raven posted at 4:02AM Sat, 05 October 2019 - #4365821

structure posted at 1:52PM Fri, 04 October 2019 - #4365524

The features are deprecated, We are at a stage in posers life where we must stop worrying about supporting 20 year old ( or close enough ) technologies and figures and look to the future, part of the reason that poser has struggled in recent years is because there has been a reluctance to move forward so that the community can retain their old content.

while I can see that you might want to keep your old content working, it is not good for any company to be held back by old tech.( floppy drives, ISA AGP slots anyone? ) - how much better could Superfly have been if instead of making it compatible with old materials, a complete iteration of the cycles render engine or Iray or even Luxrender had been implemented?

In order to keep old content working, keep an old version of poser, but let us now embrace a push towards the future, new technologies, and a better poser!

As HHKan99 mentions, many were unable to keep an old copy of Poser as 2014GameDev, P11.1 and PPro11.1 were relinquished by the update/upgrade, and this was despite Uli Klump saying there was a contingency in place if Poser ever switched owners. Wouldn't this contingency plan have been a more sensible option so that Bondware could then concentrate instead on a new Poser that doesn't have ties to past versions instead of a bridge release.

In fact, now the bridge version has been released, maybe Bondware should just stop development on this version of Poser and start afresh at version 12 and make a kick-ass Poser that makes 11.2 obsolete. As you say, let's concentrate on 'the future, new technologies, and a better poser!'

I realise I may sound offish, but that's not my intention.

I agree with a lot of what you have said and I hated the 'phone home' licensing ever since it was sneakily with Game Dev. I did not believe the promises about plans for possible future ownership made by SM when they were found out either. My only point would be is that SM are the ones that should take the flack, not that they are bothered, then or now, not Bondware.

 

 

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.