I'm going to try to not buy any content for awhile due to finacial reasons.  This got me thinking about how I started buying it in the first place.

I originally bought Poser to help me work out anatomical perspective in my drawings. I downloaded some free stuff and started doing some simple renders, just playing around. I entered a render contest and got second place. The prize was a Zygote (pre-DAZ) gift certificate, so I bought Vicky 1. Of course she then needed clothes, etc., and I've been buying stuff ever since.

How about you?

I bought Poser because I was a Vue 2 user(or 3..can't remember which at the time) and wanted people and animals for my scenes. Poser kinda took over. LOL

Laurie

Same as Laurie, only I started with Bryce instead of Vue. but I got Poser so I could populate my scenes.

Buying came much later. At the beginning I didn't have a credit card, so I could only marvel at the things for sale. Then I started modeling myself and finally made a product I could sell. This generate money I could use to buy other things with :)

To this date, I still use mostly "Poser-generated" money to buy Poser stuff, because my "ordinary" budget isn't made for that either. But I'm lucky to have found a hobby that can largely pay for itself

At the time I was taking photographs and running then thru photoshop using an AVKIS plugin to add effects and make them look like colored charcoal drawn images. At the time the detail of the final image wasn't that important for the friend I was doing this for. Then he sent me an image somebody had rendered of V2 in a pose and or scene more appropriate to what he wanted for a story he was going to use it in. I downloaded whatever the current version of Daz Studio was at the time and it crashed and crashed and crashed and when it didn't the interface was impossible to figure out. So I gave up and went back to my Photoshop routine.

Then just before V4 came out he sent me image of V3 this time and pointed me to this website and more importantly this forum and thread that compared Poser 6 (I believe was the verison at the time) to Daz Studio. I ordered a boxed version of Poser at the time and after a zillion mistakes (like not understanding that V2 came with no texture sets :laugh:) the rest is history other then to say my renders still look like crap at times.

I had purchased Poser 4, but did not see the need for people and animals, so I did not use it or buy content.

I had bought Bryce then went to Vue and saw the need to use Poser for different things, sometimes conversions and needed other elements that I could not create myself. My first purchase from Daz which of course was Vicki 2 because Posette was, well not enough.

I started purchasing content when I realized what came with Poser wasn't enough. 

You can get hooked on buying stuff for it though.  I started with the V4 and M4s and went down hill from there, LOL. 

illness forced early retirement :-(

could no longer play on the gorgous confusers they had or afford the software they ran!!

found bryce then poser then wings/hex/any demo I could get

then I slipped up an fell into blender rofl only pop out to breathe

It all started with the Poser 4 demo back in 2004. I had a few ideas for an animation I wanted to try.

But since Poser 5 was already announced, I held off buying Poser until it came out. I'm probably one of the first P5 users.

Then I got hooked on dynamic cloth. Started modeling my own and wanted to figure out how others made them. So that was my first Poser content purchase - HMann's dynamic clothing pack for V2, V3 and Judy.

Which lead to buying V2 and V3.

Which lead to buying content, mostly for V3, and later M3 and V4

Like others, I got Poser so I could have human figures in other software, and I thoght I'd like to do some animation (which I haven't). I got V3 for free, and held off buying any extra content until a few months after V4 came out. Most of my content I got with the help of vouchers when DAZ had the monthly galleries on their old site. Now, due to lower income and no vouchers, I buy even less content.

I hope to start making a few things for sale to earn a few $$ so I can start buying stuff again - but that requires more free time, and RL seems to take more of my time than it used to.

Ihappend across this image by Kozaboro about six years ago and wondered how it was done...

http://digitalbabes.jp/gallery/Lori.html

I started to buy content cause I wanted to slow my intake of content.Cause my hard drive was filling up with the free stuff. This was around Poser 3 or 4.And way before cheap Gigs. :lol:

At first, it was Daz Studio - I had worked with a lot of 3D artists during my stint as a game developer, but couldn't afford Lightwave.  DS was fun, and look, Vicky! Mike! Props!

Well, Vicky and Mike complained endlessly about being naked, in a temple even (Vicky hung on to the sword, she was worried what Mike might try).  So I had to get clothes, and of course move them out of the temple into a more soothing setting.

Eventually I moved to Poser Pro 2010 and started dabbling in Web comics, so I needed more specialized content, then tried my hand at illustrating my stories and poetry, which meant I needed MORE content, then I got into horror and steampunk...

So here I sit with Poser Pro 2012, Vue 11, and a total of 8 runtimes containing close to 90GB of content!!!  And it's still just a hobby!

Learn from my sad tale! 

