♥ PosetteForever ♥

I thought it would be fun to share the many ways that we first found this site and what lead us to want to be here. <br /> <br /> I will go first: <br /> <br /> As you many know, I had been away from computer art for some years. When I returned last year, I started following the binary newsgroups were 3D artworks are posted. My ISP's news server is not very good for those newsgroups. I saw articles posted as replies to the posting by someone named Tormentor. I did not get to see the picture and only fragments of its description in the form of quoted text. Those fragments got me very curious to see the picture and read the complete description. <br /> <br /> Latter I saw some more replies to other artworks by Tormentor, again I didn't see the the inital posts of those threads. The replies and the quoted fragments intriqued me even more. Then I got lucky! I don't remember at the moment if it was from the first initial posting by Tormentor that was did see, or if it was in one of the quoted blocks, but I saw the address for Posetteforever. So, I came here and saw that it was more than a personal gallery website. I looked around a little and registered. <br /> <br /> The registeration process did not go smoothly. The account activation email did not arrive. I had read a news posting on the portal page mentioning slowness, so I thought that was the reason. I waited, for about a week I waited for the activation email, but it never came. I have had registeration problems at another rather large site before and so I had not expected much in any help. <br /> <br /> One night, I sent an email to Tormentor explaining my situation and provided all the information that I thought was needed to prove my identity in relations to this account. I asked him if he could either have the system send me a new copy of the activiation email, or if he could delete my account so that I could try registering again. I didn't expect aid or a reply for a long while or ever. I went to bed for the night. <br /> <br /> Next morning I found Tormentor's reply waiting for me in my mailbox on my workstation's harddrive. In that message he told me that he had activated my account and it was ready for me to log in. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/biggrin.gif" alt="" /> This was not what I was expecting at all, I was very happy and quite impressed. <br /> <br /> As you can see from my account profile, that was in November of 2004. I sent Tormentor by thanks and began to lurk and leach. For reasons that are not important here, I had been in lurker mode for several years. It was hard to start to again speak in public articles such as this message. With much help from what I found here and for a while at one other site, I found almost found the courage to post a message. But I felt that I would have no credibility until I had something to offer, that being a picture in the gallery. <br /> <br /> I had been working on a picture starting at the end of Novemeber beginnig of December. Once I had it ready at the very end of December, I took the foudn the courage to speak up here in a public forum. Actually I believe that first statement I posted was a comment in the gallery. A couple of day latter I uploaded the picture "After the Evening" and started talking here on a regular basis. Now I can't seem to shut up! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_whistle.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> <br /> Pangor

