Attached Link: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_duskdemo_home.html

Sorry, but I don't buy that logic.

The SIMS have already made MILLIONS for their creators- if the hardware is so specialized- how can so many home-consumer users be buying and using it? Who is the SIMS 2 targeted at- NASA's Jet Propulsion Lab scientists? No-
MILLIONS of people already own the hardware and software,
so that's not a limitation. The SIMS is one of the most wildly popular games ever. The creators are now greatly improving it. Do "I" want it, NO. That's not the point.

Actually, you are totally missing my point here- but I know some of the others who will pass through WILL get "it".
That's who I'm showing this to- people who are not wearing blinders and can only see what the little Poser fishpond has to offer. It is the reason I think why so many others spend more time at the CGChannel or someplace else, because some Poser users really are amazingly narrow-minded.

Here's a link provided by Cuba in one of our earlier GMAX
related forum discussions. This "Dusk" video is absolutely
incredible when you understand that it was made "REAL TIME"
on a GeForce card using nVidia software. This is more like a Poser "scene" but the animation is REAL TIME but recorded to WMV for people who don't own a GeForce card--

The character is very likely DAZ's Victoria 2, but there are
no notes to confirm this- but see for yourself...

http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_duskdemo_home.html

Click on the Dusk Video WMV (16 MB) and it should start to
play fairly quickly-

Key Features:
Realistic Skin: Dusk's skin is a custom fragment shader that includes shadowing, diffuse and specular color, bump, and a simple subsurface scattering effect. Realistic Hair: Her hair is comprised entirely of geometry and is only possible due to the high-performance vertex shaders of the GeForce FX 5900 GPUs. Together, vertex and fragment shaders allow for an anisotropic lighting model, resulting in extremely realistic hair.

More videos here: http://www.nzone.com/object/nzone_downloads_nvidia.html

Message edited on: 07/23/2004 23:48