Thank you, hope I was able to help!

I have it everywhere in the application... I don't spend much time in the Material Room, so haven't experienced it there that I can think of, most if it is directly while in the Preview Area... when assigning any kind of poses. Renders are blazingly fast (in part to the rig I use), so a character sprite @ 1300x1080 rendered at FULL SETTINGS only takes around 20 seconds to render out... but, takes a space of 2-4 seconds for Poser to refresh the libraries and parameter area per application of character's face pose (emotions and mouth movement pose) and then another 2-6 seconds to add to the Queue Manager and refreshes the whole system.

Due to the Refresh/Stall rate, doing 720 Character Sprites I am faced with an extra 35 minutes for the full set due the lag, stall, refresh or whatever this issue is. It doesn't promote a good workflow... and is annoying to say the least.

Actually, I have a new one now... black leather, fits my style and personality a little better after all of these years. :)

Good to see you to, my friend, it's been some time!

~Jack

Mine never goes out of style, Tom! :D

Quote - Thanks Jack but things are going very well so I think we will just keep on keeping on:)

 

Good to hear, but in truth, my question wasn't meant as sarcasm or from a prediction of doom or anything, just bonafied interest...

~Jack 

Please let me know when and if Renderosity is ever available for sale...

~Jack

snickers True, Noelr, it IS almost that time of year... :D

Quote - There are no plans to change the current system requirement of the $5.00 minimum purchase.

ROFL!!

Oh, I am sorry... that just sort of slipped out.

~Jack

Hey Cage,

I know I am a little late to the party here, but I just recently experienced the same problem that you had and after going through the same headaches that you went through trying to figure out why it wasn't working, I finally found the problem (well at least for me and hopefully for you).

Apparantly there are certain video codecs that conflict with Poser 8. I had the K-Lite codec pack installed on my system and once uninstalled and an alternate codec pack specific for Window's Vista x64 installed in it's place the anti-aliasing in Poser 8's preview worked again.

Hope that helps you and anyone else who may undergo this trouble.

~Jack

Quote - I definitely cannot log onto this site without the "thawte" certificates, can I please get a definite on what it is?  

Thawte is an Internet consulting firm that issues SSL (Secure Server License) to websites that have online stores at a cost to the owner of the website. The certificate that they issue [at a pretty large and annoying cost] is responsible for the little "Gold Lock" icon that shows at the bottom of your browser window when you are in the store... this is done to assure Online Store Customers that the website and online store you are visiting and the information you provide is "Secure"...

Thawte doesn't really do anything other than charge a website owner to purchase this certificate. The certificate is only good for a year and the only way that Thawte verifies this information is by running a script against the server to test and make sure that there isn't any open ports, remote linking, phishing scripts and other little things that might make it possible for people to steal your information at the moment of purchase... and it pretty much only verifies this information at the time of purchase or renewal of the certificate... as for the other 364 days of the year... well...  shrugs

Fact of the matter is this... any good System's Administrator is going to make sure that the website is secure 24/7/365... the SSL Certificate is only a means to provide Customer trust while sucking a pretty sizable chunk of money out of a website owner's pocket to provide that trust.

Bottom line... think of it as a nice little certificate that a shop owner puts up on the wall of their business to show they have a license to do whatever service they do. For example a certificate license for a person who cuts hair at a  hair salon... as many of you may know by this example, even though the person may have a certficate/license stating that they are licensed to cut hair, doesn't mean that they are someone you'd trust to touch your hair! :)

As for the website and forum hijack that occured... the fact is this... Renderosity is a pretty large Community, which makes it a perfect target for [disrespectful] individuals to try and siphon traffic and bandwidth from, or try and take revenge on (say from an individual who's been banned)... it is a script kitty paradise here!!

As such, this website is probably attacked on a regular basis in one form or another. DOS attacks, phishing tatics, harmful scripts, server/forum hijack attempts, etc... etc... etc... making it a monster of a job to protect itself and its members. And sometimes little things can make it through the cracks or accidently be over-looked and, as such, make for a very interesting and tiring day for the System's Administrator to try and clean the mess up and make steps to prevent it from happening again...

Personally, one way to avoid this would be to work on the means in which the forums must be replied to... meaning the applet that the site's software uses to allow members to post or reply to forum threads... no offense to Renderosity, but this is a pretty nice chink in the armor... particularly when a member has to DISABLE ADWARE protection software to post on the website!

Seriously, asking a member to disable security features that protect them from Phishing, Browser Hijacking Scripts, E-Mail Sniffers, and harmful applets that can be attached to off-site advertising banners for them to visit and interact on your website is not a great means to provide security to your members while visiting your website and makes the site an even MORE tempting target to idiots looking to exploit, steal, harrass, hijack or be a general pain in the butt to your business and to your customers.

Just my two pennies!
~Jack D. Kammerer
who is re-enabling his system's security features and going back to lurk mode

Butterfly Fish said: >>As someone else put it, people roll their eyes and say "saw that coming," then they go back to work. << Yep, and that is the sort of apathy that I've been describing this Community as having now. The only time anyone speaks up against something that is wrong, is if it directly effects them... if it doesn't, they shrug and go back to what they were doing. Which is why nothing will change in this Community, whatever standards remain will slowly disappear because the unity that was once so heavily present and encouraged is long since gone. Jack

Jumpstart said: >>Heh, heh...only if ya have the right 'friends'..or the right amount of friends....the rest of us are mere peasents ;)<< Yeah, I... saddly, agree with you. There was a time when this site promoted and encouraged equality of the members that visited it and the treatment of those who were members here... not any longer. The "King" or "Queen" on the throne may've changed, but the fact remains that the Poser Community is back to bowing down and kissing ass again. Jack

Helgard said: >>My point was that Poserpros have also excused merchants guilty of infringements, something you said they do not do in your earlier post.<< I don't recall Mehndi ever excusing merchants that have made mistakes... she would accuse and then ban them from PoserPros. Hence the irony of her now suffering the same fate that she had imposed on others. If they are allowing it now, then it is a result of DAZ working with the current administration there and it is a situation that I am unaware of as I don't spend much time anymore visiting these sites. I suppose if DAZ and the rest of the entire Poser Community wants to tolerate and excuse this pattern of behavior, then who am I to go against the system and loby for any sort of change to reduce the amount of errors like this from occurring? I don't know why it surprises me to find that there seems to be less and less people in the Poser Community who will argue for the need of Standards (or even upholding Standards) in this Community, and those that do (Peng for example) end up getting shouted down by the masses, flammed or driven off... or, all of the above. Renderosity once was a flagship for and was an example of the Poser Community (even when Willow ran it briefly), now however, it has gotten to the point where the main standards that are practiced here is of apathy, isolation and greed... which now, is slowly creeping into the other Poser websites... ...sort of makes me glad to be in a different field of interest now, as this one is no longer what it was once reputed to be. Jack

Really? I will never mention names, because I am not in the muckraking business and I keep to myself, but there have been examples of merchants on DAZ/Poserpros who have been found commiting infringements, and a "fix" is released and those merchants are still selling...<< Oh, OK, I understand now... since others can do it and get away with it, then it is OKAY to do it and should be tolerated and excused... there should be no consequences and it shouldn't reflect poorly on those that did it... ...Right? Is that what you are saying?? Forgive me, I just want to be sure that I am understanding you correctly... Jack P.S.: Do you also think that Community Leaders and those who maintain these websites should not be held to higher standards of behavior? Or should they be exempt from facing ramifications for such acts? [Edited to add the P.S. Questions]

My bad, sweetie... sorry. Jack