LOL, it seems my post went straight over some heads...

"The Only "Dogs" Here Seem To Be The Gestapo Going Around Trying To Discredit Anyone That Speaks Out About EdgeNet." <<< Apology accepted. LOL.

Just think DRIV, if EdgeNet are as unscrupulous as you think, they could be imminently about to sell your personal info to an online religious car sales outfit. So you ought to do yourself a favour - delete your membership details and leave, quickly.

That's extremely impressive, especially given it's your own meshwork. A couple of thoughts, probably prompted by my ignorance more than anything: This array of morph pics would work better if there was a 'default' 'null' expression to compare them against. Expression morphs are handy things, but a collection of morphs for individual facial parts would be more useful on a new figure. For example, someone may want a 'lips kissing' morph that doesn't close the eyes, or an 'eyes closed' morph that doesn't open the lips slightly. Personally, I prefer to generate my own expressions from lots of individual items. But like I said, my thoughts are probably due to my lack of familiarity with your work so far.

It'll be worth leaving it here if it stops more petulant crap appearing. It is a fine monument to stupidity. If people don't like the place they should leave. Spending so much time hanging around and bitching is pathetic. Bang! "If you want to shoot, shoot. Don't talk, eh."

Standard male head: 8176 polys. Hi-res male head: 34000 polys.

Standard male head: 8176 polys. Hi-res male head: 34000 polys.

According to Bryce, this figure has 143,542 polys (one hundred and forty three thousand, five hundred and forty two). For comparison, the standard Posette has 30,430 polys, and Victoria has 54,656. Major big thanks to Vethril for doing the hard work on this figure. I shall try to make the time to do some extra development with it, and make some piccies too. :-)

Well, that means if you like it and use it, you should pay for it. Seems fair enough to me. :-) I remember TextPad has a really good search facility, including the ability to search multiple documents.

You're making a big assumption about Curious Labs' response time. A reasonable alternative explanation would be that the key personel were away at a CGI convention... I'm not convinced a local area network serial number checking system can fairly be defined as a Trojan. For example, most demo versions of programs have an operating system registry checking method whereby they can tell if the user is attempting to re-install the demo after the previous installation expired and was removed. Is that a Trojan? I don't think so. The only problem with this particular effort from Curious Labs was that it wasn't tested with any firewall programs, and it wasn't mentioned in the documentation. Both were reasonable things for users to expect from the company, and this has been acknowledged by them, and an apology made. I'm certainly not expecting anything else from them. I can understand people getting worried and hot under the collar when a situation is confused and debatable, but once a thorough explanation, apology and assurance have been given, continued spite starts to look just a little bit silly.

You need to download the 11 meg file, and then read the 'readme' file that is displayed after you run the autoloader. That'll tell you, LOL. (joke)

In that case I'll wait for my cable modem. :-)

Bryce (versions 3 and 4) can make use of OpenGL and Direct3D for accelerating its work window. In the period I used WindowsNT and a video card with good OpenGL support, the speed advantage on the OpenGL setting was quite something to behold. Now I'm back on Win9x and a Matrox card (poor OpenGL), nothing is significantly faster than Bryce's Sree3D software acceleration (also used by Poser). Except for the wireframe mode, of course, which is what I use. BTW, Bryce rendering is not accelerated at all by video hardware. Only a faster processor/memory system can speed that up.

It depends what you mean as a 'limit'. Win9x will permit programs to see and use RAM above these limits you are talking about. A limit may be that more RAM slows Windows in some way (probably only a significance to games players), but this will be more than compensated for by a large file not causing the system to write to disk. I don't care what is written anywhere, I know that my Win98 system has more headroom when running graphics apps and large files when there is 512MB rather than 256MB in the slots. (LOL Paul, don't you think the reason your system runs markedly faster with Win2K on two processors, is that it's running with Win2K on two processors...) As for Win9x failing to release system resources once an application is closed (its biggest problem), you can get freeware utilities which address most of the issues. BTW, WinME is just Win9x with yet a few more baubbles attached. Most of those baubbles will be available for free to Win98 users as downloads from Microsoft, so I don't think anyone should get too excited by it. Save your money and buy Windows2000 after a couple of Service Packs have been released and more drivers are available for more hardware. As for delara1's question, upgrades that will benefit Poser should be: 1: More RAM (don't worry about 'limits') 2: More processor speed. I haven't bothered with a 3, since Poser makes no use of video card hardware acceleration in its work window or for rendering. So long as you have a card which is sufficiently good at normal 'Windows' 2D acceleration (which you have), you won't see any significant benefit by adding a whizz-bang video card. Unless you play games as well, of course, but that's another story.

azl is using Bryce3D, and the export feature wasn't added until version 4. The export 'Easter Egg' that Paul refers to is a nifty feature which allows you to export certain objects other than terrains. Those certain objects have to be a polygonal mesh. These include stones, the 'Imported Object' objects in the create menu, and any normal polygon model which you might have imported yourself. The ability to export models that have been imported makes Bryce4 quite a reasonable file converter. Bryce4 does create an mtl file along with an OBJ export. You cannot export Bryce primitives, or Boolean combinations of them. Bryce materials do not export well, and exported terrains with them applied are a pale imitation of the subtlety available in Bryce renders.