Penguinisto posted at 11:37AM Thu, 02 January 2020 - #4375191

Dale B posted at 5:21PM Wed, 01 January 2020 - #4375160

Hey Peng, Long time no see! Of course I remember Dina; her and Natalia are near the top of my cattle call list just for the Non Vickie looks alone. Add the character morphing of some of the past masters and they work very well. I've probably got most of those figures, although I haven't mined ShareCG for awhile. Had a spate of surgeries for varying health concerns (most having to do with 35 years, 8 hours a day 6 days a week on a concrete sales floor), and horked CG box, so just now getting things straightened out again.

I know the feeling... I'm sitting here with a hernia patch freshly installed and a 3-year-old stent sitting in my chest keeping the artery in front of my heart open. This getting old crap sucks.

Amen to that. Two stents in the main coronary for me, and just came off the blood thinner this past Sept. Add an artificial right knee, a left knee on life support, partially paralyzed left (dominant) hand due to getting the ulnar nerve crushed supporting myself as the knees gave out, and radical prostatectomy and all the lymph nodes taken out of the pelvic floor. And yes, this getting not young crap is indeed the very definition of suckiness.

Apologies for the delay, but the missus was making a fresh batch of kimchi and unless I pitch in and help when she needs a hand, I don't get none of it, so...

An ecosystem is an interactive thing that grows and evolves. No one has the brainpower or the dinero to create such a thing and plop it in front of the world.

True - but you gotta kickstart one somehow... doubly so if you're about to change the entire paradigm from content-on-consignment to master-of-your-own-application...

Agreed on that, and hopefully they will bite the bullet and put a team together for just that purpose.

The P4 compatible market is dying, literally. Solidifying a new base program is a good first step to bringing a new paradigm into play. I just hope they remember that one of Poser' greatest strengths was it interoperability with other programs. Keep that and enhance things with a more capable figure set (and the full family; don't forget the kids, infants and oldsters), they have a good shot. DAZ has gone one way, and thats fine. They need to forge their own path.

Yep. They have a little bit of runway left to figure out where they're going to go, but not a whole lot... so I hope they do figure out what path they're going to make.

The hard part is waiting. If you look at what Poser has, it does have most of the goodies for the still market in place already, which means if they intend to court that market alone, most of the $$ will be going into ads and 'Try us, you'll like us!' types of promotion. There is more than enough stuff out there to hold up Poser as a good animation tool (the first three seasons of RWBY being one example. Yes, it improved a lot when they went fully to Maya in S4, but that doesn't take the shine of what the less complex program did with some python support), but they need to overhaul the UI and add or expose some missing features. Once I get my bloody runtime reassembled (I salvaged most of it, but bloody Win 10 reassigned the texture files into win images and basically destroyed them in the borked update, so 30+ gigs to install and unzip once again) I'll get to play around with the changes they've already made and see how they work and how many issues they might correct.