Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Free Human Figures from Zygote

Mazak opened this issue on May 15, 2005 ยท 160 posts


Helgard posted Wed, 18 May 2005 at 7:49 PM

Open Source project If you are serious, this is the way to structure it. Let the community vote on five team leaders, one each for rigging, texturing, clothing, add-ons and hair. The community can then apply to the team leaders to become part of that team. So the team leaders co-ordinate between each other the various stages, and they each run their own team. So each team will work something like this: Rigging - say there are ten members, they each make a wish list of what this model must do, for instance, walk designer compatible, MIMIC compatible, etc. They decide on a list of morphs, functions (like moving toes - yes/no, etc) and then the team leader combines these lists into a workable plan, which he sends to the other team leaders for comment. The work is then handed out, this person does those morphs, these people make the CR2/rig, these do the ERC afterwards, etc. The other team leaders also make their own lists of product specs, like texture map sizes, etc. They can divide up work, like these people make eyes, these people make the skin textures and these people make the make-up overlays or alien textures, or whatever mad scheme comes to mind. Once veryone has agreed on the features, a timetable is set up, like rigging three weeks, texturing three weeks, etc, while other people like the hair and clothes group can start working on stuff almost immediately. Seeing as it is a community product, it will obviously be free, and the clothing creators can pass stuff onto the texturing team for extra textures, etc. The add-ons team makes a bunch of useful start up props and additions, like glasses, rings, necklace, and maybe a few big freebies, like a weapon, or something really essential, like a lawnmower (with animated pose files), lol. This way we won't end up with ten different CR2 files and 5 different UV maps. To make it more interesting, if there is enough interest, this could be made into a friendly competition, two groups working independantly on two different set-ups, and afterwards a vote on which figure was the most succesful/innovative/useful, etc.


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