Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 5 Review

Lapis opened this issue on Oct 02, 2002 ยท 37 posts


narsil posted Thu, 03 October 2002 at 3:10 AM

HiYa

I agree with all. The review is quite even tempered on some of the "not quite there" functions.

Regards the Face Room - I ran an experiment all day yesterday.
I had been given the DVD collection of the sixties series "the Prisoner" and I thought that given the huge amount of good quality pictures you could reconstruct the faces of Patrick Macgoohan et all.
So I thumped the DVD in and started at around this time dumping off images into PhotoShop via the screen capture of PowerDVD - searched for the most likely images(do you know how rare a full profile and full face is in films?)

By maybe 09:00 I had whittled the umpteem images down to 4
fiddled with the resolutions and stuff and was ready for the Face Room...

My first experiment was with The girlie who played Sonia in the Girl who was Death (episode 14)

I agree with all that is said above - I worked and worked at that damn face, and you have to keep going with that face room session. if P5 crashes and you revert to a saved version - zip - nothing you can do. Pretty frustrating.

I found the position of green dots and the red lines really have no bearing on each other, concentrating on the red lines and using the dials do get the better result.

As a parallel test I tried the sam sort of thing with V2 and the CakeWalk tutorial. With a couple of one sided squares at 90 degrees to each other I began to get much better results. V3 looks as though she may be even better it seems.

So do CL go back to their Third Party and tell them to "get this working?"

I suppose we are in for a series of service packs as the various third party suppliers of Rooms for P5 get their act together and make the rooms more user friendly.

Still, early days...

PaulC As soon as I can I will post the test images. At the moment I am emarking on Patch Watch#2 of the 2002 season...