Many, many moons ago, somwhere in a magazine shop, I found a PC magazine with a Poser 1 (one) demo on a 1.44 disk.  Anybody remember those? There was also a voucher to "upgrade to Poser2.

I bought Poser2, and was hooked. Or, ha-ha- should I say "lost".

For a very long time I had limited hobby funds, so I bought no content at all. I just could not.

Then I found some truly simple apps to build stuff myself.
One of those I still use almost every day ; Anim8or. A 3D modeling app. Ha-ha, at the time also on a 1.44 disk.

But when figures started going up and up and up in polycount, neither my funds, nor my PC's could follow.

In the end ? And over the many-many years, I bought a grand total of "read closely",  3 items. And unfortunatly, I regret all 3 of them.

Little one. =>Still the most beautifull face out there.
Loretta
And her male counterpart who's name escapes me now.

Little One had that remarcable face, but being an unwelded mesh, there was no use for her.

Loretta? Perhaps I might dust her off, but the odd poly distribution (required for what she does BTW) limits her use beyond that. And the same goes for her male friend.

So? I build, and make what I need.

Yes, I mostly use Poser figures, but with Blender (and other apps) a mesh is just a mesh and can be morphed into whatever shape we like or need. Every day clothes are that hard to make at all, and with the newer Poser 10 and PP2014 tools, any clothing can fit any figure anyway.

Result: In all those Poser years I bought 3 items, and would not do it again.
Sorry.

at first i lived on Jessi and James.

then cp forums closed and cast me aimlessly adrift.

drift floated to daz site and saw an Aiko 3 promo for the Ice Princess.  then saw Sylfie.  eventually chalked up the 100 bucks to join pc club to buy the MFD, etc.

i can't remember what brought me to renderosity.

I first bought Poser 2 and existed on the legacy clothing that people don't use  nowadays. Then I found freestuff on the internet at places like Poserworld, Fairyworld, and others. then I found DAZ and started downloading their weekly freebies. Eventually I bought Vicki and then clothes for Vicki, and I've been broke ever since. She's more expensive than a real girlfriend, but at least with them there's sex... sometimes. Okay, hardly ever, but at leas the possibility is there.

My first purchase was Victoria 1, also - I'd got by on free content for some time, but more and more of the cool stuff was being made for Vicki so I bought her. Things have gone downhill since then. :)

Misty I wouldnt dare look at a print out ;-)

why are most of replys from creators/ vendors etc ???

Anim8or !! wow that was a fun program (does it work on win7??)

did seem to be a lot of stuff back then, most seem to be gone now

all fairly easy to learn and lots of fun

wonder what the future will bring ? needing a degree to even think of buying poser? lol

Anim8or does work in Win7 far as I know.

Laurie

anim8or works in Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1

And? After a long time there are new versions in the making.
Still free, now at version 0.97F

www.anim8or.com

The new version is in the forum

Quote - At first, it was Daz Studio - I had worked with a lot of 3D artists during my stint as a game developer, but couldn't afford Lightwave.  DS was fun, and look, Vicky! Mike! Props!

Well, Vicky and Mike complained endlessly about being naked, in a temple even (Vicky hung on to the sword, she was worried what Mike might try).  So I had to get clothes, and of course move them out of the temple into a more soothing setting.

Eventually I moved to Poser Pro 2010 and started dabbling in Web comics, so I needed more specialized content, then tried my hand at illustrating my stories and poetry, which meant I needed MORE content, then I got into horror and steampunk...

So here I sit with Poser Pro 2012, Vue 11, and a total of 8 runtimes containing close to 90GB of content!!!  And it's still just a hobby!

Learn from my sad tale! 

(Waves at Wooly)

Miss you, Dude! Be well.

Quote - > Quote - At first, it was Daz Studio - I had worked with a lot of 3D artists during my stint as a game developer, but couldn't afford Lightwave.  DS was fun, and look, Vicky! Mike! Props!

Well, Vicky and Mike complained endlessly about being naked, in a temple even (Vicky hung on to the sword, she was worried what Mike might try).  So I had to get clothes, and of course move them out of the temple into a more soothing setting.

Eventually I moved to Poser Pro 2010 and started dabbling in Web comics, so I needed more specialized content, then tried my hand at illustrating my stories and poetry, which meant I needed MORE content, then I got into horror and steampunk...

So here I sit with Poser Pro 2012, Vue 11, and a total of 8 runtimes containing close to 90GB of content!!!  And it's still just a hobby!

Learn from my sad tale! 

(Waves at Wooly)

Miss you, Dude! Be well.

Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiii! waves like a lunatic And argh, bought more stuff I might use once. Argh!

