Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser 6 Wishlist

Mesh_Magick opened this issue on Jul 21, 2003 ยท 56 posts


JohnRender posted Tue, 22 July 2003 at 1:52 PM

If, and I really mean IF we ever see Poser 6... 1) OpenGL preview. This has only been around for a few years, so we may not see it until Poser 7 or 8. I think CL is still waiting to see if "OpenGL" and "DirectX" will catch on with the public. 2) BETTER INTERFACE. Do away with the "fancy" tools and replace them with buttons that actually SAY what they are: "Gee, is that hand pointing up a camera contol? Is that for the Y axis or rotate?" Make the interface like Lightwave or 3D Studio Max. I'm betting that it takes less resources to draw a square button than a half-sphere. 3) Focus issues. How come the delete figure "dialog box" is displayed, yet hitting "Enter" doesn't work? Answer: Poser switched "focus" from the box back to the document window- hitting Enter changes the document to "box mode". 4) More streamlined "Save Pose" feature. Just save the **** pose, don't make me click OK 5 times! Or worse, make me hit Enter (to accept) and then, on the 4th box, lose focus and make me actually click the button with the mouse. 5) Better testing of the "finished" product. If CL wants to release Poser 6 in an unfinished form and with 200+ bugs so the public can test it, that's fine. Just don't ask people to pay $350 for it... and don't ship it in a box that claims to do things that it can't do. 6) Better pricing and/ or affiliate control. Like most people, I found it to be a major slap in the face when Amazon.com sold the fully-boxed Poser 5 for only $99.00 (after rebate). And I though I was getting the "super-special" price by pre-ordering it early. Nope, it cost me $249. 7) Follow the golden rule of programming: do not break any existing features. Yes, it's good that Poser 2 and 3 figures can be used in Poser 5, but what's with the floating Parameters Palette? Especially when it breaks the existing feature of using the keyboard shortcuts. Again, the focus issue: when you're working on the Parameter Palette, Poser doesn't have the "focus" to accept shortcut keys. This particular issue was fixed in a service pack, but how did it get through testing? Did NO ONE at CL try typing Ctrl-Z to undo something after changing a parameter dial value? 7a) Second golden rule of programming: don't break the interface. Why do things jump around the screen when I switch from the Pose Room to the Face Room to the Materials Room? I want my camera controls on the left, dammit! Don't be moving them all around. Did I tell you to move them? That's NOT where I want them! 8) Quality Control: I have one thing to say: missing content on CD 2. So, no one at CL thought to check the CD's before they were shipped to make sure everything worked properly?