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Quote - Actually I always find it amazing that "Americans" are always lumped together...
I was referring to the "lumping together" that occurs every four years when we (American-born, me) elect a President so he can bankrupt the Treasury, send our children off to die for his big business cronies, wreck our schools.... Oh well, never mind.
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - You do most of us no justice if you call us the Poser crowd....
I used "crowd" in the sense that Swift uses "mob." But I was referrring to the "crowd" element in the Poser community, not suggesting that only "crowd types" use Poser. After all, I use Poser myself.....
Frankly, this "Fool me once, make it a hobby" mentality is pervasively American if not built into the human genome. How else explain the ability of the American people to go back to the same lying, hypocritical thugs, time and time again, like abused children hugging their abusers, confident that this time, this final time, things will be different?
Thread: Buyer Survey | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Acadia is right. No matter how utterly the system sucks, you vote. Even if you don't have a chance, you vote. If you don't vote, you don't get to complain that the system sucks. Period. Liberals have indulged in that bit of silliness for years. "No difference between Bush and Gore. I just won't vote!"
Vote! It was actually fun. My ballot is the one wrapped in rocks.
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Thread: Blender free zebra to Poser???? | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Thread: Lyne's Creations/Vista Internet Products Store is CLOSING | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - How about enlisting the help of your previous customers
I'd be happy to help with this. I'll be buying some more stuff in the coming months, and I'm pleased to help.
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Thread: OT Leaving Poser...FOREVER!!!! | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
"VChick bug": Whatever. I haven't installed V4. My initial tests were with the MilDog, V3, Traveler's belly dance costume on Steph Petite, and the Heavy Horse. All of them had problems, some of which I've traced down, some of which (crumples in the HH mesh, caused by screwy assumptions about constraints I think) were total show stoppers.
My complaint is with the hype, not the functionality. And I'm truly tired of hearing the word "hype" used (even by me any more) as if it were a synonym for "lies." I suppose I'm one of the few not surprised by the lies. Welcome to the club, if you are just visiting.
Conceding the pretty special problems addressed here, such has having to give up eyesocket morphs that carry the eyeball along and hand morphs that control the dozen+ elements of the fingers (in Miki, not just the divine Ms V), I'm Ok with having to make some compromises to get the additional value in C5P. It was faster than P5, had vastly better lighting, offered better handling of cameras and shaders, and held its own when P6 came out. I could bring a finished PZ3 in and an hour later be zipping through refinement renders that took minutes rather than hours. Worth every penny, and if that's all you are looking for, and you don't need P7 support, find C5P on EBay.
I am not Ok with being misled about C6P handling PZ3 files transparently. Frankly, it doesn't handle them at all, as far as I'm concerned, and I'm not going to pay $100 for a plug-in that DAZ marketers claim with solve the problem (Fool me once, FU). Without TransPoser, importing PZ3 files means spending almost as long fixing them as it took to create them.
I am not Ok with being told that I was getting support for dynamic hair and cloth, only to learn that it's support for THEIR dynamic hair, and "Oh, heck's sake, did someone say 'cloth'? We didn't mean, you know, freakin' 'CLOTH'? But you just wait! We'll get you some and it will be just perfect!! That's a personal promise!"
I'm not Ok with failing to mention that the single thing that prevents me from using C5P with Poser, incompatibility with P7, would be retained in C6P in spite of breathless BS about full Poser support.
Back to my Blender tutorials.
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - Yep it's another one of those famous DAZ slander your competition campaigns to make yourself look much better, nothing new.
Golly, Mr. Hardy, you think? :)
Someday the Poser crowd will finally get it that giving away candy could maybe, just possibly, be a way to get you into the back seat....
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Thread: OT Leaving Poser...FOREVER!!!! | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
For me, the problem is not "master this" or "keep this functionality." It's that I have thousands of dollars invested in useful objects, and thousands of hours invested in creating my own stuff, and thousands of shortcuts (such as all of Schlabber's free poses and piles of DM poses I purchased) that allow me to do my work -- which is not reinventing wheels -- efficiently. The reason I'm fed up with Poser is that it wastes my time. It doesn't work any more.
I won't give it up until I find a way to continue to do what I use it for, but I will give it up the instant I find that alternative. That's the kind of customer loyalty companies like Microsoft, e-Frontier, and DAZ deserve, by the way. The kind they've given us for years.
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Thread: OT Leaving Poser...FOREVER!!!! | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
I've been testing C6P all weekend. It's 60% hype, and the rest is mostly wishful thinking.
Wait for 6.1. Shouldn't be more than a few years....
Thread: Can import poer runtimes into carrara 6 pro | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - You only have to delete the lights if using Poser7.
You don't "have to delete the lights" anywhere, because C6P deletes them for you, regardless of the version of Poser used to create the file. I've tried PZ3s from P4, P5, P6, and P7. In all cases, my lights and cameras are toast. As well as any transparency settings. I'll take TransPoser over DAZ promises any time.
