I looked at Quidam some time ago and I was quite impressed with some of what I saw. I liked the fine tuning options (not unlike the morph putty tool in P6) and how you can quickly dress your figure. But as it is now the meshes just arn't high resolution enough and the realistic figures look too cartoony for me. Looks like a cool tool for games designers though. Saying that, I will be keeping an eye on that quarter in the future.

It will also be interesting to see where D/S develops. I don't think it comes close to Poser as things stand, even with the available plugins, but if it offers more flexibility and performance as time goes on I'll certainly be taking a greater interest.

I'm in the position of not having purchased a vast quantity of content in the year or two that I've been working with Poser so it's easier for me to say 'to hell with whether old stuff will work if it gives me a better app'. I know this isn't the case with so many of you out there, and I know it must be a tough call for those marketing dudes to consider the investment of time and money. But the future is already happening around us in terms of computer power while Poser seems to be standing still on so many core levels. I mean, you could look at it this way: if there was a completely rewritten version of Poser available tomorrow with fantastic rigging for better bending & posing figures and super fast rendering with no memory issues, where cloth simulations solved a lot faster and hair rendered a lot faster - that would be worth it, right? With a cool and functional UI, multiple undo's, etc. All the things that are clunky now sorted. And although your old content might not work in that new version, you'd still be able to use it and render images in the older versions of Poser - they won't just disappear from your hard drives.

Wouldn't it even be worth spending a few more bucks on, if you really were going to be getting a nore up to date app with the potential to grow substantially for the next 10 years (maybe too optimistic there)?

I don't know.

 

PoserPro2014(Sr4), Win7 x64, display units set to inches.

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