Playing with Poser
I bought/ordered a copy of Poser 6 and it showed up today... (They had a special deal - It came with a couple other things - Something called 'Shader' (A previous version) and an additional figure. )
(My new Powerbook couldn't read two of the three CD's it came on. I had to create disk images with my older iBook -- which had no problems with the CD's -- and copy the images over and install that way. If I hadn't still had that machine I would have had to send it back)
Very interesting stuff to play with... but I'm going to need to get a new mouse (the old one is kind of dying) -- the resolution of the touchpad on my powerbook isn't fine enough for controlling the program.
Thoughts --
- It crashes easily... not sure why -- I have twice the memory and disk space they recommend for it. And my powerbook is twice as fast as the one in the specs.
- There's a neat tool -- given a good side photo and front photo you can create a "face texture". Now if I just had a couple good photos.
- I can't find any way to give exact dimensions (using the gui anyway...) for a figure.
- Very easy to mess up a figure...
- The whole hair thing is kind of baffling - the controls are weird.
- The "proportion wheel you use to change shape size isn't easy to use. Maybe if I had a mouse...
I want to create figures for all of the characters in my fics... it's going to take a while... to say the least...
11:52:55 PM 
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