Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Never mind the Mil Horse, here's what I want to know

A_ opened this issue on Apr 18, 2004 ยท 23 posts


rbtwhiz posted Mon, 19 April 2004 at 1:46 AM

IPB has been alomost completely re-built. It has been a while, thats for sure... but as Kalypso suggested, I've been rather busy with another project with higher priority, so work on IPB has been done in my 'off' time, when I can find time on weekends; when I'm not working on something else. The 1.5 update includes the ability to create your own libraries, so you can support any figure you care to build a library for and define any morphs you so choose. A few more options have been added, the interface has changed to better accommodate the added functionality, and hooks have been put in to accommodate a module I'm currently working on... but, more on that later. Prior to the rebuild, this would have been a real pain to pull off. IPB was initially written procedurally because all I ever meant for it to be was a simple utility for in-house production and it was simpler/quicker to write it that way... But in letting it leave the confines of the office, I soon found out how time consuming it would be to support the way things appeared to be headed. I added support for Michael and Freak the 'old' way, simply because I didn't have the time for a re-write during that time. Anyway, just after starting the update to support Stephanie (which would have been 1.4), I decided that it wasn't worth continuing down the same path only to be met with the same headache later... so I began rebuilding it instead. Yes, it has taken longer than it would of if I just added support for Stephanie... but if you look at it from my perspective, I didn't just add support for Stephanie, I added support for any figure anyone cares to build a library for. Either way, it is currently being pushed on to make sure I haven't missed something, then it'll be posted on the product page. -Rob