What a relief...you at least see it on the base model...thought I was going nuts...haha. I've never used V4 much because it was so distracting to me, even with other texture mats applied.
So, Rendo is doing the no linky thing too. What's wrong with people...don't they know if they shut down folks trying to learn, one of two things will eventually happen....either they will get discouraged and give up on the hobby altogether, or they will leave and find some place where they can be free to learn and share. I'm not getting it, why places of business are so sure that this will mean more profits for themselves if they push everybody else out of the picture....how very short-sighted...since it's the "everybody else" out there that help to support the hobby and have kept it going all these years. It's an unfortunate trend, and I'm inclined to say that the 3D community is likely to change quite a bit as more and more of us older folks disappear from "active duty". Reminds me somewhat of what was happening at work...older employees were being encouraged to retire, and basically move along little dogies...and the mindset of millennials replaced what had been a workplace based on long years of service, commitment, and family. This mindset includes a love 'em and leave 'em mentality, that is, compete furiously for jobs with the personal agenda of not staying in the job more than two or three years, then bounce to another position, doing the same thing....being a what's in it for me type of thinking. It's all well and good to be ambitious in a healthy way, but when it gets out of control, it ends up a breeding ground of back-stabbing little brats, who'd sell their own mama for a raise. What goes with that is employees who don't take care of the surroundings, destroy equipment. Management is buying into this these days because they never have to pay a senior level salary if people persist in the revolving door of "job opportunities and advancement" with no consideration of future consequences. I know individuals who are worried about their retirement because they have no pension built up anywhere...all because of the dollar right now thinking. I'm inclined to believe that this must be what's driving the unethical behavior of 3D businesses. They see today, but do not have vision to see tomorrow. You would think, after all the stuff that's gone on with DAZ in the past, and now the emotional earthquake that followed the RDNA merger, that Rendo wouldn't follow right along behind. I'm sure the dollar right now is to go the way of DAZ....but there's no guarantee that will be the case tomorrow. There may even be the thinking that 3D hobbyists should be kept ignorant and dependent on content providers...like we really need one more string bikini...haha.