Veritas777 opened this issue on Oct 26, 2004 ยท 32 posts
Veritas777 posted Wed, 27 October 2004 at 8:35 PM
YES!- and that's why (heh!) my free marketing advice to E-on is about a way to increase sales into the Poser user base by developing a HDRI Photo Studio concept- (THAT was what my post was about-- not E-on beta-testing.) --Actually- hardly ANYONE has congratulated E-on for such a STABLE and nearly bug-free initial release of Vue 5! I can't remember when any other software company has released such a stable "first version". A pretty remarkable achievement, I think. But, anyway- if a HDRI Photo Studio could help E-on sell more software into the Poser user base, I think that would be a really good thing. I think MANY Poser users have become very frustrated with Poser's outdated software code and are seeking out other software to get better looking renders. Frankly- Poser is becoming a "utility program" and software like VUE could become their MAIN rendering program. It already is for me... One other idea I have thought about is that VUE could ultimately read in Poser runtimes DIRECTLY- including Cr2's, props, etc. The only reason NOT too do this is that Poser can still take most of BLAME (heh!) for things that don't work right in Poser. And frankly, too- I think DAZ has gotten itself WAY off track by buying Bryce and also its very SLOW development of DAZ Studio. DAZ Studio looked very promising 9-10 months ago, but they have seemed to make very little progress with it. With Bryce, they are fighting with a very OLD rendering engine-- meanwhile E-on has gone through at least FIVE software re-writes! I know that many users of higher-end, more EXPENSIVE 3D softwares are somewhat STUNNED at how good Vue has become as as a VALUE. You can't get HDRI QUALITY rendering like in Vue 5 anywhere else, for the price. (Even Dosch says that Cinema 4D version 8 doesn't truely make use of the HDR data...)