The decanter is excellent... is the faceting a bump map, or part of the mesh?

Thorne... you make stuff in your sleep... now THAT'S impressive. :) I need to figure out that trick... will that be one of the tutorials that you'll make once you're all up and running... "3D Modeling in your sleep, in 3 easy steps"? (I am joking in case anyone thinks I'm being serious, and I'm not trying to belittle anyone's posts... just trying to inject some humor into a rather hot topic...) running and hiding now

I don't have Dina, but I have to comment on the picture with the "bad texturing"... if she were wearing a hairprop you'd never even notice that was there... and I guess someone could argue (well what if I wanted to do a bald chick), well... the make a texture that has stubble on it, or just don't make pictures from the top like that... I dunno, that to me seems like a non-issue, especially since the texture comes free with Dina (I think it does anyway, please correct me if I'm wrong).

That's kind of the point... and I'm not affiliated with this guild really in any way, other than thinking it's a good idea... you can go to KMart and see shelves and shelves of crap, but then you can also see on the shelf a quality piece of merchandise with the "Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval" stamp on it... it lets you know that this piece of merchandise has been tested, and found to meet a certain standard of quality. When I go to buy, let's say a blender, I'm more likely to buy the one that's been tested and approved by a third party testing agency, than I am to buy just whatever is closest on the shelf to me. From what I've read that's what I see this guild trying to do... provide a way of knowing that you'll be getting a quality product... And just like at KMart, not having the Good Housekeeping Seal of Approval doesn't stop merchants from selling their goods, or consumers from buying them... and there's still no garauntee that if you buy the blender with the Good Housekeeping Seal that you'll be happy with it, or that if you buy the one that doesn't have the seal that you'll be disappointed. I for one wouldn't let this "stamp" affect whether or not I'd buy something... if I saw something that I wanted, that hadn't been tested, I would still buy it... vice versa, just because something has been approved, that would make me buy it if I didn't want/need it...

Hmm... I guess there must be a lot of stuff going on that I'm either not seeing, or just not picking up on... the way this whole post started out is way different than what it's going on about now... "If you want to defend your rights and show that a minority elite group can't rule what is good and bad for the Markett place please post your concerns and comments at the merchants forum, under Vette's message. If you don't take care of this now, your stuff could be removed or rejected in the future. So common here and defend your rights to sell." Which is why I kept watching this post to begin with... I think anyone should be allowed to sell whatever they want, no matter how crappy it is in anyone else's oppinion, we (at least here in the US) do live in a capitalist society... true, quality should be a concern, but if someone wants to sell something, and someone else wants to buy it, then that's their right to do so... so the initial post bothered me to a degree... but then when the discussion about this new "guild/group/whatever" came up, I thought (and still do) that it was a good idea... in a way it seems to me, a garauntee that the product you're about to buy, or(from what I've gathered) about to download for free is worth your time and money... I have to say that I haven't bought anything that I haven't been pleased with from any poser-related store/site... but then I consider myself a pretty conscientious (is that spelled right) buyer... I try to look for gallery images, or posts that show what the product is/will do before I buy it... but if there is a way of knowing right away, via some sort of "Stamp of Approval" that the quality I expect is there, then it saves me the time and effort... maybe I'm reading this whole thing wrong, and I'm way off base, but this whole thing seems to be a voluntary procedure... if you want to have your product "tested" you can, and you don't have to if you don't want to, but if you do, and it is approved, then people will have a little assurance that they'll probably be pleased with their buy... and on the flip side, if you submit it, and it isn't approved, there's nothing to stop you from still selling, or giving away your product, just don't tell anyone you submitted it, no one but the "guild" members would know, and true they COULD run out and tell everyone "Oh that's no good... it didn't pass our tests" but that will do nothing but discredit their own efforts, and fewer people would submit, thus ruining their worth... so it would seem silly, to ME anyway, that they would do that... I guess I don't understand why so many people seem to have gotten hot under the collar about this... but like I said, there is probably a lot of stuff going on that I'm just not aware of, there usually is in situations like this... I truly am open to any comments, particularly those who think that this isn't a good idea, as to why it isn't, I guess I'm just not seeing the downside to it...

