Hi all, Rich marked the query about FF disappearance as solved, so I've had to start a new topic. Yes, sadly, FF is no more. Personally, I was never entirely happy with the the subscription model as being the sole means of distribution...even less so with SU itself going down the same path, but that's another story and water under the bridge.

However Gabriel and I have got thousands of models between us that it would be a pity to let go to waste. I was in contact with him a while ago and confided in my plans to start selling my stuff retail. He may well do the same. The price point is about the same as it was way back around 2000 when I brought out the first SU People CD...$1 per model...slightly cheaper, in fact
It was that venture that led to me being contacted by Fred Abler, who had already started Objective Networks (of which the 3D Warezhouse is a direct rip-off, except for the major factors of ON having a quality control and approval system, which filtered-out all the junk and pirated content)
That in turn led us all to attending the very first SU basecamp in Boulder...when even Coen was a member of the team. History lesson over.

It's quite a job, given the sheer scale of the resource, but I'm busy going through my entire inventory; and now I've started updating and repackaging the figures and vegetation ready for resale. The equipment will take a little longer. I assume Gabriel is doing the same with his stuff.

I've got the barest bones website up and running at [http://3d-figures.co.uk] which I'll be using to simply link to the model collections hosted on established digital content sites. I've already got a collection of Pool People (and equipment) hosted on Turbosquid (only did it yesterday) but the uploading procedure there is very lengthy and precise and they take a massive commission for anyone starting out, so I may try various other options. I loaded the same collection onto CG Trader this morning, but they say it can take 5 working days for approval, so no sign of it so far. It's only $49.99 there.
Here's a few of the supporting graphics. I'll be in touch as things progress.

I'm clearing some old stuff off my hard drive and thought these might be useful for some people, if only as small pieces of decor..
I don't like uploading stuff to the Warehouse. We tried that in the early days of FormFonts, to advertise our presence. But in a matter of weeks they were lost in an avalanche of rip-offs. God knows how many 'tuned' versions of my Porsche Boxster are on there now.
They'd probably 'tune' Apollo or Zeus as Priapus.
I should add that these are, as usual, fairly lightweight. Even the Lincoln statue is only 7,600 faces.

Abe Lincoln statue.skp Apollo Belvedere.skp Zeus_Poseidon.skp

When someone requested this a few years back, it was initially quite a daunting prospect. But actually turned out to be fairly straightforward. The flat sections which lie along the floor are simply repeats of a single component, comprising rib and 3 short section of 'track'.
The looped section started life as a completely circular array. I then had to count the number of ribs involved, then simply calculate how far the end of each of the 3 sections of track in the repeated component had to be skewed sideways in order to offset the whole thing by its own width after a single rotation.
There's a slight vertical adjustment too, but what is good for the very first section, joining the start of the loop to the last rib in the flat array is good for all the others too.
Yes, I probably could have used one of the helical plugins, or extrude along a path, but the thought of how to do that hurt my head more than simply going back to first principles.
There are only 3 components in the entire track; and one of those is the flat rib at either end. It's 8000 faces, including the cushions. Sometimes, the simplest way is the best.

@pixelcruncher Thanks for the compliment, Thomas. I really like the look of Rayscaper, but unfortunately it won't run in my SU version as I've stuck with the last one that has a lifetime license, which is V18. Doing what I do, I simply don't need any other features beyond that...and I'm not fond of yearly subscriptions for what is essentially the same product.
In fact FormFonts used to output all models in V7 (which is positively antique...2008) , because that supported Dynamic components and there haven't really been any significant upgrades in the file format since then. Obviously, if you are distributing one-off meshes in a variety of exported formats then something like Live components isn't really necessary.

Next up, Medical, probably followed by the start of the generic figures and some vegetation. It'll be a week or so (I think) before this stuff actually starts appearing online. There will be things that don't fit easily into collections; in which case I'll likely post them here.

BTW for those unfamiliar with this content, most of the models are vertex painted directly in SU, allowing easy editing of clothing, skin tone and hair colour. They are also somewhat modular, allowing swapping of heads, upper and lower body, or modest repositioning of limbs..

I have produced some fully UV mapped models, but I tend to work with SU rather than against it. So on this model of a Vancouver Canuck, for instance, the stripes are actually geometry (yes it adds a bit, but the entire model is still only 2.5K faces) but the logo is a simple texture. projected onto the chest. I then sampled the blue background to the logo, got the RGB value and made a custom colour that is painted onto everything else that isn't already striped.

Apparently it doesn't take 5 days; the first collections are now online. I'm currently processing a large collection of about 180 men and women. Yep! they're all getting loaded into the same skp file for rendering the preview images...that'll be fun..