Forum: Complaint & Debate


Subject: When will Zygote/Daz3D STOP the games?

CreativeOne opened this issue on Feb 12, 2001 ยท 52 posts


RadArt posted Mon, 12 February 2001 at 11:36 PM

Having done a lot of "testing" for, and knowing also a lot of the time and work a lot of creators put into their characters, props and other goods, I KNOW it's not something that can be done in a day, nevermind, even a week is not long enough, depending on what it is. Daz/Zygote is NOT a small company and they have been around for sometime, probably longer than most any of us or even some of these forums? Not everything that is made will be something for everyone's tastes, but so far the MAJORITY of they're workmanship has always been superb and a challenge to meet with by many. And really, unless you create a totally independant figure/character of your very own that works in poser, the majority of so called creations in freestuff and the stores are BASED on Daz/Zygote materials and geometry that is altered, enhanced, added-on, cloned, redone, reshaped, remorphed, or whatever, the basic infrastructure is still based on the poser/Zygote prefab character. If you do design/create your own mesh it's a LOT of WORK and a LOT of TIME and a LOT of TESTING that very few can do. Try to go and BUY a NEW mesh/character that's entirely different, (and these don't even MOVE), and they can cost you a BUNDLE!! I do understand your plight of expectations, like I said above, because we come to expect sooo much MORE these days when we load a new character, especially MORPH wise, and maybe this should be looked at, however in some ways we can also look at this as a lot of folks being spoiled when they expect so very much. I have always come to accept that Daz/Zygote is the one that more or less creates the "molds", and then all the others somewhat refine/enhance them or alter them and make add-ons like clothes and morphs and things to make all this craft that much more valuable and useful. I am not a creature creator as of yet so I am not really sure how many really MAKE brand new meshes to give away and sell, I could be way off here for I am sure and do know there are a good many too, but there are also a great many, if not more, that just use the same models in existence and just make THEM even GREATER. There are some, such as Traveler and Codeman, (remember him?), who actually come up with their own incredible creative breakthroughs and thus become competitors for Daz/Zygote, (both Codeman and Daz have their own Octopus for example), but a lot of what you see around IS enhanced material. Correct me thoroughly if I am wrong here, for I am assuming some things and could be wrong. If I am wrong, then I claim ignorance and have been thinking incorrectly about this for some time.