Quote - Specific vendors have certainly increased their quality over the years. On the other hand I've bought one or two things lately that are really quite poor, but those are exceptions.

One thing that really bugs me is that some vendors are clearly working with monitors that are wildly out of whack: the texture maps have been corrected to look OK on their systems, but on anything vaguely accurate they look terrible. It's such a common problem that I check the textures for everything I buy, and often have to correct those that are too blue, too red, too yellow, too dark, too light (etc. etc.).

Oh yes, the orange people of Poser World!  I find almost every texture set I buy too yellow or orange.  Luckily VSS can correct most materials settings although I often have to apply specular or bump maps manually after conversion.  But I've also gotten into the habit of loading the texture maps into Photoshop and color adjust them.  This became much easier when you could make color adjustment layers in PS.   Like I said, most vendors don't do good material work.  You might say I only buy texture maps, not materials when I buy a character.  Hopefully more vendors will make use of VSS in the future.  Bagginsbill has said recently that he won't make money demands for use of VSS, just the credit.  Wonderful man, that Baggo!

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