SKYLAB CHAT

[skylab]

Here's Jo, giving me "the look"...haha

 

[Miss B]

Awwww, he's cute.

 

[skylab]

He's my spoiled baby...haha...actually he's not such a baby any more...nearly 10 inches long now. When he feels I've been too busy and not paying as much attention as he is use to getting, he avoids eye contact altogether...like umph, no time for me eh? If he's wondering if he's done something wrong, you get "the look", only his head is dipped downward so his eyes are peeping up, like did I do something wrong? Nights when I work late at the workstation, he'll watch me until he falls "asleep"...goldfish don't have eyelids, they just become inactive and find a resting spot...so he looks like the needle of a compass pointing true north, falling asleep while watching me...haha. I would get the feeling that he was expressing emotions with his behavior, but didn't think it was possible until I read it online. Apparently they can get depressed, lonely, do tricks for food, watch TV....everything but go for a walk on a leash...haha. He gets the most active when I'm cooking...if I start rattling pans, he's learned that dinner time soon follows, so he starts swimming happily in patterns. They relate more to their owner if they are in a tank by themselves, because they school in a community by nature.

 

[Miss B]

His coloring is beautiful.

 

[Terre]

Terre, please.. you don't need to feel excluded. I'm so sorry if I gave that impression! I was just trying to help Sky out with a few rough patches. I did not mean to make anyone feel like they couldn't post! I'm so sorry! :/

I didn't mam. I just felt it would be easier for Sky and anyone else who was going through that info to have less interruptions to wade through.

 

[skylab]

His tail is as deep as he is long. Another one of his "tricks" is he flips water at me when he wants to play...he's a trip. From what I've read, if they are kept in a tank on their own, with plenty of room to grow, it's possible for them to live 20 years. I try to take good care of him, so he can be around a long time...a good little companion, and something I can handle. I enjoy cats and small dogs, and fuzzy things like hamsters and guinea pigs...I've had all of these through the years, when I was younger, but I have to stick with something that is more my speed now.

 

[Terre]

Oh no Seliah, nothing for you to be sorry about, you didn't do anything, so don't think that's a problem, okay. Terre is just a little shy when it comes to jumping into an active discussion. So that's not on you okay

That too. Please don't worry Seliah.

 

[skylab]

Hey Terre, no, we're fine with "interruptions"....when the thread use to double as a place to collaborate projects, it would give somewhat complicated, but we're not doing that now. We're just having fun, and I sure don't want Seliah to stop coming by and sharing with us....we enjoy her company, so as far as I'm concerned, she "belongs" here, as does Miss B, and Sanbie, and others who stop by. I'm sorry we lost Calig during the switch to the new forum...I hope he finds us again.

 

[Terre]

Ok, I'll keep that in mind. They all certainly do belong and seeing the helpful posts is fun also.
I hope he does too.

ETA: I wonder if it might be acceptable for one of the mods to email him a link to the new thread?

 

[Miss B]

Oh yeah, Rick finally made it here. I wonder where Calig is.

 

[skylab]

Finished the truck driver pose for DS4.

DS4 GENESIS 2 MALE - DRIVE TRUCK

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Looks good, Sky!

That too. Please don't worry Seliah.

Duly noted, Terre.

 

[skylab]

Hey Seliah...how's it going with finishing up your project? I thought I'd finish up the driving pose that I'd started a few days ago. The only problem that I seem to be having with creating poses is my main workstation tends to send the saved pose to a different place each time, causing it to not show in the unassigned presets. It happened with the driving pose, so I just took the scene file and moved to my laptop and saved the pose again, and that time it landed in the correct place. It may have to do with the laptop only has the one version of DS 4.7 on it, and the main workstation has several. I didn't really want to trash my older copies since the Poser runtimes show nicely in DS 4.6 and older. Doesn't hurt to test the scene on another system anyway, so long as it works, I'm happy. It's just one of those wonder why that happens...with Poser, no matter where it's located, or how many versions you have installed, it always does things the same way.

Hey, I saw your pic over in the Mugshots thread....can you believe I have long hair like that now too. Decided to grow it out again after retiring, it use to be long when I was young. At first I thought, well, maybe I'm too old for it...but it ended up covering the little bit of gray that I do have. I also use to string my own beads in the '70's, and wore "chokers" as they were called then. I wear the same style glasses. So, we're sorta like "twins" in more ways than one...haha

 

[skylab]

I forgot to mention, I used the DAZ Pick 'em Up Truck for the pose, because it has an optional Horse Trailer with customization for the truck. Thought that was the best choice for all the horse lovers at Hivewire

I've got the Barn Yard too, have had it awhile...so may consider using that some time as well for setting up poses.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Hey Seliah...how's it going with finishing up your project?

Well, I actually have the DS version zipped up at this point, and finally have completed all of his promo renders. Including the main product promo, which is the one that was driving me bonkers trying to do a couple days ago.

At this point I just have to double check the submission form to make sure I have all the associated imagery that they need for the store, and then I can finally submit him. ^_^

Just in time to get him in before this weekend (where we'll be out of the house more than in it). LOL

Hey, I saw your pic over in the Mugshots thread....

Yeah, my hair goes to just about my hips nowadays. And my glasses, while I still go usually more with a rectangular shape, have definitely changed since those photos were taken. I wear frames now that have some of the tribal artwork on them... but yeah, they're definitely still rectangular in shape. My face doesn't do well with round or oval shaped lenses.

 

[skylab]

I remember you said that your schedule was pretty much slam dunked for the weekend. I have to go out in the morning again tomorrow, then after my nap, I'll be all clear to do stuff at the workstation while I'm cooking during the evening, and Sunday will be clear totally so I can play.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Yeah. I should have some time in the afternoon tomorrow... but probably not until mid or late afternoon. And Sunday is totally hosed for time. ROFL

This is what I settled on for Nataani's main image, just in case you were curious, Sky :
Show Us Your Dusk Renders!

And this was a play render that came out of Miss B's comments, and I decided to include with the promos as an artistic example at the end :
Show Us Your Dusk Renders!

I'm currently in the process of getting everything uploaded to the submission form...

 

[Miss B]

Well Seliah, let's hope Nataani sails through QAV without any problems.

 

[skylab]

VERY nice renders. I popped over to your Nataani thread just to see how things were coming along and everything looks really good. I noticed a computer question Miss B had and posted what I think might be the answer, so hope that wasn't inappropriate...she was talking about wanting to see all the hidden files and folders.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Well Seliah, let's hope Nataani sails through QAV without any problems.

I'm sure hoping so! LOL. And if they find stuff that needs altering, well, I'll just alter it. I already adjusted the file structure to suit the SOP of the store, so hopefully my directory structure is okay when they get him.