Boni posted at 1:01 PM Sun, 4 February 2024 - #4481243

I'm a Poser loyalist. Always have been.  May I make a radical suggestion? I know there are challenges to creating for Poser ... but we have some great creators who do just that. Why not concentrate on what we love.  Making images from Poser.  Just doing what we do.  No comparing to other programs or content.  But keep with Poser.  I have over 1.5 Terabytes of resources and content for Poser to work from ... dating back to Poser 3.  It's about creating what Poser can do.  The other program seems to be more about buy, buy, buy to make whatever is trending for them.  I don't think Poser users are that way.  We just get ideas and render that idea in our favorite program. 

I can certainly relate to that idea, I have been using Poser for 20 years now and use it to render on an almost daily basis.  In the early years I spent vast sums of money each month on more Poser content, these days I spend a lot less but the amount I am prepared to pay for individual items of content has gone up.  There are couple of Poser creators that provide some high quality Poser content and I tend to buy anything they produce.  I have even purchased some high end content in Blender format and converted that to Poser.  For all that it is my drive to try and improve the quality of my renders and understand Poser better that drives me on.  For me the ability to take an idea I have in my head and communicate that to others with the limited skills I have is what gives me the real buzz.  It is that buzz that keeps me using Poser and long may it continue.

An example of a purchase from outside the normal Poser market for something a little different that can be converted to render in Poser.

 

 

I use Poser 13 on Windows 11 - For Scene set up I use a Geekcom A5 -  Ryzen 9 5900HX, with 64 gig ram and 3 TB  storage, mini PC with final rendering done on normal sized desktop using an AMD Ryzen Threadipper 1950X CPU, Corsair Hydro H100i CPU cooler, 3XS EVGA GTX 1080i SC with 11g Ram, 4 X 16gig Corsair DDR4 Ram and a Corsair RM 100 PSU .   The desktop is in a remote location with rendering done via Queue Manager which gives me a clearer desktop and quieter computer room.