Quote - Never in my long life with computer software have I seen so much resistance to beginners as in the Poser society. Arkaic, old, out-dated information, secretiveness, small-mindness, misinformation. I trust only one man, PhilC. What will happend if he is run down by a truck? Will the Poser community collapse?

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Actually, I have, Vintorix. It's called CG Society. If you don't build your model from scratch and shade it yourself and-and-and, you get the same sort of treatment. There is no tolerance for using tools or pre-made figures or anything: it's almost like the members coded Maya themselves.

Oh well, there are going to be elitists anywhere, I suppose. It's all what you want to do with Poser. I write shaders using Matmatic... not common practice among Poser users, for which I had to learn Python. The feedback I got was positive: i learned a lot and make reasonably decent shaders, based on sales. But I don't expect everyone who wants to get a grip on the material room to learn to code in Python and use Matmatic. it's not for everyone. And not everyone wants to get the noggin aroung GC either. I think it's essential, but others have the right to feel how they do about it.

There are some things that I'll never get my head around, I suppose. Too bad that for that reason I'm considered less of a Poser user by superb modellers-riggers like Paul. :blink:

Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2

Wir sind gewohnt, daß die Menschen verhöhnen was sie nicht verstehen
[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand] 

Metaphor of Chooks