Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Lampshade and Inverse Square Attenuation

Cage opened this issue on Jun 02, 2013 · 60 posts


Cage posted Mon, 03 June 2013 at 5:55 PM

Right on, Joe.  Thanks for the help.  Possibly others can use the links, or I'll come back to them at some future date.  As it is, meh.  :lol:  When I was a kid, I spent a lot of time trying to build things.  My younger brother used to come along and delight at knocking them down.  This continued until we were almost adults.  Consequently, Cage may have some issues when it comes to situations where some part of a process is working to undo everything he's trying to accomplish.  :lol: I think it's like that with GC.  It is designed to work against precisely what I hope to achieve.  From my POV, then, the whole thing is like a giant "Make it suck!" button that I can press.  Phooey.

The trouble being that I get the sense that Poserdom is moving in the GC direction.  How many updates before GC is the only option, with "normal" rendering removed, just as old P4 rendering was?  That may be the day when I walk away from Poser, or I may be forced to finally work with it.  Maybe.

I just come away with the overwhelming sense that GC as a Poser addition somehow isn't quite there yet.  It seems like it should cooperate more with the Materials Room.  It seems like conversion to use GC should be made approachable for people who are dummies.  Poser is dumbed down in so many ways, but here it tries to force people to do it the smart person way.  Weirdly inconsistent, IMO.  As with so many other Poser options, it is global.  You can't use it selectively.  Maybe that very idea is foolish.  Probably I just can't get my head around this whole new paradigm.  At any rate, GC and I aren't liking one another.

But my whole day hasn't been wasted.  I made a tent for the cat.  He seems to like it.  So there's that.  :laugh:

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.