I am looking into Buying Poser...But a friend recomended buying POser artist,instead of poser 5 huge price diffrence but i still want quality. So my question is what is the diffrence between the 2... Thanx... WAR

Poser Artist is what used to be known as Poser 4. It's a great package with a huge user base and tons of content. Very well supported and pretty much well known by the technical gurus, which means any problems you are likely to encounter can be solved.

The downsides are a pretty crappy rendering engine, limited material options, no raytracing and primitive (ie piss poor) bump functions.

P5 is a whole nother thing. More or less the same interface upfront but massively different materials handling, a hugely better rendering engine and greatly improved content library handling.

Downsides are, it's somewhat slower than
Poser Artist and really needs a hefty machine to get the best from it. You can run it on 512 MB but 1 GB or more is much better. Oh yeah, the new, improved renderer (Firefly) can take forever, but compared to Bryce it's greased lightning. Oh, and it has some peculiarities all of its own, too. It also has a lot of import options for other model formats and suports Python scripting, which is immensely useful.

My honest opinion is, Buy P5 if you can afford it. It's miles better than Artist.

Message edited on: 11/16/2004 20:22

If you have the money, get Poser 5.

or try daz studio for free :)

Daz is what i am trying to get away from cuz i cant get the content to work in it.

I had never used Poser before and for mother's day got a copy of Poser 5. I love it. I had never used Poser 4. The learning curve for P5 is kind of steep if you don't have a lot of time to experiment with it. I'm beginning to get the hang of it and I'm very happy with it. Kristta

Actually, Poser 5 is not much more confusing that Poser 4. It's just that many of us don't use some of the extra "rooms." In fact, I only use the main "Pose" room and the "Materials" room for textures. All the other rooms never really took off.