I am, and this isn't the most advanced rig I've ever used (It's mostly stock HP Elitebook, I just upgraded the RAM), but it gets the job done. I've found actually using the IDL instead of mapped shadows helps out a LOT as far as keeping it from crashing, and I always keep my buckets low. I'm at a "make do with what you've got" point, haha. I had just never seen this result after a crash. But, now I have a sticky note at my desk to remind me to export, not use the popup render button. :)

Thanks for the tip! For now, Extracting the render seems to be staving off a crash.

I don't know if it helps figure things out any (it's been so long since I had any issues, I forget what all the fixes are), but when it crashes, other program UI's are impacted. I have Adobe CS2 (didn't see the need to upgrade when I could afford it, and now can't afford it, LOL), and when I open Acrobat, the Menus are gone, as well. I don't know if it's a memory issue, or what :/ It's frustrating, though.

I have the latest update installed. I have had to update windows recently, so that may be a culprit sigh I guess for now, I'll save my renders using Export>Image.

I think I've found the culprit, and it has nothing to do with rendering.

It's Rendering to a specific resolution (just 1200x1200 in my case), and closing the render to save it.

I don't know if I fixed the crash, HOWEVER, I did notice that I did not have IDL checked in my render settings, and it hasn't crashed once since I turned it back on. So. Here's to this post not jinxing me, LOL. I've got a lot of work to do.

Sadly, that didn't work :/

I'll try your suggestion! I haven't upgraded to P11 yet, but that's a next step in the future.

Thanks for the pick! :)

So, no response to this, either here or on the facebook page?

Edited by JennBlake to remove the names of those artists so that it does not cause an issue for the artists who entered the contest. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

We, as entrants aren't allowed to make it known which entry is ours, so why do you guys get to show bias on your facebook page?

Well, if the treatment of 3DArena isn't a reason for me to delete my freebies and never come back, I don't know what is. I LOVE this site. Well, I have love for it. Like an old friend that you spent all of your time with, but grew apart due to life just being what it is. After working here for the better part of a decade as a moderator for several forums and managing some of the contests and challenges, I quit. Not because my colleagues sucked, but because there were members that my hands were tied on and harassed me off site (to the point where they were threatening my then newborn child and sending me photos of my previous residence).

Here's one piece of advice that I repeated to members over and over for years, and, Hope, I feel like you need it right now.

Criticism isn't a personal attack. And if you take every criticism as a personal attack, you will never grow and stagnate as a person. You will never be better than you are right now, and the point of being a human is to become a better version of who you are over time. If you don't, what's the point? So, maybe take a look at how you reacted to not just the initial post 3DArena made (unless they upgraded the software so you can't see the post anymore. I know that, when I worked here, if we deleted a post we could still see it), and take your name out and put someone else's name there. Someone maybe you don't get along with. Re-read it. See if you'd have accepted it if they reacted the same way. If you're honest with yourself, you probably wouldn't. And that's the thing. When you work with artists, of any kind, you learn that opinions are more plentiful than dandelion fluff, and you learn to read people. When you manage a community (that's your title, after all), part of your job is getting to learn personalities and nuances. Critical thinking is a HUGE part of the job, and so is taking verbal abuse. If you can't handle it, maybe this isn't the best job for you. I know it wasn't worth it for me, in the end. I've kept the friends I had, and moved on without the rest, and am better for it.

So, you can see what I've written here, take it as a personal attack, and ban me or whatever you want to do, but the truth is, treating vendors and customers like this is why people are leaving in large numbers and don't come back. And, those that do come back don't spend here, because they're treated terribly by other site members and staff alike.

This used to be home for a lot of us. Now...it's like driving back to your old neighborhood, only to find that they bulldozed your house and put up a convenience store. :/

I would like to add to the list of "broken" things...search is...weird.  

For example, searching for "Poser Pro 2014 Library" brings up posts (not threads!) that contain any of those 4 letters in varying combinations, with the exact input at the top. Sometimes, they will be posts in succession in a single thread. Not always. And it's confusing. 

It looks like Blue. 

I'm workin' on it ;) I always thought I'd love DAZ moving everything to .zip files. Well, lol, at least there's less to move now, haha. :) Nothing's perfect, right? ;) Thanks, WandW :D

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