Well I think I'm ready to purchase P7, I got my holiday bonus & I'm just about to order my Wacom tablet as well as purchase  Poser 7. I have P5 & I'm going to do the online upgrade. My question is ..Do you like P7? Is the online upgrade the best? Just wondering what everyones final word is , thumbs up? or don't bother getting it.

I LOVE it. it renders MUCH faster here, and the preview response and general use speed is much more robust here.

I was a beta tester, and have been using it almost exclusively since early November.

I hate going back to P6 now.

Same as what Gareee said. I hate using P6 for rendering. My only issue with P7 is the random crashing to desktop but it's real random.

A big thumbs up IMHO......Steve

Definitely recommend it!!

Frankly, I love my P7.  It renders scenes P6 would only look at, choke, gag and then lock up.  I love the fact that HDRI is supported because I love HDR lighting.  The memory bugs in P5 are gone and if you have a dual/quad core processor you can use multiple threads when rendering.

Well, I'm not sure to be so enthousiastic... 25' to render a basic image (just sidney with a dress and the basic lights) the one which is joined. If you just buy it now you won't have any cloth for sidney (the only one is in the SE apck). There just some casual which are not very pretty... There is no high or low res texture map always for sidney... But there is on the other side quit a lot of stuff wich are not all very usefull. If you take sidney with the basic dress (formal) you conform it, you pose and there is a lot of bugs, just look... Qasar

I use it regularly now. It crashed once on me but that was about it and that was with a huge old P6 scene. I don't use the supplied characters, I use v3 and M2. It renders way faster plus it renders much larger scenes. I can render a whole scene with 4 vicky 3s, their clothes, a set, freak and his clothes in firefly without a memory issue.

I'd say its a winner even though its got lots of little bugs and things they didn't fix from P6 (and all the way from P4 cough cough) but those aren't show stopper. All my scripts work in P7 without a hitch. 

Its well worth an upgrade just for the sped up renderer and the better memory management. Plus P6 will still open P7 scenes, it'll just tell you its a higher version number. Actually I got P5 to open a P7 scene so its amazingly backward compatible.

Quote - If you take sidney with the basic dress (formal) you conform it, you pose and there is a lot of bugs, just look...

Very few long dresses are rigged to be conforming below the hip.
You have to adjust the skirt portion seperately with the controls / morphs provided (assuming it isn't intended to be partially dynamic).

 I'm loving it, despite the occasional oddity.

I just rendered a scene with 5 fully-clothed, haired, morphed, V3's with fairly high-res textures, about 10 lights and "Cast Shadows" checked, and P7 rendered without a single complaint.

Saving the scene and trying in P6 resulted in an error message when I tried to render, even with the P4 renderer.

Quote - Well, I'm not sure to be so enthousiastic...
25' to render a basic image (just sidney with a dress and the basic lights) the one which is joined.
If you just buy it now you won't have any cloth for sidney (the only one is in the SE apck). There just some casual which are not very pretty...
There is no high or low res texture map always for sidney...
But there is on the other side quit a lot of stuff wich are not all very usefull.
If you take sidney with the basic dress (formal) you conform it, you pose and there is a lot of bugs, just look...
Qasar

 

Even though I received the SE because of the pre-order, I never use the native content.  I have enough DAZ/Renderosity/RDNA/PoserPros stuff to keep me rendering for a long time.

I didn't buy P7 for the native content.  I bought it for the memory management improvements that kept me from rendering complex scenes in P6.  The latest image in my gallery was constructed in P6 which only looked at me and laughed when I wanted a render.  P7 took one look at it and said "Okay, here we go." and 12 minutes later it was done, including the HDR lighting I added in P7.

Awesome, thanks for all the input. You all made my purchasing decision a little easier.

P7?  Thumbs up, way up!

Remember, you are buying a piece of software, not a content library.  The content is icing ont he cake, so to say, but the real reasons to buy are the improve rendering speeds, the new animation features, the new library and content management features, multiple undos and so on.

Going from P5 to P7, you will notice a lot of improvements almost everything is better.  Yes, there are bugs, but every software has bugs on first release, they will have patches in time.  Still, none of the bugs have effected me yet, so it depends on what you do.

Qasar - Sydney high res maps are in the material room, formt eh Material Pallette, not from the Pose Pallette like we are used to.  (And frankly, this makes more sense to me anyway.)

Same here I bought P7 because of the upgrades to memory management, the ability to render in multi threads and other options. The extra content was low on the scale.

"formt eh"

What the hell is formt eh!?  Damn fingers can't keep up lately!

How embarrassing.

(From the, btw)

Quote - "formt eh"

What the hell is formt eh!?  Damn fingers can't keep up lately!

How embarrassing.

(From the, btw)

 

That's what happens in the north when it gets cold ... he he he.  Been there, done that ... and I miss the snow!  I love your city - it's one of the prettiest I've ever visited (did that when my kids and I lived in Seattle).

I love it and the only reason that I still have P6 installed are for the python scripts that have not been updated yet and for Vue imports.

I have a low end machine and someone dared me to render the eF car with Sydney and Simon fully clothed in thier heavy poly se clothes, without having a crash. I even added my AO lighting and Poser World scene to the challenge.

Not only did it not crash but rendered quite fast to my surprise.