Forum: Poser - OFFICIAL


Subject: Possible Poser 10/PP2014 Bugs - Post here so they are seen

basicwiz opened this issue on Jun 06, 2013 · 258 posts


pumeco posted Sun, 30 March 2014 at 8:30 AM

You can say that again, the bugs I've listed above are by no means all of them.  I'm just getting back into Poser after a long break from it.  I'm going through the features it has and I honestly don't think I've tried a single aspect of the program that doesn't have issues.

The last thing I tried, the thing that totally drove me to post that list, was the symmetry on the hands.  It got to the point where before I tried it, strictly out of sarcasm, I thought to myself "I bet that doesn't work either".

And guess what?
It didn't, even something so basic.

So even a simple thing like mirroring a set of rotation values from one hand to the other doesn't work.  I appreciate they have time frames, and they need to prioritise stuff, but SM also need to realise they're selling a product to people that does not do what they advertised it does, and personally, I expect to get what I paid for.

SR releases are fine as long as they actually fix what is broken.  All bugs listed are repeatable and therefore fixable for SR4.  I look forward to a functioning Poser 10.

SM need to hold off new features until the current ones we've paid for, are working as advertised.  I personally bought into Poser again hoping to become a vendor, but the sheer state of the program isn't something I want to concern myself with.  I'd rather look into other ways to earn myself some pocket-money than deal with this level of reliability.  Quality control feels non-existent in Poser, and if time constraints are the reason, they need to give themselves a larger amount of time, that much is obvious.

From now on I will test rigourously on every release, and if it fails on anything I need or purchased it for, it'll be back for a refund.  On every SR I will re-purchase, and on ever SR it will be refunded if it continues to fail.  If they sell me something I paid for, something stable and usable (which is not too much to ask), I'll be extremely happy to keep it, use it, and develop for it.

Until then ...

SM, please sort it out.  The amount of bugs in Poser is clearly damaging it judging from the general observations around the forums.  Business is business, but customers are customers, and without those customers, Poser will have no business if this lax quality control issue continues.  If customers can't do what they paid to do, they'll eventually stop paying to do it and look elsewere.  Much better to have people praising Poser for how rock solid it is than to have them looking elsewhere!

Cars that constantly break down are soon gotten rid off, software is no different.