Quote - Damn, Bagginsbill is kinda scary when his feathers gets ruffled. I suppose a painter should Fabricate his own brushes, grind his own pigments and weave his own canvas... I don't know, seems like alot of people aren't seeing the forest for the trees on here. Alot of "traditional artists" working in "traditional Mediums" think CG is cheating to begin with, can't imagine what they would think of a platform like poser wherein the basic foundation of the program is the use of pre-existing content as a means of creativity or illustration...

You seem to have my opinion reversed from what it actually is.

I was not suggesting that others make their own - and all my later commentary was that you probably can't even if I explain it to you.

I was suggesting you use my presets.

It's the recipients of that suggestion that take umbrage and blame Poser.

But if Poser made it easy like the some other renderers, then you'd just be using presets again. "Easy shader" assembly means components that are higher-level, i.e. presets.

You want gold, silver, bronze, platinum, etc.? Get my metal, then tweak.

You want lake water, sea water, glass water, river water? Get my water, then tweak.

I don't want you to try to understand how to make these things from raw (math) materials.

I do enjoy trying to teach it, but most artists don't need to know this stuff. You learn it because it's fun. You don't fight through it because it's terribly boring - you just skip it. Same as you skip making your own oil paints.

You're not rolling your own in those other renderers. You are assembling high-level components. That makes it easier, and also more limited.

 

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