Quote - I don't know if you remember, quixote, but after the Den was shut down Joerg Weber was among those of us that had migrated over the Cheryle's place. He signed up but didn't post for a long time. I finally got a little concerned and did some checking and found out he had a web site. On it was posted that he'd passed away. His birthday had been just a few days after he'd signed on at Cheryle's and he passed away about 2 days later. He was still young (I beleive early 40s) and there was no indication of what he'd died of. I told jumpstartme2 about that and I think she mentioned it to the rest of ya'll. That was too bad. He was a real decent guy. I have a client in his 80's with health problems. If I don't hear from him for a while (a month or two) I'll give him a call just to say "hi." I would never give his number out - that would clearly be a breach of his privacy, but I have a good enough relationship with him that I can call him. He smiles at me and tells me he's doing OK. I know he appreciates that he's cared about. As involved as Little Dragon has been around here, I'd hope there was at least someone on staff that had that kind of relationship with him. I'm glad he's OK. ;-)

Yes bobasaur, that is exactly what I was trying to say......just to show some concern. My mom was quite young when she passed.......just 59 and my dad passed away young also....just 49, and both was very unexpected......life can be so unfair and unpredictable.......heck if it was predictable....we all would of come with manuals......like our poser people. :-) I am glad to hear that LD is doing well and I look forward to meeting him once he is able to log back on to the forums.

Hin=him

it was around the 7th that I had spoken with my mother and it was the 21st that I got the dreadful call after trying to call for 9 hours. The forum wouldn't let me go in and edit so I wanted to clarify.

Well I do not know LD, as I am very new to the forums here, but let me tell you a couple of stories for those of you who are concerned about "privacy policies". First off I had talked to a guy on a regular basis in a diabetes community.......Now yeah diabetes is and can be a pretty serious thing. Well I had been talking to hin in the chat room and all of a sudden he stopped talking.....which was very unlike him. Well everyone else was getting worried about him along with myself. Now granted I did have his first and last name. Well after quite a long time, I decided to call his home......no answer. That really was unlike him. So I decided to call the hospitals to see if he was there, and if I didn't get ahold of him there, then I was then going to call the police......as there is such a thing as a well being check. Well sure enough he was in a hospital........and do you know this man in his late 50's started to cry and tell me he was sure glad there was someone out there that cared about him and his health and life.

Another situation.......this is REAL LIFE!!!!! My mother had all kinds of health problems, she had asthma, diabetes, and congestive heart failure. She had called me back in July I believe and asked me if I could take her to the doctor. Well it was a Saturday and there were no dr's open on Sat. so I took her to the hospital. She had been biten by a cat on her foot and she had some serious infection going on. So they admitted her, well when she got out of the hospital, they sent her home with oxygen as her O2 level was on the low side. Shortly after she got out of the hospital, my mother in law had to have a triple bypass. Well once things got a bit calmed down from that, we were all still trying to watch money as the little dinky town we live in doesn't have much in it. The closest hospital is 20 miles away and that is 40 miles round tirp a day. My mother inlaw had to go to the bigger hospital which is 50 miles away which is a 100 mile round trip a day.  Anyhow, my mother was getting along so much better with being on the oxygen. I had talked to her around the fist of September and knowing we were all trying to watch money, we hadn't talked for awhile. I tried to call her on the 7th of September and got no answer.....okay maybe she had went to town to get some groceries.........well after trying to call for 9 hours, yes I said 9 hours.........I was really getting worried..........Well by that time the convience store we have in town closed.......yes they really do roll up the town at sundown. Anyhow, we didn't have enough gas to make it over there to her house which was about 10 miles away. So I called the sherriff to do a well being check on her, and I got that very dreadful phone call at around midnight telling me that my mother had passed away. They had also speculated that she had been gone for about a week. She had animals in the house that were close to starving to death which I went over the next day and got them.

This just goes to prove, no matter how well you think a person is doing.........that health problems can interact and either leave you where you can't tell someone either online or on the phone what is going on. Yes I know there is such things as privacy acts and such, but at the same time with someone like LD from what I have read, there are enough calls to warrant a check on someone. I am not saying okay an admin comes along and says okay LD's real name is John Doe and he lives such and such place and his phone number is 555-555-5555. They could simply do a well being call, to check and make sure everything is okay and let him know the community is worried about him.

Think about it............would you rather have someone atleast check up on him and get a leave me alone, or would you rather sit here and stew over wheither he is okay and still with us here on this earth. And those that say well there is a privacy act........how would you all feel when you would happen to get the message that something had/has happened? (God forbid I hope not as I would love to meet LD) I know I for one would be pretty upset if I was screaming about the privacy act and then were to find out that something pretty serious had happened!!!!!!

Just my 2 cents worth.......

diolma

yes you can call me WAB for short :-) As for the skin, I am wanting to try and make my own textures, not just change them. I would love to be able to make my own characters for some of the different people already out there, such and viki, mike, maddie, matt, and maybe some of the older people also. I love some of the characters people have put out and I would like to be able to make some also.

As far as clothes, me and the cloth room does not get along at all....LOL. I have tried to do some work in there and it comes out to be a big mess. As stated before I have done a tutorial for a skirt in my modeling program, and all turns out not bad until I go to put a mesh smooth on it and then its from that point that all fails.

I know it all takes alot of practice and hard work, but I would love to be able to make some great things to offer to others and pay back the community for what they have given to the rest of us, and to also help those just starting out in the poser world. :-)

Thanks for the tips and I will have to give it more tires and see how things come out.

WolfiesAngelBear

xantor

Yeah there was basically one color used, as that is how the tutorial explained to do it. Now there were shadows and highlights put on her as the tutoiral said, but I do agree she does still look a little plain.

Asley

Thanks for the suggestion, I may very well have to give that a try for vicki.

Pleonastic

I am wanting to go for a more natural, realistic texture. This one was a first start, but would love to get better and have my textures look nice and maybe even be able to offer them to others when I feel comfortable with them. As for modeling, I have 3ds Max and pretty much know my way around it. I have tried a skirt tut, but when it came to trying to mesh smooth, I got a bit lost as it never turned out like it shows in the tut. So if that helps out any I would apperciate any ideas you can give.

Thanks again to both for your comments!!