I took the plunge!  I bought Poser 7.  I just installed it, and the updates, etc.

I want to get rid of the Content Paradise tab.  Does it work the same way as it did with Poser 5 and 6?

Yes.

Ah ?? You can get rid of the tab ?? How i do that ??

I don't think it affects poser the way it did with P5. I didn't bother to remove it. I just don't let poser have access to the net and don't put any thought to the tab. It dosn't exsist as far as I'm concerned.

It's not as bad as what e-on has done with Vue.

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Thanks, all.  I did what I did with Poser 5 and Poser 6, and it seems to have worked!

I don't block Poser, because you take a resource hit when you do that.  If you let it do its network check thing, it checks once each time you start Poser, and that's it.  If you block it, it keeps checking, and checking, and checking.  Every time you do anything - click on a menu item, the library, etc. - it tries again. 

The tab is just very inconveniently placed for me.  It's right beside/under the library palette, and I'm constantly clicking on it when I mean to click on the library. Even if the Internet is blocked, it's a pain.

*The tab is just very inconveniently placed for me.  It's right beside/under the library palette, and I'm constantly clicking on it when I mean to click on the library. Even if the Internet is blocked, it's a pain.

*Perhaps if you tried moving the mouse by hand, rather than in your mouth...?

No need to be insulting.  Everyone's screen looks slightly different.  If you have a very large screen, the CP tab is nowhere near the library.  Unfortunately, I don't. 

I admit, I'm also a bit impatient.  But part of the problem is Poser is so darned slow sometimes.  There's a lag, and sometimes that means I end up clicking the wrong thing.  The CP tab when I'm aiming for the library tree is probably most common.  

Or was, until I killed Content Parasite.    :biggrin:

It was a joke.   Have a look at the picture to the left of your post.  

Oh.  Duh. 

Sorry, I guess my humor filters need recalibrating.  :laugh:

Meanwhile...I like Poser 7 so far.  It seems much faster than Poser 6. 

Of course, that could be because I haven't loaded it up with junk yet...

Congrats!

I'm particularly happy with Poser 7 today.

Spent 3+ hours morphing and posing a character, was adding some props, didn't like one and deleted it... Only to discover that I hadn't waited for Poser to update the changed selection to the prop and not the figure. In horror I watched as 3+ hours disappeared in a blink.

Damn, I love undo!

"Undo" is a very good thing.

I am rather annoyed that they still haven't addressed basic file management, that most Windows software has had since dinosaurs roamed the earth. 

Adding runtimes is sooo tedius.  It defaults to My Computer.  DAZ|Studio lets you add all the runtimes in a folder with a click, but with Poser, you must add each one manually.   Each time, navigating from My Computer to wherever you have the runtimes.  And once again, they are arranged in the order you add them, not alphabetically.  If you use a lot of runtimes, as I do, this is a real pain. 

It's a small thing, but sheesh, it would be so easy to fix, and it would make life a heck of a lot easier.

Well my two pet peeves, and they are small compared to my overall satisfaction, both changes from Poser 6... One, the smaller peeve-- default image export is now PNG instead of PSD. And two, in Poser 6, I save the PZ3 to a specific directory, exporting images defaults to that directory... Now, it defaults to the main runtime's texture directory. A petty annoyance, but an annoyance none the less.

However, Undo... wonderful (though it does not seem to be fully implemented in the material room). Right click selectability, priceless. Love the morphing brush and for me, I definately wanted Sydney. So, I don't regret upgrading to P7 one little bit.