One day, the ever-changing Renderosity management team decided to send all products that hadn’t sold in x number of months to clearance. Without promoting clearance or giving vendors half a chance those products were then removed to “archived” status shortly thereafter.

Now an archived product is only available if you click on the vendor’s store (or perhaps have it in your wishlist). But the ‘powers that be’, chose to implement this system before creating tools allowing vendors to discount or manage their archived products. So the items reverted to their original full prices.

Why, Renderosity management is not explaining this to Renderosity members I’ll never know. But please don’t delete the items – just hang ten. Perhaps one day the new ever-changing Renderosity management team will do something about this situation.

Dwarf Goulash doesn't sound all that tasty :-)

(Love your imagination!)

Book collection - Part 4

Book collection - Part 3

Book collection - Part 2

Hmm, I also have a book collection - Part 1

(I made so many covers for this prop set, and put coherent text on it so the books could be displayed on their own)

Tier 1: 112

Tier 2: 97

Tier 3: 142 made up of 68 marbles and 74 rocks

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I used a book from my fallen shelf bookshelf set and changed the cover.

arifzhafir posted at 6:12 PM Sun, 26 May 2024 - #4485318

New store items on sale are now listed as "Prime" upon initial release. If they were listed as "Prime Flash," then I'd know whether or not they were actually Prime or merely flashing as Prime.

Premier release is a limited discount for a day or two on a product, which is separate from Prime. Not all new items go through that process - only some.

Daz can read some Poser files. So it's easier to make a product for Poser and convert it to Daz than the other way round.

But converting isn't that simple:

They read the geometry files differently and also the material files, like normal and bump maps. I've had to remodel a prop several times, because only one of the programs had a shiny or black spot (indicating there's a problem with the geometry).

Sometimes I can see no difference in the render when apply a map regardless of how high I put the setting, in which case I remove it. Someone just converting, would include all those nodes and end up with over-complicated material settings that slows down render times, and has no effect otherwise.

Daz wraps a texture with the seam front and centre. Poser wraps a texture with the seam at the back. You sometimes can't notice a seam in Poser because it's obscured, then you take the product into Daz and the seam stares you in the face.

If there's something specific you want for Poser, you could always request in the Marketplace Wishing Well.

Poser vendors have 2 main problems:

1. Not knowing which Poser figure to use

There's a bigger market for Genesis 8 and Genesis 9 than there are for the Poser characters. 

I don't think there has ever been universal adoption of any Poser character by the Poser community since V4. They've all been a little hit and miss. And as Crystalis mentioned, you need to pay for the Poser characters, whereas the base Genesis characters are free and come with enough content to create a promo image. So in my position as a content creator, I don't own the "paid" Poser characters, and I don't know which free Poser characters are popular enough to create content for - so I just don't create content for Poser characters. It's too risky - you can spend two weeks creating something and have 1 sale.  

I don't have any stats on how popular La Femme 2 is - but she's too expensive for me to risk buying her - I won't get my money back. And I wouldn't use her for any reason other than content creation.

2. Daz is easier

Daz has developed systems and features for content creation. They can show 2-sided meshes, and it's easy to parent props and collapse a series of parented props. 

Daz auto exports the geometry files - you still need to do that manually in Poser.

Daz has an option not to overwrite thumbnails. Poser does not have that option.

Poser has a massive bug with their drag and drop feature (it doesn't disable) so I'm forever frustrated by my screen being dragged somewhere  - and I never want it to drag anywhere. I have no issues with Daz.

So to re-ignite the Poser market I would say you'd need to:

1. Offer vendors free upgrades on Poser software.

2. Give vendors the main characters for free.

3. Talk to the Poser development team to make things easier for vendors.

4. Talk to Poser customers and find out what they want - then tell the vendors.

5. Increase Poser's market share by promoting the software (For example, I wrote an article here on why game developers should use Poser (or Daz) and not AI - but it's published here and not on game development sites.)

As to the "how much" question - that depends where the vendor lives. Dollars go a lot further in Africa and South America than they do in USA and Europe.

I use Unity. The general rule is the lower the polycount the faster it will render, the better your game will run.

But you can also get around that by having fewer objects in the scene or streamlining your code etc.

And if you're developing for mobile vs PC vs game console there are different rules. Developers tend to develop for multiple markets simultaneously. For example, if I'm developing for mobile and PC, my assets must work on mobile, but still look good on PC. Alternatively, they'll use version control systems to duplicate the assets - select a low poly asset for mobile and a higher poly count for PC. 

Things should be in pieces - rather than a room full of furniture, you'd need a room and furniture. The developer will select what they need for each platform, based on what that platform can handle (mobile will have fewer items - pc will have more items).

Look at the unity and unreal asset stores and you'll get a good idea of what's popular, and the polycounts.

Have you ever Googled that verse to make sure you don't remember it from some book?!

And by Googled I mean - use Bing to search for it :-).

Why did the women kick Santa?

Santa had called her a hoe three times.