Lotharen posted at 1:52AM Sun, 23 June 2019 - #4354176

Glad to see your back Ero! I fell off the face of the CG world myself shortly after PE was released. My Dad passed and within 6 months my mom too. I had a lot to deal with and I just wasn't in the mind set to deal with people, CG, or anything I would have remotely called a hobby.

I hear you. Life sucks balls and we just need to find a way to get through it in a fun way. Don't worry I've had my fair share of this misery too, I understand.

I'm slowly getting myself back together and entering the CG world again, albeit slowly. I pretty much am lurking around the sites/forums, and the beginnings of render idea's are coming to me. I hope to be in the hot seat before long, learning everything again and attempting my own comic at some point....man, do I have some stories to tell. My only undecided factor is to make them traditional or visual novel?

honestly, with the way things have been going with Poser, I've also been fantasizing about just opening Word and just typing away. I've done it before, I loved it. No software tribalism, no dependencies on companies, trends, or technologies, just you and your keyboard. In fact all my comics start out on pen and paper, and if it wasn;t for my comic characters, I would have stopped a long time ago. I'm sick of arguing the obvious. This should be about art, perfection, glamour, inspiration, excitement and fun!

Woah, totally when off on a tangent there. Back to the topic! I'm glad you are back. Love what I'm seeing in your scripts and hope some of it might make its way into Poser. I also think Rendo has the ability to take this in the direction it needs to go and I'm looking forward to the journey. I myself would like to see better strand based hair (like I've seen in blender) with physics for animation. Also, I think (and this is my opinion) that soft body physics would fix a lot of the bending issues people have seen and add a whole new level to our renders/animation. Last thing that really irks me, add render passes to Superfly. You can mask everything and render each individually in Firefly but not Superfly....that was always felt kinda dumb to me.

Welcome back Ero!

Rendo have a fantastic opportunity here and they CAN do it. They do need to be careful not to promise too much, but if they just focus on Poser's qualities, refine them, they should be on the right track. Although dynamic simulations such as cloth and soft-body is obviously attractive, not many Poser users will have the processing power to facilitate such features on a daily basis. For my comic work it would be hell on earth. They would do better to combine those technologies to make and bake morphs that achieve the same thing but then more efficiently.

But I cannot imagine how difficult it must be to adopt age old-tech and have to refine it, but Poser as it was isn't bad. If they just refine what is already there, they can pay the bills for a future total reprogramming. I think that is kind of inevitable.

Thank you for the kind words, and I hope life for you goes better from now on!

"The fool is not the one that does something foolish, but the one that does nothing at all."