dvdcdr opened this issue on Aug 12, 2006 · 65 posts
fuaho posted Mon, 14 August 2006 at 10:05 PM
The Face Room can be quite useful but there are definitely certain quirks that need to be addressed. Someone already mentioned the inability to enlarge the working space. There also needs to be less interaction between the morph points - moving a nose should not totally deform the rest of the face the way it does. And the most annoying is when the whole piece moves in the same direction as the mouse sometimes but opposite in another view or with another tool. I recently raised all these (and more) issues with eFrontier tech support.
As part of a response I (finally) received from them was the following:
"...As for the rest, your suggestions are well-taken- if you'd like to get these directly to the development team, you can send suggestions or feature requests in to wishlist@e-frontier.com
...and certainly emails sent there are more visible than tech support submissions."
While people complain heartily about Poser, there is really an astounding amount of power in the program, it's just that it is not readily accessible to the casual user. Each and every "Room" could take 9 mos to a year of constant usage to fully understand and there is no resource to access for a deeper understanding. The manuals are 375 pages of totally "bare-boned, just enough to get you started" info, but provide no way to drill down into the more complicated capabilites. And the third -party materials are little better, but I think a book that really plumbed the depths would take a forklift to move around and would cost as much as a Hummer.
Just an additional IMHO observation:
Can't one go into the Setup Room and create any rig they want and then use Grouping and Constraints to weight the mesh appropriately? Unfortunately, I don't have Poser on this computer, so I can't confirm this. I do know that people import these meshes into other programs and then rig them the way they want. They just weld the seams during import to create a single mesh so there is no breakage. Maybe there's a market for a few good rigs??
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