patorak3d posted at 6:38PM Sun, 18 June 2017 - #4307814

Hopefully this thread won't turn into a flame war and get locked, because this is something that the Poser community needs to talk about.

That would be my hope too. In fairness I was surprised how long the last thread on this subject ran and but once it reaches the 'Mine is bigger than yours' or 'I never said that - yes you did - no I didn't' realm the value is lost.

There are some valid points to be made, for instance elsewhere it is stated that Dawn will not work in Poser, well clearly no one told my version of dawn that is the case as it had been working in my 2014 version of Poser for a couple of years now. Not only that but most of the time she is wearing V4 clothes so my investment is not lost. I did not challenge that statement in that forum because, quite frankly, I felt no one wanted to listen and it would just have turned into another locked thread.

I couldn't agree more that lack of vendor support does not make Poser obsolete and I also feel the vast number of Poser users could learn so much more about it that would enrich their art. For that to happen there has to be a place where there can be an open and honest discussion of what is available at this point in time. This particularly true when recent changes at SM suggest it might be some time before Poser gains any new capability.

The problem has always been that, with one notable exception, when Poser is discussed in forums the subject quickly turns to how much bigger and better DS is and the thread gets locked. Conspiracy Theorist will see this as the whole reason Poser is struggling for vendor support. My view........really could not comment, far to busy using figures to create renders in Poser that some insist in not possible and please me far more then V4 ever did.

 

 

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.