Heres to a best seller with another on the way. Good luck.

I think that when a persons work is recognized by someone who feels they deserve that recognition enough to want them to have an award for it that they are pleased with receiving that recognition. I would be more than happy to receive an award from any of the members in this forum as we all pretty well can appreciate the effort and work that is put into a really good picture. Why wouldn't someone care to receive an award from you? You are as good a judge as anyone else here on the artistic merits of a persons work. I have seen awards given out by people that don't have any experience with art but they know what they like. That is what it is about when you give an award. You give it because you like what you see. If you do make one let me know as I would be more than happy to submit a piece for consideration. Lets face it, when it comes to poser and bryce this and the PFO are the most knowledgeable groups going and your opinions are as valid as anyone elses here.

Sorry Jack(hanging head in shame and remorse). Should have mentioned that Renderosity doesn't have restrictions either.It just ticks me off though about the ones who do and I just wanted to have an award for those that don't wish to have to follow someone elses guidelines. I know that Renderosity is just about the most open Web Site for artists with some of the most understanding members and rules which are some of the best and most compelling reasons that we all come here. That plus the fact that we are all just about the greatest group of artistic talents on the web or anywhere else that are gathered in one place to help out beginners and experienced artists from all walks of life and all parts of the world regardless of our personal beliefs or preferences make this site the best. Now this is a hell of an apology for my oversight in not recognizing the freedoms allowed here wouldn't you say?(LOL)

True. Corel does get away with it. They all do but the reason is that nobody ever takes them to task for thier practices. All I was pointing out is that there are laws they have to follow and if enough stink was raised maybe the people in power (politicians?) might think about including the necessary legislations to ensure they followed the laws (as in monetary penalties for violation) along with whatever formula they come up with (and they will) to tax us to death on the internet. As long as no complaints are raised they continue on thier merry way impervious to the laws and the rights of the individual. Other companies have eventually been brought to task for thier actions but only after numerous complaints were lodged and could no longer be ignored. The number of people who spent thier hard earned money on these programs deserve more than the total indifference that metacreations has shown lately to thier customers. This is not a company that was going broke or showing consistent losses. They have 38 to 40 million dollars cash in reserve for crying out loud. That money had to partly come from the programs they are dumping. What this shows is that metacreations in the recent hoopla of both Bryce 4 and poser 4 sucked us all down the garden path and now don't want to turn the soil because it s too much effort. They probably knew when they released those programs that they were going to dump them but needed to squeeze every last nickel out of us, the consumer, to set up this move. And if so THAT is where they broke the law because they would have acted in a deceitful manner to gain a profit by devious means (yes, thats how part of the law reads). Anyway, I was just pointing out that there are laws to protect people from this type of business practice but a person (or group of people) have to institute an action against the company suspected of these type of practices.

This goes back to the Studebaker fiasco which resulted in this law being passed in both Canada and the States and covers all such doings by a company regardless of the product they sell or service as long as they are still in business and we can infer from metacreations statement that they plan to be in business for some time to come. MetaCreations has clearly showed thier disdain and contempt for the people who brought them to the dance. I say that a good number of people will remember what they seem to be doing to the people they got the 38-40 million dollar cash reserve to tide them over while they make the adjustment to thier new business focus. From now on when I see a site dealing in a metacreation product such as metastreaming I will; 1. Email them and state my disapproval of thier use of a metacreation product and 2. Not visit that site again. It won't make a difference in the grand scheme of things but at least I will be one less person putting a penny in the pockets of the meta creation board of ass*****.

I don't know about the States but in Canada any person or company that sells a product or service that is found to be sub-standard or defective is liable under the Department of Consumer Affairs to make right or replace said product or service. This particularly applies when it is known by the company beforehand that said product or service is defective or substandard. In fact in a class action suit on behalf of consumers some companies asses have been known to be like grass and you know what happens to grass asses. And it grows twice as fast if it is shown that said company had plans in place to discontinue said product or service and had no plans on providing service or an alternative plan to provide such after discontinuing the product or service. I would think that the same thing applies in other countries as well. I'm sure in the States that some individual states have even more little goodies like this type of law. All I'm pointing out here is that THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE TO PROVIDE SUPPORT FOR X AMOUNT OF TIME just as automobile manufacturers have to supply new parts for a minimum of 10 years after discontinuong a model.

It was nice of them to put the E-mail addresses of the people who are representing thier vision of the future on the bottom of the announcement page don't you think?

#1. The distance and sky look OK to me. #2. Try the same material as the land but play with the ambience. I would think he would show up quite well with just a slight difference in ambience. I know I did a picture with the same material used on everything and just changed ambience settings on each object. Everything showed up just fine.

I think she's just as cute as can be and the expression on her face is perfect.

No big deal. I was banned from thier site the day after they opened it.

It is a beautiful image and one can see that it was made with love precious memories. God bless

I agree that sections would help. Maybe the edit system could be programmed so that older posts don't move to the top when edited unless completely removed and reloaded. I don't know how much trouble that would be but it's just a thought.

Your Avifil32.dll has probably become corrupted for one reason or another. Try the following which has worked for me in the past. 1. Find the Dll in windows system and rename it by adding a letter to it. Do Not shut down once you have done this. 2. Insert your windows cd and re-install the DLL. Try the program and see if this solves the problem. I have had to go as far as re-installing windows completely due to this type of problem. These types of problems seem to be a regular occurence every couple of months with win 95/98. Good luck.

Your link takes one to the freenet page and not to poser- props.co.uk. There they seem to want a person to sign up for a site. Maybe you should look into that.

This is really quite good. You should post it in the gallery as not everyone reads the forums and I think this picture deserves a wider audience. Great job.