Smith Micro Software, Inc. and the Poser team are pleased to announce that the Poser Pro 2010 Service Release 1 (SR1) is now available for both Macintosh and Windows. SR1 will update your non-beta version of Poser Pro 2010 English to the latest version 8.0.3.11916.

 

SR1 offers several enhancements and addresses known issues present in the following areas:

-     Rendering improvements

-     General performance and stability updates and improvements

•     Content Library improvements

-     Python improvements

-     Material Room improvements

-     Animation improvements

-     Queue Manager improvements

•     Rigging improvements

 

In order to download Poser Pro 2010 SR1 or receive technical support for the product, you must have registered your Poser Pro 2010 application serial number. If you have not yet done so, please register now at:  http://www.smithmicro.com/support/product-registration.aspx

With your registered Poser Pro 2010 serial number, you can access and download SR1 for

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

Macintosh: http://my.smithmicro.com/mac/poser/updates.html

 

Stuffit Connect name change note: The service has been renamed to SendStuffNow. Active accounts will automatically migrate to the new service, and support within Poser Pro is functionally the same as in its prior release, with the only change being the name displayed in the interface.

 

Recommended workarounds for known issues:

• To improve rendering performance: Single-thread renders are less efficient than multiple threaded renderings. To reduce render times, enable multiple threaded rendering. Reduce bucket size to decrease render times.

 

 

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SR1 Enhancements and Fixes, by category:

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General

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• Improved conforming when the number of children does not match between object being conformed and body part being conformed to.

• Figure->Create full body morph is now undoable

• UI preferences were incorrectly written when shutting down Poser while it was minimized

• Fixed instabilities when reparenting/rearranging objects in hierarchy palette

• Uninitialized variable was causing occasional crash when new scenes were created. This could affect file new and walk designer

• Menu commands for setting background and foreground colors work correctly

• Fixed issues with out of sync app menu item states to improve Undo

• Enabled Display Origin option.

• Fixed case where automatic update check could cause instability (Mac OS X only).

• COLLADA: Enabled Invert Transparency Map export option (Mac OS X only).

 

 

Library

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• Fixed library drag/drop of files and bitmap resource issues for files with non-western/non-ASCI characters in their paths

• Support enabled to preserve added runtime libraries on external hard drives upon launch even after external drives are removed.

• Fixed display of  “Add to Library” button in AIR library on Mac OS X.

• Enabled drag & drop from Library when SreeD preview rendering is selected.

 

Material Room

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• Material room: Reflection_Lite_Mult now disabled by default for newly created materials. Existing files and content will not be affected.

 

Face Room

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• Resolved: Disabling superfluous app menu items could trigger crashes

• Exporting textures from Face Room works correctly.

 

Cloth

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• Fixed case where cloth simulation with multithreaded bending enabled could cause instability.

 

Rendering

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• Faster raytracing in scenes with complex geometry

• FFRender works properly on PowerMac G5 even when 64bit QTKit is missing (Quicktime update 7.6.6 on 10.5 omits the 64bit PPC version of QTKit)

 

Animation

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• Creation of extraneous key-frames on lights no longer occurs.

 

Queue Manager

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• Enabled multithreading configuration in Queue Manager preference file

 

Rigging/Set-up

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• International decimal point symbol changes caused influence zones to behave erratically in the joint editor.

 

PoserPython

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• Added new Python methods to enable/disable IDL from scripts.

• Resolved: Python script dialog instabilities when running in 64 Bit.

 

PoserFusion

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• Fixed a problem writing .max files with embedded Poser scenes on 64 bit.

 

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TRADEMARK & COPYRIGHT NOTICE

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Poser, Poser Pro, the Poser logo, and the Smith Micro Logo are trademarks and or registered trademarks of Smith Micro Software, Inc. Poser copyright © 1991-2010 All Rights Reserved. All other product names are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective holders. Licensed product.

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