Starkdog opened this issue on May 05, 2005 ยท 14 posts
Helgard posted Fri, 06 May 2005 at 12:44 AM
Stefan, Mine is a one-off figure. He will come with one set of clothes and all the equipment needed to use him in sci-fi or military renders. Sort of the same as the drone-trooper from Dystopia, he will be a stand-alone figure. If someone else wants to make add-on clothes for him they will be welcome, but he is just going to be a test rig to test some of the new rigging controls for the two proper figures, Geni and Eric. I will be making his polygons open source for clothing though, so people can just copy the polygons and make clothes from that, and they won't need to model clothing from scratch. I may include base meshes for boots, pants, shirt, gloves, etc, that people can use to model clothes from. I think if anyone wants to release a succesfull figure they are going to have to release base meshes for clothing with the figures. What I am doing for the Geni and Eric figures is releasing a developers pack which will have base meshes for clothing, base textures you can add onto, etc. Yes, I am working from drawings. I bought five books on figure drawing and animation, and downloaded about 400 pictures from the net for reference, everything from muscle maps, x-rays, skin textures, Leonardo's drawings, medical pictures, etc, and even did research into things like the average number of eyelashes for a human (it differs vastly according to ethnicity). I have worked through the demo's, and am still busy, for Character Studio, Project Messiah, MotionBuilder, etc, to see if there are better ways of animating Poser figures. At the rate of research vs. work, while still making freebie trucks and things, I will be lucky if I finish any of this in six months like my plan is. Lol, maybe I will have Geni and Eric ready for Poser 7!! PS: NFYOMWBSIATCAC (Naked forty year old man with battle scars in a temple chewing a cigar) may be improvements over NVIATWAS.
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