Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Unbelievably Complicated Figure Shader for Apollo Maximus (AMUCFS)

bagginsbill opened this issue on Jun 29, 2007 · 236 posts


Chopperman posted Wed, 04 July 2007 at 12:04 PM

Baggins,
I created a non-lurking account just to reply to this.

The work that you and Anton have done AND offered for free cannot be praised enough. The generosity of you two is incredible. That a noob like me can download and create realistic human renders without paying an arm and a leg for each arm and each leg is fantastic. Many of the fee-based products pale in comparison.

And so I thank you.

Some thoughts (I'm a software tester by trade - so bear with me)

  1. Good - the read me is excellent and easy to follow. With the stock Apollo I was having trouble getting realistic looking renders because of all the variables in the shader nodes and lighting options. Overwhelming. So that I can quickly get to a base look and tweak from there is invaluable.

  2. Confusing - the white figure - It took me shrugging and hitting CTRL-R before I saw that this was normal. Workaround - using your lights or setting the defaults to a very low intensity made it easier to see any other changes I was making to the figure. Sure you can pose and morph before adding the shader nodes. But if you find you missed something in the pose, it can be frustrating to go back and try to adjust with the figure detail washed out. I dont know the answer for this - but maybe some notes on the subject in the readme would help.

  3. Frightening - As pointed out, the title of the product is daunting. When so many other products are titled "Magic boobies" or "Hair Dance Xpress" the name of your product scares us newbs.

  4. Bug?  - if you have the wrong figure selected and apply a pose (i.e. I had the light selected by mistake) the python goes berserk with errors and pops up over and over. I only escaped by closing the window 15 times or so.  I dont know enough about pythin to suggest how to handle the errors. Unless you can catch the error and go to an error and exit function.

I only found out about this product via my daily forum cruising. And this is the only poser forum I regularly look at. Frankly I dont have tme to go to a dozen sites to keep up on everything. So spreading the word via the freebies and Anton's site (if he is willing) are good ideas to get more adoption of this wonderful tool.

Another suggestion I would make is that you continue to develop this for Apollo for free (keeping in the spirit of Anton's fantastic release) but DO develop versions for other figures (V4, Aiko, etc) based on the development and testing done on the Apollo version - and charge for them. I would cheerfully pay up. I think others would to.

Again, thank you for this great tool.

Chop