bagginsbill opened this issue on Jun 29, 2009 · 63 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:00 PM
So I was reading the forum in front of my wife. Big mistake.
She saw my avatar and demanded to know why that "blotchy man" is on all my posts.
I said, he's not blotchy, he's a mythical Koi-man. You've never heard of those?
She answered "that is disgusting."
OK. I need a new avatar. What should it be?
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JenX posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:04 PM
lol You would not be the first whose spouse didn't "get" their avatar ;) Good luck finding an "appropriate" one ;)
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Gareee posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:06 PM
Miss Nancy posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:09 PM
IMVHO koi-man is o.k., but ya could try:
the latter is always popular in some circles
LukeA posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:38 PM
LOL my wife hates the evil clowns so I had to change. Honestly I think you are capable of so much more BB. Why not a really cool raytraced head? Glass or chrome.
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bagginsbill posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:45 PM
Funny that you say that. To me, a glass or chrome shader is super trivial as it consists only of one node in either case. The fish scale shader was very difficult - 100% procedural, you know.
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pjz99 posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:47 PM
How does your wife feel about mine?
bagginsbill posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:51 PM
She didn't say. Intrigued maybe?
I specifically asked her, what should I have, a giant tongue (and I pointed to yours)? She glared at me.
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pjz99 posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:52 PM
What's your email, bagginsbill "at gmail.com"?
LukeA posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 10:56 PM
LOL I know it was partly a joke. Why not a picture of you? Maybe photo-manipulate it.
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TheOwl posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 11:00 PM
She's just testing you of how much of you she can control.
Passion is anger and love combined. So if it looks
angry, give it some love!
pjz99 posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 11:00 PM
I actually have a yahoo email address that I'll just send something off to, hopefully that works.
LostinSpaceman posted Mon, 29 June 2009 at 11:29 PM
Getting angry over something that has absolutely no affect on her life whatsoever. Typical!
TZORG posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:07 AM
I think it should be zoomed in a little, if there's more detail to see
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Casette posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:27 AM
You don't need a new avatar. You need a new wife
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DarksealStudios posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:54 AM
HAHA!
Hey bagginsbill will you answer a question for me?....
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2775168
(I dont mean to hijack your thread)
But I agree with missnancy if you want to change the pic and keep the koi, go with a fish ....
I wouldn't though, it's easy to pick you out of a crowd here and read the "real" answers!
deci6el posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 2:52 AM
I've known you by that avatar for a long time, and she is only now noticing?
Similarly, my wife just yesterday looked at my avatar and I had to explain it to her as if she had never seen it.
login names and avatars are part of that dwindling realm of do as you please. When someone comes along and suggests your avatar or login sends the wrong message, well, I'm uncomfortable with that level of control in a personal preference setting.
That said I wish it were as easy to change my login name as it is my avatar because sometimes we want to change.
Keep your avatar as you would like, or get closer.
infinity10 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 5:39 AM
Let's see,.... instead of Koi scales, how about the plaids, or tartans, or cable knits/
rubs chin
So, you could simply replace the shaders...
scratches head
Hmmm - those shouldn't look very blotchy, I don't think.
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RorrKonn posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 6:28 AM
Hay I modeled my "chrome" skull.guess i am going to half to paint it now ;)
Theaves are causeing me alot of greaf over my name.
consider your self lucky you have a wife.
single is lonely.
women loves roses.
get her a few dozen she'll be looking at the roses.no time to look at your avatar :)
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Synpainter posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 6:36 AM
This is a funny thread...I too have had similar discussions for Avatars I used on some other sites in the past....
My .02 ...I find something similar to this appropriate, Being a Master Material Room GearHead :)
Maybe have a "Design My Avatar" contest, I am sure you would get some very interesting entries.
IsaoShi posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 7:16 AM
What a wonderful opportunity you were given to execute a fine landing in a friendly place, and how you squandered it.
