TalleyJC here... (mild mannered musician, and systems analyst by day) -"Animator X" by night...

I think Timoteo1's emphasis on "TRYING" is correct...

the slowness of P5 makes me want to take hostages and demand outrageous things like a monster truck filled with baked beans. Trying to use the mouse to do quick positional changes is still like a visit to the dentist.

And trust me I am not the mega-java-head screaming in front of the microwave "C'mon!! C'mon!!"

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I personally can't wait until we get a whole butt-load of patches for it because it does show so much promise...

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But I really hate having the paramter dial window hide all the time as well as having to switch to the dials tab from the properties tab continously. Granted there is tons more of bells and whistles but the interface would better be labled as Inyourface.... and then I get bitch-slapped often with the twilight zone freezes that leave holes pointing to my underlying desktop {like zoinks! scoob!... its like the whole app is swiss cheeze --- man!)

I also have to say that I am positive that "Firefly" is a inside joke at CL refering to its blinding speed. I'll also bet names like Zippy, Rocket and Super-Mega-Colosus were used.

I long for the day when p5 is as stable and comfortable as p4.

Certain things blow my mind. CL has to know that every person on the planet that has Poser has Victoria or Michael in some form or another.... why then, would Judy and Don be only marginally above Dork and Posette?

Give me a face room that allows the number of morphs on V2's face.

Before sending me hate-o-grams I am not trying to bash my beloved poser I am however, a little disappointed from all the hype to what was released.

The materials room I am sure has a great deal to offer but its really hard to tell from the manual. I think this forum will be the only place people can learn what half of this stuff will do but for many more, the functionality will be lost. These same people will have to sacrifice speed for advanced functions that will never get used.

Any way.... They did a great job, but I NEED the patches.

As far as a niche market I know you could sell a ton of these:How about this for an idea....

A set USB metal skeleton puppets that send pose data in real time. I've seen things that henson and other big cg shops use for this... I am sure that it could be produced for a home market. Think how easy it would be to have a hand that you could pose (better yet a glove to wear) that you used to pose your models hands and then step on a pedal to advance 1 frame. Same thing for a Human skeleton..... We as animators could quickly do better more natural body poses and then be able to concentrate our time on faces where we all know is how you breath life into these things.