Attached Link: Reiss Studio, home of Professional Poser plug-ins

Hi guys :) first off, someone posted that they were scared based on the maya plugin price. I wanted to chime in and say we've had to price the maya plugin a little higher because it's a smaller market. The other plugins will *not* cost that much. And Lightwave! max and maya are first on the hit list, and Lightwave is coming right after. Sorry it wasn't in the actual press release, but that's what we meant by "just the beginning" also if anyone has any issues with the current plugins which they would really like addressed, send e-mail to wishlist@reiss-studio.com and let us know! we can't guarantee that we can get all of them, but we're going to try :) (I think I saw ironbear mention viz somewhere around here?) cheers! -Josh

ok, I held back the emotions until everyone else jumped in and I started reading the last few posts. Brian, anthony, it was great working with you guys in part in the poser environment, and Cooper and Karen... I think you guys alredy know what your friendship means to me. best in continued efforts to everyone. -Josh

oooooooh, hehe I guess my whole business is "plugging"! ach, what-a-pun :)

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, home of BodyStudio, the Maya Poser plug-in. Now on Mac, and Windows

Yes! It works just like the Lightwave/Cinema 4D plugins, with a few notable exeptions. --- OSX native Built with new poser carbon libraries, you can host your poser files in maya without using classic mode. --- Much Improved texture support Virtually all Poser 4 texture parameters are supported. Even transparencies are set up automatically, and Transparency Min/Max/Expo is translated into native Maya shaders. --- Much imporved geometry support We treat geometries that don't import like bugs. Even with 3rd party meshes. As a result this plugin is the stablest importer of Poser data into 3rd party programs to date. --- additional features like automatic reload from inside Maya, and more... like with the other plugins, you set up your scene in Poser, and then import the poser scene for playback in Maya. It also works with the latest version. Maya 4.5. I'll post the full press release on monday cheers! -Josh -- Reiss Studio, home of BodyStudio, the Maya Poser plug-in. Now on Macintosh too!

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, home of the Maya Poser plugin. Now for Mac and Win!

"Now that is good news! I'm on my way to check it out. Maybe there will be a use for Poser 4 again after all!" Thanks Chris! hope you like it. we've gotten great feedback so far. I actually use this stuff, so hopefully it comes through in the product. "So since we are at it, perhaps you have a financial relationship with DAZ also? ; )" har, yeah Dan did send me that sale, huh? he's a nice guy. "Hiya Josh! Thanks for the pushback. ; )" Hehe, no prob! sometimes I hear things behind the scenes so I try to give the feedback that they can't always say officially (like the fact that it is mac compliant at the core...) "Nah... he's got a financial relationship with CuriousLabs. ;]" Exactly! I make no hides about the fact that we work with curious labs with the official SDK just like Vue, and WorldBuilder, and create the official maya plugin for poser. (it's pretty clear from the link to my site), and my company name is the name of this account. Besides I wouldn't want to give Ironbear yet another thing to grumble about. He's easily upset about so much already! :) cheers, -Josh

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, home of BodyStudio, the Maya Poser plug-in. Now on Mac, and Windows

"WHAT????Does this mean Cinema 4d/LW/Max export is coming to P5??? " Yes. And possibly Maya too. ;-) -- Reiss Studio, home of BodyStudio, the Maya Poser plug-in. Now on Macintosh too!

Attached Link: Reiss Studio, home of BodyStudio, the Maya Poser plugin. Now on Mac and Win!

Hi Christopher! (Quoll) You know that I like and respect you (in fact I sold you your copy of Maya) but I'd love to see you let people know that you have a financial relationship with DAZ before posting anti-Curious Labs opinions online! and also if you're going to promote features of DAZ's upcoming program over CL's current program. Carolly is right. The code for poser 5 contains more Mac libraries at its core, and was originally a port to windows, not the other way around. If not for Apple's switch to OS X, and curious's need to upgrade the internal apple libraries, we would have seen an OSX version much sooner. "I also just dont take any company seriously who doesn't commit to a launch date and stick to it." Neither CL or DAZ have a release date for their product announced, and I respect both of them! They also might have an internal release date which is not public. cheers! -Josh PS. For those interested in the Macintosh, we just released BodyStudio (the Maya Poser plugin... for Macintosh!)

?? what memory problems are there still? is it just that the new renderer takes more mem? I'd expect that from a raytracer... cheers, -Josh

yup, they've completely done away with it :)

"Err, no offense, but if my credit card got hit with $3,500+ in erroneous credit card charges, you can be sure that I would call American Express, and that they in turn would force you to spend as much time as necessary to repair the problem." heya, the point was that her credit card didn't get charged, or overcharged, and nothing was erroneous. she submitted the transaction 10 times herself, and had the funds held temporarily through the bank for each submission. it's how credit cards work. these authorizations drop off after a few days when the transactions don't get processed. I'm glad CL took the extra time and fixed the problem and helped out the customer who had submitted 10 transactions. see the follow up post: http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?ForumID=12356&Form.ShowMessage=1009287&Reply=1009302#2

"Due to errors in THEIR authorization method I was billed for 10 orders of Poser 5 and the bank froze my credit card" it sounds like you submitted the transaction 10 times? also, you haven't been billed. the funds were just held for each transaction which you submitted. these authorizations usually drop off in 3-4 days. since this happened monday, they should be dropping off starting today. "they now want me to pay $55.00 for shipping to get Poser 5 here for xmas." where are you located? on their site overnight shipping is only $30... "guilty of credit card fraud" for what? she hasn't been billed. she hasn't even been charged yet. there are just authorizations on her account for transactions which she submitted.

max is only a small portion of Discreet. Discreet was huge before max, making half a million per unit with just the "flame", now inferno, and combustion on the low end. which is how they brought max. I couldn't comment (looking at the whole company) if only one portion (max) is profitable or not based on the whole figures. but it's some interesting figures!

"Yes, but is the elasticity of demand REALLY what these prices seem to be claiming? " so far... yes! I've seen what's offered from 3D programs at the $500-$800 level and I can't use them for the level of jobs which we use Maya on (or other people find they use max/lightwave on) If Maya/Max were to be available on the sub-$800 priced range, then they would only be able to support a limited set of features in the current market. In this case professionals would have to switch to the software companies which were charging more, and maintaining the higher level of support/features. So I guess this means that the demand is there! and of course the price will drop as the market continues to get larger, but they probably couldn't drop it much more right now. cheers! -Josh (and if someone has a plan to get water to the moon for $2k, they should help out nasa... now those guys are using some seriously overpriced software! ;-)

I don't think it will show up in a credit card report in this case. usually the way credit card processing works (for most online stuff) is: 1) they check to see if you have the money, and put a hold on your account (authorization) 2) they check to make sure your submitted information matches 3) they capture the funds if step 2 doesn't work, you could have an erroneous authorization which will drop off after 2 days

"but why would you want poser5 anyway? " LOL, because some people actually like the software! (yes I think poser 5's pretty cool) and you can't get work done with a program that you don't have :) cheers! -Josh