mmitchell_houston opened this issue on Apr 17, 2008 · 53 posts
FranOnTheEdge posted Sat, 26 April 2008 at 5:04 AM
The first Poser I used was Poser3D - due to the clunkiness of the controls and the frustration that caused I soon abandoned it.
I since tried both Poser 5 and 6 (on a friend's PC) and downloaded the free Poser 5 when it was briefly available at Content Paradise. It is no longer free.
Poser 5 is easier to control than Poser3D was - you overshoot the position you wanted much much less often when posing. Poser6 seemed to have more content - especially a greater range of figures.
But! I also downloaded DAZ Studio, and frankly the positioning controls etc (parameter dials) are for me much easier to use. Obviously there's only a minuscule amount of content that you get with DS initially making it hard for the dead broke to uncover all that it can do as a complete program - indeed I don't think I've yet managed a complete scenic render with DS - i.e. no ground or sky.
I do prefer the method of finding content in DS, so much so that I have pretty much abandoned Poser altogether - no doubt Poser 7 is better at most things than 6 was but I hardly remember 6 and as I'm at University and struggling with a lack of funds (especially as I just got C4D 10 with an unexpected bursary) there's nothing I can do to find out.
I am intrigued to hear that there are a lot of plug-ins for DS - apart from Power Pose (which now comes incorporated into the prog) I didn't know about those.
Basically I only use either DS or Poser as an importer of an occasional figure as scale for showing off my modeling capabilities - in Bryce. I would like to be able to do a whole scene in DS but doubt if that is possible.
Measure
your mind's height
by the shade it casts.
Robert Browning (Paracelsus)