ghostship2 posted at 2:23AM Sun, 03 December 2017 - #4319014

This thread is one of the reasons I haven't been on this forum for a while. Tired of the debates and flame wars between Poser and Daz users, the bad bloode between the G3 and V4 users. I havn't read the whole thread so if there is some sort of respectful adult conversation going on here please forgive me. I'm going back to the SM forum.

As stated when I started this thread, its not a debate or flame war or anything to do with Daz, all I asked was where everyone thought Poser was going and perhaps what might be. Its really good to see Project E almost reaching daylight, and will add a nice new toy to play with inside poser. And personally I like how this thread has gone so far. oh and the bus seams to be stationary, lol.

I'm looking forward to using this figure, is there a rough time scale for its release?

Has anyone looked at the ManuelbastioniLAB 1.6.0 for blender and seen muscles in action, I would love this in poser.

Nice to see this thread is doing well and not descending into a brawl. Personally I think they need to start by fixing the engine, I say fix in relation not to it being broken, but to building a good base for a new and frankly good male and female figure to be used in. I say this because if you look at Daz and how they implemented Genesis they first built in the weight mapping etc that allows Genesis to work in daz. Poser needs things like muscle attachments etc at its core to then have these new figures, along with a better face room, cameras, animation, hair, etc that need updating as they are woefully behind their competition. making poser free is not the answer, making it better is. will we see that? I hope so. And on a side note perhaps then if all that happens Iray and amd's new free render engine will support poser out of the box?

It looks like I'm not alone in my thinking, although Poser is nothing without its own figures, these figures need weight mapping and muscle support right out of the box. but that's neither here nor there, I see no attempt or murmors or rumours from smith micro on what they plan to do, personally it think a ground up rebuild of poser with figures that I have stated with a new website along the lines of what Daz has, I know they already have content paradise, but this put me off from day one.

Looking forward to this, looks awesome.

I have to agree with Wolf359, It does seam that SM are not taking this seriously, This is a shame and they need to wake up and pull their trousers up.

A new figure would be pointless without Poser having the tech to make that new figure bend and work better, like the Genesis figures in daz. I'm not saying we need Daz's version of how figures work, but poser needs to move forwards and allowing future figures to work more realistically needs a better ground to build them upon. I would also like to see an overhaul of the animation in Poser. The software is called "POSER" surely posing and animation are at the core of the old beast, so come on and bring it. And one of my old gripes is the half arsed arrival of Superfly, I say half arsed as I hated when they gave us this new renderer and wow look at all these shaders.... er what shaders.... oh we have to figure those out for ourselves..... What do I mean by this... it would have been nice to have a few metal, wood ,concrete, skin, cloth, water etc superfly shaders for us to use. And lastly I would LOVE to have dual monitor support, I mean that when I stretch poser across both monitors it locks to both, not the floating annoyance it is currently, damn thing keeps shrinking and moving every time I open the damn thing. I don't want to keep altering this.

Welcome to the UK Erogenesis. Looking forward to PE.

I still use it

i need this to be done to the actual imagemap node in the shader, not the final render, doing a blur is possible in an external package but having to do multiple extra images just for a blur effect is time consuming and annoying, and doesn't make my shader as easy to use. I will try the noise trick and see what it produces, thankyou both for your reply, hopefully this will be included in the next iteration of poser.

Shocked, my condolences to his family, a great loss. r.i.p.

seams like it is more effort than it needs to be, must admit though apart from that its very good.

Happy new years to all

one of the best reads I've seen on here in a while, good work on the shaders Ghostship