Thanks! :)

How do we merge gift certificates?

I currently have the same problem, but this seems to have started since IE updated. Uhmmm, I'll have to clean some stuff too I supose, good to hear it worked for you. :)

I too got that e-mail, maybe they send that to all their former platinum club members.

As for the topic about DAZ and their new directions...

Well I started out with Daz in 2006 and purchased all I could for V3 and M3 at the time and V4 just months later I think, I was like jeez! At the time a friend used poser4 or 5 and found DS far more easier to set up scenes with being able to select more than one body part or texture at a time was great. I also purchased Bryce 6 at the time which I still use and love so I stick with daz for some time until DS3 came out (It crashed on a constant basis!) and that's when I converted to Poser7 which I got used to the UI after a while and was far more easier to use than I ever imagined. I still did purchase many other things at DAZ for a while, eck after a few years I converted to V4 and M4 with many packs, kits and add-on and low and behold a week later the genesis fugure came out lol. :P

In any case like many others around here it seems, I too loved to use DS and purchased at their store often. I still use DS2.3 daily and V3 and M3 are still my mostly used figures since I invested in them allot, I also prefer them to many other figures even the more modern ones. I cannot stand the face of V4 especially that horrible smile which gives me nightmares, even with all the morphs I could find or sculpt my self... Anyway, when they gave us DS4 and DS4.5+ I just couldn't get into them since the user interface I loved about the older versions was gone and I was forced into a UI I have no comfort with even when I tried and tried to give it a chance, but what really stopped me from going back to DS was the lack of dynamic clothing I could import as an obj file since I model most of my figure clothes for the most part and that was it with DS for me. So I decided to purchase Poserpro 2012 (Which kept pretty much the old poser UI which was great, now If I could just find the way to load my 2012 pro library offline that would be even better!) and now have 2014 on my radar, therefore I doubt I'll ever go back to any new DS versions.

As far as 3D content goes, my 3D budget has its limits, but I still purchase more than I should and I tend to buy allot in one shot and then let a month or more pass by and then I make another burst of purchases and so on. The past few years I started to avoid the DAZ store because their price tags went to the roof. I understand why many vendors do it, but with a store like Renderosity and a few others out there that I don't need to name are stores which I can find poser related models at a respectable price tag with the same kind of quality that fulfils my 3D hobby needs.

I'm not bashing DAZ, if it wasn't for them I wouldn't have found this wonderful 3D hobby, I'm just saying why I went elsewhere as stated above. I might go back to them someday, but with the way things are right now I no longer visit their store because I don't need to.

Quote - > Quote - I simply can't get my runtime library to load unless I'm online and that works when poser wants it and 90% of the time it simply won't. Is there a way to have poser pro 2012 load a library offline at all like the older posers did?

Yes, there is. Just click OK on the error message. If that does not work it's probably your firewall settings that prevent it. Search in this forum for 'library' and for user 'bagginsbill' - there should be some explaination.

Hi and thanks for a response! Sadly, I did set all my firewalls to let anything pass from poserpro 2012, but still nothing. I searched what you suggested here in the forums, but that too didn't work, nothing came up with those searches. But I appreciate the help. :)

Maybe I should get one of the shaderworks library plug-ins, in hopes it doesn't load from the poser library first!

I simply can't get my runtime library to load unless I'm online and that works when poser wants it and 90% of the time it simply won't. Is there a way to have poser pro 2012 load a library offline at all like the older posers did? Because I'm very limited with my net connection and that's a real problem for me. Other than that I had no problems with it so far, thought I never got the chance to really test it much without a library loading. Good thing I still use poser7 because I'm not really happy with this poser versions asking me to always be online or else it won't work! It strange too, because when I first installed it, it wasn't bothering me to get online at all other then the registry part, only after a few days did that start to become a problem!