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Here's what the dog's head looks like with just a single "Moonlight" object, default settings. Strangely enough, repositioning the "moon" has no effect on the lighting! I recognize that using C6P to its full potential will refine the image, of course.
Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Some problems with building from scratch:
Based on this, I concede (again) that C6P can be used effectively to create original scenes. Using it with any legacy material, from texture maps to PZ3s, is hopelessly time-consuming.
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Sigh. TBird: I think your "seamless import" speaks for itself....
Yes, we were under the impression that "TransPoser would be unnecessary" but your interpretation was a little different than mine. I assumed that meant because its functionality would be integrated into the application and the import function. Not that I would learn to live without it once I knew more....
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - I've not had any problems importing P7 pz3s into C6pro once I came across the tip to delete the lights in Poser and resave the pz3.
You left out "and then spend whatever time it takes to do the lighting, cameras, and shaders again in C6P." Lights are much easier to work with in C6P than in Poser, and lighting effects are better. But using it with this tip means changing your workflow to avoid doing anything with lights until you go to C6P. Or duplicate effort. Personally, I prefer to work holistically, tinkering with lights, camera angle, pose and even props all through the process. I repeat, I would never assume that I can "just open my PZ3s in C6P." I was Ok with that in C5P, because Eovia had the integrity not to imply I could. The claim that you can in C6P is cheap marketing BS. Importing PZ3 files into C6P is actually less effective than it was in C5P, because of the greed about TransPoser (which was free in C5P, part of the "Pro" part...).
You also left out that transparency might as well be deleted, and C6P provides no simple way to make a single change to multiple shaders (a gross omission in Poser, but in Poser, the merchant's transparency settings work...). And that the default camera won't be set up in the scene. Create animation with complex camera angles and changes in Poser? Then plan to duplicate the effort after import. My imports all arrive with some sort of distant camera and the scene a tiny dollop in the middle of the screen. Just like in C5P. None of the camera settings are being used, as far as I can tell.
I haven't even looked at the animation compromises, but I'm sure they are substantial, regardless of whether the end result is better.
I would never consider importing a PZ3 with commercial shaders into C6P. P6+ shaders are a major part of commercial product appeal, and they will be hosed. That eliminates a whole lot of commercial products that supposedly can be used WITHOUT POSER!!!
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Dynamic hair - C6pro now has it's own dynamic hair so not being able to import Poser dynamic hair isn't too much of an issue. I also understand that a plugin will 'soon' be available to also give dynamic cloth capability within C6pro
It's a pretty good issue if you have invested in commercial dynamic hair. And I was under the impression C6P did dynamic cloth. Should have read the fine print. Since dynamic cloth is a major commerical line (and rightfully, since cloth works much better than hair in Poser), it's lack of availability is a major hinderance to using my Poser third-party props. I can understand not supporting cloth dynamics, but it's a simple matter to convert a dynamic cloth into a changed (or morphing) static object, and if it can't do that, then a big investment (of time and money) in one of Poser's advanced technologies is money down the drain.
What it boils down to is that Poser "replacement" was glib marketing hype. That's no surprise, considering the source, but I'm not going to sit by and watch DAZevangels recite misinformation in the face of the truth. The Cat_Knight morph that got crumpled on V3 is all DAZ technology; it won't even handle their own products! I am reminded of the first time I loaded V2 into the so-called "public beta" of D|S: It looked like such utter, useless crap that I deleted the program. My avatar at DAZ Beta Forums is based on what D|S did to her image map.
C6P might be a good substitute for Poser if you are
Personally, I've never fit the marketing demographic.
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL
Quote - I think the point that's being missed is that with Carrara 6 Pro YOU DON'T NEED POSER! For anything!
That point certainly hasn't been missed in DAZ' C6P buzz fest. Unfortunately, it seems to have been missed in the implementation. If you are suggesting that I could have built the entire Godiva scene from scratch in C6P, that may be so, but it has no dynamic objects (of which I have many), the transparencies are part of the products in the case of all the cr2s but Vickie (a total of nearly twenty in two scenes), and the crumpling of the mesh might well have occurred even if the figure was zero'd out (I'll check tomorrow).
What's more, the C6P interface is not equipped with parameter dials, which are my first recourse, and the transform tools are far from as easy to use as Poser's. The one thing I have never adjusted to in Carrara is having to type parameter guesses into the boxes to move things (yes, I know about the neato gimbeled rings; I don't find them easy to use for some reason).
I say all this prepared to junk Poser permanently if I don't need it. Right now, I'd say it would be grossly premature. C6P may be the greatest all-around bargain in modeling software (though it's hard to beat Blender's "free"), but as a substitute for Poser it's a wash so far.
I'll give it a few more hours to convince me, but then it's back to the Blender tutorials for me, I suspect. If some GPL techie is working on a Blender to Poser interface, my mind will be made up.
M
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Thread: Carrara 6 pro and Poser | Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL