DAZ Comic: The Mask of Venus!

No, no! i didn't think YOU would be annoyed. But when you mentioned it was a derogatory term, I thought: "Uh oh, there are Germans on this forum!" and thought I would state: "Hey, I'm one of you! I was only being playful!" I guess we Yankees think nothing of derogatory national terms and wear our epithets with pride! :)

Well, I'm not sure - it is probably as derogatory as you calling me a Jock or a Haggis muncher, to which I would reply - "Well I am not really a Jacobite but yes I do enjoy the occasional Haggis Yum! " :).
I am going to assume an Historian knows what a Jacobite is?

How about we pretend someone on this site isn't and you explain what one is?

Having no life whatsoever, I want to take time to point out something of absolutely no importance whatsoever. American English has mutated from British English, in that an American would have said "a Historian."

Certainly! Supporters of James II after he was deposed by William of Orange (at the invitation of Parliament) in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1688. :) Not being atuned to all the nuances of 17th Century English politics, I am uncertain as to how this term is a national slur--unless it has to do with the uncertain disposition of the Scotish crown, still arguably in James' hands, following his ejection from the English throne.

Well that's the point - it isn't a racial slur really - more an affectionate term :). There is a lot of complicated history behind those events - far more than I am willing to go into here - and my memory is a bit shaky on the details anyway. I do know that the Crowns of both Scotland and England had merged some generations prior to this and that after James IV or V of Scotland also became James I of England they tended to be referred to by both numerations - makes it a bit confusing. Strictly speaking the current monarch is Elizabeth II of England but Elizabeth I of Scotland as the first Queen Elizabeth was pre Union of The Crowns, in fact she was immediately prior to it as it was the dynastic disputes following her death that placed the Scottish Stewarts on the Throne of England - they were cousins, so they had a clear claim, and no apparent heirs for Lizzie One.

Yes, James IV of Scotland became James I of England. It became the United Kingdom of England and Scotland by the Act of Union in 1707, where Parliament also set succession to follow Queen Anne's "nearest male living protestant relative" should she die "without issue," which she did (but, bless her heart, it wasn't for lack of trying! In the 12 years of her reign, she had something like 14 or15 miscarriages!). That turned out to be George of Hanover (don't ask me how!), who became George I. Anyway, the point of the Act of Union was to cut out all of the other Stuart lines from James II other than his daughter, Anne's.

Commoton or Great Sage

I need a little help with this one I am building a story line for a plot, where it will go I am not sure. In one part I am want to use the name of earth. I think its Terra and I also need the name of the people of earth, would be something like Terran's ?

Also I need some name for the Fungas Scientist I also thinking of changing Fungas, and I was thinking Great Sage you would be good at this with all the ancient words and names you know.

What do you think ?

Yes, you have it right. Earth and its' inhabitants, to use the (I think) Latin names, would be Terra and Terrans.

As to a name--is this past, present, or future? (future, right?) Do you want a classical Greek- or Latin-based name? Male or Female? (Nevermind, I think I know the answer to THAT one! :D) Single name or common and surname ("Cher" or "John Smith?")? Do you want one that evokes the sense that he is a scientist, or a fungus scientist :) ? Do you want a different word for fungus, or are you thinking of changing this to something else, like a bacteria or virus?

If answering these questions would give away too much of the story in "public," you can PM me.

Commotion seems to have it covered - if you can answer those questions here I think we can both brainstorm some ideas with you.

Sorry everyone, but a couple of posts above I was blending two separate pieces of obscure early 18th C Parliamentary legislation. Being a historian by training (and I DO cover this period in Western Civ. courses I teach!) I couldn't let my error go uncorrected! The Act of Union in 1707 deals with the unification of the English and Scotish crown. The Act of SETTLEMENT in 1701 deals with the succession to Queen Anne. I'm sure nearly no one noticed (except Sage, as usual! ;) ), but it bothered my professional sensibilities!

Well I mentioned it in private because I didn't want to embarrass you in public - such is my respect and admiration for you.
I applaud your honesty and bravery though.

Commotion Grate Sage

What I was thinking was twelve Fungas scientist and technicians, Male in the present, either Greek or Latin or others, it would be a single first name, one the say he is a Fungus scientist.

As an example the senior fungus scientist name of XXXX got the other scientist back on track of the project

I found the name "Fungus" on a web site of space alien names. With the brain power on this here site I think we can do better.

You know, it takes a particularly sick, twisted mind to use such a difficult to spell word to describe a neurological condition that messes with your ability to spell correctly - Dyslexic, dyslexia - sheesh! I have similar problems but with me it is more my brain can't correctly process the signal to the hand so it all gets mixed up - especially bad when using a keyboard - I have to spend ages correcting spelling errors every time I type :)

I have NO excuse for my misspellings! My brain moves faster than my fingers (I am a 3-finger typist). I find misspellings sometimes weeks after posting a comment and I have to go in and fix it--even though everyone has long since moved on. ("With great education comes great responsibility to write like it!" :) )

Great Sage I think they burned out of creating words before lunch so they slap that one together

Commotion I know exactly what your talking about. As I do the story board I look at it and I ask myself "why did do that"

I never heard of a three finger typist before, I taught myself to be a five finger typist.

Anyway any luck with some name ? no hurry.

