Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Question for buyers. Flexibility or ease of use?

maclean opened this issue on Mar 14, 2003 ยท 14 posts


maclean posted Fri, 14 March 2003 at 5:37 PM

I know I'll get a hundred different answers to this depending on who's answering, but I'm curious to know. A short explanation. I've been working on a pack for sale called 'Room Creator' and it's main advantage is flexibility and configuration. The user will be able to set up a room, move doors and windows around and position them wherever they want, add on areas and change the space to suit themselves. Every figure in it is about as flexible as you can get. It'll be a very cheap base pack with several (also cheap) expansion packs to enhance the functionality. What I want to know is this. How high do you rate flexibility? Would you have a problem with a figure that has 40 different walls and 30 materials, or would having to set all that up put you off? Bearing in mind that the large number of walls and materials gives you a LOT more choice than if it only had, say, 10 walls and materials. Would you prefer the ability to morph doors and windows, switch body parts on or off, and generally set things up the way you want them, even if it means doing the configuration? Or would you rather have an 'instant' house with everything nailed in place and ready to render? I know it's difficult to answer these questions without knowing how much work is involved, but I'm pretty sure that if you can handle vicki 3, you'd have no problems with this. I've built and rebuilt everything in the pack over and over, making improvements every time, and I don't think it could be any easier, considering the versatility you get. So far, I don't know of anything else available for poser that is this configurable. One last thing. Single large pack? Or base and expansions? Base would be under $20. Expansions around $10. Those would probably have 5 - 10 main figures in them, all multi-part figures. I think that making it one pack would probably be too expensive AND too much stuff at once. We're talking up to 40 posable figures here. So what I'm really asking is, is configuring things worth it, if it gets you total flexibilty? Interested to hear some thoughts. mac