Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL

Subject: What can Poser Pro do that Poser 8 Can't?

onimusha opened this issue on Mar 01, 2010 ยท 68 posts

bagginsbill posted Mon, 01 March 2010 at 4:31 PM

This is not a complete list - just some key things off the top of my head.

Built-in GC. (as others mentioned - a very big deal to me)

Improved library - multiple new display modes, many new options, faster, includes CP search, can float in its own window, can stay in front of all windows or go behind Poser and other apps, or minimize - maximize to a second screen - whatever you want. (See screen shot - showing only one of dozens of configurations possible.)

Background/queued rendering. (Queue up a bunch of images)

Network rendering (Use multiple computers to increase rendering speed)

64-bit rendering (Use more RAM - handle much more scene content during render.)

Render to photoshop document with layers (in one pass, render diffuse, specular, reflection, shadows, depth, normals, position, toon id, and anything you can dream up with nodes as separate layers)

IDL improvements (speed and quality)

Import/export with Collada - easier sharing with other apps

For PC, 64-bit pose room (Use more RAM - handle much more scene content during posing)

Multi-threaded bending. (I think this means that posing uses multiple cores to work out the new geometry as you bend a figure.)

This one I'm not completely certain about. Multi-threaded cloth simulation. I have 2 cores and cloth sim now uses more than 50% indicating it is using more than just 1 core, which it did not do in the past.

There's more stuff, but that's what I can think of off the top of my head.

[EDIT] - Oh this is a good one - can't believe I forgot. You can drag content from outside Poser, such as from your file explorer directly into Poser - i.e. true native OS drag and drop. You do not have to start from the Poser library window. Also, when you drag a conforming item over an existing figure, it will auto-conform.

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