Cage posted at 11:32AM Thu, 30 March 2017 - #4300085

Dying or not, I tellya, Poser is killing me.

One of the updates for Poser 11 makes destructive changes to cr2 files which are processed through P11. That subdividing morph thing changes all the valueParms in Body to targetGeoms, to facilitate the storage of deltas for the different morph resolutions. Seems like a simple, harmless change. But it breaks a bunch of functionality in previous versions. Now any figure used with P11 is no longer fully compatible with earlier versions of Poser. I discovered this when I ran a few figures through P11. Fixing the problem is a time-consuming chore. They broke my figures.

I'm on the blanged Beta team, and I haven't used P11 for anything but bug testing, because of this problem. I kept waiting for them to fix it, so I could move to the new Poser for regular work, but it's still unfixed as of the latest, and perhaps final, update.

So, yeah. Poser may or may not be dying, but it's killing me.

(Note that I still love Poser. I just hate it when it has a case of the stupids.)

But if you are using a feature from the latest version (subdividing morphs) which only works with P11 and P11Pro, why would you expect it to work in older versions and then complain it doesn't? As it would only be compatible with P11, simply saving it as a P11 figure and leaving the pre P11 adjusted item alone solves that. If it needs the latest version, then people have to use the latest version or miss out. Otherwise there is no point developing software features.

Being able to open things from older versions in the latest versions is legacy compatibility, and that's fair enough, as people have lots of earlier stuff. But to have new features that are introduced to the latest software (and aren't in earlier versions) and then expecting those to work in earlier versions is silly.

Sorry, didn't mean to sound like I'm ranting, I'll get off my soapbox now! :)