structure posted at 12:04PM Tue, 15 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 someone who used to work in software development, I sympathize with the need to push forward and embrace better technologies. But your analogy with Floppy Drives, ISA and AGP slots falls flat.

Those technologies were replaced by things that were clearly better (heck, my latest laptop doesn't even have a DVD or Blu-Ray drive because USB-based storage is so much better). Right now, there are no native Poser figures that are clearly better than the old V4/M4 figures.

Sorry, but LaFemme is nice, but she's not all that attractive and there is only a tiny number of poses and expressions available for her. I considered using her as a figure in a comic I'm working on, but had to dump her because I would have to create almost every pose and expression from scratch (rather than using the vast library of old content to jump-start my scenes). Ditto for Dawn and Dusk. They are nice – and they do have deeper libraries than LaFemm (after all, they are older) – but are they that much better than the old figures? Not really.

So yeah, until there are new figures that are clearly superior to the old ones, I'm going to still use them.

Personally, I won't miss the on/off switch for the figure;'s "naughty bits" because I have props and other tools to add them. Same for the height – I typically use morphs. I still may get the script to turn those features on, but that's just on the off-chance I ever want to use them.

Hope I don't come off as a grouch clinging to the past. I am excited about Poser, and more so than I have been in years. And I'm looking forward to finding the next great figure or feature in Poser. But until that comes along, you guys need to keep the old stuff up and working.

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