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I considered a curved too, but didn't go through with it .. did a try out at a friend's and for 3Dwork it's no good at all .. just games and movies...
my setup is 3x 23inch flatscreens.. / ---\
the middle one is entirely DAZviewport/poserscene (nothing else) , left and right are the panels-dials/libraries .From what I've seen at my friends on the curved, I don't think any curved can give more workspace (or quality whithout distortion) than this (not even a stretched flat widescreen) ... (and cheapest setup also 😀 )
I was thinking exactly something in those lines ...
when a link is reported dead , the poster should get a message and an option to hit a 'true' or 'false' button about the report after checking the link ...
if false then the post stays active as it is, if 'true' then it is moved to the deadposts.
this can perhaps avoid days of trying to recover the post from the deadposts as MXYZPTLK said...
and eventually, hitting the 'false' button could also activate an option to the poster to deduct a certain amount of points from the reporter .. the decision then lies with the poster if he finds it necessary to imply this penalty or not ...
but it is also true, most people just wan't to say .. 'hey I paid 50pnts and this link just doesn't work (whatever the cause ... e.g some get captcha's before the link opens .. I have never encountered a single captcha for that matter in a link..
not working links are always
a bad gateway, error 503, "service temporarily unavailable, try again in a few minutes" (seldom works) or "error 404 file not found (removed by uploader or removed due to violation of our terms of service)"but perhaps i'm thinking too simple 😀
I would like to add a few remarks to this conversation .. from an ignorant amateur's point of view ... 🙂
First of all i'm well beyond retirement age, so forgive me if I don't know all the correct technical terms ... I took 3D more and more up again as a timepassing since my wife passed away a couple of years ago ... (I've been with poser for years, but i only started some time ago with DAZstudio) I am eternally grateful with a place like this as my pension as a single, won't allow by far to buy all this great stuff.
now, when it comes to links, to me , (as i assume to most people), it's fairly plain and simple ... either a link works, or it doesn't work ... if it works, it's fine, if it doesn't work, it's dead .. (ergo the so-called 'false' reports by most people you all seem to receive)
from your conversation above, I understand there's a difference between a dead link and links not working ... (beats me what it might be 😀 )
a bad gateway ? (I/we interprete it as 'link not working' ergo dead)
server temporarily unavailable, try again in a few minutes ... : several times trying over a period of hours, days .. keeps resulting in the same message over and over ... finally people give up and report it as a dead link.... (i admit, some might report from the first time as well)that's the plain and simple reasoning of most users i think they just want free items as they are unaffordable to buy ... when a link doesn't work... it's dead. period. some (most) don't have the knowledge and technical skills to look any further about what is really going on when a link doesn't work
allthough i'm a member for a couple of years here, and as much as i would like to, I still don't dare to post and share some of the stuff i have ... for an ''amateur'' like me,( who knows only basics and a few tricks here and there on a computer), the things for posting to take in consideration and all the conditions that must be met are way to complicated for someone like me to be assured everything in my post would be accordingly and correct... so i simply don't risk it in case i mess things up here..
on the other hand as a small token of appreciation ... I do buy Hunter some coffees every now and then ... 🙂
it's not my intention to stir up the conversation, it's just a point of view (probably from most users who just visit and download) that might be taken in consideration on deciding a penalty for those false reports ...
(might be a good idea to post a sticky ''What is a dead post, what is difference with a link not working, what is bad gateway , when/when not to report ... etc ...''
just my 2cents from a guy who's very grateful for the opportunity to have some magnificent 3D items thanks to a site like ZGFX !!
ahh no , just updated ... will try the uninstall and then new install ... TY ... i will let you know
edit: i can't seem to do the uninstall : as why I started the thread, I made some changes in the layout, but couldn't save them. ...
I couldn't find an uninstall.exe anywhere.. So I've uninstalled DS wit iobit uninstaller pro (deleted all leftover folders as well: in Docs ; C>>DAZ3d.. and in program files, cleaned all invalid regkeys with ccleanerpro, did a reboot. .. and installed DS again form DAZcentral...
after installation was complete, the deleted version was back (including the layout changes I've made ...) (and still no dropdownlist in window>>workspace... how can DAZ be completely removed completely ?
the installation progress in DAZcentral also started somewhere at 67% (then I did the complete removal once again as described above, And the second time I installed from DAZcentral it started rightaway at 38%
thank you both for the tips ... I'm gonna try the re-install and will let you know if it solved the problem ...
