operaguy opened this issue on May 14, 2007 · 242 posts
bagginsbill posted Mon, 14 May 2007 at 2:41 PM
I don't usually bother talking about this stuff, but here's two points that come to mind for me anyway.
All those other apps are toys when it comes to shaders. Almost all those ridiculous snobs use UV mapped texture images, most of which are either photos they downloaded (didn't even photograph themselves), or they are seamless tiles they downloaded. Almost none of them bother making procedural textures like I do, from scratch, using only math. Even if they wanted to, those toy apps they use can't do full blown procedural shaders, like Poser. They make me laugh with the feeble wrapping of other people's photos on their objects and claim its their own "art" work. LOL
Last time I gave a piano performance in public, I played Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue and several hundred people stood up at the end and cheered like maniacs. Not one of them claimed I was a lesser artist because I played a piece written by someone else. Also, I did not construct the piano I used. It wasn't even my piano - I just walked up and played whatever was on the stage at the time. Nobody complained that I used a crappy Baldwin while real professionals play Bosendorfers.
Renderosity forum reply notifications are wonky. If I read a follow-up in a thread, but I don't myself reply, then notifications no longer happen AT ALL on that thread. So if I seem to be ignoring a question, that's why. (Updated September 23, 2019)