EClark1894 posted at 7:47PM Wed, 29 March 2017 - #4300671

Actually, that seems like it would be the natural case anyway for me. I didn't think Paul or Pauline would work in earlier versions anyway. And no earlier version would be able to handle anything changed to work in P11. So what am I missing?

Not everyone uses Poser the way you do...? I use Antonia exclusively, and I like to hold open the possibility of sharing my figures in the future. There's nothing inherently preventing those figure from being used in any version of Poser from P9 (weight-mapping) forward. So this is a real flaw, for me.

Consider the Erogenesis figure, currently in development. Should it be for only Poser 11? The developer restricts his potential customer base, doing it that way. Retaining as much backwards compatibility as possible keeps options open for developers.

With most features they've introduced, the Poser Team has been very smart and careful about backwards compatibility. That's always been one of the nice things about Poser, in my opinion. I know others (Tony may pop in to offer counterpoints cough) disagree. I like being able to open old files from Poser 4 or 5, or any version between then and today, in my latest Poser. There's no point in breaking things unnecessarily. Here, Poser has casually broken something, without notifying the user base. We're accustomed to trusting a new version of Poser with our files, generally able to be sure that it won't break them. That isn't the case here, which is a bit annoying.

It's not a fatal flaw in Poser 11, by any means. It's just an unnecessary complication for users.

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.