Yes GG, they've been touting their products for Unity, which is a game engine/software, and/or possibly Unreal, which is also gaming, though I'm not sure which is the development software, and which is the software you play the games in.
Just FYI, both Unity3D and Unreal are game engines, so they are both for developing software. You don't really ever play your game in either (well, if you are the developer and you are testing you do, but not regular folks). Basically they provide tools so that you don't have to build your own physical engine, and many other things that many games share, but are a lot of overhead to program from scratch. It's something a big game studio can afford to do, but not a small indie one (although lots of the big game studios use them too, because it just makes sense).
And although using the figures from programs like Poser and DS has been considered a big no-no in the past both for technical and legal reasons the idea of having a ready made human figure that you adjust to make your own rather than creating one from scratch is very much in line with the philosophy of Unity and Unreal users. The problem in the past, and why many EULAs for the sort of 3d content you find made for Poser and DS don't allow use in games was because the fear was that when you distribute a game, you are distributing the geometry of the mesh so other people could get to it and use it without paying the content creator.
But Unity and Unreal make that not true anymore. Both platforms convert meshes into proprietary files that can't be extracted or used on their own. Daz, for about a year now I think, has offered a plugin for Unity (I can't remember what it's called) where you can purchase access to a morphable female figure that you can then buy clothing and stuff for to use in your game. The problem is, using it through Unity is a horrible pain (I tried their demo out of curiosity). You really want to do all your figure creation out side of the engine, in a program dedicated to it, and then import as the last step.
At Udemy.com. A friend mentioned the site since it offers hundreds of classes in lots of subjects, and told me they have sales every so often, so in the space of about 3 or 4 days back in November, I signed up for 5 classes.
Udemy is pretty great. I've done many of their programming classes. And they do have lots of sales. I would wait until you see one of their $10 sales (one just ended yesterday I'm afraid). Because they do price many of their classes at $200, but even those classes will go on sale for $10. I feel bad for the people who make the classes, but then, although the overall quality is good, there is some variation in how good they are, and I would never be sure enough that a class was going to be the right learning style for me to spend $200 on it.
