parkdalegardener posted at 9:10AM Fri, 11 November 2016 - #4289679

AmbientShade posted at 10:27PM Thu, 10 November 2016 - #4289526

What gives you the impression that it is not "a staging platform for professional modern content with user orientated content tools" ? As a content creator, I can say first hand that Poser provides the tools necessary to create that modern content. Like any software, or pencil or jar of paint, Poser is a tool. It's the user's responsibility to provide the talent and creative vision. There is no "make art" button in Poser, or any other software.

Sure there is. There has been a "Make Art" button in Poser years.

Truth is though that I concur completely with the rest of your statement. I've been using Poser for nigh on 20 years, both to create content or to use in a pipeline to other software. I use Poser to send animated figures and animals into Vue since Vue 9. I send Poser work into Unreal and other game engines.

My Poser work has been ported to a number of other software suites and I use other software like Blender and zBrush to bring assets into Poser for morphs or render. Just wish there was a good shadow catcher for Superfly.

Poser isn't dying as some seem to wish; it is just being used by more than only content consumers wanting to do another still beauty shot.

I left this forum a couple of years back due to the software wars, crappy search, and lack of notifications. I thought I would give it another shot a few months back. My mistake. It seems that everyone still wants a Vicky in their Runtime and the newer the better. Granted everyone does not have AmbientShade's touch to build organic models but of their own, but I have no problem using the Morph Brush, Face Room, Dynamics and Hair in Poser. That takes me away from the need to give all my hard earned cash to a third party and that to me should be a more accurate question. "Do you purchase much content for Poser; and if so what type?'' Not everyone rolls their own, but not everyone wants a pre-rolled supermodel figure either.

you may have seen the Blender Cycles roadmap video: They mention the Poser dev team's involvment in Cycles development and say that there is a shadow catcher in the works. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbxubLUVDJQ

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