Entropic opened this issue on Sep 06, 2002 ยท 47 posts
Entropic posted Fri, 06 September 2002 at 6:01 AM
"You mean utopia is just around the corner...??" Well, that remains to be seen, Peter. ;) Content Paradise, as I cover in my recently published article for Renderosity Magazine is a browser enhancement within Poser 5. Basically, it breaks down like this: If you're online, using Poser 5, and need content ( my new product, for instance plug ), you'll go to the content room for Poser 5. Poser 5 then offers you access to a search engine with direct access to member sites such as Renderosity. You browse about, find my product ( it's the last one you'll ever need, after all plug ) and buy it. Poser 5 then organzies the download, unzips it, and places everything in the proper place, updating your library, etc. If you think of Renderosity as a shopping mall, Content Paradise is the highway that leads there, the baggage handler that carries it all out to your car, and the cleaning person that keeps your new purchases from getting scattered about the house. Pretty neat, huh? Of course, CL has publically stated that there are requirements to hook into the CP, such as software demands, cataloguing, etc. They have also publically stated that Renderosity is the first site to sign off on the project. Which brings us full circle to my post: What can we expect in changes here? Are they already in place, or is it something we should look for? Will vendors need to jump through new hoops to upload to the store? If so, what hoops? Basically, people in the Poser forum are running around screaming madly that the software's shipping as of today, lots of people are talking dark conspiracies between Rosity and CL, etc. So I'm just asking point blank, what's going on? Will I be able to use CP immediately when I install Poser 5, or is Rosity still hammering out the bugs? It's pretty relevant to me. I have a product to release soon, and I want to know if that product will have different conditions. I also want to know if I'm going to have to sit on a useless function for a month. Furthermore, I want to know if this site is going to benefit from the influx of new business from Poser newbies, or if the marketing funnel of Content Paradise is going to sit idle for three or four thousand newbies while Rosity gets the act together. Basically, I've been waiting for all these questions to get resolved since I started thinking about the Content Paradise back in July when I was just delving into the research for publication, and I'd expected SOMETHING to be said before now, as this is perhaps the most directly relevant aspect of P5 to this site. We can all be happy about the hair, cloth, etc. But insofar as Rosity should be concerned, Content Paradise is the big hullaballoo. So why the eerie silence? Are we ready or what? Paul