momodot opened this issue on Sep 28, 2009 · 30 posts
momodot posted Mon, 28 September 2009 at 1:05 PM
Thanks for the help guys! Some good leads definitely.
Sometimes someone will do a scene, maybe years back... and then everyone stays away from replicating it which is too bad. Richibabri for instance has an Interrogation Room which is quite nice and useful in my opinion but then maybe it is hard to find a different style of the same thing if you are looking for a different sort of look because people are afraid to duplicate the effort. Richichabris is a nice big room but the rooms in my region actually used are much smaller and almost closet like.
Of course there is no limit to the number of steel bikinis available but I think in ten years I have found less than half a dozen remotely believable sofas made for Poser. But there is a tendency for people to discourage both consumers looking for a new take on a certain thing or vendors/freebie makers releasing a new version. I am sure TG is plenty happy people persisted in making saunas and dressing rooms even after she put hers in the store... all the different saunas are all different! I am just surprised there is no end to slightly different versions of the steel bikini but something of such obvious practical and artistic use as the justice scenes done by Wheatpenny are far more difficult to come by.
Take the different police shows on TV in the US all by Jerry Bruckhiemer, each show has a very different Interrogation Room design and style... anyone of these styles would be really cool to have in Poser but their is this tendency in Poser among some people that if you are looking for a style different from the first instance that comes to their mind they think you are a lout. Wheatpenny and others have done some nice stuff at a certain resolution but that doesn't mean I have not overlook someone else who has done a stunning job intended for a different rendering style.
Not all Poser content comes from DAZ, RMP and the regular suspects... there is quite fine work in some of the specialty stores but it is damn hard to find it. You happen on a specialty store, it is not relevant to the work you are doing then but some years later you are stuck trying to track down that store that has eight different kinds of North American Elk rigged for Poser.
Personally, I am sad for having lost a lot of my listing or arcane mesh sources to a disc crash... you can search RMP and DAZ high and low for a simple real world style sofa to no avail but there was a site for interior designers that had insanely accurate .obj downloads. Yet if you ask for help finding a good sofa there are people who will pound you for not being satisfied with the wildly inacurate couch designs on ShareCG or Freestuff.
Thing is... if you ask then maybe someone will remember that strange off-the-beaten track source. For instance there is a company that has incredibly accurate models of all the doors they manufacture available as downloads from Google 3D Warehouse. That source also has accurate IKEA shelving. That company that makes those very high-end executive office chairs used to have fee mesh downloads too.
I almost always end up using modified textures on Gerald Day scenes (which rock!) but still every few years I try to find certain things I don't think are too essoteric. It is more likely to find good new Police and Justice Scenes I would think then say an accurate church bingo or a detailed shoe repair shop.
I find bits and pieces here and there, aery soul's tile wall, a 3ds of a n egg carton flat etc. but if someone knows of a pulled together cinder block basement or interogation room I feel it is okay for me to ask... I am picky... so often brick walls in Poser are innacurately scaled and have visible repeats, I'm talking commercial products... I have to rescale textures, Photoshop them and then Post-work... but then I think there most be someone else who has done this all before and made a really sweet scene better than what I have jury rigged together... may just not be in the big store or findable even if it is there but someone might know about it.
In this case http://www.sharecg.com/v/28135/poser/Athors_MegaConstructionKit.zip does seem to be the best cinder block wall out there... also I must find Dr. Geeps old tutorial... there was a shading issue on the texture he provided but it should be fixable in Photoshop. I vave some nicely modeled file boxes from the old CntrCmdEsc Cartoonist's Studio and maybe I can find a descent warehouse and some warehouse shelving to put those on. I'll take another look at that wheatpenny stuff -- thank you for putting those in Freestuff!!