Ah, ok that clears it up a bit. It seems to be using all the cores (4) and ram (uses 2-3 of 6gb, depending on the scene) ok through the 32 bit version so I'm happy specifying that.

Thanks for your help.

Quote - When you first ran PP2010, and Windows demanded to know whether or not to let Poser use the Internet, did you say yes or no?

I honestly can't remember, I probably said no because my last Poser (7) got quite buggy in the cloth room when I let it update itself, so I probably opted to stop it auto updating things. Since then though, like I said, I've added exceptions to Windows security to let it communicate on network/internet as an attempt to get the library embedded.

It does do a weird thing where it puts some library stuff in the Program Files (x64), some are in the Program Files, and some to the Virtual Store hidden thing in Windows 7... which annoyingly means my runtime contents are in three seperate places.

I've just opened it in 32 bit mode; and the library's embedded fine. Does this mean if I want to use the library embedded I need to use it without access to all the Ram (6gb) and CPU (quad core i7) as it'll be limited by 32 bit? Sorry, I'm a bit of a n00b when it comes to software architecture and the differences between 32 bit and 64 bit!

Thanks, PN.

I'm British. I think it's both a cultural thing and a sponsorship thing. And the mighty BBC aren't the ones to thank - Channel4/Film4 also puts a lot of (partially governmental) money into fresh talent, and we have a history of playwright culture being interwoven in University life, hence the references in this thread to Cambidge's Footlights.

Cultural differences - the British see ego as arrogance, so we tend to err towards self-deprication. I do like American comedy, it's good to 'switch off' too - there's no thought required, which is perfect after a hard days' work (Frasier, Friends, all good). All the jokes are explained, all the complexities of life simplified, and that makes it easy, lowest-common-denominator fare. It happens on Star Trek too; when they come up with an idea to save themselves ("We just need to reverse the polarity and setup a temporal vortex to..."), someone sums up the idea for the idiots ("TIME TRAVEL!"). I suppose it's to make sure more people watch it, so the sponsors and the shareholders are happy; not a particular consideration in Britain where we're more concerned with being funny (rather the point of a comedy show..).

So in Britain, we have a different culture - we tend to look down on ignorance (although that seems to be changing subtly in recent years), so don't simplify life to make it more accessible or glamourise mundanity to make it more appealing, we see value in telling it how it is, perhaps because schmaltz is easy to see through, and therefore just escapism. Plus we like talking bolx.

Dutch humour is similar to English, German humour (where it exists) is much more like American. French is very... French.

British humour isn't necessarily better, it's just always been geared more towards high-brow viewers and therefore more complex in its subtleties and more diverse in its presentation.

Apart from Benny Hill, who is rubbish.

Quote - ...selling the image printed on a T-shirt.

OUCH!

Yeah I googled my username and found Xhime had reproduced my stuff with their logo on it! Cheeky monkeys. But then, I've got loads of stuff through filesharing* etc, so I can't really complain.

*legally, of course...

Quote - Wait.... so in order to be considered great on here, I have to do a pin up?

No. That's just a happy coincidence you'll find in my faves! I get just as much inspiration from the likes of Teyon, Eferrier etc. Who, by the way, don't seem to be around anymore... case in point.

Quote - ...Or better yet, as wolf suggested, post your own.

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=2156740

What can I say... I'm still learning; hence wanting to know where the best renderers have gone!!!

Quote - > Quote - http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/browse.php?user_id=11343

......etc.

 

dont write me off yet, im still here :P

Glad to hear it! :biggrin:

Apart from ShawnDriscoll & patzoriley I think you have all missed the point!

• I'm not saying art here is not art. (That would be silly)

• I'm not saying pin-ups are the only thing worth doing. (That would be silly)

• I'm not saying the quest for photo-realism is the only thing Rendo should be here for. (That would be silly)

I AM saying I thought there were more frequent cases of photorealistic art previously (photorealism being the hardest to achieve in my view; anyone can knock out a crap cartoon or collage and call it art; and if you think the poser gallery has precious few examples of basic V3 with no decent lighting, think again!). So if photorealism is dwindling then the artists must BE somewhere. And I was really looking for example places where they might BE. I'd have thought at least one person would've suggested Deviantart! There must be other communities I can google...

Anyway, I looked through 15 pages of the most recent Poser gallery, and only two items were really worth the mention for CG excellence in terms of realism (which in this case is what I'm after): Bagginsbill's Dreaming in 3d and Lorraine's Tachi. Both are excellent, but Lorraine's the only one of those two who posts regularly, and Tachi is her best work yet.

