Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Poser's demise.. are we working towards ...?...

RobynsVeil opened this issue on May 30, 2008 ยท 267 posts


svdl posted Mon, 02 June 2008 at 4:16 PM

As for FAST, I'd like EVERYTHING to be scriptable. Python is a very good way to go when it comes to scripting applications.
One of the things I sorely miss about Poser is the possibility to use it as a Python library.

There's a lot of things that MS doesn't do as they should, but there's also a couple of things they're very good at. One of those things is the programmability of their applications. Everything you can do from the user interface of an Office app, you can do using script too, both from inside the application itself, and from the outside - every Office app is a COM server.
They separated user interface from functionality (MVC pattern), which makes it easy to completely replace the user interface by something totally different.

This kind of programmability would be a great asset to FAST. As far as I'm concerned the main reason Poser doesn't live up to its Pro name is its lack of programmability. I don't know how D|S does in this regard (the last version I tested didn't have scripting support at all), but my expectations aren't that high.

Make FAST programmable, make it do at least one thing very well, and you have a pro level application.

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