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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I wish there was a computer mouse that will not fall to the ground so easily as the ones I get.

    Try a flying squirrel instead of a mouse.

     

  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,188
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    Miniseries I think.

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    edited January 2016
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Etrigan said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...beginning to lose my enthusiasm for 3D CG because of all this rubbish about encryption.. Still haven't installed 4,9 after reading about issues others have experienced. Didn't download any of the encrypted freebies. Also miffed that finally after waiting all these years there is a decent basic trench coat, however it is one of the encrypted products.  Seems this is happening to DO's with more regularity which makes paying for a PC membership less appealing.

    Kind of makes me feel like it's Daz's version the "free" Win 10 deal.

    I'm curious, KK. What programs do you want to port the meshes to, and why? This isn't a challenge, I don't use any programs that need the mesh, or don't have a bridge. Thanks.

     

    ...umm Carrara, Marvelous Designer, Poser (for cloth dynamics).

    Have you done stuff in Poser?  I don't remember seeing you post anything that said it was done in Poser.  And Marvelous Designer...with all your money troubles of late, how in the world did you manage to get that?  It's very expensive!  surprise 

    These things involve exporting, right?  The standard exporting things are not affected by the encryption.  Only DS-specific files will be encrypted (.duf and the like)...and those can't be used elsewhere anyway.

    Dana

    ...I've done a few things with it but mainly just use it for the cloth and materials rooms now.

    For Marvelous Designer, I got in on the ground floor when I became an early adopter and picked up the original personal licence during the "launch sale" (while I was still gainfully employed). Allowed for deep discounts on further upgrades before they went to the cloud.  Alas, I do not have the latest version.

    Same for Poser Pro.  I won a copy of Poser 8 in a challenge and that let me "sidegrade" to Pro for a very good price.

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  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 41,150
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I wish there was a computer mouse that will not fall to the ground so easily as the ones I get.

    Try a flying squirrel instead of a mouse.  It will glide instead of plummet.  And certainly don't use sheep, they definitely plummet and find it hard to perch in trees. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLJvCuayeHg

     

    ...didn't PDQ Bach write a piece on this theme.... Sheep may Safely Plummet?

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    Tjohn said:
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    Miniseries I think.

    They're calling it a season.  Short season, though.  We've already watched the first two!  Excellent!

    Dana

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    kyoto kid said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Etrigan said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...beginning to lose my enthusiasm for 3D CG because of all this rubbish about encryption.. Still haven't installed 4,9 after reading about issues others have experienced. Didn't download any of the encrypted freebies. Also miffed that finally after waiting all these years there is a decent basic trench coat, however it is one of the encrypted products.  Seems this is happening to DO's with more regularity which makes paying for a PC membership less appealing.

    Kind of makes me feel like it's Daz's version the "free" Win 10 deal.

    I'm curious, KK. What programs do you want to port the meshes to, and why? This isn't a challenge, I don't use any programs that need the mesh, or don't have a bridge. Thanks.

     

    ...umm Carrara, Marvelous Designer, Poser (for cloth dynamics).

    Have you done stuff in Poser?  I don't remember seeing you post anything that said it was done in Poser.  And Marvelous Designer...with all your money troubles of late, how in the world did you manage to get that?  It's very expensive!  surprise 

    These things involve exporting, right?  The standard exporting things are not affected by the encryption.  Only DS-specific files will be encrypted (.duf and the like)...and those can't be used elsewhere anyway.

    Dana

    ...I've done a few things with it but mainly just use it for the cloth and materials rooms now.

    For Marvelous Designer, I got in on the ground floor when I became an early adopter and picked up the original personal licence during the "launch sale" (while I was still gainfully employed). Allowed for deep discounts on further upgrades before they went to the cloud.  Alas, I do not have the latest version.

    Same for Poser Pro.  I won a copy of Poser 8 in a challenge and that let me "sidegrade" to Pro for a very good price.

    I picked up Poser Pro 2010 a couple years ago for $45 at amazon.com.  I thought that was a pretty good price.  I haven't used it much...once, actually.  I didn't find it too bad that time.  Then later someone wanted some testing on something...I failed miserably finding my way around again.  I have to try to work at it more.  I'd love to upgrade to a newer version to have the weight-mapping so I could do things with Dawn, Dusk and Baby Luna.  Right now I could only do something with the DS versions.  I only managed the Christmas for the Baby Luna Sleeper because both versions use the same UV map.  I couldn't actually model somethign for both...not that I've done a lot of modeling yet, but I plan to learn.

    Dana

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    More proof that Hollywood is completely out of new ideas.

