ader posted at 11:27AM Tue, 01 June 2021 - #4420266

Thanks CobraBlade, makes me look even more forward to getting a new iMac or Mini after WWDC. I didn't get an M1 machine as I thought the even faster chips would be out before now - so am chomping at the bit a little - but brushing up on my ZBrush for now.

I did a bit of testing on my old intel iMac and yes it was good in some ways, and not so good in other ways - multiple monitor support was particularly bad for me - I submitted a bug report but don't think there's been a new version released yet.

One of the main bad things was the side-effects of Python3, like not being able to use EZSkin for older content, but it looks like the new SkinEdit product might have solved that one (I have yet to buy and test it but intend to). I thought the de-noiser was great.

Personally I won't be interested in gpu rendering until Poser supports it via Metal on Macs. I would like it if we could get distributed bucket rendering in Poser though like Cinema4D has - so I could have multiple Macs rendering a single image.

I won't go back to windows of any flavour, ever. Life is too short for that lol.

If you have a running version of Poser11, don't hesitate to create "EZSkinned" material setups, to be shared with Poser12 via a common runtime library. The key is to lowered the value for the specularity.

Example of an "EZKinned" Vic4, material set on Poser11, rendered using Poser12 and an HDRi

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