drafter69 posted at 2:35PM Mon, 06 November 2017 - #4317464

Just my opinion but if Smith Micro doesn't wake up soon and realize that they are falling father and father behind of the competition they will be out of business. Do not attack me for telling what I see as the truth. The competition is offering their programs for free. Then they are offering some really great characters. What is S.M. offering? Two of the dorkiest characters ever created. They seem to think that people will use V4 and M4 forever.

I think part of the problem is Poser's dependence on characters. If they add something truly new to the program there have to be new figures incorporating that feature, or it's as if the feature doesn't exist. Weight mapping, bullet physics... Those did nothing to improve existing figures. Yeah, you could weight paint Don if you wanted to, or you could set up bullet physics for Judy if you wanted to. But it would really have been nice to have some kind of way to transfer weights and physics across different figures. I'd have liked some kind of t-pose cage, one for males and one for females, that I could scale to any t-pose figure and then "project" weight and physics to my figure. The same thing could be done to transfer textures if they really wanted to (and if they weren't at the mercy of other peoples' rendering code).