wolf359 opened this issue on Sep 02, 2007 · 115 posts
XENOPHONZ posted Thu, 06 September 2007 at 2:32 PM
Quote - Flame wars? Sure. Outright bitching and complaining up and down about the software they (don't) know how to use? Not nearly as much as I see here.
Viewed from that standpoint -- possibly true. Sad, but possibly true.
As for highender's seeming built-in prejudice against Poser: if so few of them have it, or have even tried it -- then how did they form their solid opinions against it? Very likely by osmosis from their peers..................
I see Poser figures and Poser animations being used at the supposedly "pro" level all of the time. I've seen national magazine print ads that were clearly done in Poser. I've also seen Poser animations used regularly in places like History Channel & Biography Channel documentary shows -- as well as many other places. I would term such use as "professional level".
It's quick & easy to slap together a 3D re-creation of a real-life crime in Poser -- and then use the animation for illustration purposes on an FBI Files type of show. I've seen this done often. I've also seen plenty of Poser animations put to similar use elsewhere on television.
Quote - Eh, I'd be surprised if Poser sells more than 60,000 licensed units on any given release. Maybe they do, but I don't care. So if they have a user base in the millions, that's really a hell of a lot of priated copies being used. 3dsmax is widely known as one of the most pirated 3D applications out there, but we know that has to do with it being so tightly connected to the gaming industry. You know, all those millions of young gamers who wanted to make mods for their 'levels' first turned to gMax, which was free, then quickly decided to get the 'better' version... which is 3dsmax. Ooops!... it's $3k, and they've already maxed-out mommy's credit card on porn this month! Time to pay a visit to the torrent underground.
Not surprising. 3DS Max's sister app, AutoCAD, is heavily pirated, too. That goes with the territory these days.
Rabid gamers? They are notorious on a number of levels. Hey -- stealing items is a major aspect of many RPG's. So why not extend such behavior to the real-world software needed to build the game in the first place? We've all heard reports about violent murders being commited in Southeast Asia over events that transpired in an RPG. But I won't get into that here. 