shedofjoy opened this issue on Nov 06, 2017 ยท 173 posts
Penguinisto posted Mon, 20 November 2017 at 10:01 AM
Couple o' bits (spent last week in Chicago on business):
As far as using abandonware? Go for it - as long as it doesn't listen to or send out over a network, that is, and as long as the OS will run it. (Personally, this is why I'd dearly love to see any of these apps go Linux/GPL style, or at least do open source - that way, if the parent company dies, others can step in and maintain the thing. But that's just me.)
As far as where I'd like to see Poser go? I don't get any official vote here (I think Poser 7 was the last version I worked with), but...
I'd like to see it get refactored for speed and for footprint (disk and RAM). Make it smaller, faster, get rid of old cruft in the codebase, stop using that abomination framework from Adobe for the UI, etc. I bitched about this perennially back in the day, but it's worth lodging another shout towards those efforts.
overhaul the UI a bit, so it's possible for the user to make it friendly on smaller screens, for those of us whose lifestyle makes us laptop-bound. I ask because airlines would prolly get bitchy about wanting to haul two 24" OLED monitors and a Mac Pro as carry-on luggage, and I do not trust the baggage handlers to not demolish 'em in the cargo hold. (on the plus side, most hotel rooms do allow laptop connectivity to their big-screen TV's, though picture quality is always a question-mark, even in the pricier places.)
Being forced to use DSON and convert it all, just to use all my 10+ years of DS content, looks like madness. Just pay the boys in Draper a licensing fee so you can use the files natively. Failing that, make a damn conversion function to automate the process for the users. I don't say this out of selfish interest (though admittedly it does align with my wishes), but because if you want to steal customers back, you gotta make it easy for 'em to use what they already got.
Honest question asked out of ignorance - does Poser have auto-fit and (at least) collision detection for clothing? If so, good on 'em. If not, why not?
Most laptops have this awesome little trackpad and many have touchscreen that can behave as mini (or for the screens, maxi) Wacom tablets. I figure the accuracy of the typical Mac trackpad is about that of 2003-era dedicated tablets, truth be told. Might be worth exploring how to put that to use somehow - not a big priority, but a neat little gee-whiz thing.
You know? I wouldn't put down the "Make Art Button" crowd. Seriously... folks gotta start somewhere. Some never get past that stage, but enough of them eventually do, that it's worth courting them to an extent.