d4500 opened this issue on Apr 27, 2004 ยท 36 posts
hauksdottir posted Wed, 28 April 2004 at 9:20 AM
The biggest drawback is perception. If you don't think anybody wants something, you don't make it, and nobody buys it... so you were right. If you do think that somebody wants it, and you make it, and lo! somebody buys it. Right again. But this is an accelerating trend. Too often people will buy something just because everybody else has it and they want to be popular too. Or they'll dis something because it is cool to be superior. Politics. Quality and usefulness and flexibility aren't as key as whether it is acceptable to the ingroup... whoever they are. If you guys make more stuff for the Poser 5 characters, they will indeed have the support they need to florish. If you don't make stuff because there is no support... well, that is a self-fulfilling prophecy if I have ever met one. Right now I have a bear of a render going on the Mac. Not because there are 2 dressed and accoutered Judys... but because Anton's Candleworks have added about 3 dozen lights and shadowcams. Not only could I NOT create this scene using V3s (not the same clothes or morphs), but it would bring my poor long-suffering beast to its knees. There is a strong need for neat stuff for these figures, even more than the fad-of-the-moment or the over-the-bleeding-edge injection models. These are basics. And you can fill a scene with them. Well, the render has finished. It isn't what I intended, but it is a happy accident. Now to figure out what happened. ;) One other thing to think about. There are more people with Poser 5 than there were last year, and that number will increase. If a critical mass of consumers has those models, surely it makes sense to provide product for them? Carolly