Hi, I was a lurker for a lonnng time, even dropped off the forum for almost a year...
Then, when I needed help, the forum sprang to my aid.
By way of thanks, I've posted a couple of my short stories.
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I've three PCs under this desk --a Browser_PC and two CAD_Towers-- all sharing twin 1440*900 19 inch 'flatties' via a pair of KVM switches.
The older CAD_Tower, a '98SE system, was where I did all my
Poser work, extending a *reluctant* P4 across two 'bottles'. And, yes, I had the 'large memory' patch. I've given up trying to make its now-ancient Matrox card forget twin 'bottles' and work above VGA. I cannot see half the P4 menus, and everything is strettttched. So, I must re-install my P4 disks on the newer XP CAD_PC, copy all the libraries across via USB soap-on-rope.
Then I gotta install my shiny new P7 beside it, hope the installer can cope with an external USB DVD drive and no internet connection...
Yup, I ticked all the boxes at e-frontier, got 'P7 revealed', 'Practical
Poser' and 'Secrets of
Poser Experts', too. Plenty of holiday reading !! If P7 installs okay, I may wander over to PhilC's site for his neat DIY Clothing and other toolkits.
So, why stay with
Posette when I have the wondrous, photo-real P7 lovelies, plus V3/M3 from latest 3D World cover-disk ??
Um, no offense to
Posette, but I don't want 'photo-real', and I don't want macro-lens close-ups. That degree of detail implies mega-polygon counts. I prefer low-or 'middling' polygon models because I also use IMSI's FloorPlan and TurboCAD. Neither of them can cope with extravagant meshes or multi-megabyte texture maps. In fact, they use traditional 3DS, not OBJ + UV mapping, so keeping commonality of props etc requires lateral thinking, IrfanView and Zoltan's eponymous 3DOC...
I made a range of detailed 3DS vaults, arches and doors for my Medieval-ish project, which sadly stalled when FP_8 hit OS limit and began disk-thrashing with 2Gb RAM to spare. If anyone needs them, PM. Sorry, you will need to apply your own stone-textures.
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... Somehow, this is *really* a strange place, and you don't have even seen "what" lives in the cellar 
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again... Our site is a little thing, its activity is a like a wave, sometimes high, sometimes low depending on what we're doing in the real life ...or, better on our lazyness 
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... My problem is the language, sometimes you don't have fun if you find a hard time for translating... (ah, sorry for my bad broken english 
which is my favourite show 
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The ppl here are nice so i think yuou will enjoy being here .gif)