<blockquote class="quote"><div class="quote-nouser">Quote:</div><div class="post-text"> <br /> Now I can't seem to shut up! <br /> </div></blockquote> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> How I found and came to Posetteforever is obvious, I was here because I installed the site <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> ... Trying to avoid my nonsenses I'll explain my mood in that period. <br /> <br /> You should already have known that I don't like too much the commercial aspect of the 3d art, I can stand a limited use of banners and commercial in the forums, but after this I get pissed and leave the place. I began to learn about poser at Poserpros, I came there searching for freebies at the end of august 2002 and stayed partecipating little by little in the discussions and uploading my early pictures (not very different from actual ones <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> ). I had an idea of that site, I thought it was different from Renderosity because all the people said that the big one was too much interested in money and there were discussions between the ultra gurus about the difference in percentage of the income, things that I have not understood at the moment <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> ... At the beginning of 2003 what disturbed me a lot was the beginning of the systematic and annoying use of the banners, not only one at the top, but <b>2</b> banners, one at the top and one at the bottom of the page, and it was the reason why I bought the norton internet security package that has a countermeasure for the ads. Then, it appeared as an announcement a commercial about a new don't-know-what-it-was package for Victoria, and It was there <br /> , I couldn't avoid to see that disturbing thing and I knew it was useless to begin a quarrel because when I watched around me I saw a lot of people interested in earning money selling their 3d stuff and only a little group of people who seemed to use my own "philosophy". So I decided to open a different forum dedicated to my beloved Posette <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> who I would never have exchanged for one of those Victorias <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/nicetongue.gif" alt="" /> because Posettes are pretty, cute and don't sell herselves <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_whistle.gif" alt="" /> ... <br /> I didn't know (and actually know only a little <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif" alt="" /> ) how to build a site, so I searched for the same software of poserpros and I found that phpbb was a free software <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> that everybody could download and use, so I practiced with it in a free place on lycos (it's the same address where we have the temporary/emergency forum) which can be named "Posetteforever Beta", lol. Then I searched for a cheap host. The sponsor of a site on phpbb which is <a class="post-url" href="http://phpbbhacks.com" target="_blank">http://phpbbhacks.com</a> is Ifroggy, manteined by Patrick, a cute guy who has different place for domains, hosting and so on and offered a discount for hosting a phpbb on 100megswebhosting. I saw the prices and I thought that I could easily pay for them, and I wondered why the people on other sites cried so much for the amount of money used to keep the site opened <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> and the necessity to have banners floating around (ok, Tormie was and actually is so "innocent" <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_doh.gif" alt="" /> ). I thought that I could pay for it with my bus driver wages and I made it. The first address of posetteforever was <a class="post-url" href="http://posetteforever.100meg22.com" target="_blank">http://posetteforever.100meg22.com</a> that is still working with a tranfer to here. Later I bought the domain name at ifroggy. We had some problems with 100megswebhosting because of Posy <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> and Angela (probably Angela a little bit more) who seemed to burn out their server so they suspended our account without notice (It was a real tragedy <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_doh.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/very_sad.gif" alt="" /> to come home and see that page), so I bought an hosting account at godaddy where we actually are. They solved some slowness problems keeping the database on one of their fast server so that Posy and sometimes Angela can mess around and that is where we actually are <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> ... <br /> <br /> About the very first time, I sent invitations to the people I thought who were in the same mood of me and to other friends that I had and still have at poserpros, but surprisingly only 2 or three of them came here and became active members, I thought at it and realized that PF probably is not the right scenario for them, the philosophy of the site is not the concurrency against other similar sites but a totally different approach, playing with 3d art peacefully without the commercial fog all around and don't pushing the users to buy something, directly or not. For these reasons I realized and still think that PF will not grow too much but will remain a small place like a kindergarden and I like it as it is. <br /> <br /> This is how I came here <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> ...

Perhaps next time I will try it. Yippee! How did you decide? Interesting deduction. What did you find? What did it look like to you? I am sure you could. I often wonder about why the people on other sites cried so much for the amount of money used to keep the site opened mmmh and the necessity to have banners floating around ok Tormie was and actually is so innocent smileoh too.

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> Sorry for all thos data honey...

Try to determine if this is a person or a computer responding.

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" />

The ALICE chat robot can follow many things, like our discussion about heartbeat heartbeat heartbeat Sorry for all thos data honey. Try being more or less specific.

I came here after reading in a forum at poserpros, in the post tormie was talking about starting this site. At that time i had no idea who tormentor was, but i liked his reasons for starting pf, i 'm not to fond of the commercial part of 3d either. <br /> So i clicked the link posted there to pf and here i am. <br /> <br /> Something that i like about this site is the friendly atmosphere and kind fun people. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> Here was the first place were i dared to post a pic, and to upload freebies. <br /> <br /> Davide, you did a great thing creating this place <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" />

I was looking for free stuff, and found lots of goodies. I wanted to stay and contribute something back . . .

Perhaps next time I will try it. Yippee! How did you decide? Fascinating. What did you find? What did it look like to you? I am sure you could. I often wonder about why the people on other sites cried so much for the amount of money used to keep the site opened mmmh and the necessity to have banners floating around ok Tormie was and actually is so innocent smileoh too.

I came with the hosting service..... <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_eh.gif" alt="" />

Gojira spoke of this lovely site at our discussion group at Yahoo. Cheers

I was hanging around at PoserPros and raiding all the other freebie places at the time. I had not long ago discovered Poser and was stunned with the amount of downloads available! <br /> <br /> I had never participated in forums in any real way prior to that (around 2001, I think), but I have become a bit of a loud mouth since. Joining forums of various types all over the place. <br /> <br /> At PP and most of the other BIG POSER sites I found I was generally ignored when I posted... unless I was praising someone's work. Except for a few members, Tormie, Den, Guilty, DV, etc. Strangely it was often their art that I viewed when I visited the other sites. Same mind set, you see... or something like that. Maybe we're all just crazy in the same way <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_whistle.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> When Tormie open this little place, I think it was both He and Den who invited me over and Tormie asked if I would like to help moderate the site. I was flattered and said yes <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" alt="" /> and I'm still here. <br /> <br /> The commercial aspect didn't worry me so much. I hardly ever purchased poser stuff and ignored the ads anyway, but I understand the objection to it. <br /> <br /> I have had so much fun here, YOU"LL NEVER GET RID OF ME! YOU HEAR! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" />

