Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: MATs in Pose libary or Camera libary???

cmjackson opened this issue on Jul 29, 2003 ยท 42 posts


Spanki posted Fri, 01 August 2003 at 4:47 AM

The question of MAT/SET/MOR/WHAtever files 'belonging' in the Pose directory reminds me of a question I asked my father when I was about 12-14 years old... You see I was a pretty deep thinker by then and often thought about 'big picture' things. It occured to me that when you see a map of the USA (for example), Maine is always shown on the top-right and Florida is always shown on the bottom-right. For that matter, 'North' is always depicted as 'Up'... but WHY? If some alien species comes flying into our solor system, when they looked through thier uber-scope from orbit, would they see the US as we imagine it on our maps? Would it be upside-down? These are things a young teenager wants answers to ;). I don't recall my father's exact words, but it was along the lines of "so everyone has a common reference...". As proud as I was to have come to such metaphysical deductions at the time, It didn't MATTER that I was right that there was NO 'correct' way of stating which way is 'up' (in fact if I point 'down', it stops becoming 'down' when extended to the other side of the earth, but I digress...). What was important was that everyone have a common frame of reference. Getting back to the question at hand... you are right that MAT/MOR/SET/etc files are not really 'Pose' files... but the first ones created were created as such, and so a precedent was set - that's where people 'expect' to find them ;). On the other hand, someone mentioned hair color MAT files above... that's a great idea... I'm going to move all of mine into the folders the hair resides in right now - thanks! - Keith

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