Veritas777 opened this issue on Jan 16, 2004 ยท 64 posts
Dale B posted Sun, 18 January 2004 at 2:43 PM
He'd be wiser to be careful with the enthusiasm, actually. Considering the cheerleading the presaged Poser 5, and the trouble that followed (add to that the fact that we don't even have a version 0.9 of DS to evaluate, and there are some -major- hardware changes in the next few quarters that could quite literally destroy it....or any other app, for that matter), the old adage 'What goes around comes around' springs to mind. As well as 'Those who fail to learn from history are doomed to repeat it'. Cross compatiblility with existing Poser-centric content is flakey at =best= (pathing issues that could be Poser related, DS related, or content provider related. Or all three), Open GL is doubly flakey vis-a-vis drivers and configuration, much of the basic functionality is either disabled or unoptimized (shadows, for instance). A lot of other functionality will be dependant on plugins, and that will open a whole 'nother can of frustration as you get into the issues of who's plugin is responsible for not working with plugin X,Y, and 2. It's looking interesting at this point, but it is =FAR= from being anywhere near ready for more than the tinkerer at this point. And as the next release will be a public beta, not a 1.0 gold, there will be a lot of room for the less technically inclined to understand.