Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Anton's Changing Fantasy Suit for Victoria -- please help me

InBlack opened this issue on Jun 05, 2001 ยท 51 posts


soulhuntre posted Wed, 06 June 2001 at 3:02 AM

Well, I don't own the suit - but I DO know that there is an interesting meeting of worlds goign on :) To me, a suit of armor that got my project >DONE< is worth the money, even if I had to spend a few hours tweeking it. But then I do this sort of thing for a living (not poser yet, but general design and graphics work). I would compare it this way ... $80 or so for the fantasy suit, plus a few hours learning how to use it.... or more than 5-6 DAYS of my time in modeling, texturing and then all the problems of conformance and morphs - let's add a few more days to a week because it is not my skill. Care to guess what a week+ of my time is worth? Lot's more than $80. So for me... if it saves me time then it si worth the money. if not, it isn't. It's "perfection" isn't the issue to me. But then, I am looking at it from a totally different view than a hobbyist. I am doing this to get work done and make money - hopefully I will have fun too. Poser is saving our firm SO much time and money already (outside of the Daz/poser community a fully articulated IK chained posable female is in the thousands of dollars... and doesn' have stock clothing and so on at all) that the $80 is not an issue. Does that mean you are wrong to return a product you don;t like? Not at all! Does that mean someone can sell you bad stuff and expect you to cry with joy? Nope. What it DOES mean is that conforming clothing to multiple morphed bodies in multiple poses is the single most difficult problem in graphics today, and it is NOT going to be perfectly solved by software as cheap as poser and an $80 clothing pack. No way, no how. So... by all means demand your money back if your not satisfied - but you might want to make sure you know what youre actually asking before you demand perfection for 80$ in this area. Hopefully, you will see that I am not insulting anytone here - nor am I defending anyone at all. I am simply saying that poser has limitations in the areas of conforming and clothing - it always will.