Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: SR4 due out in January/February

judith opened this issue on Dec 17, 2003 ยท 73 posts


layingback posted Thu, 18 December 2003 at 1:24 PM

This seems to be a change of direction by CL again. When the CEO came here he said that Poser 6 would not include new features but just make Poser 5 work. (Which caused a few "should be free then" type of comments.) So question is, is this survey for new features INSTEAD of oft-promised fixes, or additional? If the former (which is same ol', same ol' for MetaCreations/Curious Labs) then they owe us an SR5 (there's just not been enough wall clock time for SR4 to have fixed everything ;-) And if it's new features as well as fixes it'll mean even looooonnngeer before we have a working product :-( Interestingly the link to CL's CEO visit here disappeared from the top of the Poser Tech/Python forums just this past week... Re the dials-as-bad-as-my-golf-swing comment, this would mean re-implementing the Poser 5 parameter dial panel as part of the Poser interface again (a la P4) rather than a separate Windoze task. The "throttle lag" is due to Windows interprocess communciation - which was never designed to handle full real-time interprocess communciation when requires a x-windows feedback loop! This 'bolt on window' was an OK solution on MacOS and OSX where it's all treated as part of the same task by the OS, but a dumb design for Windows. (BTW, if you haven't removed Content Parasite, this can help - but not cure - this lag.)