ssgbryan posted at 11:53AM Thu, 22 June 2017 - #4308183

There is a difference between the health of Poser and the Poser vendors.

Vendors made the decision not to support modern figures.

'Rosity made the decision to not enforce their own standards for selling Poser content (content must have material mc6s, for instance).

Demanding that content be able to run on ancient versions of Poser, when both Windows and OSX are dropping support for 32-bit programs isn't the smartest business decision.

I factor in how much work I need to do to bring a Poser product into the 21st Century before I buy. When a vendor tells me they don't have time to learn the features of Poser 9 when they are making a product for Dawn, they shouldn't expect my money.

Vendors intransigence is why we have advanced features like the fitting room, Poser add-ons like HCS, and stand alone products like Texture Transformer.

Every one of them lessens the value vendors in the Poser ecosystem. All of them were made because vendors don't want to leave their comfort zone.

At some point, vendors (and 'Rosity) need to accept the fact that it isn't October 2007 anymore.

I can't personally vouch for some of the statements you have made, which I not to say that they are wrong, more likely that you are better informed than me. I do agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment behind your statement though.

 

 

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.