Quote - What really cripples Poser is the old spherical falloff rigging system that all that legacy content is already set up in, and good luck growing out of that.

Maybe it is time to stop supporting legacy content and offer a second piece of software to help people convert things over to the new systems.  Or they could make 9 a bridge and let everyone know that in 10, old features X,Y, and Z are gone for good.  There's no need to be a packrat forever.

I mean things like the reflection light multiplier don't belong in the poser software anymore.  The new software should ignore that flag and if they follow bill mat room suggestions, it wouldn't be that difficult to update all your old maps anyways.

April, as someone who's learned a little bit about coding, yeah you never rewrite everything.  In fact a lot of coding it just borrowing code from one place and putting it somewhere else.  However from time to time you need to go through your products and ask, what works, what doesn't, what's needed, and what is no longer needed?  Then you go from there and start replacing/removing/updating as best you can.

My opinion on poser is that it has passed through so many hands through its iterations, it's getting to be time for a good purging and house cleaning of features as well as a few needed additions.  So while joel says programmers like to level and rebuild and that's bad, at least in poser's case it needs a bit of remodeling done.

WARK!

Thus Spoketh Winterclaw: a blog about a Winterclaw who speaks from time to time.

 

(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)