Ok... I don't think I've ever even 'found' bushi's site. One of the problems in the poser community is that people mention sites all too often without mentioning the URL. After a while you get tired of firing up the search engine... Most of the poser sites I know of I found by back tracking the URL of something I got from the freestuff downloads. I think I read something were Bushi was closing down due to people not visiting enough anymore? Well... with this agressive 'anti-self-promotion' in this community I can see why. Those who have been there for a long while have done it all and been there. Those of us who are new can't find it. And on the lines of lost sites... what about Hokusai? There's one that gets a few messages a week on this or other poser resources/lists/forums for people looking for the stuff and yet the site cannot be found nor has anyone come forth to help Hokusai put his stuff up in an accessable location. The Poser/Bryce community is a very verbose one. But it's plagued by some odd problems in the lack of connectivity of data.

There is a very brief moment when her left leg comes to the full front that it does bust out of the dress near the bottom on the inner thigh.

So... How do I do that?

The face is too light in comparision to the rest of the figure. Otherwise nice. A Naomi Cambell in poser?

It did read a bit like damage control didn't it.

Were'd you get Bryce at that price? VUE is $199 retail. Bryce is much more normally.

Man I gotta get me a 3D object maker... Too many ideas and Poser just can't do them all... Do pretty much all the object modellers allow you to base the shape of one object off of another? So that you could easily shape the dress or other item to mostly match the figure?

Well. Not just his convictions. He's got a point. VUE beats out Bryce hands down it would seem.

Registrant: Global Crossing (GBLX2-DOM) 95 N. Fitzhugh Street Rochester, NY 14614-1212 US Domain Name: GBLX.NET Administrative Contact, Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Dedicated Internet (DI150-ORG) direg@FRONTIERNET.NET (716) 777-5564 Fax- (716) 955-7333 Billing Contact: Dedicated Internet (DI150-ORG) direg@FRONTIERNET.NET (716) 777-5564 Fax- (716) 955-7333 Record last updated on 13-Jul-1999. Record created on 18-Mar-1999. Database last updated on 23-Dec-1999 14:07:25 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NAME.ROC.FRONTIERNET.NET 209.130.187.10 NAME.PHX.FRONTIERNET.NET 206.165.6.10 Someone being ripped off could call them and prove they are being ripped off. This would likely get them to shut off his account with them. SInce copyright violations are likely a violation of their service agreement with him. Especially since they could be named in any lawsuit once they've been told about and failed to do anything.

% traceroute the3dstudio.com traceroute to the3dstudio.com (216.147.121.35), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets ... snipped ... 6 209.0.227.10 (209.0.227.10) 652.220 ms 32.695 ms 36.392 ms 7 pos4-3-155M.cr2.SNV.gblx.net (206.132.150.242) 30.328 ms 24.662 ms 28.324 ms 8 pos3-0-622M.cr1.SNV2.gblx.net (206.132.151.13) 44.356 ms 23.720 ms 18.709 ms 9 pos10-0-2488M.wr1.SFO1.gblx.net (208.48.118.117) 36.193 ms 28.650 ms 205.664 ms 10 pos2-0-2488M.wr2.KCY1.gblx.net (206.132.110.109) 74.649 ms 54.062 ms 61.684 ms 11 pos2-0-622M.wr1.CLE1.gblx.net (206.132.114.146) 76.330 ms 70.634 ms 81.551 ms 12 pos9-0-622M.wr1.nyc2.gblx.net (206.132.111.210) 94.694 ms 77.898 ms 80.956 ms 13 pos1-0-2488M.wr2.NYC2.gblx.net (206.132.249.146) 92.440 ms 83.415 ms 154.648 ms 14 pos10-0-0-155M.cr2.LGA.gblx.net (206.41.19.90) 83.565 ms 82.634 ms 80.780 ms 15 s1-0.cr1.BWI.gblx.net (209.143.255.14) 94.788 ms 96.612 ms 99.551 ms 16 alabanza.s3-1.cr1.BWI.gblx.net (209.143.255.26) 176.755 ms 94.780 ms 86.948 ms 17 216.147.121.35 (216.147.121.35) 94.771 ms 103.702 ms 108.059 ms % From this we find out that his provider is: (cont in next post)

Via: http://www.networksolutions.com/cgi-bin/whois/whois?STRING=the3dstudio.com&STRING2=search Registrant: ANDERSON, MATT (THE3DSTUDIO-DOM) 1836 N. Stapley Drive #159 MESA, AZ 85203 US Domain Name: THE3DSTUDIO.COM Administrative Contact: ANDERSON, MATT-WN-HDJE (MA15478) matco@MATCOLAND.COM 480 834 6182 Technical Contact, Zone Contact: Manager, Accounts (JW11619) admin@MOREPROFITS.COM 909-888-5500 (FAX) 909-888-5500 Billing Contact: ANDERSON, MATT-WN-HDJE (MA15478) matco@MATCOLAND.COM 480 834 6182 Record last updated on 18-Oct-1999. Record created on 13-Oct-1999. Database last updated on 22-Dec-1999 13:08:19 EST. Domain servers in listed order: NS3.MPCINTERNETWORKS.COM 216.147.43.82 NS4.MPCINTERNETWORKS.COM 216.147.1.90 Perhaps a call to his provider would help. Most ISP's have rules against copyright violations.

Scott: Doesn't always eliminate bad disks. smart and friendly uses Adaptec as well and I've gotten bad disks despite a test before. Sometimes the disks themselves are just bad. In fact in all but one case I just put another disk in and was able to write to the new one. In that one case I discovered I had bad data... and was in fact able to use that disk for something else thanks to having done it as a test first. Anyway. CD-R/RW backups beat out ZIP/JAZ for many reasons. Sure they don't read back as fast. But they're permanent. And cheaper. I get 20 CDs for the cost of 2 Zips. and it gives me 13 gb of storage versus the 200 mb of the ZIPs. We won't even get into the absurd price of JAZ disks. I've got an old one of those sitting around as well.

I use smart and friendly. I'd never heard of them either. But they were low price and had the most awards when I looked into it all. I got me a 4224. Who needs speed anyway on the write. I've made about 40-50 CDs worth of stuff now. I get a bad CD about 1 in 10. But that's the CDs not the drive. Search on the web at cnet or pricewatch and you might be able to get one at about $100 or so.

One thing I always do with any software I download is burn it to a CD-R or CD-RW. I do the same with my artwork. This way I can dance with magnets over my hard drive and not lose any vital data. Never lose anything to any sudden accidents. I would recommend the purchase of a CD-writer to anyone in here. Just remember that making copies to hand out is not ok. But personal backups are.

Here's come the 'real genius' question ( :) ): What're these Cosmo CDs and where can you get them or preview what they have? What image format do they use? Where can I find out how to do a photoshop composite? Does it require any special image format in the photo to do? Is this some sort of routine that auto mixes two images or are you just manually pasting one into the other?