I feel a rant coming on. 

 

I've been away for quite a while, frustrated by Poser and to stubborn to learn Daz Studio.

The problem?  I really don't know, but I suspect it lies in the fragmentation of all the little pieces of code we use to make a Poser scene happen, and really shine, and bring the fun.

With the introduction of Clo3d, it quickly became clear to me that Poser is very, very, very behind-the-times.  Clo3d gives real-time clothing dynamics and collisions; Poser makes me wait for 20 minutes with worse results.

Poser is Lich-Ware, to coin a term.  We have features thrown at the decrepit foundation of software first made, I don't know, 15 years ago?

We have enough cpu and enough memory and storage these days we should have something like Clo3d built right into the program.  We should have a hair module that produces stunning results with real time dynamics like clo3d.  We should have morphing based on source photos for any figure, and our figures should probably behave like Genesis and pose with the ease of PoseMagic. 

I'm just scratching the surface of what we should have by now.

Now I know some blowhard is going to come along and go "Whoa, WTB, just...whoa...you want a "Make Art" button?  You want a 3000 dollar production line ready product?"

Listen, Blowhard, I'm just telling you what's already out there.  It's just not collected into one piece of software.  It seems to me that the Poser team is not saying "Hey, let's completely rethink this hair room piece of crap"  but rather "Okay, on to the hair room, how can we tweak this so that it seems like we've worked on it without adding any actual functionality?"

I understand the first approach takes time, money and resources.  But the second approach literally makes me feel that I'm being treated with contempt and patronization.

That is why hostility towards the software and the experience start to creep in.

When I turn on the program I quickly recall my frustrations, how there's a glass ceiling of what can be done with it and how I know there's so much better out there, just not for exactly what we want to do.