Happy xmas !

http://my.smithmicro.com/win/poser/updates.html
 

Whoa a point release!

Merry Christmas Poserverse

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

And MERRY CHRISTMAS

:`(

Good deal, bad timing for me.

Anybody know what changed?

I know for sure that frame indicator still doesn't work when changing frames in graph window.

Make it 50  bucks and I'll consider .........

That  new girl  is a dog, BTW

Heh. I just downloaded this last night, but I thought it was an update from a few weeks ago that I had somehow missed.

What's new? Does it fix the background color changing error reported from the start that was still not fixed after 2 SR's? What does it fix? What does it break?

I'm not sure about releasing an update just before the holidays, what if it messes up everything and no one can get into contact with SM......... I'll wait for some more reports before even trying it.

No idea. I wish they would release specifics with each release - subpoint release or not.

i think its one to wait for until 4 january 2010

 Indirect light quality still isn't saved in render settings presets. No biggie, since D3D's render settings are better anyway, but still they could fix it. 

It's still not possible to enable GI via Python without loading a saved preset. 

Well I don't know about others but I've just installed SR2.1 and now P8 freezes whenever I try to delete anything!

Anybody else having problems?

Update:

Just reinstalled SR2.0 (i.e the one before) and everything is OK now.

What gives?

 No freezes here.

Good catch, Anthanasius! :biggrin:

Joyeux Noël!

its freezing here, but as long as I stay inside on the computer, all is all right with the world :)

No issues here at all so far.  Need to try some renders to check exactly if improvements are noticeable.  May I suggest that upon installation, just simply reboot your computers.  Better to let it completely install and stabilize that way.

@ Chris V

I suppose you are running Windows?
How did you do the update? Just installed  the SR2.1 and started Poser?
The "freeze after a delete" can be avoided with a reboot. (and wait 10s for the RAM to clear)
Where you running Outlook before? During? What version of Outlook?
Is it steadily and predictably reproducable?

Quote - its freezing here, but as long as I stay inside on the computer, all is all right with the world :)

lol, at first I read this as "as long as I stay inside the computer"... :lol:

yeah, but it must be a strong one?
Iif he sits "ON" his computer? ? ? :-)

its like a refreshing ocean breeze :)

Quote - yeah, but it must be a strong one?
Iif he sits "ON" his computer? ? ? :-)

Probably a sturdy army issued one :-) I used to have one of those..... Panasonic. You could sit on it..... stand on it.... even throw it out of the window (kids don't try that at home)..... it would still run. They even had touch screens, imagine throwing anything with a touch screen these days. If one was without a weapon one could always throw the laptop, that sure would make an impressive impact.

Unfortunately it became too outdated to use, the new one isn't that sturdy, but sure a lot more fun to carry around!

Quote - @ Chris V

I suppose you are running Windows?
How did you do the update? Just installed  the SR2.1 and started Poser?
The "freeze after a delete" can be avoided with a reboot. (and wait 10s for the RAM to clear)
Where you running Outlook before? During? What version of Outlook?
Is it steadily and predictably reproducable?

Yes I'm on XP under SR2

I reinstalled the update to SR2.1 and then rebooted - no problems!  Thanks for the info.

Quote - Anybody know what changed?

"I hear nothing, I see nothing, I know nothing!" - Sgt. Shultz

I'm always wary about trying updates early in their release. What exactly did this change?

The webpage for downloading the update says:
"to update to Poser 8.0.2.10911"

But when you actually try to run the updater, the pop-up readme still says it will update version 8.02.10723.

My currently installed Poser 8 version is 8.0.2.10738
which is somewhere in-between !

OK, I went ahead and ran the updater.

I can confirm that my updated version of Poser 8 is now 8.0.2.10911

There's a sale at Penny's! - Airplane...;)

I found a program and character upgrade for P5...so I'm happy...;)

Is this a beta version?

No, it's an update to P8....

I just installed the update over SR1, and the Library failed with a Javascript error until I upgraded from IE6 to IE7.

Renders with indirect lighting seem quicker than SR1...

Sadly the blotch artifact problem is still going on though.

What does this update over the previous SR2...? - I'm currently running 8.0.2.10738

I dunno. I've heard a lot more negative response to this update than anything. If you're functioning relatively well, I'd probably leave well enough alone. And I'm not usually one who jumps to say that sort of thing.

Just my opinion, of course. But I've only seen disadvantages from this update, no advantages.

Among other things, they fixed some aspects of symmetry in rigging, which makes it a pretty mandatory update for me.

Thanks, Paul. That's not an improvement I would have caught. Hope to get to rigging some day. Hey, it's a new year. :)

Quote - Among other things, they fixed some aspects of symmetry in rigging, which makes it a pretty mandatory update for me.

Weren't those already fixed with SR2 ?

When running the SR2.1 installer, it says that it's going to update Poser to 8.0.2.10911 (at least for Windows).
The following window containing the detailed information about the update shows the text from the SR2 ReadMe.
I didn't go thru with the installation, so I don't know, if there is a "final" ReadMe for this update saved to the Poser 8 directory.

At least two things can think of were not fixed until 2.1 (couldn't select falloff zones via right-click, newly created falloff zones were rotated 90 degrees).

Just installed the new update,  all the problems with graph editors remain, as noted above, first try, set up a scene, one figure, hair and some props, two test renders, then Out of Memory message, please save aversion, click ok, same message, click ok, then Error Message, Error message again then crash to desktop. Great!
Load a new scene, lots of LR figures, first test render some figures cast shadows, others didn't next render all black, Render at Preview quality works ok, but when the render sequence finished the UI had changed, library palette has docked itself above the parameter dials.WTF?!!
If Poser was a physical product would SM's warehouse be choked with returned items? or would they be facing litigation by now?

Have you reported these problems?