Attached Link: 60 Sec demo video made with Poser Pro 2014 Game Dev

The impressive live mocap captureed the host in real time using MS Kinect hooked up to the laptop serving the conference. It is neat and must be seen.  Also clairified was the proper use of Scene Merge, texture atlas and poly reduction, FBX export were applied to samples.  I was blown away when they **announced that the current shipping version of Poser Pro 2014 and beyond will include perpetual 3d publishing (game) license of ALL Smith Micro sold content - not just what shipped.  Thats generous and exceptional.  **I guess Smith Micro recognizes that the next big wave is real-time 3d publishing.  

Big thanks to SM for the free Windows Kinect door prizes*, its awesome.  Last weekend I rendered 60 sec animation, rendered in 30 hours using Poser and Vue. Enjoy:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4N2lB7-RVIM

Dont take it from me check out the Webinar archive:  http://my.smithmicro.com/webinars/poser/introduction-to-poser-game-dev/index.html

• Just kidding, but they do tell you how to hack a XBox Kinect mocap and it works!

Heads up people!!!!

I have a huge problem with Poser Game Dev. I recently upgraded from Poser 2014 (64bit) to Poser Game Dev. Now I can no longer import poser files into Vue Infinite 2014.6. I get this error....Error in Poser SDK (scene initialization failed). Please contact Smith Micro if this problem persists.

I already tried different SDKs and even tried pointing Vue to the 32bit installation to no avail. I contacted Smith Micro and got this reply..... "Thank you for contacting Support. We do not provide or support the Vue feature to import Poser Scenes. You will need to contact eon Software with the error you are encountering".

John Csaky | Customer/Tech Support
Smith Micro Software, Inc.

Both companies are just pointing fingers at each other which is no help to me. Is this happening to anyone else? Anyone have any suggestions? I need this fixed now. Is the only solution deactivating Poser Game Dev and/or uninstalling it entirely and trying to get Poser 2014 back installed and re-activated???? Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

Not sure if it helps but I have the Game Dev versions and also Vue Studio 2014.5 and I don't appear to have any problems importing Poser files.

Quote - Not sure if it helps but I have the Game Dev versions and also Vue Studio 2014.5 and I don't appear to have any problems importing Poser files.

Thanks for the reply. I see that you have a different version of Vue. I wonder if that would matter. What Poser SDK are you using? My Vue Infinite used October 2013 with Poser Pro 2014 and worked fine for me. The only change I made was the recent upgrade to Game Dev.

Quote - > Quote - Not sure if it helps but I have the Game Dev versions and also Vue Studio 2014.5 and I don't appear to have any problems importing Poser files.

Thanks for the reply. I see that you have a different version of Vue. I wonder if that would matter. What Poser SDK are you using? My Vue Infinite used October 2013 with Poser Pro 2014 and worked fine for me. The only change I made was the recent upgrade to Game Dev.

I have only ever used Esprit and Studio so I am not sure but, while Studio has less features, I do not think it is a simple cut down version of Infinite, by which I mean it is not mearly Infinite with some features taken out.  I base this on earlier threads here which gave details some of the differences.  That is the reason I was not sure if my esxperience would help.  The only difference appears to be that you are using Infinite and 2014.6

I used the same SDK, October 2013, which is the one have always with Studio both with Poser 2014 and more recently Poser Game Dev version.

Quote - > Quote - > Quote - Not sure if it helps but I have the Game Dev versions and also Vue Studio 2014.5 and I don't appear to have any problems importing Poser files.

Thanks for the reply. I see that you have a different version of Vue. I wonder if that would matter. What Poser SDK are you using? My Vue Infinite used October 2013 with Poser Pro 2014 and worked fine for me. The only change I made was the recent upgrade to Game Dev.

 

I have only ever used Esprit and Studio so I am not sure but, while Studio has less features, I do not think it is a simple cut down version of Infinite, by which I mean it is not mearly Infinite with some features taken out.  I base this on earlier threads here which gave details some of the differences.  That is the reason I was not sure if my esxperience would help.  The only difference appears to be that you are using Infinite and 2014.6

I used the same SDK, October 2013, which is the one have always with Studio both with Poser 2014 and more recently Poser Game Dev version.

 

Ok, thank you. I guess I will have to try to revert back to the working Poser version as I can't wait for a new SDK to be released.

I de-activated my Poser Game Dev and re-entered my Poser Pro 2014 information and serial number. Opened up Vue Infinite 2014.6 and now it imports my poser scenes once again.

So with that said and done, I will reiterate my warning. Heads up people! Poser Game Dev is not compatible with some versions of E-on software's Vue products. You may lose the Poser scene import feature in Vue if you upgrade!!!! 

I'm cosidering going from Poser 10 to Game Dev.
Is Game Dev like 2014+ or will I be missing something that would require me to upgrade to 2014 also?

Game Dev has everything the Poser Pro 2014 has with the Game Dev features added.

Found Game Dev to be so buggy I have restored Pro 2014.

On the mac version when I want to save a character with clothing and hair to my poser library... it won't.

Anything with multiple props, or figures it won't save to the library.

It just won't. It will save as a poser save file however.

I have decided that for me the few extra game dev features are a waste of money. I would rather have the working features of Pro 2014.

I have notified Smith Micro of the bug. Don't expect to ever hear from them again.

@DalekSupreme: Have you updated to the latest service release? It should be SR5. 

I've had no problems using 2014 game dev, but I'm on a PC.