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ENHANCEMENTS AND BUG FIXES IN Service Release 1

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General

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-Now keeping focus on Graph palette while clicking & dragging beyond palette boundaries.

-Poser Pro Reference manual PDF now accessible via Help Menu.

-Making QuickTime movie with 2D Motion blur now works properly (Mac OS X only).

-Enabled 2D Motion Blur for Image Sequence rendered in Poser (Mac OS X only).

-Memory dots and custom UI preferences now stored in language-specific sub-directory to facilitate concurrent installation of multiple Poser versions.

-Improved reliability of memory dots (Mac OS X only).

-Fixed case where problems with shadow camera parenting would prevent depth map shadows from getting rendered.

-Fixed case where polygon group got accidentally discarded if there were > 32 groups in an OBJ file while multiple group names were specified in the same line.

-Cmd-S shortcut for saving scene now more reliable.

-Improvements to texture map location for preview and rendering.

-Improved user interface performance.

 

 

FireFly Render Engine

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-Fixed case where custom gamma values weren't stored properly.

-Improved reliability of rendering in a separate process when 3D Motion Blur is enabled.

-Improved reliability of FireFly render engine when rendering complex scenes.

-Fixed case where HDR images were discarded from render cache early (Windows only).

-Fixed case where certain shader would cause render to fail.

-Fixed case where small-scale features applied to bump or displacement channels would produce rendering artifacts.

-Improved stability of 64-bit render engine.

-Improved stability of rendering in background.

-Enabled replacement of texture with different texture of the same name. Please note that simultaneously referencing more than one texture of the same name with different content remains unsupported.

-Fixed case where running out of memory during raytracing database setup would cause instability.

-Fixed case where switching off texture filtering would cause artifact to appear at seams of high-res tiled textures.

-Fixed case where depth map shadows weren't cast when rendering in a separate process.

 

 

Queue Manager

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-Now storing Queue preferences upon exit.

-Improved stability upon canceling job.

-Improved stability upon deleting job.

-Fixed case where adding more than ten jobs and dragging the Document column title would cause instability.

-Improved Network Render Queue stability.

-Enabled 64-bit file parsing (Mac OS X only).

 

 

Preview Render Engine

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-Fixed case where line segment geometry could cause instability in OpenGL preview.

-Improved line width (Intel OpenGL only).

-Improved transparency map resolution in Preview mode.

 

 

Library

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-Fixed a problem with popup menu awareness of newly added content collections.

-Fixed Content Collection display issue.

-Enabled creation of PNG thumbnails from resource fork (Mac OS X only).

 

 

File I/O

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-COLLADA: Improved head position when exporting rigged figure with tilted head bone.

-COLLADA: Fixed case where re-importing scene exported from Poser would cause instability.

-COLLADA: Improved bending for figures exported with rigging.

 

 

Talk Designer

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-Improved stability when applying to conforming figures without head morph targets.

 

 

Parameter/Properties Palette

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-Now preventing instability when recursive value operations on an object's parameters are present.

 

 

Hierarchy Editor

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-Enabled creation of figures from Hierarchy Editor.

 

 

Material Room

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-User_Defined node now handles its parameters properly.

 

 

Face Room

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-Fixed case where repeatedly undoing changes would cause Face Shaping parameters to become inaccessible.

 

 

Hair Room

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-Improved quality of dynamic hair simulation results for Bend Resistance values >0.

 

 

Cloth Room

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-Corrected text field locations (Mac OS X only).

 

 

Setup Room

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-Fixed case where adding the skeleton of a figure with dynamic hair from the library would cause instability.

 

 

PoserPython

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-Now using the standard content search method for finding referenced Python files, depending on the user's specified search policy preference.

-Now accepting any type of value to specify scale factor upon import.

-Improved stability by preventing reinitialization while script-based dialog is showing.

-Now accepting any type of value <= 0 to disable scaling upon import. Omitting kImOptCodePERCENTFIGSIZE will result in import at the last size specified.

-Added PoserPython script to facilitate setup of custom gamma values.

-Fixed case where Collect Scene Inventory script would omit certain referenced files.

