Good news!

AGAIN, I second this motion.

Thank you for telling me about the ignore user button. ;-)

Never noticed it was there before.

Thank you, EClark1894.

I second the motion for a Gimp Forum.

Thank you, very much.

Bless your heart, MLC!

Free seminar this Sunday...

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Absolutely!

Metacreations originally intended for Poser and Carrara (RayDream Studio) to be companion programs.

I have never really forgiven Kai Krause for selling them all off -- but I absolutely loved his "artist-logical" interface designs.

And yes, Steve, Lightwave has always been more hacker-friendly than artist-friendly -- which is why I still prefer Carrara too.

And, if one is looking for Carrara tutorials, nothing beats Phil Wilkes' Infinite Skills discs. And I have never found anything on Lightware that even comes close.

I love CARRARA, but Daz is indeed a somewhat strange company.

Seems more to me that they bought the program to keep it from the hands of others and to bury it.

Thanks, Penguinisto!

What follows is just my opinion and is what works for me.

I have DS but am not a fan of its interface. Have been a happy Poser user since v4 in 1999 and added the Pro-Pack not long after that. Stayed there until I upgraded my workstation in 2008 and then bought Poser 7.

Once Poser was in Smith-Micro's hands, I purposely stayed one version behind since each new edition seemed to be a beta on first appearance. Never felt a need to have the latest unless there was a feature I just had to have.

But when 11 came out, I was leery because of SM's having let the Poser development team go.

In a different thread a few weeks back, someone stated that DAZ has the best content. I disagree. The best overall content is/was found at Rendo, Hivewire, and (once upon a time) at RuntimeDNA (which, yes, I know was absorbed by DAZ). I do agree that DAZ has the best human figures. But, let's face it, their business strategy seems to really be to just make slight improvements on those figures and then resell them again & again to their customers.

Again, this is just my opinion, but if I had to chose between trusting Smith-Mirco or DAZ, I would still have chosen SM, warts & all. They always did satisfactory follow-through with me whenever I had an issue or question--though I admit it sometimes took a day or a few.

On the other hand, if you want to talk about letting a program truly rot, take a good look at DAZ' treatment of CARRARA and HEXAGON. I can't help but believe that the purpose of DAZ' acquisition of those splendid programs seemed mainly to be to take them off the market so no one else (like SM) could get their mitts on them. I wish I was wrong about that--but actions speak louder than words now, don't they?

Let's not forget that DAZ started as an offshoot of Zygote to exclusively service the Poser market in the first place.

I'm confident that Bondware will take Poser to new heights. There will be bumps along the road, for sure--but it will be worth it in the end.

Agree with you, EClark1894. Couldn't help but wonder if Mr Lawsuit was some kind of planted troll, BTW.

I, for one, am glad that Poser is now in the hands of Bondware -- a company that obviously and genuinely cares about Poser and its customers.

These transitional bugs are to be expected and, frankly, I'm not so sure that SM left things in the best of shape for Bondware to absorb.

For now, I am contentedly working with PP 2014 (the non-game dev edition) and will stay there until Rendo's own Poser version appears and is debugged. But I am sincerely looking forward to it.

Sincerely appreciate the articles and resources you've been posting.

Thank you!

For now, you may contact Rendo for POSER support at... store@renderosity.com .

I'm sure an "official" address will pop up soon.

Royfitz,

What follows is just my opinion...

If a model says Poser 7 and up, it usually does so for a reason. However, I believe that the legacy content you presently own will still be usable in the newer versions.

A decade back, I jumped from version 4 (with ProPack) to version 7, and I have upgraded since -- HOWEVER, my personal preference has been to usually stay one version behind to avoid "Beta Bugs" (unless there's a feature in the new version that I must have -- but, so far, that hasn't ever happened to me). I'm using Poser Pro 2012 and 2014 right now.

Now that Renderosity has taken-over Poser, I have faith that those chronic issues will be straightened out -- and I'm looking forward to upgrading to their newest version whenever it's ready.

Upgrading to version 11 from version 5 could be a real jump. You might consider looking for previous disk versions, like Poser 8 or 9 (check on Amazon or eBay), that would run on your current OS.

The best tutorials, IMO, to get you back up to speed are Steve Purbrick's Poser 8/PP2010 Tutorial Disks from Infinite Skills and Larry Mitchell's Poser 7 Tutorial Disks from Lynda. They are out there in some form on the web.

-- Dave .