Okay, I almost never (Hmmm, I wonder if Ihave ever?) post in here. However, this thread is definitely significant enough to post.

I was wondering, after reading quite a few of the other threads, if I was one of the small minority having significant problems with P6. Plain and simple, if we changed the call-letters of the company from CL to MS, the Poser world would be up in arms already.

The whole thing is one big "patch," in the MS sense of the word. "Fix" one thing (in other words, add a feature or two,) break a few other things, and call it an "upgrade."

The face room is still messy. It was in P5, but it was more workable there than in P6. Also, I don't know if anyone has noticed, but "Jessi" is closer to the last name James, than Alba. In other words, its a male face, rather than a female. I don't know how often the programmers over at CL get outside, but I haven't met too many women with a head like Jessi's. (She looks like an alien.) I actually had to go back and use Judy to use my photos to create new faces, since Jessi doesn't seem to like being remapped.

Speaking of Judy, why are there only a small number of P5 figures that are migrated into P6? I mean, P5 is still installed, since by default, P6 takes up a new directory. Granted, I can use the old stuff by adjusting my libraries, but why should I have to? If you upgrade Windows, doesn't MS happily migrate what you have installed already? Why couldn't CL do the same?

As for the service pack, to all those who haven't been lucky enough, like me, to accidently fall across it in the other posts, it is already available, for both Win and Mac. However, like everything else, it isn't intuitive enough. You have to go to Content Paradise to download it. Don't even bother trying to do it through P6, head to www.contentparadise.com. There is a link on it to the "download." That was quoted since you first need to go through a whole registration, including email verification, before you can get your hands on it. (Was this another way to try to sell more in CP by CL? Get you to the site, then "allow" you to dl the "patch.")

As for the "patch" itself, guess what? The memory leak is still there. Thank goodness I found a tut showing that lowering the bucket size on render will allow you to escape from render hell easier. As far as I can tell, the service release did close to nil as far as updating the software.

I am tired of jumping through hoops for CL. We are being strung along in their quest to push products out of the door. I have been using Poser since version 4, for a few years now. I am a full-time programmer in my 9 to 5, and even with all of the communities I get involved in with programming, most don't compare to the vibrance of the Poser community. With such a rabid following, you would think CL would take a bit more care to ship quality product to the masses. Would any of us actually have complained we had to stick with v5 another month or two if we wound up with an improved, and stable, final product?

As for the "support" CL offers, it is almost worthless to me. I sent a message to their support last week about the mapping issue with Jessi. I sent the front, and side photos I was working with (which happened to be really good images for the purpose,) along with a screenshot of the face room, as it "mapped" the images. The front image maps fairly well to Jessi, however, the side image is just terrible. The "egg" in the back of Jessi's head does not correspond to a human head in any way, and it forces the whole wireframe out of alignment when you try to adjust it (even using the tools.) in the screenshot I sent, I adjusted the front image a little bit to be correct, which went fine. However, in order to make my point, I just imported the side image and left the wires alone. The wire point for the chin is way off, as well as the points for the nose. It is obvious in the image that there is no realistic way to map the points to make the image map correctly. I explained all of this in my message, and said specifically that this is why I didn't make adjustments to the side image. The reply?

"From what I can tell from your screen shot you need to adjust the refrences for the side picture. You seemed to adjust the references for the front picture but the side picture does not seem to be adjusted at all.

I hope this helps!"

Well, no, it didn't, which I tried to tell you already. Thanks for nothing CL!

I know this is a loooong rant, but at this point I am disgusted, and now I know I am justified by not being the only one. I really hope CL wakes up and fixes this thing. I do love Poser, but I don't have time to keep working around each bug they introduce to "fix" a problem. If you have made it this far through the post, thanks for listening, and good luck in your posing!