nerd opened this issue on Apr 10, 2015 ยท 112 posts
Dale B posted Mon, 13 April 2015 at 5:09 AM
@Pumeco.
I've been one of the one's saying that for years. Probably need my little list posted again. I've been disappointed over the years at the lack of advancement; one of the reasons I purchased Vue 4 all those years ago, and still use it in my pipeline. But I could understand the push for the single frame render features over the animation, as the number of users who ran shrieking in terror at the mere mention of touching that animation thingy to get really cool dynamic cloth and hair were loud. But at this point, there are not a lot of things left to shove under the hood that are single frame specific, and a lot of animation features that could benefit them, once they recovered from the trauma. A new IK solver that was switchable, and allowed IK pinning, would be a godsend to still portrait people. Now that they have Bullet under the hood, adding ragdoll would be fairly straightforward. And frankly, it would do them a world of good to make sure their SDK's are clean and as easy to translate as possible. Working with other programs is one of the things Poser has done very well at, and one of the reasons its the dirty little secret in many CG artists kit bag. Monty Oum highlighted Poser as a valid animation tool, not a generator of bad-art-and-smut-work. I can hope that momentum will continue, since RWBY is being continued by RT. But we shall see.....