corleone1 opened this issue on Mar 25, 2008 · 285 posts
pjz99 posted Sat, 05 April 2008 at 2:05 PM
Quote - Another thing that I find intriguing (and have since this feature comparison was made public) ... is they also mention "new low res human base characters" and "new medium res human base characters" for the Pro and Base versions. But the PRO (and not Base) version also has "Legacy Human Figures Poser 7 and Earlier".
Don't get the impression that Poser's polygon smoothing cannot work with low poly content, it can. It just requires very specific modeling techniques, and modeling for Catmull-Clark subdivision requires different specific modeling techniques. In some cases they can produce similar results, but in some cases (e.g. practically any Stonemason Poser model) they only look good with polygon smoothing turned off, or with Reyes polygon smoothing (Poser's method).
Note that is not a slam against Stonemason, he's an awesome modeler and texturer; he just builds his Poser models with techniques that do not work well with Catmull-Clark subdivision, that's all.