Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Weird attribute dial behaviour in P6 ?

obm890 opened this issue on Jun 27, 2005 ยท 10 posts


layingback posted Tue, 28 June 2005 at 9:51 AM

It is an old bug from P5. With P5 CL made the Parameter Dial window a separate process. That's fine on MacOS (under which Poser is still developed?), but on Windows it adds oodles to the overhead. Thus what you are seeing with the "dial randomizer" is overshoot. This was improved in Poser 5 SR 4.1 (but not the initial SR 4). The original Poser 6 release was better still, but SR 1 took it back to the level of about Poser 5 SR3 IMHO. CL/EF (as against MetaCreations) have a reputation for never ever fixing bugs release to release (ie. beyond the final SR for a given release), and I also fear that this one is likely to be classified as a "design choice" anyway. So I think we are SOL. Shame, 'cos it means that Poser 4/PP is still the choice for posing on Windows! (Hopefully OSX can handle inter-task switching as efficiently as intra-task switching - something that no Windows OS ever hope to achieve.) The price we pay - along with memory management - for a old cross-platform development methodology.