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Then they should have asked if there was interest in a forum for users of software X. I very strongly suspect that this was a veiled attempt to ascertain the relative number of Poser and Daz users. Likely so that they can make a sales pitch to the Daz-Borg-collective.
Thread: Which Figures to Develop For? | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
And don't forget that a microsecond after you put your item on the broker's site, it'll appear on some file sharing site based out of the old Soviet Union or China then quickly make it to the mainstream torrent sites where hundreds of people will download it for free. When you scream at the broker to send a DCMA takedown notice to the torrent site they will tell you that it's "not their job". You will reply, foaming at the mouth and spitting blood, then pull all your content, tell the broker to -expletive deleted- , and vow never to sell anything again.
Over the next while you become bitter and sullen and abandon the Poser/Dazverse for a first person shooter (HLII) and wierd Japanese tenticle porn. Eventually you start sniffing around Dazville and the Poserverse but find that people have become polarized over software and figures and renderers and decide that it's not worth it anymore.
Ask me how I know...go ahead...just ask.
Thread: Software Survey | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Surveys are highly accurate tools.....if administered properly, according to well proven scientific principles, by people who know what they're doing.
Thread: Errors And Potential Bugs: Please Post Errors In This Thread | Forum: Virtual World Dynamics
philemot posted at 8:22AM Fri, 26 August 2016 - #4281139
kittykat98 posted at 2:34PM Fri, 26 August 2016 - #4281132
In conclusion, I want my money back guys. I'll keep a close eye on this and maybe try it again if it gets fixed and documented but now I'm stuck with a program that just doesn't work.
I instructed Paypal for a reimbursement. You should have your money back very soon. Sorry it didn't work out for you.
That's kind of you. I sincerely hope you get this working someday.
Thread: Errors And Potential Bugs: Please Post Errors In This Thread | Forum: Virtual World Dynamics
Wow again...double and even triple wow. That was two evenings of wasted time and frustration I'll never get back. I didn't initially respond since I didn't want to say anything about buying the two programs directly from the authors since I didn't think they wanted it publicly known. Now that it's out, I'll say that I wish I'd bought them through Rendo (as much as I hate and despise the company) since it would be a simple matter to get a refund if I have to...and I'm leaning that way.
Taking the advice from the forum here, I launched back into attempting some simple static drapes. Reboot computer (just to start fresh) and ensure (yet again) that all VWD and Daz bridge files are where they're supposed to be. I loaded V4 in a long negligee and posed her kneeling to try and make the skirt drape down over her back, butt, legs and finally the floor. I encountered all manner of problems with selecting vertices. Selecting 'visible only' is inconsistent in operation, operating sorta correctly sometimes but mostly not selecting anything. I resorted to using the 'Alt' key to deselect the ones I didn't want but that frequently deselected everything. Trying to add the pixels around the neck strap only added to the frustration. Numerous maddening attempts later I had a selection. 'Nail to ' Collision' actually worked. Using the parameters suggested I set a static simulation running. Wow! is this slow. and Wow!, almost nothing is happening except for some bunching around her legs. I let it run for many minutes while Process Explorer (PE) showed lots of activity. That's good, at least it's running. I started and stopped the simulation a few times with no effect that I could see. After maybe twenty minutes I stopped it as a useless exercise. Over the next hour I retried this same drape a couple more times with similar (lack of) results.
Assuming that this was too complicated for VWD I posed V4 with a hairdo and placed a medium resolution blanket over her head to try a simpler drape. I chose her hair and figure as collision objects then hit 'nail to collision'. Nothing........zero......rien.....From my previous experience I'd learned that VWD seems to be unable to apply collision to more than one object at a time. Wow, that's kinda useless. Poser can drape an item over all kinds of things at once...I've done it the few (rare) times Poser didn't crash on me. Anyway, I tried again with just the hair selected for collision. This time it actually started to move but Wow!, it's still painfully slow compared to the same exercise in Poser. As the drape s-l-o-w-l-y crept along it looked like crap. The material was all bunched with spikes and dents everywhere it approached the hair. Then it started sucking INTO the face area where V4's head would be. I started and stopped it once or twice. This didn't seem to effect anything so I let it run it's slow and painful way along until ZIP!, true to form, the blanket shot off the screen into...?
I tried it a couple more times, ensuring that I was following the steps correctly but got pretty much the same thing. I have almost zero experience with dynamics but the few times I'd fiddled with it in Poser impressed the merde out of me. I set V4 beside some furniture, stuck the same blanket (with opacity set low so that I could see through it) over her head and watched as it smoothly settled down over her and the furniture. I experimented with different material settings (density, stiffness, friction etc) and got quite a kick out of how amazing (and quickly) it worked....at least when Poser itself wasn't crashing. (I use Daz not because I like it but because it's been completely stable for me while Poser crashes and locks up constantly). So now I'm wondering why an expensive ($90 bucks Canadian) program can't operate at least as well as Poser's native dynamic capability.