    Loved the old one until they started chasing aliens every week.  Does anybody remember the cockroach episode?  Or the one with the guy who's brother was living in his belly?  Okay, that one was weird.  LOLZ

  • DanaTADanaTA Posts: 13,239
    Subtropic Pixel said:
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    More proof that Hollywood is completely out of new ideas.

    Loved the old one until they started chasing aliens every week.  Does anybody remember the cockroach episode?  Or the one with the guy who's brother was living in his belly?  Okay, that one was weird.  LOLZ

    They brought it back because the fans wanted it, not because they were out of ideas.  I think they will wrap up the overarching storyline, I doubt it will go into more seasons.  But who knows at this point?

    Dana

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    DanaTA said:
    Subtropic Pixel said:
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    More proof that Hollywood is completely out of new ideas.

    Loved the old one until they started chasing aliens every week.  Does anybody remember the cockroach episode?  Or the one with the guy who's brother was living in his belly?  Okay, that one was weird.  LOLZ

    They brought it back because the fans wanted it, not because they were out of ideas.  I think they will wrap up the overarching storyline, I doubt it will go into more seasons.  But who knows at this point?

    Dana

    There are plenty of new ideas, is just that on the whole bankers don't want to back them. X Files is what the industry calls "bankable" product, the bankers will fund that cos it is less risky than, say, Mister Robot or New Detective. Amazon is working up a production slate now, will be interesting to see how they spread the risk

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    kyoto kid said:
    DanaTA said:
    kyoto kid said:
    Etrigan said:
    kyoto kid said:

    ...beginning to lose my enthusiasm for 3D CG because of all this rubbish about encryption.. Still haven't installed 4,9 after reading about issues others have experienced. Didn't download any of the encrypted freebies. Also miffed that finally after waiting all these years there is a decent basic trench coat, however it is one of the encrypted products.  Seems this is happening to DO's with more regularity which makes paying for a PC membership less appealing.

    Kind of makes me feel like it's Daz's version the "free" Win 10 deal.

    I'm curious, KK. What programs do you want to port the meshes to, and why? This isn't a challenge, I don't use any programs that need the mesh, or don't have a bridge. Thanks.

     

    ...umm Carrara, Marvelous Designer, Poser (for cloth dynamics).

    Have you done stuff in Poser?  I don't remember seeing you post anything that said it was done in Poser.  And Marvelous Designer...with all your money troubles of late, how in the world did you manage to get that?  It's very expensive!  surprise 

    These things involve exporting, right?  The standard exporting things are not affected by the encryption.  Only DS-specific files will be encrypted (.duf and the like)...and those can't be used elsewhere anyway.

    Dana

    ...I've done a few things with it but mainly just use it for the cloth and materials rooms now.

    For Marvelous Designer, I got in on the ground floor when I became an early adopter and picked up the original personal licence during the "launch sale" (while I was still gainfully employed). Allowed for deep discounts on further upgrades before they went to the cloud.  Alas, I do not have the latest version.

    Same for Poser Pro.  I won a copy of Poser 8 in a challenge and that let me "sidegrade" to Pro for a very good price.

    hey well done winning :)

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    DanaTA said:
    Subtropic Pixel said:
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    More proof that Hollywood is completely out of new ideas.

    Loved the old one until they started chasing aliens every week.  Does anybody remember the cockroach episode?  Or the one with the guy who's brother was living in his belly?  Okay, that one was weird.  LOLZ

    They brought it back because the fans wanted it, not because they were out of ideas.  I think they will wrap up the overarching storyline, I doubt it will go into more seasons.  But who knows at this point?

    Dana

    So they find the aliens?  I know!  They learn that "The Smoking Man" was an alien, and that aliens can die from lung cancer too!

    I highly doubt I'll watch it this time around.  It was great in its time, especially early on.  But I'm in a different place right now.  If anything, I'd rather WRITE an episode with all new characters than be forced to see how much Gillian Anderson has aged, and then knowing from that that I too have aged. 

    And watching it would mean I'd have to actually allow network television back into my home, and I'm not sure I want to breathe air contaminated with today's Hollywood's airborne PCBS.  I also enjoy not having late night starving children, abused animal, and fat-buster advertisements.  Oh, and the home laser hair removal ads, yuck.  And don't forget, this is an election year.  With Iowa just around the corner, I have so far heard (um, let me count them....), yep; zero political ads.  Hey, I kind of like that.  smiley

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    are there only three hair colours for edit hair?

  • ps1borgps1borg Posts: 12,776
    edited January 2016

    Need some chainsaws maybe ?

