[Maviarab]

Just to say I am still alive. Please all accept my most sincere apologies for my leave of absence.  :embrassed

I know this is happening more and more of late and I can only apologise once again. I am not going to go into too much detail as they are my problems but life has been getting on top of me a little of late, and I am unsure as to what is the cause/reason, this has led to me being very distant from many things, the site included.

Included in this is the site itself. At this moment in time I am unsure whether or not I am able to continue paying for hosting and if this turns out to be the case a new home will be needed for DG. :undecided

At this moment I really cannot commit to anything, even the site, this ashames me a little but I need to find my purpose and direction in life again before I can look at other things. Hopefully myself and Freddy can sort something out to keep the site up.

On a positive note I have been occasionally working on the DG story (so those of you awaiting the next chapter with bated breath need not wait much longer heh) and playing around with poser to mebbe add some comic style element to the story (wonders if Freddy will ever send him that skin  :tickedoff :rofl)

Be sure that I will keep you updated of the sites progress either myself or through Freddy.

Final notes...
KT...shocked...may you rest in peace brother.
freddy...my undeserved thanks go to you for your continued efforts. You are more than a friend dude, your like a brother.
All the members...thanks for your continued support over the life of Dg, without you shye would never have been anything.

Take care all and we will speak soon Im sure.

Marius

[admin]

Keep intouch dude, it's the way life works out for the best - problem shared and everything.   Speak soon mate.
Freddy.

[FuzzieDice]

Marius - email me (fuzziedice6000 is my Yahoo.com email address). I may be able to help here. I understand about life. I'm working and schooling. And I run several sites. However, I would be glad to take over Digital Girl but I would need to talk to you about some things I would like to plan. Please includ Freddy in your email too.

I can host the forum on ByteBin.com.

Again, email me... Maybe I can help.

[FuzzieDice]

Marius, if you read this post again, I am sad to say that due to things that came up recent, unfortunately I won't be able to take over DG. I've got too many irons in the fire now. *sigh*

Me and my big mouth. LOL! But seriously, I do hope you guys can keep DG online somehow.

As for me, I don't kow but what I may not be on here much. I just like I said now have too many things to attend to.

[Carl2]

Maviarab,
  Just read the unfortunate news, This is my second favorite site. Zabaware is No 1.  There are times when I have problems keeping track of whats going on at the forums and I can't think of what it's like trying to run one.  I wish you luck and hope you can keep it up and running.
Carl2

[Maviarab]

Jesus,

Has it really been so long? Time has no meaning for me anymore...between being doped up on meds and my head being nowhere it should be, I really am losing track of all time and reality.

Anyways, enough of the sadness and bitterness, despite yet more personal complications this week has been reasonably kind to me (god knows I've waited long enough) and I can confirm after much editing and re-editing that the next 2 chapters will be here by Sunday at the latest 

And yeah yeah...heard it all before lol, all I can do is apolgise, my mind is not its own for the most part, I wake up (eventually) and before I know it another week has left me, another month. Doesnt seem like 5 mins ago I started this thread, where has it gone? So much lost time.

As a famous AI once said, all those moments will be lost; in time, like, tears in the rain  :'(

Anyway...going to try and be a little more active, I've neglected you all for too long.

Once again my biggest thanks go to Freddy for keeping this dream alive. Will see you soon bro, we go for a long overdue drink eh?

SO...eyes peeled, clean those glasses....the story continues around the corner....

[Duskrider]

Mav,
Spock use to warn Kirk once about deep space, with all that stuff bout no man has gone before.    I was fraid we lost you.  Welcome home.
And you know Suki missed you, her poor brain been on hold for months.  The girl needs help, and fast.
Yes take Freddy out, buy him a drink.  Two in fact.   He deserves it.
 

[GamerThom]

Welcome back Mav, you've been missed around the forums. 

I am sorry to hear that things (life) has been going so rough for you,
but it's good to know that you are returning to all of it, even if only
a little bit at a time. Freddy will have to slowly fill you in on all the
things that have been developing and going on in your absence.   

[Maviarab]

heh thanks guys.

