Quote - > Quote - And then you look at games and see figures even way more realistic than Poser can do as well as truly photorealistic scenery and everything is in realtime and all without having to fix shaders and building lightsets and you think:"Why bother anymore trying to make things work in Poser?"

I think the majority of the added features in PP2014 are intended for content developers looking to make content for use in Poser. So if you aren't a content developer, it probably doesn't seem to be that much of an upgrade.

But you can convert any figure to single skin and then export via COLLADA and bring your figures into max/maya, Unity or UDK, if you want to see what it's really like working inside a game engine. The learning curve isn't that steep if you have the patience.

I don't think its realistic to expect Poser to incorporate all these features that only a very small percentage of its userbase would ever actually use. That's not cost-effective for any business model. It's intended primarily for portrait style rendering or small scenes and that's what the majority of its users use it for. Beyond that it provides tools to port your work to other more advanced software if that's what you want or need to do. Maybe you've just outgrown Poser and need to start looking at learning more advanced software that better suits your needs. 

Blender is free. Unity3D and Unreal Engine are both free. They're the top 2 engines for indie artists. If you took the time to learn how to port models into Unity, then I think you'd see first-hand the differences between a game engine and its shortcomings, vs Poser and its shortcomings. You still have to build lighting and shader networks for a game engine, unless you want to always be stuck with using its prebuilt stock lighting, which usually isn't very inspiring. 

 

~Shane

Unity and unreal arent free.....unless I am missing something. Blender is

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