@Robert: No need to excuse for "the inconvenience", WE have to thank YOU for 
putting this stuff up. =)
I´m a bit confused though regarding the contents on the V7 infopages - seems 
quite a few sentences are repeated throughout the three pages.


But, without wanting to be nagging, I have to admit that I find it a little... 
mh... disappointing that informations regarding V7 are nowhere to be found on 
the official Realsoft homepage.
So, if someone wanted to hear any news about Realsoft products, the only source 
would be the email-list; or Roberts homepage, assuming the interested person 
would, by chance or telepathy, find it´s way to there...
Most user-made homepages also seem to be massively outdated, at least in the 
cases where they even still exist, the (only and unofficial) forum seems to be 
nearly dead, etc..
(Which is nothing to blame the respective users for, since it´s their freetime 
effort putting this stuff up.)
I guess it would not be to bold to say that Realsoft could use a MASSIVE 
improvement of it´s marketing and PR.
My impression is that the only "things" that keep RS3D alive (barely) on the 
net are people like Robert and the rest of you out there with your userpages 
and other contributions.
I think I recall Vesa once, years ago, writing he didn´t want Realsoft to be a 
fullblown CGI-company with respective marketing etc, and that would of course 
be his decision.
I also admire the effort and ingenuity of developing, coding and maintaining a 
program that complex and sophisticated as RS3D with supposedly that few people.

I´m still a bit disappointed (actually it´s more several kilobytes than just a 
bit ;-), having the feeling that RS3D is slowly vanishing into oblivion despite 
being a program that´s still able to beat so many other programs in so many 
respects.
I think it was Gary who wrote something along those lines on the forum a while 
ago and even if his tone there might have been a bit harsh I found myself 
sharing most of his thoughts.
Is there no plan to improve RS3Ds presentation on the internet?
Updated info about upcoming versions, a central forum, a single wellorganized 
repository for usergenerated content - anything that keeps the community 
together, helps reeling in new users, improves RS3Ds value even further without 
any serious effort on the side of the official Realsoft team by just collecting 
and distributing the things that users have created and are eager to share for 
free?
I believe to know that Realsoft does neither have the money nor the personnel 
of some of the other players on the 3D-apps market, but compared to, say, 
what´s going on with Modo, it´s really, well.... let´s leave it with "very 
sad"...
Especially since it shouldn´t be to great an effort to at least promote RS3D in 
a better way by, for example, just screencapturing a video of how future 
features work and explaining them in a few words once in a while. Even one 
mediocre-quality 1-minute-video per month when a new version was about to be 
released would be a gazillion times better than nothing.

Call me pessimistic, but I assume that 10 to 15 years from now programs like 
Blender will have mostly dried out the low- to midrange market for 
nonspecialized 3D-applications and I don´t see how RS3D should survive that if 
its marketing were to be continued the way it is today.

Sorry if I should have inconvenienced or angered someone, I just had to let it 
out at last.


Greetings

Martin




> Hi Dean,
> 
>  
> 
> I'll check it out again. Seems the code is only interpreted properly by
> Microsoft browsers.
> 
> Sorry for the inconvenience!
> 
>  
> 
> Best regards Robert
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