I'll second that. A realistic albino skin would be very nice to have.

Speaking as someone who has had pet house rabbits for quite a few years now, frankly none of the Poser rabbits I've seen are very realistic, at least not based on the promo images. I've yet to see one where I thought the back legs looked right. Gerald Day's free ones are not bad, but I don't think they're posable, IIRC, they're just static props.

Speaking as someone who has had pet house rabbits for quite a few years now, I sure would like to find a convincing Poser rabbit, so I'd be happy to be proved wrong about any of the existing ones, if it's just that the promo images aren't flattering.

Hey, look, one of my early posts:

I.4.5 (House of the Citharist; below a drawing of a man with a large nose); 2375: Amplicatus, I know that Icarus is buggering you. Salvius wrote this.

Attached Link: Bringing Your 'EYE' BL's Back From The Dead

"RTF encoding spells the death of a product." (Blackhearted).

Speaking as a pure consumer, not a producer, of marketplace items, I have to say: I don't agree with this statement. For example: Dodger's Aeon figures are all RTEncoded, but I have been more than happy to pay the prices to acquire them, because they add functionality beyond what I already own. They increase the usefulness of the Unimesh figures they are based on.

From everything I have seen, this is not true of Renda - Renda appears to be nothing more than a V3 clone, and I haven't seen anything that Renda can do better than V3, so I have no interest in paying for Renda, whether she's RTEncoded or not. While some segment of the potential market might indeed be frightened off by RTEncoding, I'm skeptical that this potential segment is larger than the potential market segment that avoids Renda simply because there's nothing that Renda does that can't also be done with V3 or other figures we already own, for free in many cases. In other words, forget the RTEncoding: What do I actually gain by purchasing Renda?

Semi-obscure reference: This set really needs a brown paper bag containing a pickle...

It all began innocently enough on Tuesday. I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desk-top, and reading my name on the glass of my office door: "regnaD kciN". My secretary lay snoring on the floor, her long, beautiful gams pinioned under the couch. I didn't hear him enter, but my nostrils flared at the smell of his perfume: Pyramid Patchouli. There was only one joker in L.A. sensitive enough to wear that scent, and I had to find out who he was...

"Good afternoon, Mr. Danger. I'm Rocky Rococo."

"Thanks, half-pint. You just saved me a lot of investigative work."

"Maybe yes, maybe no. Do you know what this is?"

I had to think for a minute. What cruel game was he playing? "Uh, that's a brown paper bag."

"That's correct! Now, look inside, Mr. Danger. What do you see?"

"That's easy! That's a pickle."

"Very good! Now, I think you're ready for this!"

"Why, that's nothing but a two-bit ring from a crackerback jox!"

"I'll sell it to you for $5,000."

"Hah! What kind of a chump do you take me for?"

"First class!"

"That tarnished piece of tin is worthless!"

"Worthless? Ha-ha-ha! Not to Melanie Haber..."

Just to see if anyone else does this: I have my runtimes organized according to end-user license. That is, I have one for "Commercial-Safe" where I put anything that explicitly allows use in commercial renders, and another where I put everything else (i.e., anything that specifically says "non-commercial use only", or doesn't explicitly say anything).

Mind you, I haven't yet actually done anything commercially, but this way, if/when I do, I can be sure that as long as I stick to the "Commercial-Safe" runtime, I won't be violating any user licenses.

Attached Link: Specular Only Lights

Attached Link: TUTORIAL : How to achieve more realistic skin textures in Poser 5

Reflections in eyes: You won't get any specular highlights from IBL alone. The simplest way to fix that is to add a light to the scene, pointing the way the light from the IBL falls, and set it up as a "specular-only" light: In the Material room, select the light and set the Diffuse color to black, and the Specular color to white (or whatever color the light is).

If you want more detailed reflections, I haven't tried this, but I suspect that if you have a spherically-mapped environment you're using for the IBL, you may be able to take that same image and plug it into the Reflection node on the eyes, for a quick environment-mapped reflection. Like I said, I haven't tried it, but I believe that both IBL and the reflection node take sphere-mapped environment maps, so if we're lucky, they'll match up...

Attached Link: Camera Mapping

I used perspective UVs a couple of times in Poser 5 to map a background photo onto a backdrop prop, in order to "composite" a render into a photo with shadows. In P6 I'd probably just use the new shadow catchers, but if you're still using P5 it might make compositing easier. I also remember seeing a Lightwave tutorial using the same principle to recreate a scene from a photo with basic primitive shape props, and once the photo was perspective-mapped onto the shapes, you could change the camera angle to some extent.

It doesn't hurt to look up the motherboard anyway. According to all the specs based on my PC's make & model, it can hold up to 1 GB (2 512-MB sticks). According to the motherboard specs, it can hold up to 2 GB (2 1-GB sticks).

Mine currently contains 1.25 GB (1-GB + 256-MB), so the motherboard specs are clearly the correct ones.

"Fori" would be the Latin plural of "forus", wouldn't it? As I recall, the plural for "-um" words is "-a":
1 datum -> many data
1 stratum -> many strata
1 medium -> many media
1 forum -> many fora

Makes sense to me. :-)

Attached Link: http://hubblesite.org/newscenter/newsdesk/archive/releases/1997/38/astrofile/

It all depends what time scale you use. :-)

"I stand corrected. They did a little testing and shipped us a product anyway, they didn't give a rat's ass that it was buggy." Yep, that's probably more accurate. In all fairness, as Unzipped points out, they didn't give a rat's ass because consumer behavior demonstrates that we, the end users, don't give a rat's ass either. If we all vowed never to purchase another computer program until after at least the first patch/service release comes out, or purchased on release day only from companies with a proven track record of bug-free release versions, things might start to change. Anyone think that's likely to happen?