"*Now would be a great time to get in there and re-write the engine and codebase to take advantage of machinery and OSes that are out today...

Ah! An idea! An actual, real-to-life idea!*"

Um, no offense but this is hardly a new idea. It's what most of us thought we were getting with the "brand new, cutting-edge Poser 5."

And Pengy is 100% correct in everything he said in post #45. CL is just lucky they're getting another chance.

"It will be done because it will be Poser, version 6. That would make it newer than Poser, version 5."

But not necessarily better, as we've seen in the past ;)

"The entire political nature of the debate is meaningless..."

For me this has nothing to do with politics. I don't like it when any vendor lies to me...whether he's selling me a car, a toaster or software. But at least with the car and toaster I can get my money back after I find out I've been promised one thing and got something else. And I'll keep "whining" about it until they make it right.

"As far as "waiting" -- well, that's up to the individuals. And if they are going to wait, I certainly hope they will tell us all that they are."

I are. In fact, not only are I going to wait...I probably won't buy it at all. Oh I'll get it when (if) the bugs are fixed, but I won't pay for it. CL owes me for P5. (And no, I'm not going to pirate it.)

"*I will say one thing, though. Poser 6 is going to piss more old timers off than Poser 5 did. Poser 6 is going to cause all the wonderful hacks and stuff to not work anymore.
*"

What "wonderful hacks?" Easypose is a hack that exploits a P4 bug? Which one? The only "hack" I know of is the crosstalk thing with Mil 3 characters and their clothes. And I can work around that. Fix the damned program once and for all and if there's something you can't fix, tell me; don't give me runarounds (Duh..."I'm not sure what you mean by better camera controls"). This is one old timer that won't be pissed.

Message edited on: 01/18/2005 21:30