I think both myself and Seliah would prefer something that will work across all 3 latest versions of poser (from p9 as Dawn/Dusk works in those upwards) p11 is all well and good but not everyone has it and there will be those with P9 & 10 who would wish to have this work on their versions.
Lyrra was fine in doing what she did on Pauline as she is only available in that version, however Dawn works in P9,10,11 so we have to cover all if we are to please everyone.
I think having it usable in P11 only would end up being detrimental as many would miss that requirement and be irritated.
Yes, pretty much. I'm not willing to exclude a large group of users just because something only works in P11. I myself only have access to P10 and Pro2010, so anything that requires P11 is out of my own reach, too.
When I set out to do something, I try very hard to get it working for as many users as possible. And that's how I approach everything - freebies included. I may not use Poser as my main software, but if the only thing keeping a Poser user from making use of something I've made is just not having MAT files, then of course I am going to fire up Poser and make MAT files. For freebies, I will do the best I can and there might be a caveat that Poser users may need to adjust my less than stellar materials. But for a paid product, I really will push myself right to the brink to make it work and work correctly in both programs if at all possible.
I had actually - originally - been ready to consider the overlays as "DS-Only" because I kind of had a feeling that Poser didn't exactly have anything that filled the roles of Studio's geometry shells or LIE editor. Miss-B got the Blender node trick to work, and I will be referencing the screenshot she gave me when I am ready to sit down and start working on the Poser version of the overlays.
This thread.. when I first posted it, was me kind of testing the waters ahead of time. I'm not ready yet to go into the program and start setting up materials. But I knew I was looking at a big question of "CAN this be done in Poser", so I posted ahead of time to see if anyone knew of any possible way to do it, or if I was going to have to keep the overlays to DS-only.
I'll test out the Blender node down the line here, once I've got the time to resume working on the overlays. I'm focused on Nataani at the moment, and then I'll see about the overlays after he's made it through QA.
But because Dawn works in P9 and above... I'm not willing to restrict the product to anything that requires P11. If that's what it were to come down to, I would leave the product as DS-only.
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