In window>>workspace there's no dropdownl list anymore .. I only have one option left to click : 'select layout' all the rest vanished. But i'm gonna try now with re install ....
Did the update from 4.15 tp 4.21 .. still no dropdownlist 'select layout' remainsthe only one option available..
I've downloaded poser 12 from this site and it works flawless , supereasy crack
ZGFX running flawless on Firefox ... on Chrome it doesn't get passed security verification page. but that isn't an issue at all 🙂
As from today the site runs even faster and smoother than before ! login, pages, items ... they all open in an instant !!!
Thank you Hunter and all others who solved the problem !!
thank you all for your comments and info .... i just got here back and able to write whilst trying several days ... bottom left corner always said "waiting for zonegfx ...." and then timeout page appears...
@ Dynasty
@Amberkat
My thanks to Hunter as well for doing everything possible to resolve isssuesI'm working with poser 11 . I would very much like to have poser12.
I only tried DAZ a couple of times but i just can't get used to the layout,
workflow, the build, how items are organized, especially the smartcontent thing
and DIM makes me wanna pull all my hair out 😀Yes poser seems a bit 'abandoned' compared with the genesis figures in DAZ .
But the liberty of organizing and customizing the runtime exactly as I want
is still one of my main 'stickwithposer' reasons.Besides the free Karina's SASHA19 V4 character comes pretty close to genesis with the new
bending, Weightmapping, rigging en a ton of new features and morphs .So I see it as a more or less as versatile figure as Genesis and I still can use all my V4 stuff I gathered over the years since I started with poser 4 in the late 90's.
As poser user for over 20 years now, since P4, I find the poser runtime the most easy and flexible manner to work and organize stuff :
I always install manually : everything in the product's runtimefolder (except the libariesfolder) goes exactly with original names and paths in my runtime
(so never change any names or folderpaths in geometries and textures)in The librariesfolder you can customize, change rename all categorie subfolders as you see fit ... (only the libraries visible in posers librarypalette (character, props hair, light...)
for instance in the libraries subfolders you see often names that don't actually mean a thing and are very confusing to locate your items
eg, character >> "vendor" >> "meaningless folder name" >> "confusing item name" >> " V4" >> "stuff"you can rename 'vendor' to anything that is clear and meaningful for you to find your item easily. al the subfolders you can delete and copy your itemfiles to the first renamed folder.
that goes for all folders which are visible in the librarypalette : figures, props, poses, light , cameras, materials ... heck, you can even put posefiles in character which is sometimes handy for clothing .. load the clothing and choose texture rightaway whithout having to switch library.
and for organizing stuff in several external runtimes : it's even possible to just cut/paste the librariefolders to another external runtime ... leave geometries, textures etc where you have installed them. no need to copy those along ...
just moving the libraries will do . and again ... only the libraries visible in poser palette. ( not folders like !DAZ , !morphs ... which are only visible when you open the runtime>>libraries in explorer.
in every librarycategorie , my folders have the same name, so it's easy to find the pose, prop or material which goes along with a character.
for external runtimes , keep always the poser runtimestructure ... which in this case of moving/reorganizing runtimes , it is sufficient to create a simple working runtime with only :
eg.. V4CLOTHINGruntime >>runtime>>libraries >>character>>........ (and all other folders like poses, props, ..."
for DAZproducts which have a runtime folder : I only use the runtime folder. verify in that folder you have everything like geometries and textures if those are needed for the concerning item. I simply ignore all folder outside the runtime like content, people, data etc ... in 99% of the cases, this works ...
I think that's pretty damn close to complete liberty of organizing runtimes just the way I want them 😀
anyway, just wanted to share my experience/workflow with poser 🙂
I work in poser and much like ADAM's method, I also use existing clothes and props, Being the lazy type as well 😀 I don't create from scratch .. I just open the existing textures and make the texture I want over the existing one (jpeg's) . I have never even used the templates ... it's all in photoshop , GIMP, or even in the free faststone image viewer that I find enough tools to alter the textures ...
I never worked with DAZ but i think this very simple, amateuristic way of creating textures should go for DAZ too ...She's V4 for sure ... (see the longstretched armpit crease which was typical for early V4 but which luckily got fixed later 🙂 )
The hair is Gloria hair and the bikini is the basicwear for V4
Gloves I'm not sure and the face could be customized , but the
texture though resembles a lot Maddeliriums MDD Vivienne for V4.2. (especially the long thin eyebrows and lipstickcolor in the promopics).https://posercontent.com/characters-for-poser-and-daz-studio/mdd-vivienne-for-v42
Hope this helped a bit ...
