Forum: Poser 13


Subject: Future of Poser

cappy3 opened this issue on Aug 21, 2024 ยท 87 posts


Afrodite-Ohki posted Mon, 23 September 2024 at 1:12 PM

... If I had a penny for every time I've seen ssgbryan say "a week's worth of office clothing" in these forums, I might be able to retire by now LOL. You're the only one, Bryan, sorry to say that. You can't really make it worth our working time alone. You don't speak with your wallet, we won't go out of our way to please you single-handedly specially when I don't see you buying much. This is work for me, my income is on the line.

The thing is, very few of us Poser vendors are left. We can't suppy a figure like V4 could, because in V4 times there were hundreds of vendors making stuff for her. We can't supply figures like DS Genesis, because there are thousands of vendors making stuff for that.


And why is it that only a few of us are left? Honestly, from my PoV there are a few reasons:

-A lot of us - specially tool creators - have passed away or retired

-Poserdom doesn't know how to bring new people in. The software doesn't make itself known, or desirable for modern audiences.

-It's very frustrating to make content for Poser. While the process is simpler, it doesn't automate anything for the end user, leaving vendors to have to hand-make each part of the process (like adding every single morph, making sure their mix doesn't create pokethrough, etc etc), and there are so many bugs through creation that you end up having to redo what you've made several times because something got corrupted or just weird at some point.

-Poser was stuck in limbo for many years, abandoned while other programs evolved and got better.

-Current Poser ownership IS doing what they can to make it better, and I myself have seen a few of my wishlist requests for new features be added in the past couple of years, but I don't think they have enough staff to keep up and try to fix everything in a timely manner.


What to do about that? I don't know, you tell me. I do what I can, which is making figures that are pretty out of the box and as easy to create content for as Poser can possibly allow (and anyone out there who's made conforming clothing for LF and for LF2 can tell you that it's easier for LF2 - but how many of those are left? Me plus one or two other vendors?), and even for those I try to make it so previous content can more easily be used. Other than that? I'm a single person, and I'm not a developer. Can't do any more than that.

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Feel free to call me Ohki!

Poser Pro 11, Poser 12 and Poser 13, Windows 10, Superfly junkie. My units are milimeters.

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