And fill me in?..damn, I've forgotten nearly everything I had learnt. Funny in a way...almost feel like I'm programing (re-programing) my own brain, never mind an AI.

I do feel more 'with it' at the moment for the time being at least. A new prject has come up for me within the gaming world (through a friend) and its given me a little imputence to have a purpose in my life no matter how trivial it may be. It helps.

But sunday latest still for the target for the next chapters 

[GamerThom]

Fill you in, eh?     OK! 

Well I can fill you in a little on my own things, but I think that freddy can give you
the best updates on what's going on with the new Hal release, zabaware planning
to include a third animation engine (Ogre) and some of the other A.I. related things.
Me? I've expanded my site yet again, plus set up a new site for JackGephart the
karacterking to take the load off me as far as creating new heads & skins. I've also
set up a new graphics & animation forum with it's own little AI section devoted to
the further developement of Answerpad and some possible spin-offs thanks to the
assistance of vrossi. He set it up for me as an off-shoot of Virtual Humans forum. But
I've been devoting most of my time to working in Poser and trying to get a handle on
Cinema 4D so that I can get a little more involved in realtime 3D animation. I was lucky
enough to be able to get a fully functional, complimentary copy of Cinema 4D R10 Studio
bundle. But it's a lot more involved and complex than anything else I've ever worked with,
so it's really taxing my gray-matter. Plus all the other projects that I've been working on
with the guys over at Virtual Humans Forum.     I've also hooked up with SiteChatters
as a beta-tester for their web-based infobots. 

Here are some links if you want to take a look.

Character Creation & Design Forum
http://www.vrconsulting.it/ccdforum

My new site domain
http://www.charctercreationsanddesignworks.us/sitedirectory.html

JackGepharts  KaracterKing site for heads and skins
http://www.geocities.com/karacterking/index.html

[GamerThom]

Oh! I almost forgot. vrossi has made quite a few changes to his Virtual Humans forum,
such as adding an entire section devoted to robotics. 

[Maviarab]

Ummm...dear god Gamer...slow down man  

Third animation engine?....Ogre? Jeesh Im like a noob again hehe

As far as Poser goes, its reinstalled but I've yet to fire her up again, will have to get around to that at some point, had some interesting things on the go there.

Cinema4D? Its a shame there isnt a green with envy smiley to express my feelings there lol

Good to see your still busy

[GamerThom]

Eh, too late for me. I'm already headed down the road to graphics madness & AI insanity. 

I've had to get hold of and hook into my home network an extra PC and a laptop on wireless.
The load was just too much for my one old graphics and gaming PC. I'm feeling the load myself,
health's been going downhill again for the past couple of months. I'm just trying not to wind up
in hospital like you and freddy have done.

The only heads and skins for haptek stuff I do now, are the ones I get special request's for.
Even with those, I pass off some of it to Jack.

I'm now working in Poser 6 & 7. I passed my copy of Poser 5 along to Jack, to see if I could
get him interested in doing a little more than just playing with PaintShop Pro and peopleputty.

[Maviarab]

heh Poser is a wicked program indeed. Really must get back into that when I'm freed up with this current lil project

As for health, be careful working too hard dude. Easy for me to say I know but its easy done. If its any consselation at all mine wasnt caused by overworking mysef...hmm..well maybe it contributed to it but it certainly wasnt the defining factor.

Am glad to say I'm taking thinghs much easier now (not that I have a great deal of choice in the matter) but that in itself is causing other issues.l Seems like things just never going to end sometimes. Friend of mine said I wa sin a tunnel with a very faint speck of light at the end...I said...hell..I cant even see the damn tunnel. Funny looking back now, but its a starnge sensation to be in.

Anywayy...my typing going worse by the second so gona get back to the story. If I'm feeling upto it I might egven be able to pacjage chapter 5 in while Im at it (only very rough drafts at mo). We shall see.

Tomorrow stil my deadline, can't see any reasons why that should change

[GamerThom]

Don't push yourself to hard mate. We can all wait one extra day
for you to publish the latest DIGITALGIRL chapters. 

If you want to email me, my new email addy is -

admin@charctercreationsanddesignworks.us