ynsaen opened this issue on Jun 18, 2004 ยท 50 posts
lesbentley posted Fri, 18 June 2004 at 10:16 PM
The most obvious thing about the Poser 5 interface as compared to P4 is the width of the paramiters pallet, far too wide IMHO, the P4 pallet was too wide, but P5 is way too wide. Use narrower dials, and allow the pallet to be shrunk even narrower than the dials them selves. Using the mouse it's easier to drag out a corner of the pallet than to hide/show it, ok I could use Shift+Ctrl+N, but I'm mouse orientated. I use the paramiter pallet all the time, so I always want it on screen but as small as possible so as to use the maximum doc window size.
I don't seen to be able to nail down to paramiters pallet like I could in P4, every time I open Poser 5 the pallet pops up to the right of the screen instead of off to the left where I left it the last time I used P5.
Could you allow the selected dial to be controled by the arrow keys, or some other keys, it's easier to get fine controle with the keys.
When I double click a dial I'd like to be able to set the trackingScale (Sensitivity) for things like translations rotations etc.
In the "Chose Parent" box I would like to be able to resize the box.
The right hand pallet (the one with figures, props, etc) should stay on top of the doc window. It would be nice if the pallet cascaded to fill the whole screen, I don't need to see the doc window when I'm choosing a prop or pose, it would be nice to see all the props without scrolling. Cascading menues would be nice too, especially for the Body Parts menu.
With the UI dots, if I select the camera dots, or pose dots, I would like them to stay selected untill I change it, not shift focue according to what I have selected, so many times I have clicked on a dot thinking it was a camers dot because that's what I selected, the camera dots, only to find it's now a pose dot because I moved a prop.
I'd like the Open and Save dialogue boxes to remember the last used folder.
When I save an image I would like the default name of the image to be the same as the pz3 name, that way when I do progressive backups I can check the image to see whats in the pz3, and save a lot of typing.
I'd like to be able to save a MAT pose, in fact I like a lot selectivity in what I include or exclude from a pz2.
I'd also like a new file format, same as a pz3 really, but to be able to select the eliments to save to a pallet, so that I could include selected lights props and figures, but exclude eliments I don't want.
I would like Poser to parse files based on their extention, not on which folder they live in, so that I could move poses and hair to the the same folder as a figure, that would make organisation and work flow so much easier.
I've been using Poser for years now but I still double click in the figures pallet when I want to load a new figure, then have to cancl and use the double checks, its just so un-windows, and counter intuitive.
I'm sure there are a million and one other things I've forgoten to mention, but this will have to do for now.
Some things I really love about P5 are the little camera icons above the doc window, and the icons on the left of window for swaping cameras.
I'm starting to get a good feeling about Poser 6, I don't know why but I'm starting to trust you, perhaps it's just that you are asking us the users, and seem genuinly interested in our oppinions, which is a novle experience. I hope you are also going to seek comments on how to improve the Poser scripting language.