Attached Link: Shocking news........

They do give a number of reasons, you can read all of it on their blog, but let me give you to highlites..... The main reason they mention are the disappointing sales figures for Poser 8, Pro 2010 and now Debut. Debut was released as the ultimate endeavour to force some breakthroughs, but has been a huge let down for Smith Micro. Second reason, amongst others, are problems with some of the external parties Poser depends upon. There are a number of technical, but also personal issue, resulting in some of the external parties withdrawing their support.

Anyway, read the full story at their blog.

And today's date is?

Hardy har hah :)

Ok what have you all been doing to lovely Smith Micro!

I suppose Poser will become a White Elephant sitting in the proverbial room of my charity money expenses.

Should have gone for another programme (my tech friends said so)!

Investment is the only way forward.

Apart from Daz what should I go for now? the idea is to make educational animation movies.

Any ideas?

Quote - And today's date is?

March 32, 2011. What?

Hook  line and sinker, never mind has anybody got a better animation programme not Daz?

I am working on getting Blender to do what I want it to. I am still using Poser 8 and still learning it. I guess there is just so much to the program that I haven't even touched yet, that I won't be upgrading even if I could...

I believed it too.

And my fallback plan is also Blender.

Quote - I believed it too. And my fallback plan is also Blender.

Even if it isn't true, I'm a bit over the Poser thing... I'm sort of going the route of using Poser as a pose tool only, and doing everything else everywhere else. Poser 9 is going to have to be pretty crash-hot to entice me.

Thank goodness for Pose2Lux for giving me that push.

i fell for it.  :tongue1:

do they have an official survey asking for opinions on what we would like to see for future Poser?

Quote - i fell for it.  :tongue1:

do they have an official survey asking for opinions on what we would like to see for future Poser?

Haven't seen the survey yet, but usually they do have one. If I recall somewhere in the summer.

The post at SM is gone-must have caused too much angst.

I almost bought this Linux announcement...

"We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux.

The target is to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity."

http://www.opensuse.org/

Well, I am reading their blog

http://blog.smithmicro.com/category/poser-3d/

and I don't find that post, can you tell me where you see it...

it's not cancelled.. check the date.....

:blink:

good one aeikema. lol

I happy Poser it is not cancelled.

There is one floating around the net this morning about Nokia telling MS to go pound sand as they have merged with Google and the combination will now be called Nookle. As the days goes on I am sure we iwll see some crazy stuff.

Daz has got two good ones

Read the details and click on the thumb nails.

V5 is going to come with a 64 bit flux capactor or so it says :)

http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/victoria-5-preview?item=12368&_m=d

and

http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/unflatable-pony-iii?item=12367&_m=d

Ha!  Good one Benjamin!  We (Smith Micro and CP) didn't post anything today, and if development has been canceled, someone should probably tell those engineers I saw with their heads down as I was leaving the building yesterday. ;-)   The web team did talk a lot about what kind of light hearted joke we could play, but I don't think we'd ever be brave enough to do something that would stir the pot THAT much. hehe!  No joke from us this year, but we're enjoying all the other clever ideas around the web!

So is Poser 9 going to include Google Motion

http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html

This is major cool. Only request I have is that when I give my monitor the finger after I get frustratated with my lights, material nodes and shadows that the Make Art function is envoked.

Then there is google translate for animals. You record an animals noise and it translates it back so you undertstand what the animal is trying to tell you

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbT0S15p7k&NR=1

Oh, man.  It's April 1 again, isn't it?  :scared:

Yep it's April 1..... normally I'm the one falling for all the jokes, but this time I was quick enough to make one myself. It's kind of fun for once not being fooled, but to fool others.....

My kids got to me this mourning though.... they got 2 fake spiders, that looked way to real and did hang them outside my bedroom door. I hate spiders, you can imagine how shocked I was running into them when opening the door..... yuk.

this announcement made me make it all the way to the sm page to see how much the upgrade to 8 is,  never went so far before lol

Actually, I wasn't aware of the S/M Poser blog site, so thanks for that link.

The problem for people , like me, that live in other country  is that  this day is not the april 1st , for example, in my country , a day like today is 28th December.

OK ..now who's coming over here to clean the brown off my floor.

I guess this was a case of the Early Birds got eaten by the Worm!

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