As 3D CG was evolving (even the film industry was experimenting with it I took another stab at it for a while, but left as I still felt so 'disconnected' having to write and compile pages and pages of code compared to picking up a pencil or a paintbrush. I then moved on to the first colour Macs working in a freehand 2D programme called PixelPaint™. Used Pen plotters and when our lab got one of those newfangled Tektronix wireframe monitors (very expensive I may add), it was like heaven. But it sure beat scratching on cave walls. And I used a quarter million dollar NASA computer the size of three refrigerators to do it with. I'm so old that when I began 3D stuff on a computer (early '70s), I had to write my own floating point arithmetic subroutines, write my own disk storage driver, hand calculate the coordinates of the end points of straight and curved vectors of my model, to be sent to an oscilloscope type storage display screen in wireframe mode only, photograph the screen, develop the negatives and make a paper print, then hand color the textures. I've done this before but I guess it's time to whip out the 'I'm so old' speech again. Since then all my renders have been posted as Bryce renders and I tell people I use poser as a plug-in for Bryce. I got told that I shouldn't post my renders in the Poser Gallery as they may have been prepped in Poser but they were rendered in Bryce. 'Back in my day, you rendered in Studio or Poser and you were grateful you had them!'īack in my day I prepared stuff in Poser and moved it over to Bryce to render in my Bryce scenes. I just want to sit in my rocker and shake my cane at these whippersnappers who don't know how good they have it. And I can understand why they might be frustrated they can't do what they're trying to do. I get that people today coming into this hobby have different expectations. to get our renders to look anything close to how the promos looked!' We had to take Poser content and figure out how to tweak surface settings, etc. 'In 2006 almost nothing was designed for Studio. Two or three DOZEN test renders wasn't unusual!' Or complaints about strand hair not showing in the viewport 'When I was started this hobby NOTHING in the viewport ever looked like it did in a render, You did a test render, tweaked a setting, and rendered again. 'Back in my day, you rendered in Studio or Poser and you were grateful you had them!' Like questions about exporting Daz content to use in another rendering engine. Some of the questions and complaints people have had lately make me feel old.

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