gagnonrich opened this issue on Jul 14, 2005 ยท 22 posts
gagnonrich posted Fri, 15 July 2005 at 8:33 AM
"I feel that a Seal of Compatibility rather than Seal of Approval sounds better. :)" I like that better because that's all the seal would mean, that the clothing product hasn't done anything too elaborate and maintains all the conventional figure names that WardrobeWizard recognizes. Your point is well taken that it, by no means, should be taken as an indication of the quality of the clothing item. "That Wardrobe Wizard will be a must-have plugin assumes that people who have been using Clothes Converter for a long time are suddenly going to abandon it." Actually, I said, "As Wardrobe Wizard improves and adds more figures..." because right now WW isn't a perfect solution and it may be very possible that something else will come down the pike that will blow it out of the water. I'm currently 1-for-1 in my conversions and even the one that worked reasonably well isn't perfect. I have a lot of hope for what it could be, but it's not there yet. I've never used Clothes Converter, so cannot offer any personal experiences about it good or bad. I did look for reviews here and saw a lot, from longtime Poser users, that were disappointed in the amount of work required to do a conversion. Converting the P4 Male armor to the skeleton, in WW, took a few minutes, without any tweaking. Once a conversion has been done, it can readily be applied to any other figure in under a minute. Can Clothes Converter take a converted item and easily apply it to other figures with a button click? It does sound as if Clothes Converter can more readily be used on clothing figures that WW's limitations cannot correctly convert. We might more readily agree that having a solid, easy-to-use, program, that allows using a clothing item on any Poser figure, is a bit of a holy grail for Poser users. At the moment there are a few different programs that each have strengths and weaknesses and none are the magical one-click solution that we all wish we could have. When a clothing item is compatible with WW, it's pretty close to that holy grail. The problem is that there is a lot of stuff that doesn't work perfectly in WW. "Why not bypass the whole thing and have clothing creators use WW to convert the clothing to the more popular figures before putting it into the marketplace?" That will happen and merchants will sometimes already provide fit poses for different characters or multiple CR2s. Nearly every new outfit at PoserWorld provides the same outfits for different characters. The downside of supporting multiple figures is that each included CR2 increases the download size. Imagine how big a download would be with 20 CR2s. A 50K analysis file is a little easier to deal with and let the user do the conversion. The file is small enough that it it adds little overhead to a download that it's bound to be a standard addition to clothing items that are compatible with WW. If a customer doesn't have the program, it's small enough that it won't impact the download of a multi-Mb file. I'd still like to know which clothing items are compatible with WW because it's nice to have an indication that it will be readily usable on other figures. It would influence my buying one item over a similar item.
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