Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Why don't we have more clothings for P4 woman anymore! :c(((

vxg139 opened this issue on Mar 30, 2006 ยท 37 posts


momodot posted Fri, 31 March 2006 at 5:53 PM

vxg139, stahlratte can't make the commitment to distributing the figure given all the issues around today concerning real and bogus copyright and EULA issues. I don't think that any of the pre INJ characters that were sold or distributed prior to V3 would be or could be made available today. It seems that now that there is the position that JPs and other such features can infringe even when developed independently. The problem with Posette is a catch-22, the clothes and textures are six years out of date. Ghastly's P4 clothes are not the same as stuff by wusamah or Mask-da. This is not because Posette, or certainly Eve, can not support high quality clothes, it is because quality and standards have gone up in the intervening years. There is no way we will see new Posette content but the reasons are purely economic. As for the poll, I think it was a great effort but for some reason the proportion of people I know who are using Poser 4 and ProPak is literally ten times what was indicated by the poll. The poll was very much oriented toward merchants, it was clearly represented as a marketing tool for merchants, which almost caused me not to participate since I don't usually participate in commercial polls unless I am directly compensated. Often the people doing the most serious work with Poser are not the people who buy a figure and morphs for $80-$100, buy a temple for $20, buy a texture and dial-spin for $18, buy a pose set for $12, buy lighting for $10, and buy a metal bikini and a sword for $14 for a render. Any vendor in their right mind would be developing their products for the consumer who is doing that. Despite what anyone professes, to the actual market, senseless high resolution is the main selling point of a figure today for most consumers -vertice inflation. As for the inherent deficiencies of the P4; Eve had inconsistent mapping, texturing wasn't well developed in the mid 90's, complex facial expressions had not been developed, the facial resolution was a bit low although pitklad has remedied that, Arduino had not made a genitals and people don't like en-coded figures like Eve, the breasts skull and jawline on Posette can be facety without P6 polygon smoothing, and the Dork default face was ugly. Most of these issues have been remedied in the last couple of years but all too late as the monster resolution figures are on the scene now. I have yet to see someone post a V2Lo next to a V3 in an image big enough to show the resolution difference between them. I seldom see V3 or Miki in a render where the face is even as large as 200x200 pixels, rendered for certain with a 4000x4000 or larger texture. Anyway, I am out of luck, the P4 stuff available in the stores are at the 1999 prices -twice or more the going prices for Millennium 3 stuff due to low volume. The problem is that content for P4 was developed before there was a commercial market, Poser was a freebie DIY culture in those days, the commercial market did not develop until their were consumers who would buy any new figure and any new product with money no object, the recreational as opposed to artist and hobbyist user you might say. I don't recall ever seeing P4 clothes in the RMP only some T-shirt textures and some textures to make the P4 Casual clothes into uniforms. I am not adept at searching, but if anyone knows of nice P4 clothes in the shop would you please point me to them?