Strange wording for a TOS:

"Flame Baiting. It can be a person unfamiliar with a certain topic/discussion on an internet forum group, saying things that would provoke an angry, teasing, or overall negative response. For example: You’re a loser if you think Poser is better than Daz. OR Everyone knows which software will be at the top next time this year and it won’t be Poser/Daz. [These will purposely provoke negative reactions.]"

I think you mean familiar. How can you purposely provoke negative reactions if you're unfamiliar with a topic? Is being unfamiliar with a certain topic a violation of the TOS? Surely the opposite is true - the problem occurs when someone knows that a topic is contentious, but posts about it anyway.

UNFAMILIAR HAS BEEN REPLACED WITH "FAMILIAR"

When a vehicle gets stuck in deep, soft sand you use a pair of sand ladders to give it a firm surface to drive onto. You dig out a bit in front of the drive wheels, lay the ladders down to make a very short roadway, then with a bit of pushing and gentle throttle, you drive onto them. Usually you can keep going off the other end without getting stuck again, leaving the co-driver to run after you with a shovel and 2 sand ladders. How far you go before you risk stopping to let him catch up? ... well there's always the risk of you being the one left behind with the sand ladders next time...

Good to see Blender eating into to Vue territory, that video looks pretty damn good!
Let's hope they eat into Marvelous Designer territory next (yay)!

Of course, if both those programs had reasonable pricing, I wouldn't have said that with such enthusiasm :-D

I bought Marvelous Designer 2 when it was $100. Now that would buy me 6 weeks of 'rental' of MD4. Not gonna happen. MD4 can do some nice tricks, but it's not $450 better than what's in MD2.

Designing your textures around that new mapping would be a bad idea for a number of reasons. Firstly it would only work on your own modified obj file, unless you can distribute the new UV data with the product. Secondly, as Ambientshade says, the new UVs will cause a lot of smearing of textures. The result will look shite, a lot worse than a few visible seams. The existing UVs are unwrapped, whereas the new ones from UVmapper are projected, which just doesn't work for cylindrical objects like torsos and limbs. Apply a UV checking texture like this one to both versions and see for yourself.

modo_uv_checker.jpg

UVmapper is a handy utility for generating templates from existing UVs or fiddling with material groups and stuff, but for actual UV mapping it's a bit last-century, there are way, way better tools for the job.

The third reason is UV efficiency. If you apply a texture to the obj using the existing UVs, 60% of the pixels in the image will end up on the model. That's not particularly efficient, better packing by rotating and scaling all those existing UV islands to reduce wasted space would have allowed 75% of the image pixels to end up on the model. But on your remap, only about ten percent of the pixels land on the model. That means your textures would have to be twice as wide and twice as high in pixels just to look the same as the existing UVs. And that's a big step backwards.

That's typical behaviour for a complex Ngon with concave edges. Unless you particularly need a face there, the easiest fix is just to delete it, otherwise chop it up into smaller areas to get rid of the concave boundaries.

I am absolutely astonished at the ineptitude of this forum developer.

Is there actually a forum developer? I thought perhaps the web developer had been suspended or sacked, given that the appalling state of things has remained relatively unchanged for some months now. If said forum developer was actively trying to 'fix' or 'improve' things they would almost certainly be getting much worse. I think his/her skillset peaked somewhere around the switch to circular avatars, anything beyond that proved too ambitious.

The other possible fly in the ointment is what SM are going to do, if they do include dual quaternion rigging will the vast majority of Poser users move to G3 in preference to any new figure?

Exactly. If Rendo produced a new figure, SM could sink it by adding support for G3 in future poser versions. Anyway, I imagine the sad tale of Renda is still fresh in Rendo's minds...

There are those noodle elbows again. Trying to get away with no JCMs? ;o)

Why wouldn't a new poser user use the figures included in Poser? There's content included for them, they don't need any 'steps to make them work in Poser' because they are Poser figures.

Still, sorry to say Zev0, but V7's elbows are way ugly. I know some (most?) people have elbows like that, so they might be perfectly realistic. They are still ugly.

The inside, or the outside? I like them all pointy like that, they make all the other elbows look like bent pool noodles.

Maybe this:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/hr-092/96891/

@ bhoins:

Instead of constantly bickering, why don't you show us a render of your oh so superiour "G" thing, in the exact same pose?
Maybe THAT could convince me, eventually.
Just unproven claims by a known troll doesn't. It's just blabbing.

Best regards
-P-

...and a simple observation about the shape of an elbow devolves into the usual name-calling and sticking-out-of-tongues and ganging-up and taking sides. A normal day in the Poser community, where "Dress-up-Dolly" is actually a virtual bloodsport. It's like dog fighting, but you can do it in your underpants.

THIS IS POSER FORUM!!!

In fact. The scope of this thread is to show to the people who think that Poser is the beginning and the end of what CGI can accomplish what happens outside their little ghettwalled garden.

Do you start the same sort of threads on the 3DMax forums, and the C4D forums and the Modo forums? People use the tool they use because they are happy using it and they are satisfied with the results they can get from it. If they are unhappy, they move to something else. Whatever you use, there's something better, whatever the standard of your work, there's someone producing better work. If people are interested in what happens outside their walled garden (though I suspect many are not), they can easily look, I don't think it's necessary to embark on a crusade to rub people's faces in it.

Most Poser users like to download read-made stuff and make pictures with it. There's other software out there that can make better renders, better hair, better cloth, better skin, better everything actually, but it doesn't have a large, cheap library of ready made stuff, so it requires a huge, huge learning curve to make everything yourself. Most Poser users have chosen not to go that route. Get over it.

 This only feeds one workstation, Galadriel, but Galadriel has two liquid-cooled processors and a 1,350w internal power supply, and the UPS also feeds Galadriel's two 30" 2560x1600 monitors, 150w each.  Galadriel doesn't use all of her 1,350w;  she pulls about 770w when rendering at 100% CPU.  But with PC internal power supplies -as with external batt/surge UPS- it's good to have more capacity than needed.  Everything lives longer if it isn't running at the ragged edge of its ability.

So it's YOU!? You're the one melting my planet!

Can we make JoePublic's post a sticky?