     

     

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  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    ps1borg said:

    Need some chainsaws maybe ?

     

     

     

    they really want some milk  smiley

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675

    i remember when those fangtastics came out for g2fm almost like it was yesterday.  lol

     

    had weird skype woes last night.  i could post messages to group, i could read messages posted to group, but they couldn't read my posts. was like being a ghost.  one to one worked fine, just not the group.  skype pushed out their new translator thinkamajig, my netbook is winxp, could be they made changes winxp can't work nows.  hoping it was a server glitch and is all working fine tnite.  playing ostrich. lol  do ostrich really hide their head in the ground or is that urban myth?

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,604
    edited January 2016
    DanaTA said:
    Subtropic Pixel said:
    MistyMist said:

    they made a new Xfiles?

    More proof that Hollywood is completely out of new ideas.

    Loved the old one until they started chasing aliens every week.  Does anybody remember the cockroach episode?  Or the one with the guy who's brother was living in his belly?  Okay, that one was weird.  LOLZ

    They brought it back because the fans wanted it, not because they were out of ideas.  I think they will wrap up the overarching storyline, I doubt it will go into more seasons.  But who knows at this point?

    Dana

    They may have brought it back because of of pressure from fans, but that still doesn't eliminate the theory that Hollywood is out of ideas.  I've friends inside the industry and heard them complaining about the derth of truely new ideas.  I can believe it because after 60 years of watching new movies and TV shows, I notice nothing really new.  Ho hum, boring!  That's probably one of the reasons that the industry keeps moving toward younger and younger viewers, they need people who haven't already seen it all.  And I am waiting with bated breath for the current vampire and zombie fads to either exsanguinate or rot away.

     

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  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    What is wrong with vampire stories?  

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,604
    Kulay Wolf said:

    What is wrong with vampire stories?  

    Nothing, if you like vampire stories.  But even eating nothing but cake and ice cream gets boring and isn't good for your health.  It's a fad.  It will end.  I won't mourn.

     

     

  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438
    edited January 2016

    I do not like vampires because it is a fad.

    Post edited by Sfariah D on
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    I better get ready for work while it is still a fad to work.  It will end one day.  I do not know when 

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,604
    edited January 2016
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I do not like vampires because it is a fad.

    You can like anything you want.  I like minotaurs and satyrs.  But the vampire movies are a fad and already have been largely replaced by zombies, and I believe even they are on the way out, being replaced by post apocalyptic teen hero movies.  The theme of teen hero cliques seems to be the plot du-jour much like comic books.

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • Sfariah DSfariah D Posts: 26,438

    I am feeling like not renewing my pc membership for a while and maybe that will convince me to stop shopping at daz.  My shopping at daz was just a fad and should stop.

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I do not like vampires because it is a fad.

    But the vampire movies are a fad and already have been largely replaced by zombies, and I believe even they are on the way out, being replaced by post apocalyptic teen hero movies.

     

     

    what?  i still watch  Underworld1 & 2 like every other month.   i like Kate, and the Michael actor is like yummi.

    It's like a ritual, with snacks. Ben& Jerry's brownie ice cream and vampires.

    The Patricia Briggs novels still has vampires and werewolves.  

    Kim Harrison had lesbian vampires. but see, Kim Harrison had a twist on the vampires, she made them living vampires, til they died,then they were vampire vampires.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,604
    edited January 2016
    MistyMist said:
    LeatherGryphon said:
    Kulay Wolf said:

    I do not like vampires because it is a fad.

    But the vampire movies are a fad and already have been largely replaced by zombies, and I believe even they are on the way out, being replaced by post apocalyptic teen hero movies.

     

     

    what?  i still watch  Underworld1 & 2 like every other month.   i like Kate, and the Michael actor is like yummi.

    It's like a ritual, with snacks. Ben& Jerry's brownie ice cream and vampires.

    The Patricia Briggs novels still has vampires and werewolves.  

    Kim Harrison had lesbian vampires. but see, Kim Harrison had a twist on the vampires, she made them living vampires, til they died,then they were vampire vampires.

    And you can still find westerns too.  It all comes and goes as fads like clothing styles.  But nothing's ever really new.  Yellow bow instead of red, hemline up, hemline down, backless, strapless, shiney, coarse, polkadots, stripes.  Once you see the limited patterns in the changes it all fades into meaninglessness.  It's the curse of old age and long memory.

     

    Post edited by LeatherGryphon on
  • TJohnTJohn Posts: 11,188

    Too much drama?

