Well, the new layout got me. I clicked "Place Order" when what I intended was "Apply Coupon". Oops.

I don't think the new design was really at fault here. The design is logical enough, it's just unfamiliar, and I made a mistake.

It used to be possible to page through the product preview images using the arrow keys. This seems not to work any more.

There's no mention of the Bargain Bin on the Deals page currently, so I assume that they've pulled the sale while they try to sort out the issues.

-renapd- posted at 3:46 PM Sat, 10 September 2022 - #4444250

All sales have been rescheduled for TOMORROW.. Sunday 11th.. so keep coming back! :)

Well, that absolutely SUCKS since my today was open but my tomorrow is pretty full. 

Renderosity are learning the hard way the same lesson that DAZ 3D has almost learnt: don't experiment with new sales types on weekends when there's no one around to fix things.

Oddly, the previous run of weekend sales mostly worked; only one vendor's store glitched. This time around, though, it looks like things have failed across the board.

Oh well, maybe we have some make-up sales in our future.

Thank you.

I think I just ran into the same issue. Because the code appears as an embedded graphic rather than text, you have to type it manually and it's easy to make errors in the process (I missed out the second 'M'). Thanks, @Nails60 for identifying the problem.

Following up to my own post, e-on have confirmed that Vue 2015 is deeply incompatible with OS X El Capitan. They are working on fixes, but aren't yet announcing a date when an El Capitan-compatible version will be ready.

Hmm ... I thought that Stegolian looked familiar ...

There's speculation that a lot of the store troubles - including the random 'Required Items' links - may be due to improperly-configured Varnish cache software.

Varnish is a very nice tool, but setting it up properly to support a complex shopping site is not a trivial task.

The Stegolian looks amazing, Raw. Wishlisted.

I wonder how big the market is for 3D landscape generators. There was a time when Bryce was nearly the only game in town. Now we have Bryce (soon to be PC-only, dammit), Terragen, Vue d'Esprit, Mojoworld, and Eric's Artmatic3D (sometime), while a lot of the 'straight' 3D packages are also adding landscape and atmosphere effects. Eric may develop ArtMatic3D as a labor of love, but there may be a shake-down and some of the smaller players may find it hard to continue.

The ArtMatic3D samples are stunning, but I'm wary of judging the strength of the product on those alone. Eric Wenger could probably take four melted crayons, a torn sheet of cardboard and a spoonful of rancid spaghetti sauce and use them to produce an image that would break your heart with its wistful beauty. I'd be more interested to see what an ordinary user can do with the same product. Hell, I'd be interested to see what I could do with the product (are you listening, M. Wenger?)

It's possible that ArtMatic3D may produce beautiful renders but have an interface that makes it impossible for most users to attain them. Kai Krause's big contribution was to take Eric's genius rendering engine and put an interface on it that people could use, thus bringing Bryce to the world at large. Bryce's quirky interfaces came in for a lot of criticism over the years, mostly from 'pro' users, but I generally found them very comfortable to work with, and was impressed by the intuitiveness and power of some of their solutions to representation and manipulation problems. Certainly, in terms of giving you access to the power of the engine without drowning you in incomprehensible complexity, it was a masterpiece.

So ArtMatic3D looks exciting, but I hope it turns out to be usable by mere mortals, and I also hope that the entry of yet another competitor to the marketplace doesn't kill off other promising programs.

Of course there's no law that says people can't buy more than one. I have Bryce and Mojoworld, and a copy of Vue d'Esprit is currently in a chocolate-brown truck heading for my house ...