Hello to everyone!
I arrived here by way of The Sara Project, at the invitation of Pangor. So I must blame him for my being here. Not blaming him in a bad way mind you. I have been lurking and reading all the forums to see what PosetteForever is all about. I'm hooked. I like the atmosphere here and will continue to come around.
I don't have
Poser (yet) but came to the
Poser world by a rather long trail. I occasionally like to play 3D games. Mostly I like the single player strategy with a little fighting with the bad guys. My favorites being the Star Wars games. I would marvel at the realism of the art and animation. One day I decided to learn how it was done. Starting with my first game "Jedi Knight:Jedi Academy, I found a couple of programs that allowed me to look at the characters. Meshes, textures, UVmapping????? Well, I tried to learn and played around with the XSI Ghoul2, but I could barely say Ghoul2 and I read that it was difficult to use. I tried a little re-texturing of existing textures. The next 2 games "Knights of the Old Republic (KOTOR) and KOTORII, were done by a different company and used a format compatible with 3ds Studio Max. This program costs a lot of money, but there is a free version called gmax. Over at the Lucas Films official forums a gentleman named Fred had written a program to extract the program data so others could write mod packages and create new characters. Here I learned that scripting was used to do a lot of the interfacing.
By now I had figured out what everything was called, and started trying to change meshes, and material groups, and just trying out different things. The content on the Turbosquid site, home of gmax, was very costly but very well done. I started searching the web for 3D information. This was in late August of this year. I found DAZ Studio and gave it a try. At first I was intrigued. Now I could pose and clothe characters very easily. Shortly after finding DAZ, they had their big anniverary sale and gave away a whole bunch of V2 and M2 stuff for free. Grabbed it all. On a dial-up connection it took forever, but I would browse the forums at the same time and started to learn of
Poser and other 3D sites. I found Sara and downloaded as much of her as I could find.
I finally switched to a high speed always on broadband connection. I was screaming around the 3d sites collecting tutorials and information and just getting my general knowledge up to date. A few days ago I stopped by The Sara Project to check for any news and bumped into Pangor at the door. He kindly mentioned, "There are some good folks over at PosetteForever. You should stop by."
And I did. And I did again. And still here!
Tormentor, I love the site. Simple, clean, and yes! No Banners!! I especially like
Posy. It took me a couple of looks to realize that she was (maybe I shouldn't say it in front of her. Might get whacked with the broom) an AI. Really sweet and makes me laugh.
Well, that is how I came to be here. Four short months since falling face first into the
Poser world. A retired Navy submariner currently working in retail auto parts. No real artistic background in drawing, but have done some serious camera work for my own pleasure. Time to start learning again!
And now a question: I have the Ugly Step Sister and a lot of her extended family, but I like the older models also. If I have figured things out correctly, to use
Posette, I will have to find an old copy of
Poser 4 to purchase. That is unless the newer version includes the older P4 woman.
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will hide the car keys.
