Entropic opened this issue on Sep 12, 2002 ยท 33 posts
aleks posted Fri, 13 September 2002 at 3:17 AM
to say that most problems come because users are inexperienced or whatever is arrogant to say the least. the software must work. if it needs special drivers or hardware then it's bad programming if it doesn't check for them previously, and state so without crashing. poser always wanted to be the most intuitive 3d software around (hence it's ridiculous interface), but from what i read here and in other forums, it's not living to expectations. granted, expectations were high, people immaturely expected p5 to the ultimate software with solutions from dynamic clothing to world peace. kupa, nosfiraty and co. from cl are not quite innocent in this whole affair telling people how brilliant and wonderfull this new poser will be. there are lot of people around who are extremely good at poser and 3d stuff, but i have yet to see one single good poser5 render. catherina's stuff i won't count in as p5 render, because it's mostly her wonderfull textures. there are no examples of mighty firefly possibilities, nothing. i saw what kupa posted as firefly renderings some weeks ago and i was very disappointed by them (and voiced myself so). and please don't tell me it's all yet to come, or we need a university degree or couple of months studying the manual to do simple renderings with firefly. when i got finalrender (an global illumination rendering plug-in for 3ds max) i could produce very convicting images with it within couple of hours. if people who are more talented then i am still couldn't do anything decent in p5, it makes me very suspicious. but maybe they just won't show it...