iw43d opened this issue on Feb 08, 2004 ยท 22 posts
iw43d posted Sat, 14 February 2004 at 3:43 PM
It's a long one too but didn't get posted. Sorry. Here it is. Glad I saved it/don't have to re-write this bad boy. Blue Pixel, Pam from iw43d here. I thought Spook's response to your post had resolved your issues, but seeing this post you've made here ed all of your questions, but with this latest post of yours, I thought I had better jump in to address your concerns. Let me start out by saying that perhaps this entire ordeal is my fault for not mentioning that Spook's Custom Design was loosely based on the Hammerhead (from whatever TV series it is from/that you refer to). Would this have cleared things up for you or kept us from ruffling your feathers so much? If so, I sincerely apologize because I am the one who adds new products to our website, and who is also responsible for the marketing of these products (among other things ;). Not being familiar with this TV series, I did not mention the origin of what Spook's original design was based upon. That being said I NEED TO ADDRESS A VERY IMPORTANT ISSUE regarding your last post about our FA40 model (that is being sold on our site) and Questors model. PLEASE KNOW THAT Spook commissioned us to do TWO JOBS for him: 1. CONVERT QUESTOR'S HAMMERHEAD MODEL TO POSER, which we did after FIRST getting Questor's permission to do so. Upon completion of the conversion, we sent Spook the only copy we made, and would never attempt to sell this model on our own site, OR ANYWHERE ELSE. 2. CREATE the FA40 MODEL WITH % SETS OF TEXTURE MAPS per Spook's design notes and specifications. These models are completely separate of one another. If you prefer to stand by your accusation in your recent post, I would be more than happy to provide images of both wire meshes and post them here for you. I will have to get the wire mesh image from Spook of the model conversion, (Questor's model) however, since we no longer have a copy of it. Just FYI, the FA40 took us 3 weeks to create the mesh to build from scratch, and then prefect all the mats, By NO MEANS did we (or would we) attempt to manipulate Questor's mesh and then resell it. Hell, if was difficult enough just trying to convert the thing to Poser, let alone try to rework with the mesh. It probably has five times the polys count than the FA40 model we created. (Point being that we wouldn't do this anyway.) And just so you are clear on what transpired... Spook commissioned us to convert Questor's model. To pay for our time, we charged him a considerable fee to do so. When we completed this conversion, he wasn't exactly "thrilled" with the outcome, and we felt very bad about this because not only is Spook a great customer, he's also a friend. With that, we made a compromise and suggested to him that if in the future, he wanted to create his own custom design himself and provide us with some drawings, that we would be happy to have him commission us to do build a model of it. Since we are well aware that most of the Poser Community consists of hobbyists, we understand that most people here don't have sizeable budgets to justify the time spent to create custom models for them. However, and as I told Spook, if anyone comes up with an original custom design, we can try to keep the price of the commissioned job as low as we possibly could, if we would be able to sell the model in an effort to compensate us for our time. We can justify labor costs if we think the item has a potential for us to recoup through stock model sales. So this is what we did. I think you already know that this is our business, and not just a hobby to us, yes? I hope my explanation helps resolve any misunderstanding in the matter, and eliminates any ill feelings you might be building up simply because I neglected to mention what "inspired", or what the model premise was loosely based on, or the word Hammerhead, (if you wanted me to mention the TV series, youd have to give me the name of it.) Please let me know. And as I said, we're happy to post the meshes if it would help you to put this behind you. Thanks much. And Happy Valentine's Day! :) Pam