YAY! Well it's been a while since I've watched any Lodoss war, but this looks pretty close to how I remember Deedlit... excellent work!

Which figure are you texturing? If it's one of the DAZ figures they have the templates (that's what the "wireframe" is called) at the bottom of the page for that figure... or you can create one with UVMapper.

Pariah... okay, so I love your daughter now... I laughed so hard when I read your post that I almost spurted pepsi through my nose, which, if you've never done that, it burns like the dickens!

Mehndi... now you're reading my mind... well not really, 'cause I mentioned it, but after I did I thought to myself "Hey... testing something and then getting to keep it would be a pretty good payment." I've tested out a couple of things (literally a couple, as in 2!) for vendors who shall remain nameless, but if you look in my gallery you'll figure it out. And I got to keep copies of them, which frankly I was just glad to be allowed to help test them out, and if I had been asked to delete them, well I WOULD have, but I wouldn't have been happy about it... but then I also would've gone and bought them as soon as I had the money... sheesh I'm so poor...

I think I'm understanding this... but lemme check... so, this "guild" would be a group of invited members, OFF site, so seperate from the existing "communities/forums/websites" where they would share their knowledge/experience/secrets in order to improve their own skills... then this group would voluntarily have their products tested blindly by a group of guild testers, and when the testers have said "Yay, you're stuff is good." they would be allowed to advertise that fact... with as you mentioned a graphic or whatever, that then would either be offered for free somewhere, or sold wherever they'd like to offer it for sale? So that you'd have a way of knowing that those selected products meet a certain standard? The only thing I'd want to know is what if you're not invited into the guild, but you'd like to have your own products tested so that you could say they meet those standards... I mean it would be a benefit for a LOT of vendors to be able to say "Hey, my stuff is good... look, see my fancy sticker! I've been appoved!"... I think this is a great idea, if it's what I think it is... except in the respect that not everyone would be able to have their products rated... it could be something that did cost something to be a member... such as a certain percentage of the cost of the product or something, so that you wouldn't have to pay out just to have your product tested and find out that it's not good enough, but then if it IS good enough you haven't wasted any money... but then you could argue that you've wasted the time of those who've had to test it... anyway... I think this is a good idea... I mean as a customer, I'd like to know that something I'm planning on spending my money on will be what I expect it to be... I'm kind of glad that this was brought out into the public, even though it isn't a completed idea... I find it interesting... so I'd kind of like to know as things are updated... I really hope that the idea doesn't get killed by cynicism... hmm... did I spell that right... okay, I'm gonna go finish eating my muffin now... mmmmmm... muffin.... :)

You can also post your concerns in the complaints and debates forum, that's part of the reason it was created... From what I've heard, they're also pretty good about issuing refunds when someone isn't satisfied with their purchase... I mean, I do understand that it could be helpful to other people to see if someone had a complaint about a product on the product page, but there are ways to spread the word if you're dissatisfied with something... you can post here, you can post to complaints & debates, and even in the store contact forum, people will see it, if they're active in the community anyway, and if they're not, then they can still contact the vendor, or the store admins to resolve the issue... okay, I'll shut up now.

I guess it depends on what you mean by smoothing the facial features... I've seen morphs to smooth out the eyebrows, and to get rid of nose/mouth/ears/eyes but that's about it... and those were all from Traveler...

Jim, I don't know why the magnets are always such weird sizes... especially since it doesn't make a difference to what it does... I understand why the zone varies but that big ugly yellow rectangle gets on my nerves... okay I'm done now. :)

Select the dress figures chest, apply the magnet, then select the magnet, go to it's properties, and then click the thing that says "Add Object to deform" or something like that... add the figure's abdomen, and probably the right collar... then adjust the magnet's zone so that it's centered over the middle part of the dress that's cutting into her body... then pull the magnet out, probably a little on the x and a little on the z I doubt that you'll have to move it too far, then make sure you select each body part of the dress that is effected (or is it affected... I STILL never know) by the magnet, and spawn the morph from the magnet... I like to reapply the morph to each part, and then create a full body morph, it saves time, so you only have to adjust one dial, rather than 3 or 4... that probably wasn't helpful...