Probably not, if all you are going to render is V3 sitting in a comfortable chair reading a non-existant book.  If that is all you ever render, then stick to any version you already have; or switch to something else.

Some of us will actually do more than that scene you show and the reasons they give will help, if done correctly.  I can't say whether they are done right, but I also can't say they aren't.  I don't have the program yet.  Do you?

i see...you prefer not to bend your v3 too much. funny how your vue, mojoworld and shade renders look so much more realistic. my compliments;)

V3 is not an EF product or a curious LAbs product. She does not come with Poser, but is an add on product created by a different company, DAZ. It is not Poser's fault the joints are dicked up.

We have not heard what the other 3 reasons are. Also, these reasons are more than just one thing if you want to read the whole statements.

Shade has wieght mapping, how do you know that poser won't have it. I'm not saying it will, but there sure seems to be a lot of the Shade options being applied to P7. I have not tried to change the jointing of V3 mesh to the Shade rigging and wieght mapping, but I don't see why it wouldn't work with some effort. That's the key word, "effort." Sadly there are those that need to have everything done for them.

I'll guess that you will see the same rigging as early versions. The stock figures that CP are showing for P7 are rigged the same as always. Some extra fix morphs for the joints but still the same JP rigging.

Faster rendering speeds and better memory management are a great inhancement to Poser. Something that has been need for a long time. If those are useless promises because new rigging of content figures has not been stated, yet, if at all, then I would suggest to move on to some other app. I find all the reasons, not so much the first, but all the others of great value to the resurrection of Poser.

**tekn0m0nk - **many thanks for the explanation. That is very helpful.

It seems if these features are built correctly, we could be in for real efficiency improvements.

Many of us will actually enjoy using P7.  Hey -- we'll even enjoy using V4 in P7.

It's astonishing, I know.  Almost unbelievable.  But -- seeing no necessity to invent reasons to be miserable in advance -- I'll look forward to doing what I enjoy: and I'll be doing it with a more powerful software program, too.  A program with advanced features and everything.

While it might be true that misery loves company -- it'll get none of mine over P7.  Even when V3's still in the picture.

I'm going to have some fun with P6 until P7 gets to my door. I'm just waiting for my download link for Vue6I. Will be fun to see how P6 and Vue6I play together. Oh, I'll use V3 too.

Dave-So is wise beyond his young years.

From what I've heard so far it would seem that the possibility of having many characters in a scene is at last becoming a reality rather than having to do workarounds to achieve it, so that's a good thing as is the lights improvements but I would like to have seen something about improved volumetric and atmosphere lighting.

I went quickly for P6 but I'm still not convinced to jump just yet although the delay to Vue6 might make me change my mind!

The content pack doesn't interest me at all, I remember getting the Winter Queen pack as a pre-order last time and later adopters got Miki which was a much better deal IMVHO!!

Not yet!!!

@beryld: How come you're waiting for a download link for V6I, the latest news is that it isn't available yet and I've seen nothing anywhere to pre-order!!

Are you in the privileged elite??

Check the Vue forum. I got a News letter late this night. It is a pre-release version and only for Vue6I and xstream. The final version comes out later for all Vue6 versions.

Privileged? Only because I payed for it.

Hiya beryld, I saw it in the forum just after I posted here

Thanx!  On my way to get it now!!!

With all these great releases they are anouncing, I am curious as to how well they will work when they can't even get their links on the web site to work properly.  Has anyone been able to see the additional photo's of the included figures or seen the movie of lipsyncing?  If such a simple task of making sure your links are taking you to the correct part of the web site can't be accomplished correctly, how are they instilling confidence in their consumers that they will make all of this wonderful magic work.  Before you start bashing, I have been a Poser user since the beginning and will probably move on to Poser 7.  These are just things that make you step back and go hmmmmmmm.

I'm downloading Vue6I at the moment, much more important at the moment!!

P7 will have to wait a bit longer I think, I'm not convinced yet!!

I saw all the films and the promo images...what kind of error are you getting and did you email ef?

Hm... Multi-threading, this definetly cant hurt, but wait!

Has anyone run Poser7 on a 64 bit OS, does it, will it work? 

Making use of extra CPUs & CPU cores WILL require more than just a GIG or two of ram that a 32 bit OS is limited to.

Otherwise the rendering speed will most likly increase by zip.

I also would like to know the answer to the 64 bit OS question.

I think if it were 64-Bit-compatible, they would have mentioned it here. But what they said sounds as if they handled the memory problems in a different way. The firefly renderer runs in a different task, so it gets full 2 GB Ram in Windows. With caching on hard disk and a much more memory-friendly texture handling, the need for the renderer being 64-bit is not that high.

If you use  64Bit-Windows, Firefly can get 2 GBRam and Poser can get the same amount. If this is really helping and nessesary will depend on how effective Poser 7 handles memory. It's not the best solution, but for me it sounds like a close second best.

Well for what it is worth - Poser 6 "runs" fine on my 64bit XP Pro machine. Not that it is using my 4gb of ram, but it does not crash. I guess that is more than I can say for my copy of Z-Brush which will not even install...of After Effects which required some preference tweeks to keep it stable on Ram Preview.

JP

I'm hoping for 16bit maps support, or did i miss it in the reasons? :unsure: