I think it's common to get permission. You may not need it if you aren't selling the item, but if you are (or for freebies) you should.

All I know is chat has been kind of empty lately and that's making me sad. The one time I try to get back to chatting and it's dead.

I can't tell if the woman is being threatening or offering a peculiar service with her hands...

It's a little late, but I answered it. Y'all probably aren't going to like what I had to say.

Wheatpenny, I keep hearing that but no one gives me a solid answer to why.

I haven't changed that signature in ages. Thanks for reminding me to update it.

Bill, why do you like SuperFly so much? Does it produce more realism? Is it easier to set things up? Both?

kerwin posted at 2:45PM Fri, 04 December 2015 - #4242552

The single biggest thing is Physical Based Rendering (Superfly). There a lot of other smaller things: easy joint-center tracking in morphs (adaptive rigging), direct creation of inject files, control-handles (built-in support for "phantom bones"), Subdivision level morph targets, Autosave, etc. A fairly detailed list here: http://my.smithmicro.com/poser-whats-new.html

Thanks for letting me know and the link. From that new questions:

So how much faster is GPU rendering? Is it barely noticeable? If I turn on IDL with 3 bounces and SSS am I going to notice a difference?

The new rigging stuff sounds good, how much better is it going to make things look? Also when are we going to see characters that support it?

Pauline looks a little on the ugly side by default and everything looks like it was rendered in firefly with the most basic materials. Please tell me she's capable of better if I'm supposed to take her seriously.

hopeandlove posted at 2:43PM Fri, 04 December 2015 - #4242548

Hi @Winterclaw- I'm going to move this to the "Poser" forum. Thanks for asking!

I thought I was in the poser forum when I clicked on create new thread. Dunno how it ended up there.

1. A butterfly. It's always a bloody butterfly.

2. A vertical slice of the front view of a hip bone.

3. Since there's often a sexual interpretation to these things... wait, can I give this answer?

4. An ant (or wasp) head

5. Two redheads comparing their bust sizes.

6. It is Tuesday. I never got tuesdays.

7. A mortal kombat fatality.

I unsubscribed mostly because I've got no clue if they'll be selling much V4 stuff over the next year. Can't use your content, no need to buy prime.

To get back on topic.  I've noticed that some folks have nice uneven skin-tones ... more natural looking.  A little soft noise, clouds perhaps? Some are slightly bluish.  The MR's that I have found are pretty unnaturally even.  Any tips on that for a future vendor from other vendors? 

You could probably fix this by playing around with either clouds, fractals, or a combo of the two.  Just make sure they aren't using global coordinates. 

Actually, I thought I'd start a thread where people can just be up-front and post images of the sort of characters they would really like to see in the Poser Marketplace.  Never mind whether others might think you're weird, or whether they'll agree with you, just be honest because that's the whole point of the thread, so that vendors can learn what makes your hormones tick enough to actually buy something.

You know, with all the female actresses that have been turned into characters, I'm a little surprised certain adult entertainers haven't as well.  NVIATWAS and all that.  Should they?  Dunno.  If they haven't, I wonder why not.  I mean many vendors did a take on angelina jolie.  I've seen a sigorney weaver and at least one scarlett johannason. But um... starlet X,Y, or Z?  Can't say I've seen them. 

This is all relative regarding a new figure why it should or should not be created and sold and how viable it would be regarding Rendo.

Why does a pro-daz person such as yourself even care if rendo does a poser only figure?

AmbientShade

There's nothing that prevents any artist or team from creating and marketing their own figures, for whatever program they want it to work in. If the quality is there, then there will be a customer base for it.

There's nothing stopping teams from making figures, but the issue is those smaller teams can only create so much content and content is king.  The reason daz can create successful figures is partly because they have the connections to get enough vendors to support their newest work.  A lot of vendors just won't make 1-3 items for a 3rd party effort that hasn't been released.  Daz can get that critical mass together.  That's why I think it would take something like Rpublishing or all of RNDA working together to get a new figure off the ground successfully.

Zev0

They already earning money now selling multi figure content. So why do they need their own figure if they already making money just selling content, be it for Daz only, Poser only or both?

Because V4 is getting older for one.  For two, DAZ could decide to stop selling V4/G2/anything that can work in poser and poser users don't need to be at the mercy of that one company.  About everyone I've talked to tells me G3, ie the newest figure, doesn't work at all in poser.  For 3, poser can do things like weightmapping that I don't believe is possible in DS.  For 4, if there's no new products for poser users to buy then rendo's poser userbase will stop buying here and that's going to hurt the bottom line.