martial posted at 9:33 AM Sat, 16 March 2024 - #4482573

I have tried 3 times to install the last update of Poser 13 and got this error message during the install bar:

select action
Errorcreating registry key
HKEY_Classes Root\.crz
RegCreateKeyEx failed code 5
acces refusé

What can i do gor it ?

Thanks

I have been getting the same message when doing updates going back some time.  I take the option to ignore and continue and I have had no problems so far. 

Corel have produced an AI add on, Called Vision FX on to PaintshopPro and Painter or can be used as a standalone.  It looks quite powerful and I did watch a few tutorials showing it was fairly easy to use, problem was I really could not see where I would use it.  My credit card stayed in my pocket and it is not often I can say that.

randym77 posted at 11:28 PM Thu, 8 February 2024 - #4481377

I dunno, I think the company has looked at the big picture. It often hasn't been one that aligns with us Renderosity users, and it hasn't been too successful, but I think they are looking. The execution has been questionable.

eFrontier did seem more attuned to the hobbyist users. They created Content Paradise, and content that had appeal to hobbyists, like the Winter Queen and Miki. I really liked the idea of the G2 figures, with shared bodies but different heads. Perhaps because they were based in Japan, they understood that corporate users, at least, wanted more diversity. When I see Poser renders "in the wild" these days,  it's usually the G2 figures.

Smith Micro seemed not that interested in Poser. Bondware clearly wants to tie Poser to their store, which is understandable. It appears that Poser still has corporate users, since they've set up a separate store with content that won't get you spoken to by HR.

I think the third issue might be the biggest. There's such a huge catalog of stuff for M4 and V4 that is often for sale for a couple of bucks, even a few cents. I think a lot of customers are used to Poser stuff being ridiculously cheap. Plus, many of us have been collecting stuff for those figures for going on 20 years, and it's hard to justify buying pricier content for new figures that are different, but not necessarily more useful than the old ones.

I guess what would most encourage me to spend more on Poser stuff is reassurance that a new figure will be supported, well into the future. There's still not a lot of stuff for LF and LH, and now we have LF2. (They have tried to make LF2 backward compatible, to a point, and I appreciate that).

Hivewire announcing Dawn 2 five years ago probably killed a lot of the interest in the original Dawn. It's been years now, since Dawn 2 was "coming soon."

The third point is the issue for me,  I have been using Dawn SE for a number of years now and I have been more than happy doing so plus I can find enough content to spend my hobby budget most months.  Her male counterpart is sadly M4, I would love to be able to use Dusk but there certainly is not the content around to make the figure viable for me.  I am not expecting the Dusk content to match M4, that would be impossible in the short to medium term, but the content that is available makes Dusk a non starter for me.

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.

Queue manager allows you to send a render to a second machine so that can work on it which frees Poser up for you to continue using it while the render in completed on the other machine.  It is saved back to the original machine when finished.

For example I have a machine few years old but it is quiet powerful and, these days, a little noisy.  I now run a small Mini PC that I use to create the scene but the render is done by the old powerful machine that now lives in the garage.  That keeps my work room, which is an upstirs bedroom I commandeered,  clear and quiet and it also allows me to work on a new scene while the render is being processed in the garage.

Rhia474 posted at 6:55 PM Tue, 30 January 2024 - #4480924

Sweet, glad my memory still works!

I was just surprised that anyone took note of my aim at the time and still remembered.

So, another attempt, this time trying to preserve the maturity of the character but trying to show a make up suitable for a night out.

 

Rhia474 posted at 4:45 PM Tue, 30 January 2024 - #4480914

I agree with RedPhantom-- the character looks airbrushed. If that's what you were after, great, but I suspect you made that toon more mature looking on purpose originally from what I remember.

Your memory is correct in that my aim from the start, and still is, to have a character that did not conform to the Poser norm.  For a start she is only a relative five foot nothing, not obvious here and only shows up in scenes.  The other break from the norm was a more mature character and I have actually tried to subtly age the character further over the years I have been using the figure.   

My only aim when I set out was to see what PortraitPro 24 was capable of so the new look is just an example and not something I would use going forward, however, as a vast majority of my renders are sci-fi based, I can see me using the ability to change eye colour and other changes available.  I also want to see if I could age a face which I suspect is going to be more difficult as any program of this type has an aim to do the opposite.

RedPhantom posted at 4:36 PM Tue, 30 January 2024 - #4480912

She loses much of her mature look.

I think almost all of that is due to the smoothing of the skin which removes many of the wrinkles.

So I dipped my toe in the water by using a program call PortraitPro 24, which is a specialised image manipulation program.  The changes are made using a series of sliders but I guess there is some AI going on here. 

This is my first attempt after playing for less than an hour. 

I love working with Poser 13 and I now have Poser 13.2 which is very different from the versions of Poser I have used in the past.  About 5 years ago I had a windfall and used some of the cash to build my ideal Poser machine but even with that renders could take three to fours hours to complete.  These days few of my renders go as far as an hour and that is using a mini-PC that cost a tenth of the price of my bespoke unit.  Not only that but the quality of the renders out strips any of the renders I was doing on my expensive custom built machine.

To my mind Bondware have done a remarkable job of improving what SM left them and I shudder to think what Poser would look like now if SM had remained in charge.  I can't wait to see what this new team can come up with when they have the freedom of delving a lot deeper to build a new version of Poser rather than an update.

CobraBlade posted at 7:41 PM Sun, 21 January 2024 - #4480656

dreamcutter posted at 6:08 PM Sun, 21 January 2024 - #4480653

Who knows how long DAZ can support development without charging for Studio or overcharging for content, skimpware can only take you so far.

I don’t think you’ll have to worry about them charging for Studio since they already tried that. DAZ Studio 3 Advanced was their paid version that they locked features like 64-Bit support behind. Was a flop and it’s all free since then. That’s how DAZ burnt me, that much needed 64-Bit was coming soon for the Mac version and they never released it. So don’t know what the heck I paid for in the end.

I think it is understandable that people are generally reluctant to pay for something that was free no matter how many new bells as whistles are added.  We have a prime example here in the UK, some years ago the furniture industry started to offer sofas and chairs for a really low price, the idea caught on and now most manufacturers have to build down to a price to get any sort of market share.   Low prices have now become the accepted norm.

qaz posted at 11:42 AM Wed, 17 January 2024 - #4480467

But where does the art begin ? I go to a great deal of trouble to create personality morphs, but I didn't create the figure, just manipulated what the computer generated. The great thing about this software is it doesn't invent a scene based on some text input. You invent the scene in Poser. In the same way a photographer  produces art by framing a shot and choosing the right light conditions, we are doing the same in Poser. All this is doing is taking what you have created and enhancing it a bit.

This is a scene I created in Poser  a few years back

Now I played around a bit. Double enhanced, and a bit of photoshop. The rays from the wand came from the AI influence.

Again impressive and it may be nit picking but she is now no longer holding the wand as before and the thumb seems to be doing contortions not possible by your average human.

They are certainly impressive although I do wonder if they have a sort of look about them, I would need to see a lot more examples before I could make up my mind.  I am not sure I would use it anyway but if it began to generate a look that said AI then it would be a certain no no for me.

I guess DAZ studio could be run along side Poser, I know some user do use both, I guess it does depend on just how desperate there is a need to use Daz Genesis Characters.  

It really is a personal choice but, good as the Genesis figures are, I have yet to see anything that is that special that I am prepared to move away from Poser.