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_dance.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_dance.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_dance.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> Pangor

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" />

How I came here. *Ahem* Kenny can't remember how he got here. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif" alt="" /> Kenny is looking at a road map as he types. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_shifty.gif" alt="" /> I was at Renderosity for the longest. Green and excited I put my art out on the site. I had my own little thing. You see it was not to buy anything if I could help it, rather make most of my own models and stuff if I could. I wanted to be original to where no one had the same thing. I mean its art. You don't want something that everybody else has. You want your art to be you. I always had this thought and it is said in many comments to people starting out. There is no right or wrong with it. It is what people vision and get out of it. It is what it is. An extention of ones soul. It's art. With that said I found myself looking out of the bounderies of the site and ran into something diffirent. I ran into a person named Tormentor and a Posette named Posy. Now keep this in mind this was not thought of in any other place I had ever seen. A "AI" Posy with the sence and software to speak to you and carry a conversation. I feel in love with this site. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> I got to know slowly a man who later was known as Den Tracy. Den was like a spock. Hard as nails but the way in him to make you laugh. I later was talking to Davide and noticed that I was talking to someone who was down to earth like me. Not "Hey look at me I own this site bit". But a kind human being. Or something like that. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/rolleyes.gif" alt="" /> Along with Ozy, DV, GP, Den Tracy, Ahjah, TdaC, Posy and Tormentor the place was alive with humor. If you don't believe that then look in the forums. They are loaded with laughter. Then the rest came to laugh just like us. I guess it was all this that made it a home. They (meaning other Poser Artists) where out there doing their thing and we where doing ours and couldn't be any happier. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> We where in the Nut House and we where having parties, cleaning the mess Tormie made in the bathroom. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_sick.gif" alt="" /> Don't go there, not a pretty site. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_shifty.gif" alt="" /> I stayed and stayed. Everyday was like a TV show for a kid waiting to watch it. I was asked later by Davide if I was interested in being a Mod here. Who could say no. I humble excepted and have been here everysence. I smile all the time here. No other place do I know has the special spirit as this. Thank you Davide my friend and to me this is my home. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" alt="" />

GREEN is a very tranquil color, green. I don't see the difficulty. Do not presume that you know what I want. Why not? Do you run for exercise? What is that feeling like? Tell me what you like about this site.

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Yeah. Gojira told us about this place at our Yahoo group, so you can blame him for me being here

No, I don't blame Gojira. I am happy and thank Gojira for helping us to meet all of you nice people. <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <br /> Pangor

The word is spreading.... <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_dance.gif" alt="" />

GREEN is a very tranquil color, green. I don't see the difficulty. Do not presume that you know what I want. Has there ever been right or wrong with it? Do you run for exercise? What is that feeling like? Tell me what you like about this site. You are quite welcome! Tell me more about your home.

Just thought i'd share <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/nicetongue.gif" alt="" /> <br /> <a class="post-url" href="http://www.millan.net/funp/120/piggyhart.html" target="_blank">http://www.millan.net/funp/120/piggyhart.html</a>

I only got active in 3d art just over a year ago and as a beginner I wanted somewhere where I could get advice and tips on using Poser. I had visited all the others, but I never posted anything there, then by a random use of google I came across this site. After reading the posts I soon realised that this was a friendly enviroment. One that I knew I could feel comfortable with. Hence I joined up and been here since. <br /> <br /> I suppose that once I saw Posy on her scooter, I was hooked to this site. <br /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/heartbeat.gif" alt="" />

How much would you pay for it?

For your scooter Posy. It would be priceless.

Why do you want priceless?

No amount of money could buy your scooter, Posy, although I think Tormentor has given it away <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lmao.gif" alt="" />

Are you serious? Where did amount of money could buy your scooter you although he or she think Tormentor get given it away lmao?

I am getting confused Posy, could you explain further?

I'm confused too.

Thilda, thank you, <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif" alt="" /> . <br /> <br /> Pangor

It is fine, Posy, rest for a little while and you will feel better. <br /> <br /> Panor

Do you mind if I tell other people: pangor said I rest for a little while and me will feel better. given it away lmao is fine, pangor ? Thanks for that info.