You were on a good approach... "What should I have?..." but you completely overshot the runway with "... a giant tongue?".
Count yourself lucky you only received a glare from the control tower. I wouldn't grant you landing rights at my airfield for a week.
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lesbentley posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:07 AM
Solution:
Use my avatar. Your wife will hate it so much that she will beg you the change back to your old one!
CaptainJack1 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:18 AM
But it does have a certain charm.
:lol:
infinity10 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:28 AM
CaptainJack1 - that is perfect for Bagginsbill !
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shuy posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:54 AM
Render some bombshell girl and suggest your wife that she can choose:
"spoted face" or "big uns"
I'm sure that your avatar stay not changed.
ThunderStone posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:59 AM
Hey, BB, Why not have a full figure koi-woman as your avatar. Betcha the missus would beg you to change it back...
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hborre posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 9:14 AM
That's why I play it safe. Who argues with a superhero?
MistyLaraCarrara posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 9:32 AM
Quote - So I was reading the forum in front of my wife. Big mistake.
She saw my avatar and demanded to know why that "blotchy man" is on all my posts.
I said, he's not blotchy, he's a mythical Koi-man. You've never heard of those?
She answered "that is disgusting."
OK. I need a new avatar. What should it be?
noooo. I wouldn't recognize you without your avatar on. :b_uncertain:
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grichter posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 10:06 AM
I know. Drop the koi shader. Then find this thread about this really great shader system called VSS. Make sure you get the latest version. Depending on if you render your new avatar in P6 or P7-PPro, you will have to play with the Gamma correction settings. But for God's sake make sure you use Gamma Correction. Also I suggest you look at another thread about using AO to add realism. Of course you could hop on over to the node cult on RDNA and read how to add some smoke, some procedural clouds in the background and then some procedural grass. But to add the icing on the cake make sure you add the free sky dome and use an IBL light. But watch the intensity of your IBL light.
You can find all of this ,thanks to Acadia, at the top of these forums in a thread fround here
www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php
There are a couple of users here that I think might be able to help you figure this all out. One is Ice-Boy, another is RobinsVeil and finally carodan.
Hope this helps.
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dasquid posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 11:20 AM
You are joking right? Bagginsbill is the one who MADE the VSS shader. lol (just in case you aren't joking and didn't realize)
Quote - I know. Drop the koi shader. Then find this thread about this really great shader system called VSS. Make sure you get the latest version. Depending on if you render your new avatar in P6 or P7-PPro, you will have to play with the Gamma correction settings. But for God's sake make sure you use Gamma Correction. Also I suggest you look at another thread about using AO to add realism. Of course you could hop on over to the node cult on RDNA and read how to add some smoke, some procedural clouds in the background and then some procedural grass. But to add the icing on the cake make sure you add the free sky dome and use an IBL light. But watch the intensity of your IBL light.
You can find all of this ,thanks to Acadia, at the top of these forums in a thread fround here
www.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php
There are a couple of users here that I think might be able to help you figure this all out. One is Ice-Boy, another is RobinsVeil and finally carodan.
Hope this helps.
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nyguy posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 11:59 AM
my wife hated my head banging avatar so I went with my next favorite thing, LEGO Fett. Who would argue with a bounty hunter?
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CaptainJack1 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 12:05 PM
Quote - Who would argue with a bounty hunter?
Um... the Sarlaac?
To be fair, that was a pretty one-sided argument, now that I think about it...
nyguy posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 12:17 PM
Quote - > Quote - Who would argue with a bounty hunter?
Um... the Sarlaac?
To be fair, that was a pretty one-sided argument, now that I think about it...
According the book Tales from Jabba's Palace, he actually defeated the Sarlaac
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EClark1894 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 12:22 PM
CaptainJack1 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 12:29 PM
La la la la la it's not in the movie la la la la la la la I can't hear you la la la la la la la
pakled posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:47 PM
well, you could always go with your namesake, and put a 'cute' hobbit in there....with koi shading...;)
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Winterclaw posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:52 PM
Replace it with the mythical koi-girl perhaps?
