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> Many of us use Poser now, for including Poser models in our POV-Ray
scenes,
> so I'm wondering if anyone else here is interested in having a new forum.
> If you think it would be a good idea, or if not, please voice your
opinion.

As a long-time Poser/POV-Ray user, since 1996 and Poser 1, when all Poser
people were bald, expressionless, naked and extremely ugly (not that it has
changed much...), I'm certainly in favour of such a group. It would be
somewhat similar to the Moray one.

Of course, there are already a lot of very active Poser groups around the
Web (Renderosity started as one) and lots of tutorials but there is little
information about the use of Poser within POV-Ray. In fact, many Poser users
use the built-in renderer and photoshop the results so there's not so much
written experience about Poser models in other applications, except Bryce
perhaps. A povray.poser group could certainly help the poser/povray newbies.
Most of us had to figure out things by ourselves before.

Just for the fun, this page chronicles (in images) the introduction of Poser
people in my images in 1996.
http://www.oyonale.com/histoire/english/images1996.htm.
Before Poser, there was no way to put "realistic" characters in POV-Ray, and
this page also features a couple of images done with earlier, pre-Poser
dummies
http://www.oyonale.com/histoire/images/tarzan.jpg
http://www.oyonale.com/histoire/images/soulage.jpg
http://www.oyonale.com/histoire/images/touronde.jpg
that were found in the early Web (using Lycos as a search engine).
Ugly and stiff as they were, Poser 1 people were a great improvement over
these dummies. However, those poor Poser folks wouldn't have hair and
clothes until Poser 2 in 1997, and it wasn't until Poser 3 in 1999 that we
started to have good-looking characters and animals, with uv-maps (that
required a special POV-Ray), more or less fitting clothes and transparent
hairpieces.

G.

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