RantityMcRantRant
Jun. 2nd, 2006 02:05 pmSo, DAZ 3D sells products for 3D artists, primarily those that use Poser (or their freeware renderer, Daz|Studio), but they're also picking up a fair amount of interesting other programs. That's not important to this rant.
One of the Poser figures they used to sell was called She-Freak. It was a decent, muscular woman figure that could also use the morphs of their flagship figure, Victoria 3. She-Freak had a few problems - Daz bought her outright from her creator and did some stuff that accidentally mucked up her finger joints and shoulder joints. The creator made the finger fixes freely available, though DAZ did not update the figure to include the fixes.
Still, She-Freak did not have a lot of add-on clothing, including clothing. This made a rather unpopular figure, which led to merchants not wasting time on making clothes for her, since not enough people owned her to make it worthwhile. Nasty feedback cycle, right?
Just last week, DAZ released a morph set they called She-Freak2. This morph set is for Victoria 3 and gives her two new morphs, plus one morph that mostly mimics the body-shape of the old She-Freak. (In fact, the only difference really is that She-Freak2 doesn't have her hands and feet scaled the way the original She-Freak did. A bit of manual adjustment can fix that, though.)
Now, with a morph that mimics the old She-Freak available for V3, there's a couple of utility programs you can use to refit V3 clothes to She-Freak. That's good, right?
On the other hand, DAZ has taken down the original She-Freak so people can no longer buy her.
And the forums have exploded with wank. Damn it, people, if you liked her so much, why did none of you support her with making products she could use? And something besides the stereotypical fantasy swordswoman products, please. I'd like some contemporary clothing, and especially a pair of cargo pants.
It does not help the wank that the original creator of She-Freak is making a fuss about how he will never support this product and is now deciding that he will start making She-Freak products and will make sure they're broken in a special way so you can't use them on She-Freak 2. And many people are rallying around him and making a fuss about She-Freak being taken down - damn it, you people, she was broken and unsupported. Yes, DAZ has to take a share of the blame for that, but so does Dodger.
And it's just so infuriating to see all this fuss being kicked up now. If you people cared so much about this, why didn't you do anything with her ever?
*sighs*
One of the Poser figures they used to sell was called She-Freak. It was a decent, muscular woman figure that could also use the morphs of their flagship figure, Victoria 3. She-Freak had a few problems - Daz bought her outright from her creator and did some stuff that accidentally mucked up her finger joints and shoulder joints. The creator made the finger fixes freely available, though DAZ did not update the figure to include the fixes.
Still, She-Freak did not have a lot of add-on clothing, including clothing. This made a rather unpopular figure, which led to merchants not wasting time on making clothes for her, since not enough people owned her to make it worthwhile. Nasty feedback cycle, right?
Just last week, DAZ released a morph set they called She-Freak2. This morph set is for Victoria 3 and gives her two new morphs, plus one morph that mostly mimics the body-shape of the old She-Freak. (In fact, the only difference really is that She-Freak2 doesn't have her hands and feet scaled the way the original She-Freak did. A bit of manual adjustment can fix that, though.)
Now, with a morph that mimics the old She-Freak available for V3, there's a couple of utility programs you can use to refit V3 clothes to She-Freak. That's good, right?
On the other hand, DAZ has taken down the original She-Freak so people can no longer buy her.
And the forums have exploded with wank. Damn it, people, if you liked her so much, why did none of you support her with making products she could use? And something besides the stereotypical fantasy swordswoman products, please. I'd like some contemporary clothing, and especially a pair of cargo pants.
It does not help the wank that the original creator of She-Freak is making a fuss about how he will never support this product and is now deciding that he will start making She-Freak products and will make sure they're broken in a special way so you can't use them on She-Freak 2. And many people are rallying around him and making a fuss about She-Freak being taken down - damn it, you people, she was broken and unsupported. Yes, DAZ has to take a share of the blame for that, but so does Dodger.
And it's just so infuriating to see all this fuss being kicked up now. If you people cared so much about this, why didn't you do anything with her ever?
*sighs*
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