Dale B posted at 12:55PM Thu, 02 January 2020 - #4375281

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.

I'm one of those weirdos that only bothers with stills. I think I did a simple walk-cycle animation once, just to have a neat screensaver... otherwise I don't and have never really done anything with animation. This is kind of why Poser is something I can tinker with and use, and the workflow isn't as big of a concern with me, as long as export and import is useable.

But with that outta the way, I will say that even from the limited strictly-consumer POV I enjoy these days, Bondware had better be careful as to how long that waiting happens... they should get in there, take their time, and overhaul the entire thing (I've said as much numerous times before), but, well, tick-tock, campers...

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.

...and bump the Python version that comes with it to at least 3.x...

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.

eep - dude, that's why I keep whole backups on both removable and network disks (well, that and I have multiple 'runtimes', both Poser and DS-oriented.)