Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Verdict on ApolloMaximus

kuroyume0161 opened this issue on Jun 22, 2005 ยท 122 posts


jade_nyc posted Thu, 23 June 2005 at 8:45 AM

My top three male figures:

  1. Max (ApolloMaximus)
  2. David
  3. M2

Because of the extra body parts and the way he was rigged - Max poses much nicer then David & M2, which means less postwork on cracked joints and bulging or indented muscles and body parts ;) lol

RDNA supports their products so there's not a doubt in my mind there will be clothing and more skin textures for him. For now I've got WW - so I've got Max covered ;) And while I may not be able to create a seamless skin texture from scratch, I certainly know how to alter a pre-existing one and the included skin texture is a nice base to work with.

He needs more head morphs - but I say that about every figure I've ever purchased. lol

I've started playing around with displacement mapping veins, wrinkles and muscles in P5 - and my attempts have been pretty promising, hoping I'll inspire a talented pixel pusher to do better though.

I'm tired of hearing people bitch about his price. You get the figure, the head and body morphs, a high-res skin texture, a cat suit and a hair/beard figure for $50 bucks.

I paid $78 bucks for Vicky 1, and that was for just a figure and morphs from what I recall. I paid $29.95 to upgrade to Vicky 2 which wasn't even a new mesh, just some additional morphs and perhaps some joint tweaks. $42.20 to Upgrade to V3 - figure, head & body morphs and a high-res texture and I believe those were discounted prices because I was part of the Platinum Club (which I only joined btw because I was finally going to be able to purchase all the Anton goodies at DAZ I had been drooling over for a long time lol).

I can't remember what I paid for Mike 1 but I know he was naked, bald and skinless for a couple of months after purchasing him I was so broke ;) lol Upgrading to Mike 2 was $27.96, again just some additional morphs and perhaps joint tweaks. $36.66 (PC discounted) to upgrade to Mike3, figure, head & body morphs, didn't buy a skin tex that time around, bought UTC instead ;) lol M3 was a bit of a disappointment to me but I got Steph Petite ($15.70 for head and body morphs - PC discount) and the Freak ($12.23 for morphs & maps - PC discount) out of the deal so I didn't complain too loudly.

I got the complete David bundle for $48.98 - figure, head & body morphs, standard res tex map, clothing pack and hair). David was worth it even if he was just a re-worked M3 mesh with better JPs. lol David has not been supported too well as far as clothing is concerned but I've now got him covered with WW as well.

$50 for an innovative mesh is reasonable as far as I'm concerned.