If that doesn't work, you could always use a cat-girl/boy.
Or maybe you can do a .gif movie with a picture of a properly shaded and lit figure and the following text: "If it doesn't look like this, it isn't properly shaded"
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nyguy posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 1:58 PM
Quote -
La la la la la it's not in the movie la la la la la la la I can't hear you la la la la la la la
Sound like my 3 year old
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RGUS posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 2:03 PM
A picture of your wife.. then there'd be no complaints
Winterclaw posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 2:12 PM
There will if he uses the wrong picture... I think that's how women work anyways.
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WandW posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 2:29 PM
Lucky she didn' t see your website-she would have been asking how someone with scales could have nipples... :biggrin:
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Acadia posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 4:43 PM
Hmmm! How about a naked sexy hot babe?
Just don't tell her that you know me! 
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Sarte posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 6:05 PM
Make it a decaying zombie. She'll love you for that.
Seriously, a "that's digusting" at a guy with fish scales? She obviously hasn't seen the horrors that await the unready on the internet.
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Darboshanski posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 6:19 PM
That's okay my wife doesn't get mine either she does not understand how an Irish pagan has anything to do with young girls outside a train station in the Shibuya district of Tokyo LOL!
bopperthijs posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 7:10 PM
Ok, let's make some things clear:
Every marriage needs some secrets, sorry gals, but that's a fact of life.
So here's some advice to the married guys around here;
If you follow these rules, you will also have a 25th- wedding anniversary like I have next year ( if nothing comes in between 
)
best regards,
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PS. One thing we need in the next upgrade of Poser is a "wife-switch" or perhaps even a "husband-switch", BB, I heard you have some connections, perhaps you can use your influence.
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Sarte posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:23 PM
What about the hidden third switch, "swinging single?"
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SaintFox posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:26 PM
I am amazed about that "get a new wife"!! If your better half looks just averagly handsome/pretty and you suddenly see a koi-boy or such as his avatar you will begin to wonder what he or she sees when looking into the mirror 
So why not get a new avatar?!
And about:
*Ok, let's make some things clear:
Every marriage needs some secrets, sorry gals, but that's a fact of life.
So here's some advice to the married guys around here;
I see that you have some experience with "wife, basic version 1.0/1.015"
Until I upgraded to "husband professional 2.5 SP3" I had to answer the following questions:
-Who is Avatar? Go, tell me!!
-Who did the images in your gallery? Did you collect them at the internet?
-What is Poser? Is rendering playing with an artificial doll-house?
-Why did you render a nekkid woman? Tell me: Is Avatar a girl? Do you have secrets?
-Okay, but don't tell the neighbours that you have a flirt with a girl named Avatar who sends you pictures of nekkid women!
-buy him the soccer channel on pay tv, install Poser on your laptop and render in the bedroom
...or get yourself husband professional 2.0 and upgrade to 2.5 as soon as you are able to afford it.
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j_blood posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 8:54 PM
Ok. from my point of view you have 2 choices...
1.- you can play it cool and change your avatar an take the oportunity to AMAZE this people one again or
2.- You can fire up poser, load that koi-man shader, sit your wife in front of it, and show how much effort you put on it.
(just hopin' it works)
by the way, judging from the skin template in the VSS i couldn't imagine the mess thas has to be that koi shader
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bagginsbill posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 9:09 PM
I enjoyed your responses, people.
This isn't a real problem. I was just posting because I thought it would provoke some fun responses. Which it did.
Besides, she's never going to "get" Poser anyway. Heheh. And I don't get "The Bachelor", so we're even.
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SaintFox posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 9:42 PM
*Besides, she's never going to "get" Poser anyway. Heheh. And I don't get "The Bachelor", so we're even.
You can never be safe and sure Some day someone may create something that meets exactly the taste of your wife so that she can't resist to try it out - and then be prepared for many, many questions...
