thefixer opened this issue on Aug 07, 2007 ยท 430 posts
Dale B posted Wed, 08 August 2007 at 6:05 AM
Geez..... Am i the only one who reads the text? '64 bit support'....usually means just that. It works on a 64 bit data bus if you have one, a 32 bit bus if not (which much of industry still does not). COLLADA.... Even though the import is limited to geometry, textures, cameras and lights...how many times have Poser animators screamed for some way to get cameras and lights in and out to other apps to make compositing a practical approach? And COLLADA is constantly being extended; so the chances of getting a translator for rigging and animation data in the future is excellent. Distibuted Network Rendering..... And how long have the animators been howling for this one? And I noticed there was no mention of limited node liscences; if that holds, then your client could go on however many machines you actually have....and with the Poser GUI off the render engine, it may surprise people with its speed. And they may not have mentioned other things that are still in beta at the moment. Companies do that to avoid getting the user base riled if something has to be yanked at the last minute. But off the top of my head, I would be surprised if there wasn't some change in the interface; Vue allows you to customize after all, and eon and efrontier have been strategic partners for a few years now. Having an alternative to the Kai Krause interface to avoid the kneejerk 'Ewww its that Poser Toy!' reaction would be just the thing to get at least a seconds untainted look. This is an animator's release. And it promises to speed things up considerably in that area (assuming there aren't more goodies under the hood....which I'm not). And as we don't know what the special upgrade price for P7 owners is yet (fond memories of getting into the 'pro' level of Vue long ago at a reasonable price....). Okay, voice of reason done. Continue the bitchslapping as normal. Carry on.