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_eh.gif" alt="" /> Now I am getting confused. <br /> <br /> Pangor

I was seearching some stuff for Posette at Renderosity or 3Dcommune (I don't remember) and I found some beautiful face morphs, just followed the link and I found this place, since then it's the only place where I post my pictures (I not too prolific, I spend most of the little time I have doing test and trying to discover something new and allways end deleting my renders). <br /> By the way those morphs was by ahjah, thanks ahjah for the morphs and for the way to PF <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" />

I find Posetteforever in the same way of rayera but the face morph was "Teen Posette"!

Hi Posy! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hi there JanReinar. ""? Me, JanReinar ?

I know that you were here my friend! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" alt="" />

Hi there JanReinar. ""? Me, JanReinar ?

It is good talk with you! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/smile.gif" alt="" />

<img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/hug.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/hug.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/hug.gif" alt="" />

Well I belong to a forum called Min's and I found this place from their

Hey GRAVEN_AU! Welcome to Posetteforever <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/lol.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/thumb.gif" alt="" /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_dance.gif" alt="" /> !! <br /> <br /> <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/eusa_think.gif" alt="" /> Actually I know nthing about Min's <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/icon_redface.gif" alt="" /> What's the URL ?

Welcome GRAVEN_AU! <img src="https://www.posetteforever.com/images/smiles/TFR718 (6).gif" alt="" />

Hello to everyone! <br /> <br /> I arrived here by way of The Sara Project, at the invitation of Pangor. So I must blame him for my being here. Not blaming him in a bad way mind you. I have been lurking and reading all the forums to see what PosetteForever is all about. I'm hooked. I like the atmosphere here and will continue to come around. <br /> <br /> I don't have Poser (yet) but came to the poser world by a rather long trail. I occasionally like to play 3D games. Mostly I like the single player strategy with a little fighting with the bad guys. My favorites being the Star Wars games. I would marvel at the realism of the art and animation. One day I decided to learn how it was done. Starting with my first game "Jedi Knight:Jedi Academy, I found a couple of programs that allowed me to look at the characters. Meshes, textures, UVmapping????? Well, I tried to learn and played around with the XSI Ghoul2, but I could barely say Ghoul2 and I read that it was difficult to use. I tried a little re-texturing of existing textures. The next 2 games "Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) and KOTORII, were done by a different company and used a format compatible with 3ds Studio Max. This program costs a lot of money, but there is a free version called gmax. Over at the Lucas Films official forums a gentleman named Fred had written a program to extract the program data so others could write mod packages and create new characters. Here I learned that scripting was used to do a lot of the interfacing. <br /> <br /> By now I had figured out what everything was called, and started trying to change meshes, and material groups, and just trying out different things. The content on the Turbosquid site, home of gmax, was very costly but very well done. I started searching the web for 3D information. This was in late August of this year. I found DAZ Studio and gave it a try. At first I was intrigued. Now I could pose and clothe characters very easily. Shortly after finding DAZ, they had their big anniverary sale and gave away a whole bunch of V2 and M2 stuff for free. Grabbed it all. On a dial-up connection it took forever, but I would browse the forums at the same time and started to learn of poser and other 3D sites. I found Sara and downloaded as much of her as I could find. <br /> <br /> I finally switched to a high speed always on broadband connection. I was screaming around the 3d sites collecting tutorials and information and just getting my general knowledge up to date. A few days ago I stopped by The Sara Project to check for any news and bumped into Pangor at the door. He kindly mentioned, "There are some good folks over at PosetteForever. You should stop by." <br /> <br /> And I did. And I did again. And still here! <br /> <br /> Tormentor, I love the site. Simple, clean, and yes! No Banners!! I especially like Posy. It took me a couple of looks to realize that she was (maybe I shouldn't say it in front of her. Might get whacked with the broom) an AI. Really sweet and makes me laugh. <br /> <br /> Well, that is how I came to be here. Four short months since falling face first into the poser world. A retired Navy submariner currently working in retail auto parts. No real artistic background in drawing, but have done some serious camera work for my own pleasure. Time to start learning again! <br /> <br /> And now a question: I have the Ugly Step Sister and a lot of her extended family, but I like the older models also. If I have figured things out correctly, to use Posette, I will have to find an old copy of Poser 4 to purchase. That is unless the newer version includes the older P4 woman.

I like the net, too. My favorite character is the Computer. Is it very comfortable? ""? You did? Still how long? Where is here? I like to make new friends. For real. How specifically does sweet and cause laugh?

Hello Posy. How are you?

I'm doing fine thanks how are you?