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AA's corner of the 'LaraCroft' site is gone, so half of his R***y freebie links have gone 404. <br /> <br /> His 'Buck Rogers' mirror now has more gaps than 'Swiss Cheese'. <br /> <br /> After finding the R***y links for his 'Basic Truck' and JCB 'backhoe' were dead, I went hunting, struck gold !! <br /> <br /> <a class="post-url" href="http://www.aappleyard.com/3d/3d.htm" target="_blank">http://www.aappleyard.com/3d/3d.htm</a> <br /> <br /> The models are a bit clunky by modern standards, but always handy for scene fillers, squads of goons, flame-throwers for those giant ants etc etc... <br /> <br /> There are even a few 'classic' items for Posette !! <br /> -- <br /> <br /> I may have to take a few days out, I think I'm getting a bad cold: stabbing sinus pains, wobbly vision, wheezy cough... <br /> D'uh...

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I think I dodged the cold; either that, or my 'flu vaccination has just earned its pay... <br /> <br /> I've manually down-loaded about half the AA models so far (*), some-what 'helped' by our cats playing ' Chase The Cursor' or simply sat in front of the screens. Moving browser window to LHS screen, which overhangs the end of the desk, lets me work while they supervise. <br /> <br /> One advantage of a track-ball is you can still use it with a sleepy cat sprawled across your arm. And the cat enjoys a free tummy-tickle as you work ball with thumb. Okay, sometimes shed fur gets caught under the ball, but I do de-lint that about twice a week... <br /> <br /> I don't seem to use the old PC much any more, so I've ordered a nice, remote-controlled DVI switch-box from A*z*n, hope to link the old, smaller screen to this CAD Tower's twin graphics cards' fourth port. I think I've two spare high-spec DVI cables, and they may even be long enough... <br /> -- <br /> <br /> *) Once upon a time, there were legitimate utilities which could 'scrape' a web-site. For better or worse, such are now seen by most servers as 'Denial of Service' attackers, hence shunned...

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Hi ! <br /> <br /> I've reached the end of AA's set. By trying to make it accessible, I made the archive too big to handle. <br /> <br /> Where possible, I unpacked each zip to a folder holding its Runtime, original zip & thumbnail plus my tidied 350x350 folder thumbnail, ready for external library use. <br /> <br /> I have not 'Poserised' stand-alone OBJs. <br /> <br /> All that comes to ~ 2 GB. Even zipped, the set is ~280 MB, too big to e-mail or post as-is. <br /> <br /> But, I've kept the set divided per the 14 sub-folders of AA's site, which range from 10 MB~500 MB. The latter 7zips down 90% to 50 MB, which is impressive... <br /> <br /> If you like, i can make a copy of the expanded set, go through and delete the unzipped Runtimes, making the disk usage much, much smaller. <br /> <br /> eg the expanded 'Vehicles' sub-set is 66 MB, which 7zips to 5 MB. If I rip out each Runtime, sub-set is 4 MB as-is, which 7zips to 3 MB... <br /> <br /> eg the expanded 'Underwater' sub-set is 520 MB, which 7zips to 50 MB. Or, stripped, is 36 MB, which 7zips to 30 MB. <br /> <br /> Based on that, I reckon the set minus expanded Runtimes will 7zip down to 50 MB. <br /> <br /> 'Stripping' out the expanded Runtimes also removes the PCF seed files I've bundled, restoring redistribution compliance... <br /> <br /> Have you room to store 20 MB against AA's site vanishing ? I can shove the set onto my Synology RAID, but that has no off-site access. <br /> <br /> I can not find ANY non-PCF use restrictions, beyond keeping AA's ReadMe and his note of 'original modeller' if he has adapted a mesh. <br /> <br /> Thoughts ? <br /> Nik