And wow, as I'm twiddling my thumbs watching nothing happen or trying again (and again and again) to make a selection, I'm getting more and more critical and less willing to overlook the massive failings. The GUI is horrible with buttons just stuck on. I can't resize the window. My main monitor is 2560 X 1440 making the VWD window a small strip down one side that I can't move or resize. When the window is maximized it wont respect the task bar or other windows. I tried to take some screen shots with 'Greenshot' but the 'save as' window couldn't butt in front of the VWD window. I had to shut VWD down, do a screenshot and move the resulting window to another monitor so that it would show up there from then on. The task bar wouldn't appear unless I first clicked the corresponding area on another monitor. When I shut VWD down it doesn't usually really shut down, it leaves parts of the GUI on the screen forcing me to (as suggested) restart it from the script icon. When I do this I see nothing for several minutes when I'll get (finally!) the box telling me that VWD is already running but will be shut down. Only once did I have to resort to using PE to kill VWD and Daz...a small victory. I get the impression that the two authors have little experience with real consumer programs, GUI's, and usability. One of the jobs I do at my work is to provide imagery support to aerospace engineers (many of whom are programmers). I populated a few areas in the data tracking programs with video of boring technical stuff. The program they use reminds me of VWD since it has piles of buttons and selections just stuck in a simplistic grid with no concern for looks or usability. It's an engineering tool and they couldn't care less how it looks. That's fine for industry but won't fly in the consumer world, even Adobe makes their programs look nice, and absolutely worries about workflow and the interface.
And lets talk training. If these programs where free I might excuse the total lack of documentation and poor tutorials. I paid big money for these, $90 Canadian, that's a third of the price of Poser Pro...Wow! For this kind of money I expect more than a bunch of videos that only show a basic walkthrough. There's a zillion buttons and selections available, what do they do? How am I supposed know what they all mean? Daz loves to do this and expects people to return endless to the forums to ask the same basic questions over and over again because they refuse to provide real documentation. Has anything been written down or does all the knowledge exist in the author's heads? For this kind of money ($90 CAD!) I expect full, complete, and comprehensive documentation. I bought Reality last year (for a measly thirty bucks) and it came with a very complete and well written pdf manual.
Ahhhh you're going to say, VWD and the bridge are still in Beta or they're not complete or it's still in development.
SO WHY IS IT BEING SOLD?
Would you buy a car that had only half the parts ready or who's engine only ran up to 40 KpH? Would you see a movie before it was finished? I'm sliding down a nasty slope here and getting madder by the minute. The authors want money (BIG money!) for programs that JUST AREN'T READY. Are they that desperate for money? I love to support the little guy. I bought Reality, I also bought a couple of plugins being developed by the Blender community. But these (VWD and the Daz bridge) seem to be less than a serious endevour by people who know what they're doing and more of a pipe dream by people with big goals. I do blame myself for getting overly enthusiastic and buying it before it's properly ready (if it ever is) but can you blame me for wanting this? Dynamics in Daz are a dream of most users. I've had reasonable success with the Dyncreator (a very reasonable eight bucks) and am kicking myself for blowing big bucks ($90 Canadian...argh!) on VWD. I do, however, want to kick Rendo-short-sighted-and-desparate-for-money-osity for allowing an unfinished, buggy, undocumented program to be sold here.
In conclusion, I want my money back guys. I'll keep a close eye on this and maybe try it again if it gets fixed and documented but now I'm stuck with a program that just doesn't work.
Thread: Two newbie questions -DAZ 4.9- | Forum: DAZ|Studio
MrVoll, I use V4 in Daz, and found that applying the Daz 'uber' shader first fixes almost everything. There is also an Iray conversion for V4 series characters that works well. I hate to pound Daz's drum but IRay (they licence it from Nvidia) is brilliant; being fast and easy. It needs better documentation (Daz's Achilles heel) but it's still brilliant.
Thread: Errors And Potential Bugs: Please Post Errors In This Thread | Forum: Virtual World Dynamics
Wow...three days, dozens of attempts and not one even remotely successful simulation. I don't know where to start. It could be (probably?) related to my unusual computer layout so I'll start there.
Win7 64 bit and NOT connected to the net so there's AV or firewalls. All excess Windows crap is shut off so it boots in a couple of seconds.
C (an SSD)-is for windows only. I don't let anything store it's files or temp there.
