3D-Mobster posted at 3:24PM Mon, 03 April 2017 - #4301372

The Poser development team was recently let go and SM are doing a major re-shuffle. They have stated however they are still committed to Poser. I think changes like this will therefore delay any new version of Poser as it seems understandable that the new team will need to get up to speed. That said I am just voicing my personal view based on the information to hand.

Guess that can be both a good or bad thing, it might be good to get some fresh eyes and ideas involved to stir the soup so to speak :D but yeah some knowledge might be lost as well i guess. But think it depends a lot on what background those new developers have as stated earlier, I think programs like Poser have a lot of potential, if you look at Iclone, Daz etc. Have looked at a lot of videos of people using 3D to make comic books, art and what not, even though these people are very skilled at drawing etc, the time and benefits from using 3D in there workflow is so beneficial, always get very inspired looking at these videos.

I think you are right, it could be a good or a bad thing, only time will tell. At the moment I think the only conclusion that can be drawn is the normal upgrade cycle could be delayed somewhat. The only reason I mentioned it is that I wanted to avoid someone not taking up a good sale on Poser 11 because they felt Poser 12 might be just around the corner.

It is probably fair to say that the biggest number of users of Poser use it for stills, but that is just a belief and I don't see any way of proving it. The idea that they are all still using V4/M4 is a little less clear. A lot of the V4 users at least moved to V4WM (weight mapped) while others starting using Genesis from Daz, while they could which I think was Genesis 1 and 2 but I could be wrong, after that it gets a little more difficult. Some, me included, moved on to use Dawn and Dusk from Hivewire3d which was easier to use than Genesis at that point. With the inclusion of the fitting room in the last few Pro versions of Poser means that content made with one figure in mind is fairly easily adapted for another, so figures like Dawn can be used with all the V4 content that many users already had.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.