Quote - ok so every poser user ISN't going to render a G rated scene. who cares. Calling V4 dressed up in some vamp outfit barely covering her "highlights" Ghetto, is , IMO is the equivelant of calling The Birth of Venus by Botticelli , porno.

Heh - not really. 'ghetto' is a description of quality, whereas 'porno' is a description of subject matter.

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Quote - Well, here's a thought... maybe it's just irritatingly impossible to get 'normal' clothes to look convincing on these figures, and it's just a heck of a lot easier to get some measure of realism with skimpy little bits pasted on here and there? This especially if you haven't had much practice with the program.

It is easier to just not deal with clothing, but in Poserdom's earlier days, a huge chunk of folks simply painted those on in Photoshop. Clothing is struggling along - most 3d pros will simply model the clothing on the figure as part of the figure itself, since most of the time they don't expect the mesh to be re-usable beyond whatever project the mesh is being used for.

DAZ is still (allegedly still) working on some sort of clothing system for D|S, but it's not easy to do. You're talking about (at base) collision detection. This is a pain in the ass to code for under good conditions (special low/no poly 'cloth' draping over low/no-poly primitives), let alone conditions where you have a multi-thousand-poly clothing item that has to fit over a ~100k-poly-figure. Poser's current solution is pretty impractical, unless you have a metric ton of patience and/or already know up-front what the final composition is going to look like (though props to them for coming up with something...)

As for nudity? Oftentimes it is the perfect state for a figure to be in. OTOH, there has to be a 'reason' for it.

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Quote - > Quote - Trivia (most of you should know this!): What is the "hello world" mesh of 3D CG programming?

 
The teapot

The Utah Teapot - done up by a gent at the University of Utah to test some very early concepts.

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