...which means there's precious little realism bounding about. Whereas a year or two ago there was surely more..?

Or perhaps I'm mistaken. Perhaps realism does come round in small doses, and those who achieve it tend to sublime off to Corporate jobs, as ShawnDriscoll suggests. Would be a shame.

Quote - I don't know what you guys are talking about. I see the pictures. They are great.

:lol:

Fail.

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For people just starting out, I think positive critique is great to encourage them to post more and develop their skills.  Then after maybe a few pics, people might add a comment or two on what could be done better.  It's all in the way its handled and lets face it, some people use kid gloves while others use an iron fist.

Totally agree - n00bs should be encouraged, but it's easy to spot a n00b by the small number of gallery images and the total lack of quality. My problem is when you get someone churning out terrible stuff for years with no sense of improvement - galleries full of awful work just demonstrates some people must either have no desire to improve, or just aren't aware that what they're doing is awful. Like when people use Comic Sans because they think it's 'casual'. Such people should be educated; it's not 1996 any more!

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Many comments are copied and past only, with the hope to get many comments and faves back. Some have a second, third and fourth account to write and fave own images. A point for this are certainly the sh*** art charts,becourse everybody wants to be the best and at the top of them.

I don't doubt it - and a few changes to the rules would stop this from happening. Limit the number of comments per day (20 is reasonable), and limit the number of accounts per IP address to a max of 2 or 3 (it's feasable you could share computer/network with another Rosity user).

Renderosity is a community, but at it's heart, it's an ART community. People are missusing comments and accounts for financial/egotistical gain by giving hollow, meaningless info - it's just like link ghosting, where a website clones all the links from a proper database website (like yellow Pages, or whatever) - you end up with duplication of information for financial gain. And it's holding back the reputation of Renderosity. If the directors of this website meet up and try to figure out how to improve the site's reputation, profits, quality and stability (a site built on meaningless empty praise will soon find how vagrant their 'community' is, when trouble strikes) - they need only look at their poclicies of dealing with the people who use that community.

You wonder why Rosity is rolling out the 'CGSpree' once more? It's probably because they're desperate to keep the show rolling; they're against the ropes because the sycophantic clientelle they pander to in their policy loopholes are dragging them into a cycle of financial loss. You can't base a community on emptiness; whether it's promises of support, or blind positivity - once it hits the fan this sort of community will leave you.

No doubt this thread will be locked, because of the horse flogging, but I think allowing a shallow culture to prevail is a symptom of money-grabbing, and is simply not a robust way to run a business. If Rosity makes it through the current financial climate, it'll either be fluke, or virtue of policy change.

I'm running 64bit Windows 7 Pro (6gb ram, quad core i7, 1gb dedicated graphics physics memory) with Poser 7, and have found that I can't import/export anything. No other bugs, just can't import/export. Weird...

Renders like lightning tho!

I don't know that you should be that bothered about not doing postwork (or not having Photoshop) - some people swear by it, I often don't even bother. 

In this image (watch out, there's BEWBS in this pic!*)  http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1954585&user_id=629786&np&np I spent absolutely ages working on the lighting (there's 3 spots above her and six point lights around her sides) and the sweaty skin look - postwork... I think I probably upped the contrast a little, and darkened the area around her eyes, but that was it.

All I'm saying is it's not necessarily the postwork that'll help you make a good pic.

Hey... I'm hijacking my own thread! What can be done about the sycophants, eh? We need some direct action!

*Oh, FYI I deleted the rest of my gallery (and freestuff) off Renderosity because of the heavy-handed attitude of the mods.

Right, we're all in agreement.

Trouble is, we can't change human nature, and the mods can't just start culling mindless comments, so this is never going to go anywhere.

Ah well, I'm going to keep adding harsh criticism to people's work, regardless - i rather enjoy being the bad guy (hence the 'nemesis' part of my username), and if people notice that, yes, perhaps they should try & improve rather than thinking their cr4p is excellent, then I think the ends justifies the means - it was only through criticism that I improved.

exactly; what's wrong with constructive criticism every now and then? Surely that's how a good community should operate - if we just all complemented each other all the time, the human race would die out pretty quickly.

Developmental cul-de-sac. That's what it is.

Yeah, I thought I'd seen this type of thread before. But as dead horses go, it's an annoying one which deserves repeated flogging!

ah! Thanks for the explanation - I didn't realise there were different search tools for different areas - I thought 'Search Renderosity' in the top right meant exactly that.