By the way. this is a red letter day for me. I turned the heat on. I try just for fun of it and to keep Power company from getting my hard earned money. The reason I give up, I was wearing a thmo shirt a heavy shirt and a medium jacket and if I sit for a long time I got cold. The cat would clime under the blanket it got that cold. Its was hitting into the Thirties last night !

Here is a test load I sure its not to big for this


Yup its was too big.

I use only the index and middle finger of the left hand and index finger of the right hand. :)

I've been racking my brain for Greek and/or Latin based names, my knowledge of Greek and Latin is extremely limited (Read: nearly none!), but I struck on a viable shortcut. I looked up a list of scientific names for fungi and found there are hundreds with good sounding names that you can use or modify to suit your needs. The link is:

http://www.doctorfungus.org/imageban/help.htm#a

This takes you to the beginning of the list. From a quick scan of the first few letters, here are some I picked out that sounded really good:

Zygomycetes, Achorion, Aleurisma, Anthopsis, Beauveria, Briosia, Cadophora, Claviceps, Dekkera, Dissitimurus, Emericella, Eurotium, Fusarium, Fusidium, Gamsia, Gliocladium

And this is just up to the "G"s! Some of these sound good for women's names. You could add or remove suffixes or letters to fit whatever you want. For instance, Aleurisma would work for a woman's name, but if you change it to Aleuris--it sounds more masculine. Gamsia might sound better with an extra vowel, such as Gamesia. Fusarium and Fusidium could be changed to Fusaria and Fusidia--sounding more feminine. Or maybe Fusaron and Fusidis for men. Anyway, take a look! I think you'll find plenty to use. :)

Thanks Commontion

For doing that research for me I just look at it and its a goody. I also found by dumb, bind luck, its one that you might like, its called www.20000-Names.com. it has all sort of names, so I think I am cover now.

Stumbled across this animated comedy on Syfy. It's a basic paste layered animation that uses live action heads, on bodies.

If you look closely you'll notice that everything is from DAZ, and Poser. I recognized almost everything in the backgrounds, and the bodies. You'll probably recognize most of the spaceship backgrounds instantly.

Outer Space Astronauts

I've been seeing ads for that for the last week, but hadn't looked real closely! Now I'll have to see for myself! :)

Is Syfy what the Sci -Fi channel is calling itself these days? Anyway it won't show those clips over here.

Yes. Same channel. That's odd that you can't see it in the UK, but they do that a lot in blocking the markets, just like how we can't always see new Doctor Who, I suppose. Lots of people are complaining about it, so you may not be missing much.

it's also on Hulu

http://www.hulu.com/outer-space-astronauts

Definitely different.

Dammit!!! It can't be streamed outside the USA

the lack of access outside the US is usually due to local networks havin the broadcast rights to various TV shows & Movies. Here in Australia You can't even get the Dvd's of Tv shows until about 6mths after the rest of the planet ( unless U order em yourself from Amazon or similiar vendors). The networks bye the rights then don't show the programs and half the time the pull sci-fi stuff off after only a few episodes or shunt them to graveyard timeslots.................GRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR RRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR....

Rant over Cheers!!!

Back 2 my Beer

Finally sat down to watch it! My graphics card died and I had to wait a week to get a new one. I noticed quite a few props and such from DAZ. The airlock at the beginning was Level 19, I used it as the Storage Hold 7A in the MoV climax, and many of the corridors and doors were from the SFCS I set I used in a few places, and the pulse rifle looked like the one from the Questor Sci-Fi set I armed my Marines with! :)

You must be flogging the poor wee thing to death with all that scary processor intensive stuff you are doing these days LOL I hope your new one is The Supreme Bad-Ass of all Graphics Cards.

I went from a GeForce 8500 GT with 1 GB to a GeForce 9500 GT with 1 GB-- and paid less money for it than I did the 8500 a year and a half ago! Even Fallout 3 looks better and runs smoother! :)

Kewl Shinies!!!

Gee! Has it really been 2 1/2 weeks since I updated the progress for MoV2? I hate to say it but the progress has been agonizingly slow! I get, MAYBE, one render per day! I had hoped to move up and do everything in DAZ 3, but it has been performing at a disappointing level. Oh, the renders I do get out of it are really nice--it's just that it makes me jump through excruciating hoops to get them! Here is a typical sequence for a render session: Start computer. Start program. Load file (50 to 90 minutes!). Do a little tweeking. Render (5 to 10 minutes!). Re-set for next shot. Save (This part is critical! If I immediately try to render, it will go through its' preparation gyrations and drop back to cursor without doing the render. If I try to re-initiate the render, I get a rendering error and it locks up the program. And saving usually takes 4 or more hours--sometimes 7 or 8 hours! I frequently go to bed at this point and let it save overnight!). Turn off the program. Turn off the computer. Re-start the computer. Re-start the program. Re-load the file. Tweek. Render. Repeat, ad-nauseum! It took days of trial and error to discover this procedure that at least lets me move forward. I had hoped to have the Prologue completed by now! I have finished 11 pages and seem on track to finish just under 20. I'll keep plugging away in DAZ 3 for the Prologue, but I fear I'll have to drop back to DAZ 2.3 if you folks would like to see the new story before next Christmas. I think I have reached the practical limit of my processor. When my brother built this system for me 4 years ago, he set it up to be expandable to a dual-core. I think I'll have to talk to him about doing just that over this Christmas. This will be the last upgrade I'll do on this system and hopefully squeeze a few more years out of it. Well, I hope the file has loaded and I can get my one render for the day--maybe two if this goes right! :)