D (a partition on the SSD) is for programs only and again, nobody stores temp stuff or data there.
F My graphics drive where my runtimes and Daz content live. All my graphics for still and 3D live here.
There are more drives for video and motion graphics but they don't matter.
While I have Poser, I treated the install as if I didn't. The VWD folder went to the root of C: and the Daz bridge stuff went (as instructed in the pdf) in F:Daz Content/My Daz 3D Library/Scripts/VWD Bridge. I had to create the "Daz My Library" directory since I didn't have one (I hate how Daz wants one to arrange their content).
The bridge starts fine and I followed the tutorials (my French NOT being as rusty as I thought it was). I went big to start, with V4 sporting a ton of Bridal wear, long skirt, train and a long veil. Things went fine until 'nail to collision'. It locked up and I had to use Process Explorer (PE) to kill it and Daz. It seems that the VWD would go to 25% CPU usage and stay. Even after it was killed in PE, Daz would now be at 25% and unresponsive, forcing a kill in PE. I went progressively simpler and simpler finding that it was impossible to grab just one layer-row of pixels since so many of the items I was using had more than one layer. Finally I gave up and tried using a simple small plane turned into a figure and pinned above her head. I wanted to make it drape down like a veil. That actually worked for a few iterations until suddenly, the plane shot off the screen somewhere. Aaaand of course, I had to kill VWD with PE and then Daz too. I then resorted to very simple scenes with V4 and a simple negligee. That started draping then Wham it shot off the screen. Both VWD and Daz needed to be killed with PE. During all this I only had one actual error message. Yes, I dutifully deleted Exchange files every time I started VWD.
Got any ideas?
Thread: flooding | Forum: Suggestion Box
Thread: VWD Tutorials | Forum: Virtual World Dynamics
These are a great way to practice my French and I find them much easier to follow (Parisienne French) than the Acadian and Quebec French spoken here. There's a lot of slang and they speak sooo fast. I've been married to an Acadian for 36 years and I still have problems understanding her. Of course, most men say that regardless of language.
Thread: Daz Studio bridge to VWD | Forum: Virtual World Dynamics
Because Daz doesn't own or control VWD, it can't make money off of it and will (in my experience) do their immature, short sighted and greedy best to break it's compatibility. Their arrangement with Optitex was a failure and I'm sure they're working on some other behind the scenes deal to make users think that Daz has dynamic clothing while not actually providing it in any real way. The same way people are still led to believe that Hexagon is a real 3D program worth paying money for.
Thread: Software Survey | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
sigh I don't expect Renderosity to be versed in multivariate regression analysis, but you should at least have a basic understanding of what you're trying to discover when you ask questions. Go grab a copy of the Dummies Guide to Statistics. Now do you understand what you did wrong? You now have the opinions of people who are bothered to take a survey...you did NOT poll a representative cross sample of users. All your data is garbage and won't tell you anything meaningful. From much study in the field, I know that your respondents are likely polarized. Folks who are either wildly enthusiastic or (like me) hate corporate ignorance and shortsightedness and find your software to be crap.
Thread: Software Survey | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
I did manage to complete the survey (only because I'm obviously smarter than the script kiddie who coded the thing) and left a comment here. That comment has (not surprisingly) been deleted. What a bunch of stumblebums. When they get assimilated by the Daz Borg and lose their jobs I'm gonna laugh myself silly.
Thread: All my Freestuff is now removed from this site | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
PhilC posted at 10:53AM Thu, 11 August 2016 - #4279552> Yes never really understood this policy. I find that the beauty of the Internet is its connectivity. If I want to research a subject I can go from page to page, link to link and glean information from many and various sources. Something of a bummer when one bumps into a dead end.
I suggest that marketing scum have taken control from webmasters. They want their site to be all-inclusive and employ ever sleazier ways to keep one there including pretending that the rest of the net doesn't exist. I occasionally run into sites that disable the back button making it impossible to leave the site unless one closes the tab/window.
Thread: All my Freestuff is now removed from this site | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Thread: Sticking it to the Poser thieves and freeloaders (pirates). | Forum: Suggestion Box
Any emails sent to copyrights@renderosity.com get ignored.
There are presently 103 Renderosity items being traded openly on KAT. You know that they're there. It would be so simple to spend a few hours sending them DMCA takedown notices. Renderotica items never appear there because they get DMCA'd almost immediately. The experienced members of KAT even lament the lack of Renderotica stuff while openly thumbing their noses at both you and Daz because neither of you can be bothered to do a single blessed thing about it.
So ha, and many more double ha's. Want to shut me up?....send a pile of takedowns to KAT. Go ahead, I dare you.
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Thread: Software Survey | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL