Boni opened this issue on Dec 18, 2014 ยท 30 posts
hornet3d posted Fri, 19 December 2014 at 3:48 AM Online Now!
I knew my talents as an artist was very limited but I was interested in art in general and when I had a free moment I would look at some of the galleries online. One day I discovered some renders produced using DAZ and noticed it was a free program so I downloaded it not expecting it to be that good as it was free. I must have spent the next year playing with a program that was way over my head with no real idea what I was doing but somewhere along the way I managed to produced a render I liked so I pressed on. I really started to buy lots of content in 2004 by which time I was really hooked. My first Poser version was version 5, having taken the gamble of paying for a 3D program, and I was immediately blown away by the improvement in my renders. Looking back it was probably only the fact that the render defaults for Poser suited my scenes better the then render defaults for DAZ.
I have updated Poser at every update point since and still love playing around in the program. I still only scratch the surface of Poser but I can now use the advanced button in the material room (on my first attempt I went straight back to simple, bewildered at what I had stumbled into) even if I still have a limited knowledge of what I am doing. My renders are still nothing to get excited about, except for me of course, but they are a distinct improvement on where I was on 2004. It has now encouraged me to start writing and illustrating my stories.
In the last ten years the amount I have spent on the hobby could easily buy me a brand new luxury car today but I don't regret it in the least (my wife might have a different view) and it is the only hobby I have stuck with for more than a year or two.
I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 - Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU . The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.