MSconti posted at 7:35PM Sat, 01 April 2017 - #4301198

Is Poser dead?

I hope not. I'm considering Poser Pro as I write this after many years away from 3D. Poser looks to have evolved since Poser 3...

Poser, the everlasting Phoenix - always "dying", only to be reborn again and again.

MetaCreation's Poser died after P3.

Curious Labs rebirthed it with P4 and ProPack. Then it "died" again after P5.

eFrontier rebirthed it as P6, then P7 & Poser Pro. Then Poser "died" again.

SmithMicro rebirthed it as P8 & Poser Pro 2010. Currently, we're on P11 & P11Pro.

"The reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." ~ Mark Twain

Yes, Poser has developed quite a bit from P3's "plastic helmet hair", etc. Poser now is multi-threaded, exploiting all processor cores for rendering. It's 64bit capable, so you can use more RAM and put together huge, complex scenes. The Firefly renderer is well advanced beyond the P4 renderer, and as of P11/P11Pro you also have the Superfly raytracer physics-based renderer. You have dynamic cloth, which will drape more realistically than conforming clothing. If you get the Pro version, you'll have Queue Manager, which can distribute animations or batch render jobs (albeit whole frames only) out across a network, if you have extra computers around.

Poser 12, in feet.  

OSes:  Win7Prox64, Win7Ultx64

Silo Pro 2.5.6 64bit, Vue Infinite 2014.7, Genetica 4.0 Studio, UV Mapper Pro, UV Layout Pro, PhotoImpact X3, GIF Animator 5