Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Full featured 3D software for free

RubiconDigital opened this issue on Jul 23, 2008 · 38 posts


moogal posted Thu, 24 July 2008 at 4:19 AM

Quote - Wow is right ! I always liked Truespace back in the day but then kinda lost interest in it over the years. Seems to have become a pretty capable and cool app in it's latest versions. Wonder why they made it free ?

Also they seem to have a bunch of poser users, anyone here care to comment on how well it integrates with poser ?

Oh and thanks to the OP for pointing this out...

It had a plug-in to handle Poser content, but development ceased probably even before the switch to the new architecture.  I wanted full collada support as a way to get content in an out, but that is not a format Microsoft are pushing.  (Maybe Caligari will extend the x format?)  They did add the morphing though.  The rigging is way beyond what we have in Poser.  The physics is built in, and can freely be mixed with keyed animations.  Realtime cloth.  UV mapping tools.  Realtime displacements.  It's the logical place to go if you use Poser for animation rather than illustration, but don't expect it to give a rat's posterior about your runtime folder.  There's a huge amount of starting over involved (you're going to have to recreate a lot of stuff the long way in an unfamiliar program) but for many users it would be worth it.  Hopefully someone will take up the cause and write a new import plug-in when the SDK is released.