Yes, wish I could use LAMH with Poser, but if I'm not mistaken, it only works in DS.
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Official Announcement: DAZ terminates agreement to publish HiveWire 3D animals!
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It was an interesting time for sure. We all learned a lot!
You're right. I edited by post, and deleted the ghost.
Sorry, but you caught me before I could push his name back into the abyss.
AllenArt
Eager
Sounds likely to me. Sad that they can't be more professional. I don't recall anything in your announcement that was hurtful. Urgh!
Laurie
Once upon a time it WAS a wonderful place and I WAS so excited when I became a vendor there back in 2009, thanks to Ron Deviney. I met Lisa there and Chris and so many wonderful folks through the old Daz ArtZone back in 2006 and later - needless to say KenG was one and I owe him so much for him tempting me to HW back in 2013!
Well it's not like Alex is working on woodland creatures, his current Fb page is all about making dinosaurs so.... he's like the ONLY ONE that's making anything like animals right now for DAZ that I know of. They are such poor sports about bringing the community back together. All they are doing now is alienating more people.
DanaTA
Distinguished
Sorry to hear about this, Chris and Lisa. I thought maybe there would be good feelings again in the 3D universe. I guess I was wrong. Wouldn't be the first time.
Well, no worries about competition from me, that's for sure. Can't believe they were so small about this. It seems a lot of folks liked your cats better than theirs. Perhaps that's a big part of this. Still, seems petty.
Dana
Well, no worries about competition from me, that's for sure. Can't believe they were so small about this. It seems a lot of folks liked your cats better than theirs. Perhaps that's a big part of this. Still, seems petty.
Dana
Yes, we all thank Ken for his ability to tempt folks over to the light side. I mean...
the right side.
So noted and edited in kind.
Yeah, I saw that too, that was funny.
I was excited to become a vendor there, too. I worked my butt off to make things good enough to be accepted for sale there. It was so worth the effort! Not to mention, as Laurie said, making connections with artists and teaming up and fun stuff.
AllenArt
Eager
I guess there's no time for animals when they're pushing out their newest big breasted wonder with obligatory scifi suit with a boob window and skimpy bikini
.Sorry, couldn't resist. I bought into the newest G version, but I REALLY want the gents to start coming out sooner. I just don't use the girls as much
.Anyway....lol.
Laurie
I won't be surprised to see a big push sponsored by DAZ to get a new Dog and Cat out now. Probably already in the works. Who knows, maybe even a Horse.
Yes. I think that's absolutely correct.
I sympathize because I know you had a lot of hopes for how this would improve HiveWire's future. But, I suspect it had much less to do with what their stated reasons and far more with the realization it wasn't going to remain a secret HW3D was HiveWire 3D and that carrying the HiveWire animals would promote their competition more than they intended. More to the point ... once people got their hands on the HiveWire animals and realized their quality ... they just might also begin questioning what they believed about the HiveWire human figures.
Honestly, I think y'all were far more than fair to DAZ in responding to how so many of us felt about losing the HiveWire animals to DAZ. Far more than they deserve in my opinion. If they dropped the agreement because of our comments ... well shame on them. They are absolutely bonkers if they think any of us have forgotten how they treated us.
Now ... "The Mooch" deserved to be ditched after 10 days. I still find it rather hard to believe that anyone would behave in such an utterly unprofessional way. But for you guys to be ditched like that for such questionable reasons. Well, it really says a lot about DAZ.
I sympathize because I know you had a lot of hopes for how this would improve HiveWire's future. But, I suspect it had much less to do with what their stated reasons and far more with the realization it wasn't going to remain a secret HW3D was HiveWire 3D and that carrying the HiveWire animals would promote their competition more than they intended. More to the point ... once people got their hands on the HiveWire animals and realized their quality ... they just might also begin questioning what they believed about the HiveWire human figures.
Honestly, I think y'all were far more than fair to DAZ in responding to how so many of us felt about losing the HiveWire animals to DAZ. Far more than they deserve in my opinion. If they dropped the agreement because of our comments ... well shame on them. They are absolutely bonkers if they think any of us have forgotten how they treated us.
Now ... "The Mooch" deserved to be ditched after 10 days. I still find it rather hard to believe that anyone would behave in such an utterly unprofessional way. But for you guys to be ditched like that for such questionable reasons. Well, it really says a lot about DAZ.
I was one of the artists who worked on textures for the MilDog, MilCat, MilHorse and I believe the Daz Big Cat 1. At the time it was so cool to actually have animals that weren't the default Poser ones. We were excited to be making the textures for a "Millennium Line ofAnimal Figures". I still have the psd files around here somewhere. Massive. Poser was just handling bump well at that point. Now we have displacement and normal and a slew of tools we didn't have then.
Exciting times!
I had an evil thought and I'm going to go ahead and say it.. I really hope they didn't use this as an opportunity to get a look at your Big Cat mesh to get ideas from it. That would be SO NOT COOL!
Yeah, but they could have gotten there hands on it long ago. I just think they're focused on what they're good at and gives them the most return for their efforts.
I do think this whole thing going sour might give them the impetus to move ahead with some focus to compete in the animal arena in spite of us.