Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Sea Patrol :: near the end of a long job (re-rendered, in Bryce)

Anthony Appleyard opened this issue on May 08, 2000 ยท 9 posts


Anthony Appleyard posted Tue, 09 May 2000 at 2:39 AM

(0) I am a sport scuba diver. I put this Sea Patrol series up partly to warn what might happen if Government etc controls for their own sake are allowed to take root or if a few small noisy on-site groups such as a few inshore shellfish fishermen or excessively industrial safety minded types manage to shout down everybody else. E.g. around the 1960's the USA state of California's parliament (or whatever it's called) had an idea to put a tight licencing system on scuba diving, but everybody made such a rumpus that they had to drop the idea and they had to leave scuba diving free as it was before. Thankfully the scuba gear trade got big enough soon enough to squash such authoritarian ideas. (1) The truck started life as a fire engine on a web site, and I stripped it down to the cab and chassis and made a new back-load for it. It is a Poser model; the stoking doors and their handles and the front wheels and the cab doors are posable. (2) The accurately square appearance of the mechanical parts is why I want Poser 5 to have a way to vary the maximum smoothing angle like I can in Bryce. (3) In Bryce, why must re-smoothing take so long? With the above scene, re-smoothing the truck and everything in or on it to 80deg maximum was a real right "let it run while I go for coffee" job.