Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: History of poser, renderosity and Daz

dirk5027 opened this issue on Feb 16, 2002 ยท 20 posts


saxon posted Sat, 16 February 2002 at 10:15 AM

Oh, do we want to go there. All the ill feeling about Poser Forum and all..... Renderotica hiving off, the battles with 3D commune. I had a tiny bit part when I provided a place for erotic images when the Poser list suffered one of it's early flame wars about nudity, that developed into 1st-shock.com and 'rotica came about the same time. I got Fractal Designs' Poser 1 free on a Computer Arts CD, fell in love and bought everything else since. It was developed originally by a bloke called Larry Weinberg who still has much to do with his creation. There's a way of reverting back to the Poser 2 UI but I've completely forgotten how to do it. Ah well here goes! A lady called Willow started a site called Poser Forum, it was her home site and pre-dates 'rosity. I'll gloss over the ill feelings, suffice it to say there are still many open wounds. The forum was very popular and Renderosity and Poser Forum both grew out of her efforts. We should, perhaps say no more than that we owe her a debt of gratitude and acknowledge her vital contribution to a our community. In the early days of 'rosity I remember one of our members put up a free model of a dog turd just to witness the feeding frenzy! Obviously, that feeding frenzy led to a lot of bandwidth charges and 'rosity became more commercially aware. Can anyone remember what Renderosity's original name was? I'll leave it there I'm sure others will come in and flesh it out ..... (please, please though, no flames this time, play nicely...)