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I've fallen into the habit of checking this site and the two Renderosity forums relating to Pose2Lux each day, as well as checking the Renderosity gallery for any new pictures made with Pose2Lux's help.

As far as I can see, there's been nothing posted for quite a while: no renders, no questions, no suggestions ... zilch! It's almost becoming embarrassing that the Renderosity threads are 'stickied'.

It's clear that the initial excitement over a working exporter has diminished considerably, which I suppose is to be expected. Either that or I've screwed up badly with the exporter and no-one can get it to work :-)

Anyway, today I'm feeling singularly unmotivated to bother with any more coding. I've just added a couple of useful features (support for multiple volumes and the facility to export a separate materials file) which will be in v0.5.1 (to be made available very soon) and it seems to me that it's now a fully-featured exporter that can probably be left as it is for a while. Until I get around to adding a built-in material editor (planned for June/July), it seems adding anything else is just 'tinkering'.

Well, my few months of not having to work for a living are most definitely at an end! The next six to eight weeks are going to be pretty manic, which means not much time for Pose2Lux development 

Still, with v0.4.7 out I think we have an exporter that will meet most needs for a while, and the enforced break from development at least gives me time to think carefully about the way to go with the material editor.

If I do get some time to play with Pose2Lux over the coming weeks, I think I'm actually going to try and render something rather than coding something - can't be letting you guys have all the fun!

Take care,
Royston 

Do you guys spend much time on 3D stuff when the weather's fine? I find it really difficult to concentrate on anything involving the computer when the sun comes out! Where I live, on the north coast of Devon in England, we don't get many truly glorious sunny days but there's been a few over the last week and I just can't make myself stay inside and do any work, especially programming 

For me, 3D art or programming is a Winter endeavour anyway: I get far too busy with work during the Summer season to be able to find much time for it (or anything else really!). And if I do get some free time I want to be outside, not inside in my cave!

Anyway, as a result of the fine weather my American friends have obviously tired of and sent across the Atlantic to me, Pose2Lux has gone on a bit of a hiatus.

It's a good thing really, though. It's important right now to let v0.4.x settle down and be as stable and reliable as it can be. I want it to be bug free before I start on the next big development (built in material editor). The material editor is quite a daunting exercise. I don't think it'll be difficult to program, but it's going to take a lot of code, perhaps as much again as is already in Pose2Lux.

Well, I've finally started working on version 0.4 which, for me, will be an especially important version.

This version is going to have extended support for Poser's Skin and Velvet nodes. This should enable us to create Lux skin and velvet materials in an XML library, but which can be configured within Poser's material room. That's the theory anyway!

I don't know how much demand there is for this feature, but it's one *I* want so it's going in! How selfish is that? LOL!

Well, suddenly things got ever so much more exciting. The full Editor has all sort of editing capability now. Such as smilies. Too cool. And now: