking how this would affect Canadians.  I should be receiving a reply in about 2 business days (By the 14th at the latest).

I also did a little research on international copyright and found the Berne Convention, which both Canada and the United States, along with a huge list of other nations (with a few exceptions--such as Taiwan) are members.  I did try to read through some of the articles that make up the Berne Convention, but have found it very confusing.  After lunch I will try and continue my search and post my findings online for all to see, although I think that most of my questions will be answered by CIPO.
Sincerely, 

David Lein

Hi. I posted this over in the Copyright forum, but I thought that you might like to see it as well. It has been a long time since I have read through the Canadian Copyright law (five years) and eight for the U.S.A Copyright law. I'm a library tech in Canada and we needed to be well versed in copyright law. You also must remember that most of the major countries have also signed international copyright agreements to protect international interests. I think that if the U.S. passed such a law there would be severe backlash from the international community. I am going to to start researching Canada, U.S. and international copyright law tomorrow and will try and post my findings when I can. While I think I only have one image on Renderosity (and it's not really worth stealing). As for work that fall in to Public Domain, at least in Canada works that fall into PUblic Domain are: 1) Works, in which 50-75 years have passed since the the original author has passed away. 2) Works that have been around since before Copyright laws have come into place (for example the Works of William Shakespeare, or Johnathan Swift, along with most music written before the 1800s. This does not include works that present the original conent in a new performance. So music by Mozart would be in the public domain, but, the London Symphony Orchestra recording of Motzart's opera the Magic Flute would be protected under copyright laws. There are laws in Canada that promote "fair use" execptions. Several involve Education, but I will have to look up what these exceptions are as I don't remember. More to follow. Sincerely, David Lein

Hi thanks for the info about the 3d.sk site. What I really want to know about is there some Victoria 4 blank template, and can import into Photoshop to edit. And if so how to I get it back onto Victoria 4 in poser? Thanks. David

I emailed E-Frontier and asked what was going on and the reply I recieved back simply stated that they had no information on this topic, but if I had other problems that they would be happy to help. David

Well I'm rather ticked that they will not allow Carrara access to the Poser SDK.  I spent a lot of money on Poser 7 for my Intel mac pro because I understood that you could import dynamic hair and cloth in Carrara 5 Pro.

I'm just starting to learn Poser 7 and and still very much a novice  with Carrara.  

Is Carrara the only program that E-Frontier is not allowing to have access to the SDk, or are other 3d programs having the same problems?

Very disheartening news.

David

How do I get Poser to access the other runtime?  Can Poser use both runtimes at once?

I've had Poser 6 for a while, but, never really used it (Computer way to slow).  Bought Poser 7 for my mac pro and am looking forward to learning it.

David

Thanks. I did not know about this one. David

Fran, I'm so sorry for your loss.

That is good news as my copy should arrive tomorrow, and I too have a Mac Pro with 4 Gigs ram and am itching to work with it. David :)