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Rick 4F

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  1. As the topic title does say, non-recurring subscriptions are no longer available as of today.It's a pity as they could pull some hessitant people over to pay for a subscription. Sadly the forum system and/or Paypal cannot handle those. I wrongly assumed they could, but it means those who use/used this option, needed to be manually moved out of the 'Elite members' group when their subscription ran out. And I'm not keeping my head in the admin section all the time so... I demoted today some from the 'Elite' members group who's subscriptions ran out in 2019/2020...! You are fine if you currently have a non-recurring subscription (which is not out of subscription time), it will still work untill it's time is up. -- Rick
  2. Wow, what-a-mess. Text cut-off at the top, text cutt-off at the bottom, navigational/next buttons over text, text unexpectedly wrapped to the next line, overlapping text, linked text not in position, etc. What I see/create here (on my desktop) is suddenly not what I see here (4F website) and I'm pretty sure I checked these things in the past. Stuff like this: And I had no idea Firefox/Chrome display stuff 117.5% larger then Safari browser does. Anywho, I hope I fixed all the things that should had not happened there. Please let me know if you see anything else that looks like it should not be or out of its place.
  3. Some screenshots of the tight neck-collar in progress:
     

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  4. A mixture of 3D and Photoshop coming along nicely. :) 

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  5. Needed a zipper clip. Appeared my own made zipper was no good. So I think, 'I buy one, saves me time'. The best was 15 bucks. Now I don't mind buying 3D models and help starving 3D artists but 15 bucks for a zipper... Besides it was in .max format which I can't handle anyway. So I harvested what I could from my own 3D zipper and rebuild the rest. Saved me 15 bucks for something else. :) 

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  6. Next image is a bit delayed because I ran into one of the new covid strains. :( Am feeling much better now then the past 4 days though.:bigsmile:

    For those interested here's a tiny cut-out from the background for the next image, that's painfully slow  rendering in the background here, while eating up all my memory.Screen-Shot-2022-06-29-at-04_41_55.jpg.8842866ed883967d19e189caa66a50d8.jpg

