Niles opened this issue on Jul 05, 2002 ยท 21 posts
whoopdat posted Fri, 05 July 2002 at 5:16 PM
Everyone's jumping to conclusions lately about Poser 5 doing this or that (or not doing this or that), and we don't have all of the information. To say that it's going to kill sales of clothes or hair is ridiculous. Even going with ONLY what we know, there's still going to be need for 3rd party items. The built in tools, the hair and clothing tools specifically, don't do everything that current 3rd party items do. Can you see someone creating hair like Anton's Changing Ponytail or clothes like his Changing Fantasy Suit with those tools? Sure, we don't know a whole lot about them, but based on what we've seen, it'd be very difficult at the very least. Those tools, for now, look like they'll be very useful for stills, and perhaps moreso for animations than (that's not to say for still images they won't be useful, but look at the videos to see what they do for animation). As it stands, at least on this site, most people do stills. So, before anyone jumps to conclusions, we don't know everything yet. Even though we know a fair amount about it, there's still a lot to be revealed. And let's keep in mind one final thing: it's to CL's benefit to make 3rd party items useful and desirable, not to destroy the market.