DarkElegance opened this issue on May 05, 2003 ยท 38 posts
Treewarden posted Mon, 05 May 2003 at 4:00 PM
I have been thinking like Hisminky for the about a week now. There are two things that can happen. Furious Labs could add modeling functionality to Poser. Since you can only use the premade figures without spending way to much time/money on another modelling program, this has created a trend of Vicky, Vicky, Vicky (not a bad thing entirely). Or, as Hisminky points out, a bunch of us need to start modeling the vast variety of things that need to be modeled in order to begin to round out the Poser application. Now, I have seen the price of models drop dramatically over the last two years, and it looks like nobody would be able to make enough money on a model to justify how hard/long it would take to make, especially if it has a very limited use. So, although the quality of the models has increased, the price of any model has plummeted. The situation, based on supply/demand makes it very unlikely that a variety of "more useful" products will emerge. We should formalize "wish list" format to allow modelers to respond when they know roughly how many people will be interested in "toilet paper rolls, towel racks, etc." In other words, we could find a way to fairly distrubute modelling assignments so that we don't each make the "best roll of TP ever" and then have fifty five dollar rolls of TP! Without some type of organization, I think it will be literally years before Poser renders begin to diverge from each other in appearance.