Nevertrumper posted at 3:16 PM Sat, 20 January 2024 - #4480612

I skipped Poser 12 and 13 for their tiny upgrade values, after Poser 11 just p*ssed already me off for the same reason.
Maybe Poser 14 could count as a full upgrade from Poser Pro 2024.
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"Other smaller features and bug fixes"
Can anybody tell them, an upgrade is not for fixing bugs? That's what updates are for.

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"Rendo's Marketplace is 99,9% Genesis, but DAZ will very soon feel the repercussions, too." Very true. Poser once got run over by DAZ Studio, and now DAZ Studio itself is much likely to be run over by IClone and Character Creator. "Those, who are late, will be punished by life." Gorbatschov

Yep generally in software project management versions are set by marketing as new capabilities/changes in scope while interim releases are scoped by developers to fix/improve an existing capability, efficiency and stability based on QA testing and user feedback.    Its not set in stone, version features are the merchandisable component of the software and therefore specified by marketing.

I think the list of new capabilities since P11 is rather impressive, frankly its about as much as the competition has produced.  Much of the industry has been grappling with platform and business model transition, at least Bondware has not gone subscription or thrown the baby out with bathwater post acquisition as did much of the industry.   Even DS which is one of the few 3d applications that has not changed hands stagnated somewhat and only - what went from 4.5 to 4.9 with rather little substantive improvements.  

Meanwhile the Bondware Poser team added this sweeping list since the acquisition:

• Content automatic installation of all included content, including legacy content.

• New version of SuperFly render engine based on Blender's Cycles 1.12, new shadow catcher, background transparency and Adaptive Sampling.

• Nvidia Optix support

• Intel OIDN denoising system.

• Python 3 scripting.

• Material Management tab.

• Content type icons on library thumbnails.

• Post Render FX options for rendered images including: denoise, exposure, saturation, gamma, brightness, contrast, bloom, blur and pixelate.

• Animation create panel now to include Audio Track option and ability to save output to new subfolder.

• GPU rendering with your LAN render farm

• Poser startup panel scene and template launcher

• Walk Designer and Talk Designer updated for latest figure compatibility.

• HDRI environment rendering for SuperFly.

• HDRI environment support in shadow catcher including 360 spherical

• Morph and weight map copying enhancements.

• Integrated Poser/Renderosity Store purchase library

• Searchable HTML Help system & full PDF version of the manual