eallen opened this issue on Jun 23, 2000 ยท 27 posts
Arendar posted Mon, 26 June 2000 at 3:57 PM
Hi Eric, An introductory price of $ 59.95 would certainly make "Victor" (God, not "Manny" please; it's such a total wimp of a name) more attractive as a purchase. By "neutral", I was referring to a default, base figure (e.g. Poser 4 dork). It seems that when Zygote releases a new generation of nude figures, it has to grapple with the twin (and competing) objectives of either making it an base model of an average "every man" type figure (for the widest possible applications) and/or giving the model "more character", i.e. stronger and more specific features such as ethnicity, muscularity, stature, etc. which might possibly make the figure's use more selective. Invariably, the default, base figure seems to turn out rather "dorkish". This is fine as long as there are included morphs, i.e. for ethnicity, muscularity, etc. which allow other users to re-define the character and give it more specific ethnic detail and stronger physical features. This is crucial especially if the new figure no longer supports those existing (face and body) morphs created for previous generations of Poser people. And of course, the best mesh without a good texture/bump map(s)is virtually useless, so do consider including these (and other neccessities such as hair) for "Victor's" release as well.