Nevertrumper posted at 4:45AM Fri, 30 April 2021 - #4418033

the upgrade from Poser 11 to 12 is an expensive joke.

...honestly, that's what I am seeing when I look at new features, but if they've got the search function working good enough to actually find my content then it might just be worth it.

I use Poser mainly for comic book style toon renders(think Brian Haberlin)--though not exclusively.

I hardly use Superfly at all, in fact the way in which it(Superfly) approaches displacement maps makes it fairly useless in my workflow. If I'm doing a realistic render I need those displacement maps, and I don't want to use them on a surface so sub-divided that it slows my machine to a crawl--seriously if I need to subdivide the surface that much, I'll model it instead, and smooth shade it--so much simpler and more effective.

Before the release of 12 I saw a lot of talk about getting it up and ready for the new NVidia graphics cards, and that's cool, but if I could afford a $2000 graphics card, then I'm likely not going to be using Poser, and will opt for something a bit more robust.

What I'm mainly worried about is that the developers have lost sight of what the users actually want, and in doing so have shot themselves in the foot, and financially killed a good program by adding niche features to an upgrade that is literally a make or break step in the programs development, and that this might be the last version of the program we'll ever see, because if people aren't buying it then there's no reason to develop it, and I'm honestly having a very hard time justifying an upgrade at this point, and I don't think I'm alone here.