Runtime DNA merges with DAZ 3D

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

I agree Seliah...and I try to remember that folks who are just starting out in 3D need those freebies, just like we did, or they'd never progress enough to have confidence to invest in it as a hobby. And as they mature, and find their strengths, they in turn will give back to the community. But that cycle cannot work if at some point we become stingy either with knowledge or free content.

That right there is the ENTIRE REASON that I began making freebies. It was a desire to give something back to the community that I had depended on for so long for my content. Once I figured out how to distribute safely (legally), I started doing it. And I still do it. And I will always do it. Yes, I've had my items stolen and sold over on places like the SecondLife website. And I've had to chase down Hannah's morph files as well as they were being used in a porn 3d game site (I tossed a lawyer at them and they behaved very quickly after that, let me tell you, especially once i made it VERY CLEAR that the morph is intended - and she clearl LOOKS!! - to be UNDER AGE)...

Ahem. Anyway.

I do not forget my roots. I never have. I started by living on freebies, and many folks still do, as well as the newbies entering the field. I won't ever stop making freebies. I like being able to give back, even though I seem to now be starting to transition into selling... it's just not within me as a person to STOP giving freebies out. I only consider an item as a sale item if it's built on something that specifically does not allow for free distribution, or if it entails a LOT LOT of work. And by that I mean hours and hours of work... otherwise, I mostly make my stuff as free as I can.

 

[Lorraine]

BTW, like the new avvy

Holy crap! I didn't notice! It looks fab, Seliah

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

But it's so fun to poke the anthill with a stick after it calms down a bit...

BTW, like the new avvy

Yes, but I seem to be allergic to fire-ant bites.

And thanks. My previous one was over ten years old (it was using an M3!), and it was well past time to update it. ^_^

Holy crap! I didn't notice! It looks fab, Seliah

LOL. Thanks, Lorraine... we knew it was gonna have Blake in it! And of course *I* wanted my white wolf... and HE wanted his shifted family/friends, so we ended up with.. THIS.

 

[Miss B]

Metacreations owned both Bryce and Poser when I first arrived in the 3D hobby.

OK, I just checked both at Wikipedia, and came to the same conclusion, but I was working with Bryce 4 (which I got through Corel) for 4 1/2 years before I got into Poser 5 (which I got through Curious Labs). Glad to see they didn't stay together, or Poser wouldn't still be updated regularly. Then again, if SM had acquired Bryce, it wouldn't now be sitting in this languid state software often winds up in if it's NOT updated regularly. ~sigh~

 

[Miss B]

And thanks. My previous one was over ten years old (it was using an M3!), and it was well past time to update it. ^_^

Wow, I hadn't noticed until now! I like!!

 

[skylab]

Yeah, it's a shame what's happened to Bryce and Hexagon...great software, but they're getting left behind by a 64 bit operating system that is undergoing even more changes.

 

[skylab]

Yes, I noticed her avatar change almost immediately...kitty bristled at first sight of a wolf, but then settled down and behaved

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Wow, I hadn't noticed until now! I like!!

Thanks.

Yes, I noticed her avatar change almost immediately...kitty bristled at first sight of a wolf, but then settled down and behaved

LMAO. I almost did JUST the wolf for the new avvy, but Blake insisted on having his say!

 

[Miss B]

Just like a man. Always wanting the last word.

 

[frogimus]

Just like a man. Always wanting the last word.

Tis why I usually talk to myself.

 

[Miss B]

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Just like a man. Always wanting the last word.

Hah! There is a reason his shifted form is an elk. He is a stubborn bull elk in more ways than one!

That, and I learned years ago that I can only argue just so much with the voices in my head. Eventually the characters win the argument! LOL

 

[Miss B]

No use fighting them. They'll just hunt you down and haunt you.

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

No use fighting them. They'll just hunt you down and haunt you.

Hah! They don't have to hunt very far. They are brain roomates who will just keep talking and talking in my head until they get what they want! I have been woken up in the middle of the night before, just because of them and had to write it down before I could quiet my head enough to go back to sleep!

...no one ever said a writer or artist was sane.

 

[Miss B]

True, and often the more insane they are, the greater the writer or artist they turn out to be.

 

[sanbie]

Love your new avatar Seliah

 

[Seliah (Childe of Fyre)]

Love your new avatar Seliah

I really wasn't too sure about it at first, but it's growing on me. Thanks.

 

[JOdel]

Pretty sure I've mentioned this before. But maybe not here.
In January of around 1991, I was in St Frizz, at MacWorld browsing the Expo hall, and back in the back there was this... well not even a booth really, just sort of a counter, and a couple of kids who were showing off a nifty little software toy that generated landscapes. They were calling it Bryce.

It was in late beta and rather a lot of people picked up the public release version on a couple of floppies. I think it was v. 0.9 or thereabouts. I picked it up myself, but never made heads nor tails of it.

The next year or so it was definitely out. Don't recall whether it was already taken up by MetaCreations or whether that was another year or so later. MetaCreations either developed or collected some of the most impressive graphics software on the planet, and I was a devoted customer of their stuff, even though I can't honestly say that much of it got actually *used* by me. Like I say, I never actually *used* Bryce although I kept upgrading my copy, while MetaCreations was developing it. Picked up the first version of Poser when it came out in around '94, too. But never used that either.

(And let me say for the record that while I honestly admired the Kai Krause interfaces, I can't honestly say that I groked them. Somebody in one of my Mac User Groups described them as being "designed by Martians, for Martians", and I tend to agree. But they were certainly handsome to look at. Positively pieces of art in themselves.)

At this point I think none of this stuff was available on the PC yet. These were all built on the Mac, and I'm not sure anyone realized then that the Mac was not going to be the platform of choice for 3D graphics like it was for most of the 2D stuff.

After MetaCreations imploded and their software scattered in all directions I rather lost track of most of it. Didn't stumble across the 3D hobbiest markets until the middle of 2009. And by that time I had a project that I was unable to get a handle on illustrating, and wondered whether 3D might be the way to go with it.

 

[AetherDream]

Wow, I am about 20 pages behind this thread already!

Still at sea, but I am working with Dawn SE. I really, really like working with her. I am making a ball gown. It's a first for me, but it's working out really nice. I'll probably upload it when I get in.

I am also making a sci fi uniform with boots and a belt. Something akin to Star Trek uniform, but without the shoulder pads and it's a one-piece instead of two.

Yay-- a ballgown!

 

[eclark1894]

Well, as long as we're talking about Bryce. I got into Poser because I had written a book. I self published it, but I needed a book cover. Poser help me create the look of characters for the book. but I needed something else for the cover. The story was set in the future, and under the ocean in a city called New Atlantis. I really wasn't very skilled and with what I can do now I'd make that cover look like a second grader's crayon drawing, but I was rather proud of the cover I created using Bryce 2.0.