Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Have I been spoilt by Poser pricing?

AntoniaTiger opened this issue on Jul 24, 2005 ยท 100 posts


AntoniaTiger posted Sun, 24 July 2005 at 7:51 AM

I was looking at a site today which sells most of its 3D content at over $100 a time. But they have some freebies, some of them potentially useful in a Poser scene. Alas, when I downloaded one, a model of a specific aircraft, there were all sorts of things wrong; not just simplifications. The wings were too short, compared to the overall length. The wingtips were squared off when they should have been round. The material zones didn't match some of the major differences in the real-life materials. The undercarriage legs were set at the wrong angle. And it's not hard to find a few pictures that show all this. In the Poser world, $100 or $200 is what we expect to pay for a complete suite of software. There are some dodgy paid-for models out there, but still costing only tens of dollars (I'm thinking of a few which have very poor UV mapping, for instance). And people who put out a freebie to attract customers don't usually put out something which makes them seem incompetent. Obviously, I'm not used to the hard-nosed world of professional CGI.