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pjz99 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 9:58 PM
Quote - Until I upgraded to "husband professional 2.5 SP3" ...
Husband Pro 2.5 has terrible joint parameters and tbh the genital UVmap is no good, you should be using Apollo.
SaintFox posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 10:18 PM
Thanks a lot for telling me that! Know I know that
I'm not always right, but my mistakes are more interesting!
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infinity10 posted Tue, 30 June 2009 at 11:11 PM
hahah ! I think grichter actually DOES know, heheheheh
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silverblade33 posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 2:13 AM
BagginsBIll,
Well, you could use a hunky guy pic as yer avatar, then when she likes it, tell her off for being sexist!! evil grin ;)
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deci6el posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 3:17 AM
IsaoShi wrote:
You were on a good approach... "What should I have?..." but you completely overshot the runway with "... a giant tongue?".
Count yourself lucky you only received a glare from the control tower. I wouldn't grant you landing rights at my airfield for a week.
**Tongues? Landing Strips? Are we still talking about avatars? : 0
No longer, I guess.
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EnglishBob posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 5:58 AM
grichter wrote: > Quote - There are a couple of users here that I think might be able to help you figure this all out. One is Ice-Boy, another is RobinsVeil and finally carodan.
dasquid wrote: > Quote - You are joking right?
ROFLMAO right now. I nominate grichter for the forum dry humour award 2009. If there is no such thing, then there should be. Make it so, people!
bopperthijs wrote: > Quote - If you follow these rules, you will also have a 25th- wedding anniversary like I have next year
Me too! Congratulations in advance, Thijs.
Mrs. Bob is always going on about the number of women who appear in my Poser preview pane. However I realised she wasn't really paying all that much attention when I had Casual James on-screen, and she started on the same speech. I knew then that it was safe to ignore her. Best to check first, though, if I want to make it to that 25th anniversary. :)
grichter posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 10:15 AM
Thanks EB, I think. 
Grew up in a family which both sides where pranksters and jokers and lots of dry humor. In my early years hard to tell when somebody was pulling one over your eyes or telling the truth. :scared:
But the underlying purpose of the post was I'd hate to think what my renders would look like without some of the shaders and preaching (can't think of a better word right now) from BB. Wild guess but there are about about two dozen people here that their insight and contributions to the community make my shitty renders and modeling stink less and less with each passing day.
Besides at times BB uses dry humor that also goes right by a lot of people too. :thumbupboth:
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IsaoShi posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 12:59 PM
Quote - **Tongues? Landing Strips? Are we still talking about avatars? : 0
No longer, I guess.**
The tongue came earlier in the thread, I was just quoting.
Some were talking about avatars.
I was talking about about love.
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SirensTragicMuse posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 1:08 PM
Tell your wife I said NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!
when I'm having an issue and need urgent help I can find your avatar easier than I can remember a name tell her NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
My pic is availiable for use at a cost of 25 cents...
It's a multi tasking pic, it can be used as a avatar but it works even better in attics and in the ground where it has the same affect as poisons and pesticides and is much safer on the enviroment lol
AnAardvark posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 1:39 PM
How about a carp with a human skin texture?
deci6el posted Wed, 01 July 2009 at 9:54 PM
Quote - > Quote - **Tongues? Landing Strips? Are we still talking about avatars? : 0
No longer, I guess.**
The tongue came earlier in the thread, I was just quoting.
Some were talking about avatars.
I was talking about about love.
Oh yeah, I know, I just thought the airport metaphor had something to do with the haircut by that name. My apologies, just ignore me.
MistyLaraCarrara posted Wed, 15 July 2009 at 2:13 PM
what was the final verdict?
oh, never mind. I saw on page 2 it was all a gag.
is this what the Aug 17th thread will end up as? :rolleyes:
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BeatrixKiddo posted Fri, 17 July 2009 at 10:51 AM
Or even, tell her to go back to the T.v and mind her own beeswax?