Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: They were right about Genesis and Poser

FightingWolf opened this issue on Dec 09, 2014 · 29 posts


moriador posted Tue, 16 December 2014 at 5:47 AM

Yes. When the community gets together, it's amazing what it can do. I guess the Dunning-Krueger effect is strong on the internet. If I'm going to judge someone else's intelligence (though what gives me the right or ability to do so with any accuracy is highly questionable to begin with), I will take the one with doubt about his or her beliefs/opinions over the one with certainty because a healthy skepticism about one's own intelligence is the most significant sign of smarts (as per Dunning-Krueger). The most important things I learned in university were not in the curriculum; I learned how much I didn't know, how much I couldn't know, and how many other people there might be, even in a small room, who were much smarter than me. 

It's the unyielding certainty of the highly opinionated that I believe leads to unending repetition of the same arguments. (And I admit that I am not immune to such "certainty" myself -- but at least I recognize, if not at the time then later, that this is a problem most humans, including me, tend to exhibit).

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In other news, I just tried animating Vicky 5 in Poser. I just loaded a 705 frame dance clip for V4 that I got from Eclipse studios. Vicky 5 looks wasted because I didn't bother editing any of the frames and it's not meant for the Genesis fig. (I also can't speak the the quality of the particular clip -- V4 doesn't look entirely sober doing the same steps). But her dynamic dress took less than 8 minutes to simulate through all 705 frames. With subdivision turned off, Genesis is very, very fast in Poser animations and in the cloth room. Given that I've never rendered an animation in Poser before in my life, and I spent less than ten minutes making this one (including preview render time), I think she works quite well, as far as my utterly inexpert animating eye can tell.

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2co0aj_drunkenvicky_tech


PoserPro 2014, PS CS5.5 Ext, Nikon D300. Win 8, i7-4770 @ 3.4 GHz, AMD Radeon 8570, 12 GB RAM.