Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Statuesque or Down to earth...?

EClark1894 opened this issue on Mar 14, 2014 · 241 posts


pumeco posted Wed, 26 March 2014 at 7:35 AM

@RorrKonn
I only wish I knew of an alternative to Marvelous Designer.  I think the price is outrageous, but even so, I started putting cash away for it because cloth is the only thing my setup lacks and Marvelous Designer is pretty damn awesome.   But then, when I got pretty close to buying it I found out (just in time) that even that licence would not allow me to use it commercially.

Screw that, they can hang on to it, and I'm not dumb enough to buy into monthly Adobe-style subscriptions for a licence I'll never own.

The cloth in Poser is way too slow, the cloth in DAZ won't let you use your own geometry (despite early indication that it would), and Marvelous Designer are pretty much taking the piss with the pricing because they have no competition.  I'd like to see it sell for those prices when a competitor enters the market - lol

I have a nice set of tools, the only thing missing is cloth unless I want to spend a long time doing it the hard way.  I mentioned only a few weeks back that I hope Pixologic will add some sort of kick-ass cloth tool to ZBrush.  If you look at some of those mesh insert tools that drag objects across a surface, it's not hard to imagine a cloth tool that lets you drag sheet-like cloth over the top of your objects.

All they'd need is parameters for suction so that it would 'cling' , gravity so that it would drape, and the usual parameters you have for cloth so that when you drag the sheet over your object in real time, it will stretch, bend and sag depending on the parameters you set.

That's what I'm hoping for, but whether they'll do so is another thing.  If anyone can do something like that, it's Pixologic.

@Shane
Haha, I don't know, but I hope the forum doesn't have an initiation process in mind for you :woot: