Sorry for the short post Travis, I was i a in a great hurry this morning.~8-) take care Thomas

Hi, http://www.graphiccompetitions.com/ http://contest.3dluvr.com/assignment/current.php

Unfortunately there is nothing on my HD that I can post w/o violating someones copyright but here's at least a Web Site: http://www.fineart.sk/tut.htm A "must see" IMO cheers Thomas

Here you'll find links to a lot of freeware 3D apps: http://www.bakhter.com/html/main/freeware.html hope that helps Thomas

AFAIK, the tutorial you've mentioned is for LW 6.x. LW5.x doesn't support UV maps so there is no way to import the texture. Importing the mesh should work fine. Just export the mesh from poser as a *.obj and load it into modeler. Make sure you've loaded LW's import plug ins. Hope that helps Thomas

Same for me, I'm not to good in texturing and porting things to Poser or Bryce but if you need Models/meshes just let me know. regards Thomas

Huh? A more intuitive modeler than LW ???? ROFL ! (Sorry couldn't resist, but however that's a C&C forum here, right :) ) Concerning the question: Yes, I also use Cinema4D and though I do most of my works in LW IMO it would be nice to have a C4D forum here. regards Thomas

I don't understand that point about a leak at all. All this c't mag did was to translate a letter from Steve Cooper, that he had posted on the CL website weeks before. What makes me realy sad is, they are complaining about that it is harder now to violate peoples privacy because of freedom of the press? Hope I misunderstood this. peace Thomas

Hi Wulfi, I'not realy sure what you mean, but one of the odd ( but sometimes very useful) things in LW is that 100% transparent objects are still "seen" by the renderengine. So a solution might be to use 100% object dissolve rather then transparency or just "unseen by rays" in the object item properties. hope that is what you were asking for, if not maybe post a pic here that I can see the problem. Ciao Thomas (He who is lightyears away from beeing a guru)

Hi Karen,Steve, "I'd just like to ask you what your idea of a small company really is?" You are a part of the egy.sys AG right? But I think that's not the realy important point. "But if that is what you wish to do, how can we talk you out of it?" That's quite easy, here a quotation from my post to Anthony: --------------------------------------------------- "..I'm not very happy about any software protection because they are almost useless but waste my time. But I love poser and would accept any resonable protection system if you can make one thing sure: I don't want to be forced to have any further contact to the supplier after I've register the product. ...." --------------------------------------------------- you can read the full story in the nosfiratu post below. "It's too bad that it would be more difficult for you to live without piracy than Poser. That's a sad statement. I hope I misunderstood." You did, but it shouldn't be a problem to scroll up and read again ;). "...regarding post 9. Please point me in the direction of this easier protection." For PPP you could get access to the Lightwave and Max dongle, there could be a copy protected CD, you could put an individual code on every copy, so its easy to find out where a copy that's on a warez site came from. Just a brainstorming, if you are seriously interested in a discussing about that, no problemo send me a mail. "There is an authorization required in addition to the dongle" Yes once and that's the point "...I'm not sure. So am I, can only repeat what the guys in the support forum told me. " ... We had to do this several times during testing. Ours will be much easier ..." But it will violate my privacy. I can't understand where's the problem to get this point. May let me say it this way: After register your product according to european law I own it and you guys should let me in peace and should not force me to have any further contact to your company. "Don't call me, I'll call you". Hope I could make this clear finaly. regards Thomas

Ronmolina, I just ask the newtek support forum for that: (man, you realy scared me) Of course you have to connect the dongle to the machine you're working on, but there is no further registration needed. You can use your finally serial number as long as you want on every machine. regards Thomas

Ron: " Perhaps they will realise that the exact method may go too far, and this entire arguement can be dropped". I hope so for you, but I wouldn't bet on that. Steve: a quotation from a post below: ------------------------------------------------------- " .. We absolutely do not check the hard drive at all for any software other than our own." Steve Yatson Product Manager Curious Labs ------------------------------------------------------- I can't remember that Newtek ever wants to check my hard drive, nor for their own products neither for anything else. I also can't remember that Newtek (or Maxon, Corel, .. as well) ever wants to know when I change my machine, had a HD crash or buy me a new car. (The last one might be part of the next "software protection" ;)) Hope you see the difference. regards Thomas

Ron, once again: The point is not software protection, the point is that there are a lot of ways to protect your software w/o violating the privacy of your costumers. "But please, don't persecute them for it .." I think you should consider that CL isn't just 2 or 3 nice guys sitting in a garage making Poser. CL is a quite big Company, so they can't expect any merci from my side. Make a mistake in business and you'll have to pay for it, c'est la guerre. I'm much more sorry for all these people who trust in CL, get dependent on them and now have to pay the bill for CLs idea of a software protection. (OK, actually it's an idea from microsoft) "Don't put them up on a cross and lynch them .." As a human beeing who work with Poser since the first version I'm just sad about this situation. As the owner of a (quite small) company I don't have any emotions. It's quite easy: I see a suplier that is up to violate my rights, I don't like the way he is behaving toward his costumers in this situation, I can't see that he is willing to cange his mind and his products are not irreplaceable for my work. So he's out - fullstop. "But I also refuse to believe that they should be boycotted because of it [the security methods]. That's just plain ridiculous and will only serve to harm the community in the end." I'm not interessting at all in a crusade against CL They made there decision I made mine, thats all. But as you try so hard to understand CLs decision I hope you'll understand my decision too and don't blame me for this situation. Living w/0 Poser might be hard, living w/o privacy is worse. regards Thomas

Hm, maybe a problem with the UV maps? regards Thomas

Hi Anthony, great explaination of your point of view but unfortunately I can not aggree. I'm not very happy about any software protection because they are almost useless but waste my time. But I love poser and would accept any resonable protection system if you can make one thing sure: I don't want to be forced to have any further contact to the supplier after I've register the product. No supplier have the right to know when I change my machines, have a HD crash or the like. To take your house exaple: How would you feel, if you have to change all keys of your house everytime you buy a new chair? How would you call it if you could get these new keys just from one company so that they'll know all about the changes made in your house? Sorry, but I would call the situation "1984" and the company "Big Brother". I can't tolerate such an assault to my rights as a costumer so CL let me no choice as to remove them from my supplier list. regards Thomas