Rhia474 posted at 6:48PM Thu, 03 October 2019 - #4365755

As I mentioned before, manually installing allows you to move your runtimes wherever you want. Yes, Poser treats the Public Documents as a default bit you can get your unzipped runtime files wherever you want to. Processes are only as annoying as you let them to be.

Or as simple as the programmers make them. They left out an option out of the file installer that they have a template for- because they put it in the program installer. Sure, no single instance of having an unnecessarily kludgy process is going to kill me, but when there are a lot of them that impact many users that could be reduced or eliminated by just a little bit of effort by the much smaller number of people on the dev team, that's a bad business practice. Bondware bought a pretty klunky program, or cluster of somewhat integrated programs and contents, and it was what it was at that moment. But they have forced us to move from what they, and we, bought, to something they have changed, and nobody but Bondware is responsible for how it works, because they could have let us use what we had indefinitely while they were getting their act together. Smith Micro certainly didn't write their installer packages, or keep them from posting change logs on the download page, etc. Any 3D program has a lot of front-end learning, preparation and organization before it can be effectively used. Poser has a LOT of front end, for what it does, because of its bizarre development history. Bondware, so far, has added significantly to this for me. This is an issue that doesn't have as much impact for long term users, but it is making it difficult for a new user to get up and running- despite the fact that I have massively scaled back my expectations of the role Poser should play in my workflow. Having put time and money into this software, neither of which can be recovered, I don't want to just pitch a fit and stomp out of the room, but each additional increment of unnecessary hassle and delay, and each discovery of another structural limitation, makes me reconsider my decision to use Poser at all. At this point, I wouldn't recommend the program to anyone, until Bondware sorts things out to a much greater degree- assuming they do. There appear to be over 2k files in the Support Files package. Manually installing them seems like it might be a chore.