https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=18&t=1291&p=18880#p18880
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Visitor
Friday, 18 February 2005, 10:21 PM


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Depending on what they were trying to promote I could understand the restrictions.  But I think it sounds like they got what tehy asked for.  ;-)

Poser is not liked by many "Professionals" who think that it makes it too easy to make art, the same is true about Vue and Bryce.

An old modeler I like (and sometimes hate ARGHHH!)  is TrueSpace.  DKB raytracer and POV-Ray that it latter became,  are execelent raytracers that I have worked with since the 1980's. ...and other software of that kind have also been treated the way that Poser was in that contest.  It seems that the "professionals", dislike popular software that is used by too many of the "little people".  They really hate free software that can run on lower priced hardware.  They shw the hatred by dismissing the software as toys and the artist who use it as pretenders.  Much of the time though, they are the real pretenders, because they often use the same software when it suits them.

Back before the great growth of the internet, we used other methods of computer communications.  One of those methods was by Computer Bulliten Board Systems.  We could have to use an ascii terminal or a computer running a terminal emulator software to conneect to teh BBS.  Most often through a modem by directly dialing the BBS on the telephone.  We had one in my area that was dedicated to computer graphics.  At first everyone with an interest was welcome and everyone was more or less treated the same.  Then that BBS became famous enough to have callers calling in from all over the country.  Some of the callers were users of "professional software", the they formed a clique within the BBS and others were treated like outsiders.  I was one of those so treated because of the software I was using.  People got tired of the threatment and many stopped calling in, but I continued to call in.

There was one of the "insiders" who was able to "create" some wonderful textures for his models.  The others of his class were amazed at his skill with textures and lighting.  I knew better be may have been using the "professional software" to create his models, but they were being rendered in POV-Ray.  I reconized the stock textures and the shadowing effects from that free renderer, he always pretended to have been creating his textures in the high priced software.  Meanwhile another of them was doing some impresive work too.  This person was claiming to be using some very expensive software, instead, he was using TrueSpace for his best works.  I again reconsize teh procedural textures from that program and the existance of a strange effect in his shadows that was quirk of that modeler adn renderer.  The reflections that they  praised his work for, was by using the raytracing renderer of TrueSpace, and not the reflection maps he claimed to be using in his more expensive software.  There were others who were slowly begining to use the same detested softwares, secretly.

One day the sysop determined that only the respected professionals should be able to use that BBS and the rest of us got locked out.  Within a year, that BBS went bye bye forever.

Pangor