jpiazzo opened this issue on Mar 25, 2006 ยท 32 posts
svdl posted Sat, 25 March 2006 at 11:08 PM
"Interoperability between apps is the future" I agree. MS Office has had it for years, and automating Office is a delight. A powerful programming language (not scripting language, it has strong typing and will store a compiled version), callable from external 3rd party apps. So if Poser 7 (or 6.5, or SR3, whatever) would just expose itself as a Python library, so that it can be scripted from outside Poser itself.... that would create unlimited possibilities. On another note, conforming/dynamic hybrids already exist. They work in Poser 5 and up. I haven't made one yet that's good enough to post in freestuff, but I'm getting there. EnglishBob already has some hybrids out there, so has Jim Burton. Oh, I'd love a plugin render architecture. Even if a scene could just be exported to a Renderman RIB file I'd already be very happy. An overhaul of the walk designer so that figures can walk on something else besides the ground plane would be very welcome too. But most of all, a serious overhaul of the core. Bring it up to contemporary coding standards. Get rid of the Mac OS 7 artefacts. Make it rock solid stable. THAT is what all users want most, more than a load of new features.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter