Quote - As some have pointed out I think people use Poser mostly because of content rather than for the program itself. I myself never do any render in Poser, I use it for content and to do the posing, then export everything to my program of choice, Vue. I suspect many people do that with all kind of other 3D programs. I'm not sure exactly what your aim is with FAST, but it needs to be clear. Are you hoping to replace poser as a content and posing program, if so will it support all the legacy content? Will it use its own new content type? Are you working on building a full featured rendering engine for it, and if so will it support all the bells and whistles like Global Illumination, Radiosity, etc? Personally I predict that if Poser does go away, the big benefactors will be the other 3D programs as people move on to those, and most people will still use Poser or move to D|S simply for the content / posing elements, but I wish you luck as there is room for a brand new, high performance and fully featured 3D posing and animation software.

 

FAST is being coded to handle all legacy content, Poser and Daz Studio both provided I can work out all the details on the file formats.  FAST will have it's own content type as well, because FAST will support features that neither Poser nor Daz studio currently offer, such as multiple indepedent bone structures, which will require a new file format that neither Poser nor Daz studio would be able to read (at least not at the current time).  However you will be able to integrate Poser and DS content seamlessly if I do my job right :)

I do hope to support all the bells and whistles you mentioned, and hopefully more - my work list is pretty long at the moment and I'm adding more daily.  But like you I think there is room for a new entry in the 3d realm, one that will run on either Linux or Windows and give support to all of the content Poser currently provides.

-Never fear, RenderDog is near!  Oh wait, is that a chew toy?  Yup. ok, nevermind.. go back to fearing...