nostalgia for the days when da NaySayGuy had all the answers.

when the poser secrets book ruled

Weely?

Ah tinks ah'm in wuv.

You just hadda say it din'cha ... ?

Now he's gonna be gushy all day.

cheers,(anyway)
dr geep
;=]

 Welcome, i'm back to Windows 3.1 :D

the magic box  

the magic glue :lol:

 lol as if you'd last more then a week ;-)

wasting 30% of your time watching the egg timer unexplained crashes forced reboots

but I miss naysay guy too, Dr Geep laid the foundations of my 3d world 

I have so many memories of Poser 5. Running it on a machine with 1 gig of memory. I couldn't even render V3 and M3 at the same time. So I would convert one of them to obj and import it into the scene.

Now I'm running Poser Pro 2014 with 12 gigs of memory and using Genesis. Can't load more than 3 fully dressed ones at a time without viewport slow down, so now I convert them to obj and import them into the scene. (If I reduce polys and texture resolution, I can then render a hundred of them.)

Heh. The more things change, the more they stay the same. :D

 Well, if we're going to go all weepy and nostalgic in here, I have to say I miss the Poser sidestepping man progress bar.

I wish we could 'thumbs-up' a post, all facebook style. dag-nabbit. 

Go to PhilC's freebie archive on his site PhilC.net.  He has a script that gives you the sidestepping man.  I'm not sure if works past P7/Pro because of the Python changes.  I'll have to see if it works.  It is entertaining if nothing else.

why would someone do that? :???:

can't believe i can't remember it word for word,

remember the message that used to popup about the buckets?  :lol:

since Poser came a long way and finally turned into a serious tool, I couldn't evolve any nostalgic feelings for a pre PP2014 edition, for I don't want to have back an interface, that looks childish like a fisher prize toy. I need my dependency editor and my morph brush. I need to copy morphs from my character to my clothes. I  need 64bit software.

Oh, indeed. 64 bit software, yes. Morphing brush, yes. Grouping tool, yes.

Geep is a Poser community treasure. Quite a few months ago, I read every tutorial I could find on his site. The one about building a house from primitives changed me. Now I keep building things with primitives. First it was a medieval house exterior to go with a vendor's lovely interior. Then I realized that primitives were just slightly too restrictive and I need just a few other pieces, so I got on a construction kit kick. I finally have lots and lots of assets, ripped from vendor models or found in kits, and I can't stop building. Right now I'm making a Greek Revival antebellum plantation house big enough to hold several of the Daz interiors, like the haunted mansion, ballroom, grand staircase, smoking room, and study, etc. Still lots of primitives in it. I sometimes wake up in the middle of the night with a new idea of how to use the morphing cube to make different roof shapes. I blame Geep for starting it all.. :D :D

     I bought my first PC (Sarit) and Poser 6 about halfway through the P6 era.  Soon, P7 came out, and it could render up to four threads, dividing the document window into halves/quarters.  My first PC had a HyperThreaded Pentium, so two threads in P7.  I then bought a Dozer chassis (Firebird) with a H/T dual core Pentium D Extreme.  Mmmmm.... rendering in four threads.  P7 goodness.

     But now? I wouldn't buy a 3D box unless it is 64bit with a minimum 24GB RAM and it has dual Xeons (that's two CPUs, not two cores).  I recently got a $900 refurb with two Xeon X5660 processors (they're H/T hex-cores) and an FX3800 Quadro GPU.  I pulled the 24GB RAM and replaced it with 48GB with heat spreaders and a ducted fan.  She'll be named Urania.  Twenty four rendering threads, at a budget price!

     I've got a P5 license;  I will probably install P5 on Urania for backward compatibility testing of things I build.  I'll have to see if I can scare up a P7 license too.  But the main working program will be Poser Pro 2014 Game Dev.  Urania will be my most frequently used machine for building content.  I have been using the laptop Valkyrie since it's handy in my diner booth, but the slow dual core (not H/T) and 8GB limitation is cramping my style.  Valkyrie can model and map, but I have to send test renders off (via Queue) to more powerful machines to get anything done quickly.  Urania will be the new diner booth 'pooter.

     I certainly do not want to go back to rendering one thread - with a 32bit memory limit!  Also, I like making glowy stuff, and the older Posers couldn't do that.

 well me off back to my trusty...................................... it never lets me down

Don and Judy  

nostril glow ...

Don and Judy  

nostril glow ...

I read this as "Don and Judy Nostrilglow" as if that were their proper names...

since Poser came a long way and finally turned into a serious tool, I couldn't evolve any nostalgic feelings for a pre PP2014 edition, for I don't want to have back an interface, that looks childish like a fisher prize toy. I need my dependency editor and my morph brush. I need to copy morphs from my character to my clothes. I  need 64bit software.

Agree.  While charming to reminisce, I don't really have any plans to go any further than one version back if I did go back.  Tkinter scripts? Please no.

Should we support Dos? lol...

DOS never gave me the blue screen of death. I could do all my assignments on WP4, DBASEIV, and Lotus1-2-3. Floppy discs were easier to organize than flashdrives. And I never had an internet troll ask me to post a picture of my boobs unless he expected something like this:

（。 ㅅ 。）

 well me off back to my trusty...................................... it never lets me down

Indeed. You can always count on one of those.

 

DOS never gave me the blue screen of death. I could do all my assignments on WP4, DBASEIV, and Lotus1-2-3. Floppy discs were easier to organize than flashdrives. And I never had an internet troll ask me to post a picture of my boobs unless he expected something like this:

（。 ㅅ 。）

lol. The worst part about floppies was is your file was bigger than a disk. Yes you could put it onto two, but then you had more to misplace. O_o WP drove me nuts.... SO many functions to memorize.... 

Ah, while I use Poser Pro 2014 on my Desktop and Laptop, Poser 5 does still have its uses. I use a little netbook a lot these days and I like to illustrate emails and the odd blog post with cartoon figures - as a program designed to run on a big PC with the same power as the netbook now has (acutally less, the netbook is running 2gigs of ram), it runs just fine there with a small runtime of toons, animals and low res humans. I did try running the old version of Poser Debut - it worked but was very, very slow. So long live P5. The really handy thing is that it can run from a USB stick along with a bunch of other portable programs that I use, so if there it is on my keyring!

Unfortunately Poser 2 doesn't run in an Win 7 64 bit enviroment (

 oh the dos nostalgia trip !!

multiple boot disks depending on work or game ;-) 1 or 2 lines of type to unpack one zipped file!! HIDDEN files that you cant find :-(

'member when most peeps thought a floppy was 5 anabit  and a HARD drive was 3 anabit

my first comp was 386 80 MEG drive (an I had to wait for that it wasn't "standard" ) 1024k ram but I did have a co pro ;-) ran autocad11 like a hot thing in stuff

20 odd yrs on the only thing I learnt is yer get old  but comps are still fun

Quote: "DOS never gave me the blue screen of death." Never had a blue screen with pen and paper either. ;)