I started buying content when I started running out of stuff to use in the prepackaged content (when I finally got over the learning curve!), and I was (and still sort of am) too much of a n00b to make my own content.

We had Poser 4 at work to try making our own animations for use in PowerPoint and on our televised training broadcasts.  I got Poser 4 Pro cheap for home and Vicki 1 started my fall into the DAZ rabbit hole.  My earliest purchase here is from December 2001.  I think I have an autographed copy of either Poser 5 or 6 for being one of the first 100 purchasers.  I have all the DAZ figures up through the disastrous DSON Genesis 1.  I hate DAZ Studio because I did not like the interface on the early versions and quit trying after they had add ons you had to pay for.  My two favorite things about Poser are dynamic hair and clothing so I'm sticking with Poser. 

I'm happy to say that I was smart enough to buy a lifetime membership to PoserWorld when I first started using Poser.  It seemed like a good deal at the time and has turned out to be a fantastic deal over the years. 

I'm also a sucker for free content and I think I've bought about every new figure that has come out over the years (and then quit using them when they had no skin, hair or clothes available).  I lost a lot of Poser content about five years ago when a virus forced us to reformat our hard drive.  I now have an external drive with 807 gigs of Poser content plus whatever is installed on my hard drive with Poser Pro 2012 and 2014.

Unfortunately, I cannot work anymore because I have nerve damage in both hands with Carpal Tunnel disease.  Using Poser with Dragon NaturallySpeaking and Windows 8.1 and a touch screen monitor is challenging but doable.  If there's a keyboard shortcut, you can write a command with Dragon Pro to do it verbally.   I'm definitely learning patience.  I'm between having no pay because I can't work and waiting for my disability retirement to be approved so I can't support Dawn like I want to.  I hope she hangs in there until I have money again.

Back before the turn of the Millenium, I bought Poser 1, upgraded to 2, 3, and 4 and played around from time to time.  Then bought the Pro upgrade to 4.  Started to get into it after that.  Bought a couple of misc content CD's from Zygote, including the Mil Woman.  Then I got a full CD of Poser characters from CacheForce/Planet Poser.  Played with those and various freebies until I encountered BBay, then found Zygote had spawned to DAZ3D, and stumbled over Renderosity from something I read at DAZ.  Off and running ever since.  Used to have a pretty well paying complex of jobs, and for a time I was spending $5k and more a year on content (mostly scenes and sets, to tell the truth, 'Tho I did get all the base Gen 1, 2, 3 & 4 figures from DAZ3D and some base textures and enough duds to use in most contexts).  Economy crapped out, 2 of my businesses closed, and now I have to watch my pennies.   92% of my "aquisitions" now are freebies.

Quote - first came to renderosity for a character texture set.

If you are using Nash, Jepes has updated the textures for him.

It was a render that got me into Poser.  A render of two Michaels. 

I asked the artist about it, and she told me about Poser.  Which I bought immediately.  (Little did I know that it was about a week before Poser 5 was released, and if I'd bought PP4 from Curious Labs instead of Amazon, I'd have gotten it for something like $50 cheaper.)

So I guess for me, it was content first.  I bought Poser because I wanted to use DAZ's Michael 2.

Back then, I really liked the idea of one figure you could morph to be anyone.  Guess I'd have loved Genesis if it were around back then.

But I've changed my mind now.  IMO, it just looks better if the figure isn't too far from the base. Which means multiple figures to cover the diversity of humanity (never mind critters and such).  Which means buying a lot of stuff, even with WW and texture converters.  ;-)

My first purchase was Anime Doll here on Rendo.

I was planning on doing a Scifi Illustration series with them and my Space-stuff.

I wasn't interested in getting anything else until the Daz v3 figures started becoming freebies.

I bought Poser for visual references of characters in my books, but interestingly that was seven years ago and I only just started using it for that purpose in the last six months or so.

I have never made a purchase for anything other than Poser 8, and then 9. I got modeling programs to make stuff myself. I have a long way to go before I can make something I'd sell, but my armor for Miki4 is pretty cool (it's in the freestuff).

I got interested in human figures with Poser 3 but waited until Poser 4 came out before purchasing. I then made do with freebies until Victoria 2 came out. She needed additional things and was quite fussy about what she got. lol

It steam rolled for me. I centered around Viky and Aiko 3. making or getting the scenery was fun and thinking up themes also. I don't need any of the new characters as I have enough for the next millenium.

Initially, I relied on free content, but as I got more serious and learned more about Poser, I realized I would need more. My first purchase was Ariel Hair here at Renderosity.

I collect all I can of freebies around the web. I wait for a wishlist item to pop up on sale.