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That interface looks like a 3-d version of the old Poser interface, which you can see by typing "po2" (without the quotes).
And, as everyone knows, here's what we'll actually see in Poser Sux, I mean, Poser Six:
- It will require a screen resolution of 1280x1024 and a 21" LCD monitor to properly see all the floating palletes and widgets and tiny text.
- Keyboard shortcuts will be removed completely because CL still couldn't figure out how to send the keystrokes from the floating pallete to the main Poser applicaton.
- The OK and Cancel buttons will be moved to the top of some dialog boxes, but left on the bottom of others. In some boxes, "OK" will be renamed "Oky". CL will claim that they can't control the button placement or labels due to the use of their cross-platform development tool. (Why they don't use a native Windows development tool is still beyond me.)
- In an attempt to get as a large a market as possible, CL will claim that Poser 6 will work on Windows 98. Those users will install it, find out that Win98 has crappy memory management that causes P6 to crash, then they'll complain that P6 is bad. Yes, even next year, in 2005, people will still be using Windows 98: The Patch for Windows 95.
- Jean (the P6 male), Beverly (the P6 female), William (the P6 male child), and Deanna (the P6 female child) will be made by outside vendors again... and still be called "Figure 1" when you load them from the library. They will include full-body morphs again, but it probably won't work correctly until SR2.
- Clothing will be given even more weird names: Dress Shert, Dress Pents, Runing Shoos, Le Chapeau, Dos Manos, Bikini 10 (but no bikini 1-9), and so on. CL will claim this is because they outsourced everything and didn't have time to standardize the names.
- Other neat-o typos will show up in the manual: "To change the material on an object, click the tab at the top called "Face Room"." Or, "When rendering in FireFly mode, you will get the best results when in Draft mode. Using Draft mode will give you quicker renders when compared to Production mode, which is better quality, but slower." Or, "For more information, please see page 675." (the manual only has 653 pages).
- Poser 6, Service Pack 1 will be released the following month, which corrects the 450+ known bugs that were "acceptable to leave in" when P6 was released. The next day, SR1.1 will be released... to fix all the breaks that SR1 caused. The day after that, SR1.2 will be released to reset the interface that was mistakenly set to a programmer's screen of 3240x2560. The following week, SR2 will be released to fix the 85+ bugs found in the original Poser and found in SR1. The week after that, SR3 will be released, which includes a few new features like gloablly-illuminated-volumetric-smoke. But, some bugs from SR1 are still not fixed.
Okay, okay, this is only speculation, and not an actual fact, but it's based on the events of P5.