westcat opened this issue on Jan 13, 2009 ยท 35 posts
svdl posted Tue, 13 January 2009 at 9:48 PM
Be aware that there's Poser Pro and Poser Pro Base.
Poser Pro Base does not have the PoserFusion plugins for 3DS Max, Maya and Lightwave.
Poser Pro Base does not have full-featured COLLADA export
Poser Pro Base is limited to a render network of 3 machines.
For the rest, Poser Pro and Poser Pro Base are identical.
If you don't need PoserFusion or COLLADA and don't plan to render on more than 3 machines at a time, Poser Pro Base is a better deal at $100 less.
From personal experience running Poser Pro on a quad core with 8 GB of RAM under XP Pro 64 bit - renders are not really faster, but you can render more complex scenes than under Poser 7 - which already could render far more complex scenes than Poser 6.
For example, I've been able to render scenes with 15 figures, all with hires textures and strand based hair, at 1600x1200 resolutions in Poser Pro. Forget about that in P7 or earlier.
The pen is mightier than the sword. But if you literally want to have some impact, use a typewriter