Male_M3dia posted at 8:01PM Mon, 03 April 2017 - #4301394

hornet3d posted at 10:48AM Mon, 03 April 2017 - #4301365

3D-Mobster posted at 12:56PM Mon, 03 April 2017 - #4301363

Without wanting to ruffle any feathers, with the recent changes at Smith Micro, I think it is a fairly solid bet that Poser 12 will not be around any time soon.

What news are you referring to, just curious?

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.

Not just the Poser team. The entire graphics division was let go in November and they're closing the west coast division building and moving operations to Portugal for lower costs in salary. That includes Poser, Moho, Stuffit, etc. Rafael Torres (who created the post on the SM forum) is the Project Manager over the entire Graphics division, not just poser, so they're needing to hire personnel for all those software products and get them up to speed, since the creators of both Moho and Poser aren't associated with SM are now in new positions elsewhere, I'm doubting much knowledge transfer took place.

Also none of this is due to anything dealing with Poser itself (before anyone turns this into a software war). The issue has always been SM corporate putting all their eggs in a mobile services basket years ago; unfortunately none of these services are necessary for smart phone users, which SM had bet against thinking they wouldn't take off. With keeping their mobile division afloat and only 2 customers paying for those services (like Sprint), the cuts they needed to make had to come from the graphics division, thus the layoffs occurred. So to see what's going on with Poser or any of the other graphics products, you really need to be paying attention to what's happening at corporate because that's going to determine what happens to the graphics division. However, the stock price for SM is under $1 again, so their priority now is preventing the company from getting delisted from NASDAQ again.

Thank you for the extra information, as a Poser user I only picked up up on that detail. As you have clearly laid out, it goes a lot wider than just Poser.

 

 

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.