Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: It's all so primitive

Leonardis opened this issue on Jun 26, 2004 ยท 29 posts


ynsaen posted Sat, 26 June 2004 at 8:13 PM

Clarity without compromise. The truth is above. The reason no one has created such a program is that no one with the particular skills to create such a program and an understanding of a process which is still changing and evolving even at this time has ever written one. There are people with both skills. They are frequently at the leading edge of the new developments. They are frustrated by a lack of documentation for the elements which comprise the features. The variables involved in such a task are enormous. To further this difficulty, the Poser boning system is still being used rather simplistically, the meshes available are of varying degrees of complexity and design, the most popular features of many of the more popular figures are nothing more than hacks of the existing program base which do not operate the same across the platforms still in use, and the process itself involves just as much artistry and design savvy as the creation of the product. I agree, incidentally -- the tools are only useful if you have the knowledge to use them properly. Oddly enough, that does apply to most tools. Sadly, there is no program capable of such a thing at this time. If there was, someone would have a great deal of money and the rest of use would be in heaven. And let's make matters worse, just for the sheer exhilaration of it: What works today will not work tomorrow.

thou and I, my friend, can, in the most flunkey world, make, each of us, one non-flunkey, one hero, if we like: that will be two heroes to begin with. (Carlyle)