Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: It's Playtime... Not Paytime

willdial opened this issue on Jun 30, 2015 · 55 posts


pumeco posted Sat, 04 July 2015 at 6:04 PM

@Male_M3dia
To be honest, the reason that Roxie render was B&W was due to her having Blue eyes, so only the Blue channel was used rendering her eyes lighter.

@Slosh
Ah man ... I really slipped-up!

@Mousso
It would be a shame if you didn't try for perfect photorealism.  The more you do it the more you'll realise how boring it can be, but the point is you should still go for it for the simple reason; you're obviously going to achieve it with your skills.  It should never come before art though, artistic licence and doing what's in your mind, and looking at your gallery just now, you're damn good at that.  Despite what Male_M3dia and Slosh think they've deduced about me, believe me when I tell you that one of the most important aspects of photorealism is feasability, not just the technical stuff like shaders etc.

You can have the most perfectly photoreal shaders on the best model ever, and the game will still be given away if what you render is not feasible.  For example, a huge steel truck with massive wheels on a sand dune and the tyres aren't feasibly sinking into the sand to represent it's weight.  Stuff like like that, cause if you leave just a single thing that's not feasible, all the rest of the skill and effort goes out of the window.

Anyway, I hope you didn't take my criticisms to heart other than them being to point out flaws in a critical fashion.  My post wasn't against you as an artist, or even the render you made, it was against this insane non-stop superiority complex thing that seems to crawl over here from the DAZ forums every bloody day.  Vicky is a mesh, Roxie is a mesh, they're both fully deformable via morps and fact is, Roxie is a much more efficiently designed mesh than V4, so this outrageous belief most of them seem to have that V4 is somehow superior, is just nonsense.

BTW, not that it matters now, but my first comment, the joke about it being a horrible render was actually a mistake.  I intended to post it, but I had more than one tab open and for some reason I thought I was still in Clarkie's V4 thread.  I wouldn't have posted it in this thread had I realised the thread I was in.  Sorry about that.