Marque opened this issue on Oct 09, 2002 ยท 42 posts
andix posted Wed, 09 October 2002 at 3:39 PM
Attached Link: http://market.renderosity.com/softgood.ez?Who=andix
Blimey!Firstly, thank-you Marque for your rather enthusiatic introduction to this thread, really glad to hear you like it.
Now, with regard to Poser 5.....as most of the people who have posted are aware, we are in England, and Poser 5 didnt start shipping to Europe until the 18th September, and at current exchange rates, it's going to cost us just over $600, which we will be taking up with Curious Labs as to why it's over $250 more expensive in Europe. So, bearing in mind that all 3 of us have day-jobs, families, responsibilities, and that 3dmodelz is only a part time thing, we simply cannot afford to lay our hands on P5 yet. However, we have been working with CastleDev Group (thanks Lynn and Debra), who have given us enough information about Poser 5 for us to start working towards updating both the Foreground Tool and WorldZ, so they work in P5 the same as they work in P4.
About the Foreground Tool in general, Jackson is quite correct, the filters are parented to the Main Camera. We felt this to be the best way of applying them, rather than have the end user have to position them to a camera, which had us scratching our heads for a couple of days. The reason there are two versions is that the cameras are positioned slightly differantly in P4 and Pro Pack. A slight movement along the z-trans, backwards and forewards may sometimes be necessary for layering multiple filters-if opened in their default positions, they all try and occupy the same space. Pokeydots, about the Master-Filter question, thats a small oversight on our part (hangs head in shame). The prop itself is fairly straight-forward, the bits that required hard work were the positioning and of course the textures and trans-maps. As such, we just cloned one prop and set it up differantly according to the respective filter effect. Mon1Alpha, the reason for our ridiculously low prices is due mostly to our backgrounds. We are pleased that people think enough of our products to buy them, and that they appear to like them. But we are always aware that people are parting with their hard earned cash, and we would be devastated if anyone felt they hadn't got their money's worth for any of our products.
As soon as we get a copy of Poser 5, we will be going overtime on checking both The Foreground Tool, and WorldZ, and if an updated version is necessary, or even a Poser 5 specific version, then we will contact everyone who has bought these products, and ensure any updated versions are available to you at no charge.