  7. I'm currently switching between PHP email, which uses the email system from the provider that hosts my website and Sendgrid email to send out bulk mails. Ideally I shouldn't have to switch at all, but something is wrong and Sendgrid corrupts all the links, even if the link text is correct, Sendgrid manages to fork up the underlying HTML into garbage. So this: https: // 4f-creations.com/site/forum/index.php?/gallery/image/146951-new_image.jpg is turned to this link: http: // url1128.4f-creations.com/ls/click?upn=RkKNOveE79lB1x-2FvTSFMKUng1yUt3gFzh2ypJzvUIBHimPUj8GUXrNvdEVT8YrDuZiPUqJNuhPb4AdcdlEuSbCmNpLJjGQed4IEtfO-2FXf4idRLOaljOw- etc. Which obviously doesn't work. My apologies for the inconvenience. Doing my best to solve this.
  8. And I didn't stutter ^there. I moved the 4F website July 30 to a new host because the previous one was raising prices and gave little for it in return. Also they refused me to help creating a back-up, resulting in my personal latest back-up of the website being over a year old which made me really grumpy. So I found a new host where I had some initial doubts as they still advertise that they where "the best in 2019", all the way in 2021... But ok, the price was right, "no limits on storage", customer service was fast, knowledgable and friendly, so I went with them and the transition was smooth. I just forgot to have my testforum-environment moved over as well but ok, no prob, I could rebuild that. Thing is, I can only have one (1) test-forum, anywhere. If 1 is up, say on an Australian server, only halfway installed even, I have to delete that completely, including database etc. before I can install a new one on say, a German server. So I deleted the old one, uploaded the software and started the installation process. Oops, 'HTTP 429 Too Many Requests', it read within 3 seconds after hitting the install button. After a lot of back and forth between forum software makers and the Dutch host technicians it appeared that the software was making more AJAX calls then the Dutch server allowed and there was no way to fix that on either of both ends. Not being able to install a test-environment was not a real big problem, I might succeed in installing one on my own computer. The trouble was that because of these "AJAX-calls" I would never be able to update the 4Forum with maintenance patches, security patches or functionality upgrades. And I could kiss my behind goodbye when it comes to support as the first thing they want to know and see is that I've updated the forum software to the latest build. I've installed this type of software in the past (since roughly 2006) on a bunch of different hosting companies without any problem, so it was time to move again. Of course this conclusion fell after the 30 day money back guarantee. Keeping it short, I got my money back which logically meant they had no business with me anymore and they closed the 4F site and my access to it, while I hadn't transferred it to a new host! And that with only a 14 month old back up. But ok, as you can see the site is once again back up and moved to a new-new host with all of the data from 2 month's ago. Leaves me with finding out if the forum software is compatible with the current host. And to that I have no idea. I tried this morning to install a new test-forum but it appears my previous attempt to install one on the *previous* host is still "alive" in a zombie kind of way. I've asked the previous host if they would be so kind to delete it all and am waiting for a reply on that now. There is no reason why they should indulge upon my request though, so fingers crossed. Without it I have no idea if the current host can handle this forum properly. But I'll tackle that if and when that situation arrises. ========================================== I didn't move just the site, I moved in RL as well. No big deal you may think but for me it was the first time. Yes, I never left my parents home. There was no real need to, I had more or less my own floor in their home and the few times I actively sought a new place for myself my crappy health got in the way, landing me each single time into a hospital. But my parents are in their 80's now and it got really time to move out. With all the housing trouble (severe lack off available or affordable housing) I was told it would take 10 years before I moved down the waiting list far enough to apply for a rental house. I must say I got a little bit lucky in that it was possible to have one of the requirements, leaving an empty home behind, removed from my file so it only took 2.5 year to find me a place for my self. No doubt about it, it's quite a culture shock. I suk at cooking too. My brother was a certified cook and had the genes, me, not so much. But I'm slowly getting better at it, as long as it isn't too complex. Apartment is almost ready, next Tuesday my dinner table arrives and hopefully a hole in my wooden floor, where the carpenter, for some weird alien reason, laid the floor around a closet and not under it, gets fixed so a new storage cabinet can be placed there. It just absolutely sux that I still have no proper window shades. Next Tuesday it's 2 month's since they where measured and ordered. informing about them I get 'Corona and lack of personal' excuses. It means I just can't see the fine nuances in photoshop when I try to work on a project. I'm sitting with my nose on my monitor and still have too much light ruining my sight. Watching something on tv is fun too, when most of the scifi and horror shows that I try to watch are happening in the dark. Usually all I see is my own reflection. I write that last part in the hope you understand that having no new image updates is *forking* frustrating for me too. Hopefully the shades arrive soon, this host appears to be compatible with the forum software and then things get back to 'normal'. I hope you can have a little bit more patience, I must have that too. -- Rick PS: i'm going to reinstate (if I can figure out how I did that the last time) the news letter. Those 15 bucks a month that it costs are worth it to keep you properly updated by mail. I'll just eat a few burgers less.
  9. *Knock on wood*

    Looks like we're back up and running.


    Remind me, next time not to move and in RL and my website at the same time.

    = Double-headache-wammies.:zipped:

  10. Well the walls, ceiling, window-borders are almost done being painted, tomorrow the floor arrives needs to rest for 1-2 days before it can be installed and from there, hopefully my move goes a bit more faster. Still waiting for my bed to arrive though. In the meantime, when there are periods I'm playing with my thumbs, I've started up some new things. ^Just a sketch for now. And I've gone through the remaining "AIT" images made a selection and started to texturing and lighting this model I bought to shave of the time it would take me to model it myself. I've also picked up the 'Mercedes and Michelle' story in the meantime and begun writting the next chapter. Just this morning I noticed I wrote an advanced (in time) chapter late 2019. Time really flies sometimes! I have no idea when things will turn to "normal" here but hopefully soon. If I had to guess I'm for 2 more weeks looking at my stuff being packed up in boxes though...
  11. Cleaning up the place before I move to a new apartment I decided to (at least make a start) cleaning up the stuff that's been collecting dust on my HDD's. I stumbled over quite some old stuff pre-2000. There was a time I was content with images like this: or this: Or how about cookies/bread in space pretending to be a planet...? And I'm pretty sure this never saw the light other then my desktop (aaimaai...)
  12. Thought it was time to freshen up the site with a slight new look, where I made things a bit more tidy. Hope it's to your liking.
  13. First day that I'm feeling "normal" again. Medication gave me giant headaches on top of the inconvenience of the kidney stuff. So much time lost... Oh well, we're back in the saddle. Still work in progress but I'm getting close. Old transport shuttle also getting close:
  14. Gatsh... Sick, infamous kidney stuff, haven't slept all night from the pain in my sides. Ugh, hope the anti-bots arrive soon.
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