AcePyx posted at 10:04 AM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462024

Nevertrumper posted at 9:53 AM Thu, 13 April 2023 - #4462022

There has been a short period of time, where I actually thought, that SM is finally doing the right thing.

Introducing weight mapping, making the morph brush useful, reverse deformations on morph target creation and giving us more control over morphs with the dependencies editor.

It just feels like, they‘ve lost interest in Poser after the PP2014 release.

Absolutely correct. SM abandoned the program. When they bought it, it was the second most pirated software in the world after Photoshop according to their marketing guy. By the end, even the pirates didn't consider it worth copying.

But let's try to be positive and look to the future. Smith Micro's appalling treatment of the program bears no relationship to Bondware. I think that they genuinely have good intentions for the program, but it lost so much ground to Daz Studio and iClone, that they cannot invest the money it really needs until it starts to sell a lot more copies, but it won't sell more copies until it becomes a lot better...
In that context, I can appreciate the moves that they are making, and the speed that they are working, even though I desperately wish they would move faster.

They didn‘t even solve their low on money problem the smart way.

Instead of wasting money with half ready shaders and a ripped off render engine, they‘ could have come up with a solid Blender link and work on those things, that are directly important for an app, that deals with 3d figures. 

That is the reason for Reallusion‘s success. They have worked on their core segment.

(BTW: DAZ Studio is free and it includes a render engine, that costs about 300$, if you‘d buy it separately.

Poser costs 250$ and it includes a ripp off of a render engine that comes free with Blender.)

Am I really the only one here, who thinks, that Poser is milking his loyalists in an dishonest way?