EClark1894 posted at 6:25AM Thu, 08 August 2019 - #4358932

I fully admit that I helped contribute to this off topic debate. In fact, I'll go further and say that I started it, but before we move on to another page, can we PLEASE get back to what features you'd like to see or added to Poser? I will add one caveat, though, please no more Poser cloning. If your feature exists in another program, maybe you can add it to your toolbox work flow. This isn't meant to be a feature comparison list.

Fair enough - here's the two that I've mentioned, summarized:

1. Get the codebase stable and overhauled. No better time to do it. Top priority - f*$k everything and everyone else's demands until you get this done.

2. Expose, fully document, and open up as much of an API as you possibly can (this also means bringing Python up to something made in this century, please.) Doing this lets plugin writers (hey vendors - that means you!) and customers do three gigantic things that no dev team can possibly do:

• expand Poser in ways that the market anticipates, and not according to some laundry list coughed up by MBAs.
• provides a lot of additional heavy-lifting for adding features, and
• provides indisputable real-world evidence-based guidance for future development (the evidence being sales numbers.) This also means that Rendo can buy the best plugins outright and incorporate them into future versions, which in turn encourages more third-party development.

Fair enough?