mwa opened this issue on Nov 08, 2001 ยท 18 posts
kupa posted Fri, 09 November 2001 at 12:17 PM
because a lot of you don't know this- here goes- I created all the original on-the-CD texture maps for the Poser 3 and Poser 4 humans, as well as most of the P3 and P4 animals when I was product manager of Poser at MetaCreations. I was a successful commercial artist before becoming an exec here. The Poser 4 maps were created using photos, the previous verion maps were all digital paint. For Poser 4 maps, I downloaded images from the most widespread resource for full unclothed human reference images- the adult news-groups. Meta gave me permission to do so, knowing what the intent was, and I sampled small sections as needed for all the maps, then composited them. I believe a few folks out there who create some vastly superior maps to the ones that I had produced use a similar technique, possibly relying on other resopurces for the base images though. For reference, since I was creating dozens of texture and bump maps for clothes, hair, and figures. BTW, I had less than three to four hours per figure for all maps and bumps. Steve Cooper Curious Labs