ashish_s_india opened this issue on Jun 06, 2005 ยท 34 posts
ashish_s_india posted Mon, 06 June 2005 at 11:17 AM
I agree that CL / Daz / Renderosity are way better than Turbosquid and 3d02. You might call it stupid, but a friend of mine recntly purchased Masha from 3d02 @ $189. And I must say though the figure was impressive, you get content nearly as good as Masha with Poser, for 1/10 the cost. And the stuff at Daz is also very reasonably priced. But thats not the point, Its not about don't buy anything...its about try doing it yourself if you can and tell others how to do it. Back over in the Max community, I had people helping and I don't once recall anyone suggesting a plugin product to get good results(To save time, sometimes yes)...rather everyone said "Shit, you don't need to buy a plug for that, try doing this instead"...even though most people using Max can afford to buy $500 content(If they can spend $3500 on Max, $1200 on Brazil..)and thats how you groom new users up and build a strong user community. So the next time someone asks "Hey, how did ya do that? Its better to reply I changed the Spec like this, The Trans like this...". rather than "Just dload that scrip and do it". ..And yes face_off's done a great job putting up that tut for real skin. It helped me a lot(Although I am a Procedural Skin Only guy), and for that I will always be thankful....but one must also remember, the skin tuts and the supporting files at CGtalk, Highend3D (And even the tut face_off's tut is based on) are all free. The real skin shader is ofcourse a great product for Poser and has brought never before seen realism to Poser renders.(I too own a copy :)) So the msg is, as long as its not against some damned copyright / illegal, share .pz3's as a lot of people like me probably wonder how people like face_off get 100 times as good renders using the same product, and in some cases the same base files as we noobs do! And can I mod a body and set its UVs the same as M3 / James so that the textures are compatible? Would that be somekind of copyright issue? And can I use James as a base for modding a new figure (keeping the UV's same)? Would that lead to some copyright violation? Coz that would really save a lot of time! Thanks :)