Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Glad i didnt buy p6 thanks to all of you

razor24 opened this issue on Apr 11, 2005 ยท 62 posts


xoconostle posted Tue, 12 April 2005 at 3:17 PM

"Which DAZ figures has everyone tried in P6 so far?" V3, M3, David, SP3, Aiko3, Hiro, Gremlin 1&2, Gorilla, Millennium Dragon (versions 1&2 including the Asian Dragon,) D-Bot, D-Spot, D-Brat, numerous associated props, clothing, and hair from DAZ. Not a single negative issue with any of them in P6. I don't have The Girl but as has been discussed, there may be issues with that figure in P5/P6. "I'm just curious if you guys even use the DAZ figures or, do you just stick to the ones that come with Poser?" I don't think that a majority of posters to this forum stick to the default figures, although in her day Posette (P4 Woman) was very popular. Jessi and James are very fine models in many regards, however, they're unyielding when it comes to variety of appearance, so I suspect that once people get tired of the "same old" faces and body shapes, they'll be less inclined to use them frequently. Perhaps Curious Labs recognized that at this point, the community and general content availability are such that it's understood that the default figures won't be the sole ones that users rely on, so they gave us very good default figures in Jessi and James, fully understanding that they offer somewhat limited variety. If that's the case I'm totally cool with it. At least those figures are better than P5's Judy and Don. I see the default figures as mostly being for new users ... they're certainly good enough to learn Poser with. I understand that other buyers would prefer to receive Millennium-like figures with Poser, but IMO that's unlikely to ever happen. When recently discussing "the memory bug" with persons who are more technically astute than I, it was explained that this isn't necessarily a bug proper but rather a legacy relic of ... inelegant base coding. Thus, it's not necessarily something that a service release can fully patch ... I'm not 100% clear on that, I confess. I mention this because people might be setting expectations for SR1 that aren't totally realistic. I know that CL has admitted to memory management problems, so I'm hopeful too, but it might be best to take a "wait and see" attitude regarding P6 SR1, and in the meantime, contact Curious Labs directly and succinctly with reports of memory-associated failures and one's polite but explicit emphasis that this problem needs to be addressed. :-)