When is that I wonder? Mid March or mid April or early June, Hmmmmmmmmm just wondering. I can't wait I pre-ordered

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Well Curious labs has said that if your credit card expires in march that "you should be ok"

Is this for the hard disks? I'd rather buy the hard disks than the dl. I have P4 anyway and won't be able to use an upgrade. It's for the whole package right?

You can buy an upgrade for P4. It's $20 more than the upgrade price for P5 owners. But do look at the system requirements first. P4 will run on machines that would choke on P5, let alone P6.

I was kinda hoping to bypass upgrading to P5 and buy the disks for P6. I don't have a burner with my laptop. I should be able P6 though. I have XP Pro on a Dell Laptop. Does P6 require a new graphics card? If so, then, I'll be left out in the cold. I'll have to go read the P6 specs.

You can bypass P5 and buy the disks for P6. There's upgrade for P4/PP users. It's $149. You can choose either boxed disks, or downloadable. If you choose the physical copy, you have to pay another $10 shipping. P6 doesn't require a new graphics card, but a good graphics card is recommended, to take advantage of the OpenGL previews.

I was speaking in terms of release date. Spring is about 3 month's long isn't it? I hope we don't have to wait for 3 months.

Ok, cool. I was just at their website and tried to signup for their newsletter but it wouldn't go through lol. Second time trying to register. I'm guessing we won't have to wait that long for the release, I bet once the dl's and the upgrades are done, the boxset will be out by then. :)

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I think they are planning to release it soon. In March, from the hints Katherine dropped. But of course, what they plan may not be what happens. In particular, the Mac version may take a little longer than the PC version. They are aiming to get both out at the same time, but Katherine said the Mac version is usually more difficult, and hence more likely to be delayed.

Laptops often are difficult to upgrade. It's one huge advantage desktops have over laptops. The graphics card is probably built into the motherboard.

yeah, I tried looking and there's no way to do it on mine. I gave up my old compaq desktop and traded it in for the laptop I have now. I kept for fingers crossing for installing P4 and it works without a problem. I'm sure P6 will work for me. I'm sure it won't be long before it's released.

Spring of 2005...hmmm,thats in November for me,gives me time to save I guess :o)

But don't you get tired of walking around upside-down all the time? ;-)

Welp, for me, I'm in no hurry to get P6, even though, it looks cool. More time to saveup my pennies. :)

I get the impression that CL's target date is mid to late March but there is something going on that leaves that date in question. I also get the impression that they will have both the download and shipped version released on the same day and they want the mac versions the same day as well. and to be honest, even if they did know with relative certinty i wouldn't blame them one bit for not committing to the date given the opinions i've seen expressed in these forums.

Hello all! I preorderd too. LOL. Does any one know if the shadows will show up on the imported backgrounds now? Emily

I doubt it. How would Poser know how far away the imported background is? Can't calculate shadows without that info. But I imagine you could use the new "shadow catching" function to get shadows on the background.

You can have shadows on imported background even in Poser 4. Have your background mapped to a cube then strech the cube to the size your rendering window.

OK thanks, using the cube is kind of a pain. LOL. I can always hope. Emily

Just to be picky about things, they have until june 20 to get out a "spring release' :-)

Yes, we know, but they also said that credit cards expiring in March should be okay, but if they expire in February, hold off on ordering. To me, that means they expect to ship in March.

Though what they plan and what actually happens may be two different things...