seedpress opened this issue on Jun 22, 2001 ยท 43 posts
timoteo1 posted Fri, 29 June 2001 at 3:31 PM
First let me say, Joke, you are doing yourself a great diservice by not having a demo. I am REALLY interested in your software, but am not commiting money to something I have basically no idea how, or how well, it works. NaturalPose does have a demo, which I have tried out and I'm sorry to say I could not be MORE disappointed. The process, while fairly uncomplicated, is incredibly LONG and tedious. I have a PIII-800 with 512MB ram, and it took forever to do a simple animation. It was literally so slow that I would have preferred using alpha channels in Poser and then comping it in After Effects. I could even use shadows with an AE plugin. Sure the render might take a while, but at least I could set it up and let the computer do the work. THE POLYGON REDUCTION STEP ALONE IS UNBEARABLY SLOW IN NP... ON ANY SETTING! With NP you have to wait at every step ... I was really depressed when I looked at the clock and realized how much time I was wasting waiting for some of these steps to complete. Then when you get into Bryce there is even more preperation and waiting. This could be no fault of NP's, maybe it's just the way things have to be done to work in Bryce, but this was where I threw up my hands and called it quits. I can comp much easier faster for most situations. My only hope is that Sussana will be faster and easier. PLEASE put up a demo. The tutorial is much too general to get a good idea of exactly how Sussana works. -Tim