Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Marc Keohane from Curious Labs

pdxjims opened this issue on Aug 18, 2003 ยท 36 posts


maclean posted Thu, 21 August 2003 at 4:29 PM

Poser Artist and Poser 5 - (IMO) The real reason Dead simple. With the release of Poser 5, Poser 4 sounds like an outdated product. Since Poser 5 is still unreliable on a lot of machines and has a learning curve that would have given Oppenheimer problems, CL don't want to alienate new users by pushing them onto it. So, the easy answer? Rename Poser 4 'Poser Artist'. It sounds new, it (sort of) works and the bucks will maybe start rolling in with little or no new investment. Marc Keohane said "Undo capabilities is one of the top requests for users. This will take a lot of engineering effort to implement throughout the application...... Hence this feature needs to be part of a major revision, rather than through an update. I don't know of yet if this will be part of Poser 6" In other words, everybody wants it, but nobody's gonna get it in the foreseeable future. Because, despite the glaring fact that Poser coding, as it stands now, sucketh, we're all stuck with it. Full stop. End of story. I have to say, I saw this 'CL communicates with the masses' thingy as a hopeful sign. But the selectivity of the questions answered has put the dampers on any hope I had for open and frank discussion, or of the Poser community's input being taken seriously in any way. As Chrome Tiger said above, the comparison between the way CL and DAZ do business is like night and day. mac