Quote - but the world of 3D isn't all about modeling a human or a car anymore.

YEAH absolutely agree on this !!!!

I even have crazy dreams of holograms flowing from small cubes or so with our models going to life and as much lifelike we want them then we need new technologies and mathemathical procedures to get those meshes realistic and interesting.

Poser is just one Universe where many of our fantasies have a playground but although I am a 110% Poser person I keep thinking that this is just one step of a very large ladder.

I used Catmull-Clark and Doo-Sabin manipulating the way the loops and rings are positioned and then making subdivisions. I must say that the modeller I used is always the same and the differences between one and other system IMHO is simply the amount of smoothing applied. Maybe my experiences have been short on this... but I have did many meshes untill now :)

About Tris and Quads: Tris are GOOD enough for some dynamic meshes, not ALL. Quads give better models for mapping but that is a rule that many times is not needed to have on account. If you will use procedurals then you don´t need super perfect mapping, that is known.

I have did dynamics with tris and quads and must say that I never am sure what type of polys I will define as final untill I do a simulation and see how it drapes. No rules at all, at least to me regarding dynamics. The only system that I really don't like and never use is Delauney. To me it always gives a crushed and strange appearance.

For other purposes, tris are commonly NOT the full taste of Poser engines. Often you can see holes when rendering, the AO settings (that are slowly being left out of the scene but still not dead) could produce weird things on the tris, and if you have the very bad luck that have a tri that is not 100% facing backwards or forward then you sure will have a crystal edge or a black spot so you will need postwork or Poser's Morph tool editing...

Yeah but this is all about Poser, I know.

As said, I dream with other worlds, just that still am here on Poser LOL.

Thanks to all for the fabulous and so interesting info and feedback :)

 

fabi

Fabi @FKDesign

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