Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What makes a good figure?

EClark1894 opened this issue on Jul 05, 2019 ยท 217 posts


ssgbryan posted Wed, 17 July 2019 at 11:10 PM

Wolf - You can do hybrid dynamics in Poser - in that OOT outfit, the vendor would secure the torso and arms via constraining groups and let the rest of the outfit be dynamic. The end user can do the same thing.

Pinguinisto - trust me - there is NO organization with DAZ content. Poser vendors are a model of consistency in comparison. Nor am I talking about their website's broken search engine. I am not talking about the poorly designed software that is almost completely single threaded either. (I could rant on the technical limitations for days). Stuff is scattered everywhere in file folders and there are not only too many levels of ego folders - too many products have the vendor names as the leading characters of products. Makes a search function pointless.

Back on topic......

What makes a good figure is dependent on what the end user is trying to do. At the end of the day, I can't do what I want to do with Poser, if I try to limit myself to 1 figure. Vendors by and large make tall, bland, early 20's Caucasians and if you have 3 characters by a vendor, you pretty much have all of them.

Now, if you are trying to do something realistic - you hit a wall pretty quickly. I am doing graphic novels. As such, I need more than what Poser vendors make in 2019. My characters have jobs and families. In addition, my character collection in these novels are based on real world population spreads. One Aryanized Asian or Black simply isn't going to cut it.

The average Poser/DS figure is around 1.8cm - which make up about 3% of the world's population (and no, the height scaling dial isn't good enough) - great if your stories take place in the Nordic countries, but pretty much useless anywhere else.

I need a bit of everything - old people, young people, non-creepy non-Caucasians - and we don't have vendors making that anymore. Just like they don't make clothing for professional environments. There is a reason I still cloth my females in V4's wardrobe and my males with M3's wardrobe.