Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: What makes a good figure?

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


Morkonan posted Sun, 21 July 2019 at 7:45 PM

Penguinisto posted at 7:36PM Sun, 21 July 2019 - #4357643....

So - with the typical user these days having a 15" laptop, that's pretty much what you have to shoot for. It's not a bad environment to work with (my previous laptop, a 15" 2012-era MacBook Pro, served just fine as a CG workstation), so your baseline specs are still going to be somewhat lower than usual, and, more importantly, your UI/UX is going to have to adapt to these realities as well.

I just wanted to point out a danger, here:

I, too, have run Poser on a high-grade laptop. But, I also output to a large secondary monitor.

The thing is, the general "do computer stuffs" market is moving to smaller, more convenient, mobile'ish platforms. Except for the people that really love visuals... And, that's the market Poser is peddled to. So, while some Poser users might make-do with a 15" screen, they're either wanting something more or they're financially or job-tasked-limited to what they're using. Because the output of this software and the purpose for which it is intended is "visual" its market is also oriented on that. And, that means nobody is going to buy Poser to "use" on their smartphone or iPad. But, they may make Poser output to be used for further engineering targeting those devices... And, if Renderosity/Bondware wanted to target that market of developers, then they'd incorporate features that catered to them. But, it wouldn't likely be targeted to running Poser on those devices.

Yes, making Poser more friendly to smaller-screen presentations would be nice for those users. But, most of them want more and heavy users are going to certainly want features that target their own needs and desires, which likely center around more robust machines and capabilities.

ie: The "danger" is overgeneralizing the habits of certain common industry markets to the habits of more specialized markets, which have decidedly different needs/wants.

Ps - Apologies for multi-posts, but I can't figure out how to multi-quote. So... :)