Hey Folks, I am new here. I used Poser 4 in the past, but grew a little weary with it. But, I have seen the new Poser 6 and am very interested because it seems as if the models and technology has come a long way. I create scenes in 1600 X 1200 format. Mostly people involved in activities. In the past I have mostly been a Photoshop person. I became rather skilled with Photoshop over the years. Will Poser 6 allow me to place multiple characters into a 1600 X 1200 scene? Or is it a matter of layering & pasting together other the individual elements after rendering? Has Poser 6 really come a long way since Version 4? Regards, John

"Has Poser 6 really come a long way since Version 4?" I find your lack of faith... disturbing. :D Yes, a long way, and yes, you can put multiple people together, assuming you have a decently powerful pc (search the forum for specs question and answers) :)

The maximum that I could render in P6 SR1 was 8 V3s, all with different hair and different hires textures, at 1600x1200px. Athlon64 3500+, 4 GB RAM. No way P4 could have handled even half that amount.

Wow. Good to know that. I have a 3 GHZ P4 with 1 GB DDR Ram and the Radeon 800XL PCI card. I will probably want to work with 4-V3's with a background environment of some sort. Regards, john

In regard to the models, most of them are still limited by defective Poser 4 JPs, so you still have to be careful of bending in such areas as shoulders, elbows, hips, knees, etc. In addition, many are reporting memory problems and frequent crashes/freezes, even though some have reasonably fast machines with 2 or more GB of RAM. However, the materials functions are vastly more sophisticated in P5/P6 than in P4. The latest version also has much better rendering capability, assuming you have a stable installation and plenty of time to learn the materials room.

With all 30 seconds of experience with Poser 6 I can say that it has really come a long way and yet remains familiar. I just upgraded from Pro Pack and what a dream to not have to fire up OS 9 in order to run Poser. The middle mouse button now functions and overall seems to run much faster. Haven't gotten far enough to experience the "hangs" mentioned but can already see and fee lots of improvements. G5 dual 2Ghz 1.5 gig o' RAM

The original version of P6 had memory problems. Since they released SR1, I haven't had any problems at all. It's been rock-solid for me, much more so than PP or P5 ever were. For example, I can do other things while rendering. I was afraid to do that with earlier versions of Poser, because half the time they'd crash. Performance was lousy anyway, because Poser was sucking up all the system resources. Now I can let P6 render a long animation while I surf the Web or answer my e-mail, and everything works great.

I upgraded to 1.5 Gigs of DDR Ram. Hopefully that helps.

Weirdly, it was people who had a lot of RAM - say, over 1 Gb - that had the most problems. People who had only 512 Mb were fine. I think it was the old Windows 2 Gb limit. I have 1.5 Gb, and the original Poser 6 was very unstable for me.

But SR 1 has fixed it, so you should be fine.