Why not respond here too, Stacey? I doubt cdt is the only one who thinks the international rates you guys charge are ridiculous -- it's the main reason I haven't ordered the mag, that's for sure.

"Cheryle, are you on the federal board of contests? Or the national contest committee? Unless you ARE on some sorta committee or board or other contest law enforcing thing, it doesnt matter to you." Thanks for this gem. I guess since I'm not part of an anti-rape task force or a counter-terrorism unit, those thing don't matter to me. Thanks for making my life a whole lot simpler, dipshit.

*i equate poser with the 3d version of karaoke.*LOL Poppi, I think you hit the nail on the head. And that's coming from a long-time Poser user.

As for what's art and what isn't... well, that's pretty much in the eye of the beholder. I mean, wasn't there some big flap a couple years ago about a guy who created a portrait of the Virgin Mary out of elephant shit and actually got it displayed in a major art gallery?

You know what... I didn't realise this until reading this thread, but I'm not on billy-t's mailing list either, despite having bought both his combat beret and biker jacket for Victoria.

You should post this in the "Store Contact" forum -- that's where the people you need to talk to hang out.

I didn't mean all Renderosity members are puritanical -- I meant that the Marketplace (and galleries) here are kept as adult-content-free as they possibly can be because there are a lot of members who would rant and rave and boycott if adult content was allowed here.

As a side note and maybe something you (Clint) might want to keep on file for future reference, I've had the same thing happen in the past and found that the file itself is the right one, it's just been given that "ez" name. If I rename it to xxxxx.zip, everything is fine. This is using Netscape 6 & 7.

Attached Link: http://www.renderotica.com

Try plugging your bump map into the "Gradient Bump" section.

Dodger suggested this shortly after the debate began in the vendor's forum. None of the admins replied.

I didn't say it wasn't "all right" I just said I didn't agree with your reasoning. Clearly you can make your own decision and I honestly don't care what you decide to do, but if you can post your opinion, I can do the same. I'm also not saying I disagree with your opinion of the situation -- I've been following this since it first popped up on the merchant's forum and I certainly disagree with the policy. Does it affect me? No. Does it affect friends of mine? Only one, as far as I know, but he doesn't even sell his stuff at this point. This next part is directed at everyone, not just "thebert." I think non-merchants have the wrong impression about the opposition to this policy. In fact, I think Tim himself has the wrong impression about the opposition to this policy. See, the thing is, merchants (who are, judging by the posts in the vendor forum, overwhelmingly opposed) are upset about three main points: 1. In the merchant agreement we all had to digitally "sign" in order to sell items at Renderosity, it clearly states that merchants selling items in the Renderosity Marketplace have access to e-commerce tools, vendor forum and vendor chat. With the exception of the banners and sales functions, all of the tools/chat are available only through links located in the vendor forum. In other words, so-called "competing merchants" will have access to very few of the tools and features every other merchant has access to. This handicaps their ability to promote, maintain and improve their storefront. 2. By removing access to the vendor forum, Renderosity is preventing these merchants from being made aware of important policy changes/rules changes before they are implimented. In some cases, this isn't a big deal, but in other cases, it could significantly delay release of products, should submission requirements be changed, or it could render products entirely unviable in the marketplace, yet the merchant would only find this out when submitting. A change in how front page articles and banners are used? The merchant may never know, unless they have a friend who has access to the merchant forum. Changes were made to how front page articles and banner ads were displayed just last month, as announced in the vendor forum, but even though the changes have been effected, I have yet to see any announcement outside the vendor forum. 3. Perhaps the most upsetting to most of us, this policy was originally presented by Tim as an opportunity for the merchants to help with policy -- kind of "you're our partners in this venbture, so we'd like your opinions and feedback on this policy so we can help grow the community." Then, when the response was by and large negative, we were told, essentially "we're doing it anyway, so be quiet already." I have only been a merchant here since August, but this is already the third time I have witnessed this approach being taken to policy changes. How much of a partner am I in any venture in which my opinion is discounting without consideration? Do the merchants have no say whatsoever in the policies of this site, regardless of the fact that we are the ones who help fund it? Merchants who are in the top ten total sales have spoken out against it and been shrugged off and people like me who are something like 500 out of 700-something have also been shrugged off. It's an issue of trust and respect, and with their response to our concerns and objections, Renderosity... actually, I have to say Tim, not Renderosity... have violated that trust and shown very little respect to the people who give half their profits to this site. Again, my opinion. I'm sure others disagree in whole or in part -- I'm just calling it as I see it.

I've stayed out of this so far, even in the vendors forum, because I'm entirely sick of the bullsh*t politics here at Renderosity, but I had to jump in here. Boycotting RuntimeDNA because you're pissed and Bondware's big cheesehead... sorry, head cheese... doesn't make any sense. That's kind of like boycotting WalMart because they use Microsoft Money to do their accounting and you're pissed at Bill Gates.

Clint, the actual name is "Castle Dev PAS-6 (Praslock Palace) Expansion Pack 1" and "Castle Dev PAS-6 (Praslock Palace) Expansion Pack 2." I'm running Netscape 7 and everything is displaying normally.

MY bs? Give me a break. You're the ungrateful whiner here complaining about people who are good enough to GIVE you stuff for free instead of making you pay for it like others. You should be happy any of release free items at all, if we're just going to get reactions like yours. People like you are the reason good free stuff contributors have STOPPED making their projects available to the public, because no matter what they do, they always have someone bitching at them for it.

Poor you, having to give someone an email address so you can get stuff FOR FREE. Would you rather have everybody turn into a subscription site like Props Guild and Poser World? If it's FREE, you have no right to bitch about it.