Forum: MarketPlace Customers


Subject: Mat Poses / Material Room

Klebnor opened this issue on Aug 25, 2010 · 29 posts


Klebnor posted Fri, 27 August 2010 at 11:18 AM

There's an old saying - "if they're firing back, you must be over the target".

Thanks, but I don't care to parse through a readme.txt file to determine whether I'll be able to use a product.  I don't use poser and therefor don't use mat room files.  This may not be an issue for you, but it is for me.  Wanting to know whether a product uses the mat pose approach or the poser material room means the difference between a usable product and a waste of time and money.

4 spare tires?  Really?  No better analogy came to mind?  Auto manufacturers have never provided 4 spare tires, so this is not a change in behavior which would have to be relayed to the buying public.  Failing to provide mat poses is a major change, dictated by just one of several software packages which have historically used content interchangeably.

Obviously you don't like it but, yes, it is lazy not to include mat poses.  I don't particularly mind that vendor's choose to be lazy, I just don't want to buy their products.

The fact that 99% of all content I've purchased over the years, when such content had alternative textures, contains mat poses indicates that I'm not alone in this preference.

BTW - truly nice spelling.

Lotus 123 ~ S-Render ~ OS/2 WARP ~ IBM 8088 / 4.77 Mhz ~ Hercules Ultima graphics, Hitachi 10 MB HDD, 64K RAM, 12 in diagonal CRT Monitor (16 colors / 60 Hz refresh rate), 240 Watt PS, Dual 1.44 MB Floppies, 2 button mouse input device.  Beige horizontal case.  I don't display my unit.