Thank you!

ebasham posted at 10:10 PM Wed, 8 March 2023 - #4457973

Hi, developer here. I just wanted to mention here that we have determined that there was an issue with rewards allocation for paypal purchases. This should be fixed going forward.

We did pay, as Prime Members, for those additional 2 points we didn't get because of this error.

I just noticed that this miscalculation of my Prime rewards points is still not fixed. So it's been a week without a fix or any update on progress. That's a little bit troubling.

My problem is that I make so many purchases at Renderosity... spend so many dollars here, in other words.

I never really looked at the Rewards history for my account, and it took me a bit to undertsand what I was seeing; that the points, by date, are based on individual items purchased on that date, not on Order totals for that date? 

So, in order to keep track of my Rewards Points activity, I need to go back through each order by date, and, item by item, cross check against the Rewards history for that date item by item?

This isn't overly taxing... but annoying? Definitely, because the list of mis-calculated items keeps getting longer. Tracking it, and backtracking it, is a hassle I don't want.

As a long-time Renderosity customer who shops, and purchases, at Renderosity pretty near every day, sometimes placing more than one order each day, the higher Prime member Rewards point rate is a major factor in my yearly decision to stay a Prime member. Those extra 2 points on a dollar that I get as a Prime member, given how often I spend a dollar at Rendorosity, really add up. And since I pay with my Prime membership for the priviledge of getting those two points, they amount to a perquisite, something I've paid for. They aren't a gift.

I can understand glitches cropping up in the big changes to the marketplace that are happening, most of which are fantastic. But I don't appreciate being kept in the dark for more than a week now about the Prime member Rewards points mis-calculation. As I said. it's troubling to not know where things stand with it.

Am I going to be notified when the fix kicks in ? I don't know...

Just happened again.

Order total $11.00, points appled 55, instead of the correct amount of 77.

The Rewards page still shows 7 pts per dollar for Prime members... I am a Prime member...

What's up with this?

Ditto on tomcatoliver's specific critiques, about the size of the popup window images, and the need to scroll on them to see the entire image, and preference for the DS approach.

Thanks and thanks. W7 64bit. Installing to an outboard drive.

Still negotiating with SM about why their cart won't release the zero-dollar service release to a registered active-account customer?

Thanks, Richard,

Question: How to import a scene? I've only ever imported obj's. Is it to pull the scene file (pz3, I think, is the format that defaults from save-as,) into the Studio Scene folder?

I'll explore.

Thank you, markschum,

It's Daz Studio I'm working in, not 3dsmax, but, either way I appreciate your input, and am looking forward to working through these things, and learning as I go. Your info is a great help!

Thanks. I'm totally new to Poser, and haven't figured out the most basic things, like how to tell what type of model it is, prop or figure, or how to export it as something else, like cr2.

Messing with it last night, the house interior and pot, both with moveable parts, load perfectly in Poser 9, but only save as scene files, or export as obj's. I had to go into the obj file to find the textures it was looking for, but that did work. Now I have the models in Studio, fully textured but static, no moving parts.

The work-around I chose was to manipulate the moving parts in Poser, then export the model. It gets me the posed part I want for a given Studio render, but will have to be done every time I need to make a slight positioning change. Not optimal, besides I want to learn how to get the whole model to work in Studio.

Can I get a model to export as a Cr2? That format works well in Studio, and if I understand, brings other info with it, perhaps like movement info?

Thanks also for the tip on geomstripper. I'll try that.