I always try to think ahead. So the questions arise. Here is how I'll most likely proceed: 1.) Uninstall Poser 4. Totally. 2.) Install Poser 5, and then see just how great the "standard goodies" are. 3.) Eventually I'll install only the best stuff I'd gathered for Poser 4. 4.) I don't intend to make any more Poser-related purchases till we've had a chance to see the new stuff that comes out to take advantage of Poser 5. I have an idea many fine artists have already been working on new items?! 5.) I won't be making any more Poser 4 tutorials, and won't feel qualified to make any Poser 5 tutorals probably for months to come, if I feel qualified at all. I'd be interested to know your thoughts or ideas of what you'll do when you get Poser 5.

1. Buy full version of P5 so I can transfer the EULA for P4 to my kids. 2. Buy 50lb bags of cat food and cat litter respectively and slit them open. Keep the cats occupied for a week or so. 3. Cook large amounts of heat-and-serve food in advance (lasagna, spaghetti, casseroles). Keep the kids occupied for a week or so. 4. Lock myself in the computer room and stay there until my eyeballs start melting. Hopefully that won't take more than week or so- LOL!

The first thing I'll do is flip through the manual. Am I dull or what?

Hmmm... Unfortunately I won't have time to play. Of course, I'll be trying to help P4 PBooosters sort out their libraries to fit Poser 5 if. I miss playing with Poser and making art anyway, as my time is all taken up with PBooost! I expect Poser 5 will use the same folder structure as Poser 4, with a few additions... (the screenshot of the libraries tab is unfortunately too small to read on the CL site, but there are 10 or 11 tabs instead of 8!!) and the ability to navigate sub-folders which may OR MAY NOT make the PBooost "banks" system redundant. I'll be going by requests from users on all of this... If you're all happy with the P5 library system I will not bother making PBooost understand the P5 library system. Of course... with the ultra cheap P4 coming soon P4 is far from dead and buried! Hell... many people still use P3?!? Anyway... it would be nice to start on my next baby... Secret!!!!! Hush-Hush!!! Can't say!!!!! Pretty darn handy, though!!!!! H:)

Manual? What's that then? :P I never read manuals except to find the stuff they never put in them. It's like the help in XP, I always end up at the page where they tell you consult your local sysadmin. I was especially amused after buying the MS press book on XP for admins when it told me that the answer to my question was out of scope of the book, perhaps I should consult a professional. :) Jaundiced? Me? Never... :) later jb

1 call work, say I have the highly contagous P5 fever. 2 are M.R.E.'s realy tht bad? well maybee Ill have to splurge for one of those mini friges, sorry honey I need to put the microwave by the computer for a few days. or maybee not I heard you can live on stout indefinately. 3 plumming is definately a problem, Oh hell! I might as well move the computer into the bathroom now. (make note to myself pick up longer ethernet cord) 4 I picture myself just looking at the pristine box hermeticly seald in shrinkwrap for a while but know I won't have the willpower for that, Ill have to rip it open and slip that disk into the F drive. 5 after that it's all up to CL either I will be transported to heaven or hell depending on how good their inital programming realy is. ;)

Manual - I laways read the 'What's New' section, then install. The LAST thing I'll do is unistall Poser 4 - I'm a firm believer in having something that works, as a backup. I'll have both, parallel on different harddisks. I'll copy over the whole content of my runtime folder to the new P5 installation, all 14 gig of it. Poser4 has it's own private 63 GB partition, I'll need another one the same real soon! And then - I'll re-render all my old stuff, and go 'OOOOOOOOOHHHH' as I watch the the lights and the reflections and everything blow me away!! And then - I'll not sleep for a long, long time....... play, play, play! Praxis - yeah, I have that problem all the time - it's always the one bit that didn't make it into print is what you need. Hope there is an advanced manual in the works - the 'Poser 3 Advanced Techniques Guide' is getting a bit long in the tooth. I mean, a manual that does the hierarchy editor, the joints, conforming, cr2 files, all the fun stuff! :] FishNose

1. Laugh & cry at the same time 2. kiss the box 3. Install Poser5 4. work out how to transfer all the poser4 stuff over 5. uninstall poser4 6. play with everything 7. read the manual 8. be extra nice to my wife & kids cause they won't see me for at least a week Rob

actually now I think about it, maybe should keep poser4 installed so I can refresh myself when newbies ask questions about poser4. We will be the pioneers of a new frontier my friends :) Rob

Give up sleeping, I guess sigh

I'm so excited. New hard drive for me--mainly for P5 but probably also some data files and images.... THEN...wait by the door for the FEdEx delivery....run like hell to the computer, kissing the wife goodby on the fly....sandwiches and chips in hand, along wqith some Coke... Then install...and PLAY PLAY PLAY...hopefuly rendering isn't too painfully slow....as long as its close to P4 I'll feel pretty good...maybe I need 2 systems..one for rendering, one for design...YES that's the solution... OH SHIT...I got fired....guess they didn't appreciate me not showing up for work for 2 weeks :(

By the time I can afford to upgrade from my prehistoric P-II to a better computer that will run it, and then actually get P5, I'll probably be looking wistfully at all the art being made by people using P9 and Bryce 10.

Play with new Posette's breast morphs....

Buy a DVD burner the day before it arrives. Call work and say I'm sick. Yank the phone out of the wall. Disconnect the door bell. Install. Stare at it stupidly, unsure of what to try first. Start clicking on things randomly. Swear. Read a few pages of the manual. Toss manual aside. Click more buttons randomly. Swear more. Repeat last 5 steps quite often while munching away.

1. Read the entire manual, cover to cover 2) Load up some old animation files and try them out with the new renderer 3) Time the renders with a stopwatch, compare with old records 4) Experiment to see how far I can push this technology before it breaks 5) Break Poser 6) Reassemble the pieces and dream up new workarounds

Not sleep or leave the computer room other than to bathe or make food (gotta love that render button!)

Probably be served divorce papers.