Good grief!

I lurk (as most old timers seem to do these days) but some times I just have to break silence..

firstly - a major upgrade will have problems. Most software companies try to beta as much as they can.CL was running out of money and they had a huge user demand to release the
beast. I can remember a release of Maya that froze Windows NT machines solid - under certain circumstances and only on
some machines.

Secondly you need to use the beastie rather than sit looking at it in its box, or conversely using it making a mistake and blaming the application. I well remember a question about memory - the user put DDR ram into a non DDR machine and blamed Poser 5 instead of his inexperience.

There is now enough hardware expertise and excellent tutorials around to help people over the initial hump of going from P4 to P5.

Finally I look forward to all the bitching that will happen when the alpha's and beta's of Daz Studio finally hit the streets. Daz has to some extent hedged their bets by making the base free but I wonder what will happen when the expensive dynamic clothing plugin fails to work?? Hmm?

Will we have the Daz "look what Daz has released now!" brigade launching a defence.

Oh by the way -yes I will use Daz Studio, like I use poser 5,my graphics pad and my pencil - as a tool. All are tools to convert the pictures in my imagination to something other people can see.

Poser 5 takes a long time to understand. I have only just started to make worthwhile animations.Yes you can do animations with firefly- hint ,its to to with the bucket size in the renderer;-)

I do commend the readers to Carolly's comments. Most of the Poser 5 users who have put in the time and patience to get the thing working are very happy with it.

I have had more problems with Microsoft Combat Flight Simulator 3 (graphic cards going haywire, systems crashes,etc),than I ever had with Poser 5. Microsoft has come out with a patch - that is probably "bad programming" too!

I am using Poser(amongst other things) for key framing a production of Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. When copyright allows I will drop the odd frame into this forum, I do not use the galleries..

PaulC

PS Carolly -yes I do own a Nikon camera