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RELEASED Hivewire Big Cat Has Begun!
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eclark1894
Visionary
Is there a mane for the lion?
Flint_Hawk
Extraordinary
So FANTASTIC!
FairyFantastic
Awesome
hi and welcome howy
chris the cat is coming along awsomly u have put a lot of hours and hard work like u do with every one of yr models u need a huge gold star well done x
chris the cat is coming along awsomly u have put a lot of hours and hard work like u do with every one of yr models u need a huge gold star well done x
icedragonart
Admirable
I think I'm speechless.... Just incredible
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
I am just curious here but does anyone by any chance know what the differences in file size are between the DAZ Big Cat 1 and this beauty?
Would just like to know what the hit on processing resources would be.
Also I wish the content creators here had offered their incredible talents to the original creators of Poser. Their content, in my opinion, is greatly inferior and that is a shame.
Would just like to know what the hit on processing resources would be.
Also I wish the content creators here had offered their incredible talents to the original creators of Poser. Their content, in my opinion, is greatly inferior and that is a shame.
The file size for our Big Cat/Leopard/Panther is 36.9 mb for the Poser format uncompressed.
To your second part. While I was creating Dawn I spoke with Steve Cooper at Smith Micro about making available our Dawn and male counter part (Didn't have a name for him then) in the upcoming Poser 10. However, I was politely brushed aside, with the explanation that there was already so much content going into their next version. That was a bit of a surprise to me.
I started writing about other specific meetings that our offer was extended (pre Charles Taylor), but deleted them. I don't want it to come across as a sour grapes thing. But suffice it to say that the offer has indeed been extended and declined. Poser has it's own content, and for various reasons, they want it that way.
However, we internally are finally at a point (as of just last night actually) to have our content searchable within the Poser ap. Hoping that very shortly Smith Micro can hook us up so that folks can search our store within Poser. This is a great thing that Smith Micro has made available to us, and it looks like we might finally be there!! Yay!!!
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
Wonder why they are so adamant to not get better content? I never use and have never used their content since Poser 4. As soon as Zygot/DAZ released the millenium 1 figures the original poser people were summarily deleted from my runtime. I kept some of the other content, animals and such because there were no better alternatives and still use them but.......less and less.
As for the new poser content....never!
Oh well to each their own. And good luck on the Poser link to your stuff. Hope it goes great!
As for the new poser content....never!
Oh well to each their own. And good luck on the Poser link to your stuff. Hope it goes great!
I think a lot of people got burned pretty badly in the aftermath of the collapse of MetaCreations. With the host program being tossed about like a beachball and landing in a different company's hands every time you looked, there is no way to assure stability. Some creators decided that they should uncouple themselves from Poser entirely and operate independently, while, once Smith-Micro had control of the program, they were pretty determined to provide all the content themselves, no outsiders need apply. They do provide the basics. But most of it isn't necessarily premium work. Or it may once have *been* premium work, but is now old tech.
carmen indorato
Extraordinary
Actually except for P4 I do not recall seeing or working with as ypu put it "Premium Quality" content. Zygote and Runtime DNA were content creators for a while not sure what versions of Poser RDNA was involved in Though if memory is on P4 was Zygote.
There is an old Italian expression:
"Don't swallow the mule to choke up on the tail"In other words you have already conceptualized and created a piece of content, textured and tested and included with the app for distribution mow much more work could it be to polish it up and tweak it so it is a better product instead of a slacked heinie afterthought with bad joints, horrible textures and lacking in any refined extras that will make content users or the Poser App users want to use it?
I love content creators like we have seen here of late who are proud of their work and are deeply driven by their passion to create the best they can for content users. It is a question of pride. Smith Micro should set down higher standards for their content creators.....it reflects on heir product signature...it's basic business and marketing.
I have seen so darn many one shot products that show potential in filling a niche need that is released and lacking in completion.
o morphs, bad textures, bad joints, bad or no good expressions or character options, no accessories and on and on......that no matter how I have begged for follow-up products offered to help sell their figure better it is ignored.
"Oh I am too busy now working on other stuff maybe when I clear my deck!" is the usual answer. Clear your deck of what...other poorly made Poser stuff? One guy used his hobby of selling breed dogs as a reason for not providing me with a list of morphs included with his figure. To say I refused to buy his otherwise fairly attractive figure due to lack of interest....HIS.....would be an understatement.
I have spent thousands of dollars and have thousands of products on CDs DVDs, hard Drives here I will probably never get time to use and most of it is schlock produced by people with a little real skills but no interest in creating quality stuff. They use the base figures in a few renders and make them look good just god enough to sell the product and that is it. NO MORE.
As far as I am concerned creating inferior product for their applications is stupid marketing. DAZ had right...give the app away and get the money on the content! Brilliant!
There is an old Italian expression:
"Don't swallow the mule to choke up on the tail"In other words you have already conceptualized and created a piece of content, textured and tested and included with the app for distribution mow much more work could it be to polish it up and tweak it so it is a better product instead of a slacked heinie afterthought with bad joints, horrible textures and lacking in any refined extras that will make content users or the Poser App users want to use it?
I love content creators like we have seen here of late who are proud of their work and are deeply driven by their passion to create the best they can for content users. It is a question of pride. Smith Micro should set down higher standards for their content creators.....it reflects on heir product signature...it's basic business and marketing.
I have seen so darn many one shot products that show potential in filling a niche need that is released and lacking in completion.
o morphs, bad textures, bad joints, bad or no good expressions or character options, no accessories and on and on......that no matter how I have begged for follow-up products offered to help sell their figure better it is ignored.
"Oh I am too busy now working on other stuff maybe when I clear my deck!" is the usual answer. Clear your deck of what...other poorly made Poser stuff? One guy used his hobby of selling breed dogs as a reason for not providing me with a list of morphs included with his figure. To say I refused to buy his otherwise fairly attractive figure due to lack of interest....HIS.....would be an understatement.
I have spent thousands of dollars and have thousands of products on CDs DVDs, hard Drives here I will probably never get time to use and most of it is schlock produced by people with a little real skills but no interest in creating quality stuff. They use the base figures in a few renders and make them look good just god enough to sell the product and that is it. NO MORE.
As far as I am concerned creating inferior product for their applications is stupid marketing. DAZ had right...give the app away and get the money on the content! Brilliant!
That's very good news Chris!
I have tried to like Poser people, but they just aren't that easy for me to work with. I'm almost of a mind to wish Smith Micro separated the content from the program though it probably wouldn't decrease the cost of Poser all that much.
I have tried to like Poser people, but they just aren't that easy for me to work with. I'm almost of a mind to wish Smith Micro separated the content from the program though it probably wouldn't decrease the cost of Poser all that much.