  • SerpentSerpent Posts: 4,075

    Complaints! angry

    Only sen my boss once this week, when he delivered a users guide that I needed to reverse engineer the code that someone could have taught me about in one day instead of me having to spend ALL FRICKING WEEK tearing apart, analyzing, teaching myself buried pipeline corrosion chemistry, how to analyze pipeline/soil electric potential to see if your corosion protection electronics are working, how to correlate the readings into meaningful data, what the various charge differences meant as to the phsical state of the pipeline, the Federal regulations that mandate this mess, and how the product handles all this and more. angry

    All this withut the guy who ws supposed to be helping me... helping me.  He got called off all week into critical meetings. indecision

    So, as much as I shouldn't complain about getting paid to teach myself how to solve an entirely new problem domain, I am anway becaue it's a total waste of my customers money.  

    My agency is all "wtf", we talked on the phone for about 20 minutes this morning and they're wondering why they were in such a hurry to get me in the door.  I'm clueless.  Our only thought is that maybe the original developer was on his way out the door, and since his desk is empty and I haven't seen him (ever) there may be some truth to the concept. indecision

    Anyway, meh. indecision I need to find less stressful, less stupid, work.  Maybe I'm not too old to compose music for film, Austin has a thriving film community... indecision

  • Subtropic PixelSubtropic Pixel Posts: 2,388
    Tjohn said:

    Too much drama?

    And it's all mine.  That's why it's called Drama Mine.  They even boxed it in my honor.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,604

    Definition: "Dramamine" a film vault archive.

  • LeatherGryphonLeatherGryphon Posts: 11,604
    TroutFace said:

    Complaints! angry

    Only sen my boss once this week, when he delivered a users guide that I needed to reverse engineer the code that someone could have taught me about in one day instead of me having to spend ALL FRICKING WEEK tearing apart, analyzing, teaching myself buried pipeline corrosion chemistry, how to analyze pipeline/soil electric potential to see if your corosion protection electronics are working, how to correlate the readings into meaningful data, what the various charge differences meant as to the phsical state of the pipeline, the Federal regulations that mandate this mess, and how the product handles all this and more. angry

    All this withut the guy who ws supposed to be helping me... helping me.  He got called off all week into critical meetings. indecision

    So, as much as I shouldn't complain about getting paid to teach myself how to solve an entirely new problem domain, I am anway becaue it's a total waste of my customers money.  

    My agency is all "wtf", we talked on the phone for about 20 minutes this morning and they're wondering why they were in such a hurry to get me in the door.  I'm clueless.  Our only thought is that maybe the original developer was on his way out the door, and since his desk is empty and I haven't seen him (ever) there may be some truth to the concept. indecision

    Anyway, meh. indecision I need to find less stressful, less stupid, work.  Maybe I'm not too old to compose music for film, Austin has a thriving film community... indecision

    Every now and then I get a spark of ambition and say to myself: "Self, the economy's improving you can go back to work and find something meaningful and lucrative to do". Then I have breakfast and the feeling goes away.

     

  • MistaraMistara Posts: 38,675
    LeatherGryphon said:
    TroutFace said:

    Complaints! angry

    Only sen my boss once this week, when he delivered a users guide that I needed to reverse engineer the code that someone could have taught me about in one day instead of me having to spend ALL FRICKING WEEK tearing apart, analyzing, teaching myself buried pipeline corrosion chemistry, how to analyze pipeline/soil electric potential to see if your corosion protection electronics are working, how to correlate the readings into meaningful data, what the various charge differences meant as to the phsical state of the pipeline, the Federal regulations that mandate this mess, and how the product handles all this and more. angry

    All this withut the guy who ws supposed to be helping me... helping me.  He got called off all week into critical meetings. indecision

    So, as much as I shouldn't complain about getting paid to teach myself how to solve an entirely new problem domain, I am anway becaue it's a total waste of my customers money.  

    My agency is all "wtf", we talked on the phone for about 20 minutes this morning and they're wondering why they were in such a hurry to get me in the door.  I'm clueless.  Our only thought is that maybe the original developer was on his way out the door, and since his desk is empty and I haven't seen him (ever) there may be some truth to the concept. indecision

    Anyway, meh. indecision I need to find less stressful, less stupid, work.  Maybe I'm not too old to compose music for film, Austin has a thriving film community... indecision

    Every now and then I get a spark of ambition and say to myself: "Self, the economy's improving you can go back to work and find something meaningful and lucrative to do". Then I have breakfast and the feeling goes away.

     

     

    makes TGIFFFF  all the sweeter, kiss

    what can you love more than beer ... Aiko and Beer!  or David and Beer!

     

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