"Reading through all the P8 gripes here is pretty depressing !"

People rarely come to forums to rave about software with which they are thrilled. They rarely EMail a company about an application that they really enjoy using. If you are having no problems with Poser 8, and you really enjoy using it, you would probably be playing with Poser 8, not posting messages about it in a forum. There are many more people who love and/or hate Poser 8 than post here at Renderosity.

On the other hand, people who complain about problems advance the software by calling attention to the bugs and problems, or they get answers from people who know of work-arounds, solutions, and resources. I have never owned a complex application for which I did not have to figure out how to make up for what it should do but doesn’t. If you aren’t going to file a bug report with SM, at least mention the problem here.

I have found some problems with Poser 8. It doesn't load some textures for saved scenes because it corrupts the path to that texture. Saving with reloaded textures does not solve the problem. Other people have described their problems. Clearly the Poser development team is paying attention to the forums here.

For my part, I am really enjoying the program. I love the new fall off settings for pointlights and spotlights. I was shocked at the added realism these produce. I have finally gotten the library working as intended, and I like it. I can actually use the scroll wheel on my mouse with the library. There are some amazing Python scripts included with Pose 8, and most of the old scripts still work. Poser 8 renders most things faster than Poser Pro, but still has some memory limitations. I am eager to see how things work after the SR1 is released.

I would love to see what people can do with Poser 8. Maybe some one could start a gallery link thread here of new Poser 8 renders. Something like, "Hi. I just uploaded a render using Poser 8's new features here's a link to my gallery." There are render threads at DAZ, but I doubt they would really support a few Poser 8 threads.

LMK

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