Oh well I already own lightwave 6.5 and cinema 4DXL and poser4 with the first propac release so i will most likely be saying goodbye to poser except for exporting my current poser figures mike& vicky as lightwave objects and rigging them in lightwave. Mocap

Ha !!! The Lightwave PPP hosting on the Mac platform is a Dabacle also. Im sorry for being so blunt here people, but How did WAREZ prevent them from properly testing these Lightwave and Max Plugins before!! they pawned them off on us, the user base??? I have never seen a software maker promise so much and deliver so Little on a product release and then claim to be too busy fighting Bootleggers to offer offer fixes that SHOULD have been discoverd before the products release. Mocap

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Hey Fox , I see you share my frustration with what has been coming out of Hollywood!!! I wonder whats going to happen when they run out of Old cartoons and TV series to remake into bad movies( flintstones, rocky & bullwinkle arrgghhh!!) and they realize that intelligent adults are tired of silly "Something About Mary" Clones thats the beauty of CG , its giving independent creative thinkers the power to explore their creative vision in a Big way!! this is a very exiting time to be into 3D computer graphics. Mocap

Hey Fox, Check out the Model they used in the bone creation/weight mapping tutorial in Chapter 11 of albans book why its our very own lovely and talented Posette!! orange dress and all. I think I will try that tutorial this week Ive always wanted to " Bone "Posette (Haw Haw Haw) BTW that Alban CDhas a 30 Day demo of Credos Lifeforms also Mocap

Steveshanks is right, Maya is priced WAAAAY!! out side the range of the individual user It is not really a 3D Program in the traditional sense, but more of an open source 3D interface for which you hire TEAMS of programmers you write plugins and scripts. BIg Animation Houses Know this and if your DEMO Reel is Killer enough and show that you know and understand the realy important principles of animation such as pacing timing, lighting etc. you will be hired and trained on their Customized versions of the super high end stuff. A Guy named Victor Navone( Alien Song) got hired by Pixar based on his Reel that was done completely in HASHAnimation Master, Pixar uses a proprietary Software called "Renderman" where you model and animate in "RAW CODE" They dont use HASH Phil Mcnally( aka Captain 3D) got hired BY ILM got hired based on his short film "Pump Action" done completely in Cinema 4DXL .ILM Does NOT use Cinema They are mostly a softimage house. so dont worry about trying to own these highend Programs focus on becoming a Good Animator Mocap

I have heard here are chat rooms where if you ask the right questions you will be directed to the location where to download PC software. Unfortunatey the majority of warez trading is NOT conducted on traditional "websites" it is done VIA Privately owned Point to Point Servers in the exact fashion that Napter operated.(and still does) you first download and install a small client software much like napsters. you the log on to the static IP of other people running the same software and you gain direct access to THEIR computers to get the warez. (or music) much like when i use "Transmit" to gain direct ftp acces to my directories at Freeyellow.com to upload any animation clips or website files I dont even have to have my web browser running when i am using my FTP software to upload my MPEGS to my free web space at Freeyellow.com I wish Anton And others well in their efforts and im sure law enforcement has indicated they are "investigating" this case but I suspect that the FBI will not commit SERIOUS RESOURCES to hunting down these "desparados "because this is a nonviolent crime. that does NOT involve Huge amounts of unreported taxable income ( warez is given away free) and there is no huge public outcry putting pressure on law enforcment to stop this "scourge" and frankly the majority of the great unwashed masses out there think that "Intellectual property" is a piece of real estate owned by a NASA scientist. ANTON: I am sure your attorney has explained this to you but i think it bears mentioning for the other members of this forum. Once you get these Miscreants into Civil Court you will tasked with providing detailed records of the identity of EVERYONE who Legally purchased your models. and concrete evidence that YOU are the legal creator and owner to the models in question in the first place before you can even begin making your case that some particular ones were obtained illegally. this can be a time consuming and $$$$EXPENSIVE$$$ discovery process. I bought Bryce4 from Compusa for $149 Cash( no ID required) at a closeout sale i never registred it, if I lost my Box manual and originial Install CD ROM, which i still have, Could a Lawyer go to Metacreations/ veiwpoint/corel/ whoever and Prove My seat of bryce4 is legal?? eventuailly but how many $$thousands of dollars in legal fees later? Napster is still up and running because the Plaintive artist have been ordered to provide REAL evidence of ownership/authorship of EVERY SONG of theirs that they say is being traded on napster What a F*cking legal Quagmire!!! unfortunately your Email "evidence" from these people is probably useless because of identity masking email progams Like the popular one called" imposter" make it easy to deny or at least delay your establishing that they are the senders of the emails (MORE Legal$$$$$$$$!!!!) and as far as going after the ISP's of these people you will have another $$$LEGAL$$ battle field to conquer due to the ISP's Privacy Concerns and at best you may get some people's email accounts cancelled. and as far as monetary reward, these people apparently cant Afford $220 to buy Poser4 much less a real modeling App like Lightwave so the prospects of you receiving a monetery settlement from their "estates" seems rather Dim. And with the prison system giving early releases to RAPIST"s and MURDERERS due to overcrowding the prospect of premium prison bed space being given to some hi vertice Illegal dragon mesh trader seems equally Dim in my opinion. This kind of legal Action involving digital material is not like the same as catching the thief who stole you VCR with your name and SS number engraved on the bottom I am NOT advising you in any way regarding you pursuit of this matter Anton you already have a REAL LAWYER to do that. I just thought i would add this perspective to the discussion here at renderosity Mocap

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