-Enabled script-based cloth dynamics calculation for scene with multiple simulators.

-Added Scene.RenderToQueue().

-Added Poser.Quit() method to enable script to terminate the application.

-Added MovieMaker.SetMovieRenderer() and MovieMaker.MovieRenderer().

-Added Scene.SetRenderDimAutoscale().

-Added Scene.Resolution() and Scene.SetResolution() methods.

 

 

PoserFusion

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-Improved reliability of missing file search in hosting plugins.

-3ds Max: Fixed case were failed file search would cause instabilities when manipulating Poser object.

-3ds Max: Improved stability and fixed case where Poser figure would disappear after a series of manipulations.

-Maya:  Now prompts user to find missing files.

-Maya: Improved stability when hosting scenes with missing files.

-Maya: Fixed resolution of colliding shader names (e.g. 'skin' material on two different figures in a scene).

-Maya: Enabled installation to updated Maya version.

-CINEMA 4D: Enabled Frame remapping.

CINEMA 4D: Installer now correctly installs libfreeimage.dylib into the CINEMA 4D app package (Mac OS X only).

 

 

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KNOWN ISSUES

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• Poser Pro generally runs fine under Windows Vista. There are a few issues that might require workarounds. Please refer to our Windows Vista knowledge base article for details.

 

• We strongly recommend saving hair groups to the Hair library with their underlying prop. This is because hair is grown from vertices and must be associated with vertices on its underlying object in order to function correctly.

 

• To save hair to the Library palette, select a hair group (or its underlying prop) then click the ADD TO LIBRARY button. You will be prompted to select your desired hair subset(s). Clicking the SELECT SUBSET button opens a hierarchical display allowing you to select the hair groups that you want to save. Be sure to save the parent object!

 

• When saving a subset of props to the library only the currently selected object will retain its morph targets. To save morph targets on all members of the subset choose Edit->General Preferences... and uncheck "Use external binary morph targets" temporarily. Once the subset has been saved to the library, "Use external binary morph targets" may be reactivated.

 

• Adding a prop to the library: When adding a prop with morph targets that is parented to a figure, the prop might not retain its morph targets if Poser is set to write external binary morph targets. In case you encounter this problem, please choose Edit->General Preferences... and uncheck 'Use external binary morph targets' temporarily. Once you're done adding figure-parented props with morph targets to the library, you may reactivate 'Use external binary morph targets'.

 

• Texture search: In previous Poser versions, textures were occasionally specified by their file name only. Since in that case the search mechanism has to search with just the name, it will find the first texture with a matching name. Please keep your texture names unique to avoid loading the wrong texture when opening legacy scene files. Poser Pro always attempts to store an application relative path or an absolute path (whichever is appropriate) in the scene file. Also, the Poser Pro Texture Manager always displays the full path of all loaded or previously loaded textures. This will aid in determining the location of any texture file.

 

• Rendering in separate process: In some cases, Area Render might fail when rendering in a separate process. If you encounter this problem, please retry, render a full frame, or consider rendering internally.

 

• Color on the alternate diffuse channel of a root node will not preview in the document window.

 

• If you have difficulties using the Face room's photo matching feature due to the rotation of the head in your photos not matching the selection outlines, please consider rotating your photographs in an image editing application.

 

• A note on using the DivX codec when making movies: the DivX codec can only be used with standard aspect ratio (4:3).

 

• Some 3D file formats have restrictions in output size. In 3D Studio (.3ds), an object can consist of no more than 65,000 polygons. In Lightwave 5 (.lwo), the maximum size of a scene is 65,000 polygons. Please use the LWO2 export option if you want to export LWO files of objects larger that 65,000 polygons.

 

• Using the Auto Install feature in the Content room might leave temporary files behind. Please delete the files in the temp folder if you want to conserve disk space (Windows only).

 

• There is an incompatiblity with Unsanity's Window Shade X potentially causing an undesired Window Shade effect on Poser palettes. Please add Poser to Window Shade X' list of excluded applications if you encounter this problem (Mac OS X only).

 

• Library thumbnails in PNG format that contain both data and resource fork can cause instabilities. Deleting the resource fork resolves this issue (Mac OS X only).

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