This is a bit groundhog day, or rather year...

Every year there is the same problem, then the same suggestion (which is good), then someone says that suggestion is good and will be sent to the techs, and then the next year we are merrily doing all the dance again.

So, another year is gone and...

• I understand that you need to enable the "add to cart" button to allow for multiple purchases

• but you could simply enable the button without changing it from "purchased" to "add to cart"

Good idea? Good idea! You should forward it to the tech people so that they can resist from adding this fix next year... :-)

Add me to the list - none of my purchased items show as "purchased" any more.

Thanks for the note, got your email and indeed it is fixed now.

I would have been a bit more relaxed, but the second mail/warning about order cancellation made me worry a bit, so I thought to let you know urgently...

Will make another order later the day, if I notice anything weird I'll let you know.

Just in case: If there will be another "gap" in price between your invoice and the PayPal link, should I rather continue or rather stop and let you know?

I confess that I just spent a few minutes with the new shop by now... however, I truly believe that a "shop" should be accessible within a few minutes since a shop is a shop and not an adventure game, where the fun is to spend hours and days to figure out how to bypass obstacles.

Having said that I'm sorry to say that the new shop looks like a COMPLETE MESS to me. It's eye candy replacing basic functionality.

1. Sorry, but the main shop layout ("what's new") is just a nightmare. One aspect is that I actually liked the simple smaller thumbnails, because it was a perfect overview. One may argue that these thumbnails are "the bigger the better" (which they are not), but since the new thumbs are not just bigger but of a DIFFERENT SIZE one by one, the whole shop no longer looks like a well organzied shop but like an amateur blog where someone just posted stuff and bits and pieces without the slightest idea how the whole lot looks like.

2. But what I really dislike is that basic features actually got REMOVED! For example, I loved to sort my wishlist by vendor, which was a simple click in the old shop. It was a great way to have an organized look, especially since most vendors have a "theme" for their work. Unless I'm blind, this is gone.

3. But what's really bad: In the old shop it was easy to find all updates to purchased goods - just go to "item list" and sort by update. Most recent on top, look on the date, mission accomplished. In theory, this sorting still "exists", but it only sorts the 50 items currently on display. So in order to check all updates, the shop really forces the customer to step through dozens and dozens of pages, hitting the "sort/update" button one by one only to see the recent updates of the subset of 50 items currently on display.

Sorry folks, this has nothing to do with "I don't like it because it is new". You have removed core functionality and added some visual gimmicks. I understand that quite some of your users love this nevertheless, but I also must be honest to say that I don't...

can they still use figures for P4 and P5?

P1 and P2 could use no external figures at all - P1 was entirely limited to figures and props that were built-in, and P2 only allowed to import (static) props but no figures.
Because of that, you can neither use P3+ models with P1 and P2, nor can you directly import the original "built-in" P1 or P2 models in P3+.

The only files that survived the P3 revolution are textures and pose/lights/camera library files. In order to keep them working, P3+ included the "P1" and "P2" models, but these are actually "emulated" models - they are new P3 models that behave and look like the original P1 and P2 ones (to allow to use the old textures and poses).

Definitely Joliet.

Joliet CDs are actually ISO9660 CDs with 8.3 names plus an extra part including the long filenames. I don't know about OS-X, but OS9 Macs (by default) will not read the long filenames and use the 8.3 versions underneath - in other words: "default" Macs will display 8.3 filenames no matter whether you turn Joliet on or off.

BUT... you can direct your Mac customers to http://www.tempel.org/joliet/ and recommend to install the "Joliet Extension". This is a must have, and once it is installed the Mac will start to use the long filenames.

So the results are:

1. Joliet off

• 8.3 names on PC
• 8.3 names on Mac
• 8.3 names on Mac with Joliet Extension

1. Joliet on

• long names on PC
• 8.3 names on Mac
• long names on Mac with Joliet Extension

So, Joliet wins 2:0... :-)

And the chicken said to the piglet: "Let's do a merge and produce Ham & Eggs!"

:-) :-) :-)

Well... there is no guarantee whatsoever, but the last few introductory offers that I can remember all got extended later on...

If you can only afford the basic stuff now, then just get that, relax, and have fun...

Then, in October, look again - if it still is cheaper, hurray! If not - that's life... :-)

A cute thing you can do on Mac... Whenever you typed anything lengthy (that you don't want to type again if the server messes up), just before you hit "submit" select the entire text and drag it onto your desktop (it will create a simple clip file). If anything went wrong, re-open the web page, drag the clip file into the text box and... that's it! :-)

For precious stuff, make two CD-Rs each with a different brand. It is very unlikely that both will give up, as long as you treat them carefully (as above):

• no heat
• no sunlight
• no moisture
• no scratches

Every 5 years, make a new copy onto something different: This year you can copy some 7 CDs onto one DVD-R, and the DVD-R costs much less than the 7 CD-Rs did 5 years ago. In 5 years you sure can copy 7 DVD-Rs onto something new that will be cheaper than 7 DVD-Rs this year... :-)

There is one thing that it little known:

People believe that the "shiny" side is most critical - if you watch people placing CDs onto a surface, they always turn it upside down to protect the "shiny" side from scratches... well, WRONG!

There is a "mirror" layer inside the CD and that layer sits very close to the "printed" side, while the "shiny" side contains a thick layer of transparent plastic.
If you get scratches on the "shiny" side, then you have a good chance to polish it away, because you have a certain amount of transparent plastic to work on.
But if the "printed" side gets scratched (or otherwise affected) you will destroy the "mirror" layer much quicker and if this happens you can throw it away - no chance of recovery.

There is a huge controvery about the use of CD label stickers:

1. Some say that using labels will protect the "printed" side from manual damage, see above.
2. Some say that using labels will destroy the "printed" side much quicker due to chemical processes between the glue and the CD surface.

As far as I see, no final result yet...

Thanks. By the way, I just saw the session ID/Key right this moment... when I clicked the link from my eMail notification my browser opened this thread with the additional information, but whenever I click on anything else it vanishes. So I guess that it was added to the URL because the browser must first open the page before the server can access cookies, but the very next move will dispose of it - right? That was very good to learn, because otherwise I wouldn't have spend much attention to it when copy/pasting a link...

Hmm,

all I ever see is something like this:
http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=(number#1)&Form.ShowMessage=(number#2)

I always thought that "number#1" identifies the forum and "number#2" the actual thread - does this mean that both are specific to my recent session?

If it is specific then is it static (e.g. linked to my account forever) or is it only linked for the running session (as long as I'm logged in)?

You should at least have sent it as a postcard in order to be safe! :-)

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