Vue 6i apparently has support options for Poser 7 import. 

There's a screen shot in the vue forum here and it has been mentioned in the vue forums on e-on's site.   Can't confirm myself until my download works. 

I saw all the films and the promo images...what kind of error are you getting and did you email ef?

Quote - > Quote - ...and wouldn't it be a hoot if they'd implemented .daz file support?

DAZ once said they are open with their file format. If ef wants to open daz files they could easily get the needed info to do it.

For the low low price of $995.

I'm sure EF has a price for their sdk too.  I just doubt either company is willing to pay for it.

Quote - aRtBee: good point. My peeves are:

1. Switching between runtimes is tedious. Have I missed some hotkey? The only way I found is to click all the way up the hierarchy and then click down into another runtime. Hard to believe that it is done like this on purpose.

There's a drop down some where at the top of the library...I always forget about it though.

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1. You had to keep cr2, pp2 etc all separate. This is better in P6, but you still have to rename the extension. Sometimes it is easier to keep all the bits together in one directory. Basically all Poser library management is open heart surgery by poking around the filing system manually. You can't drag and drop a bunch of library items from one place to another.

I tend to use the subfolder system.  So V3 runtime has clothing under figures then it's separated by fantasy, modern etc.

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1. library items save with the preview, not with the last render. Arrgh. If you add transmapped hair, you can never see the thing in the preview.

Have tried having smooth shading on in the preview?

Quote - 5) No library group for full pz3 designs, so you can see little pictures of your designs in progress. (Like in Vue)

There is a project palette thingy mentioned in the previews for poser 7.  I'm hoping this is what that is.

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1. No system convention where to store morphs.

You mean the external ones?  Yeah, I don't like like.  I tend to just save the figure in a new file to keep track of them.

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1. No easy way to add new items in a place of your choice. Some items install to directories that the creator decided on (starting with!!!!) other will make a new runtime. I manually move everything into the places where I want them. I have my own library organisation like you described in your first post. It gets quite deeply nested otherwise you never find anything again.

  Yeah the whole moving things around sucks a bit afterward.  But that's why hogwarden is god.

REASON 3 MULTIPLE UNDOS

and the crowd went wild.

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I lack the capasity you have to "think" about and appreciate features based on a single paragraph of hyped text now and then, perhapse you will make this thread productive and "acceptable" to yourself by posting complete descriptions of the 7 features along with sample renders ASAP :)
Thanks.

Actuallly it's a language issue. 

But since you rather make ludicrous assumptions  (You know that the feature list isn't complete and no one has the program yet, so your response make no sense, even sarcastically), how about we just gloss over your response.

A few hyped features point to good things.  Instancing is a positive step.  I've only had vue 5i for a few months and I love that feature.  Imagine creating a crowd of random folks in just a click.  UB is great for mac and pc users, pointing to reworked code and better functionality for macs. 

As for the talk thing...

1.  DAZ and ef are not going to make up.  Ef taking steps to catering to things animators need is another postive step.  Allowing for thirdparty add-ons could bring in daz products another good thing.

2.  If you actually think about it you'd realize that guessing functionality on talkdesigner.based on two paragraphs is idiocy.  But welcome to poserland.  They've begun telling us what they have included.  Based on that information poser 7 looks positive. 

Poser 6 is my favoite verison of the software.  It had one major bug which has been fixed.  I'm waiting to see what the rest of the features are before deciding however if I don't end up buying it than at least I'd know enough not weigh in my feelings about it.  Because frankly I wouldn't have any.

Quote - I have a feeling most people knocking P7 Bought P6

I'm getting it b/c I have P5 and I don't think I can wait for P8. :D

If one more person talks about their "feelings" in regard to poser 7, I'm gonna scream. I keep see that and thinking Jesus christ, who gives a _________, what your feelings are....you're probably wrong. Stop feeling and start thinking already. I don't know why this irratates me. It just does. I preordered p6...I love jesse and judy. I still use them. Lets talk positives: Universal Binary...that says to me some serious code rewrites have gone on. The replicating instancing thing....is awesome. I love it in vue.

They also mentioned:

universal binary, auto populate and full body morphs saved in animations. 

Starting to sound better

That mention of the auto populate/replicate feature has got me interested...but I'm still waiting.  I'm not an animator so, so far, the features have a ways to go form me.

Vue 5 with mover (or vue5i) can import poser files.  When vue 6 is out it will also support posing and the poser shaders.

::Hugs US::

since i'm not a platinum member any more it'll cost me $36.95...After november 20th the upgrade from 5.5 will cost me 39.95. 

No rush for me.  i'll only  buy it if poser 7 doesn't catch my eye with features.  Might buy a copy for my daughter, we'll see.

Quote - since P6 is bloaty and probably wasn't worth the effort in regards of fixing all these issues, so the meeting ended in 'Let's release a new version'...

Have you even used p6?

I'm not upset at the pricing.  Seems to me they are trying to folks off of P4...so they can stop supporting it.  Makes sense to me. 

P6 by far is my favorite version of the program.  I'm waiting for the new features to be released before I decide to upgrade.  I like the content...but it's not enough anymore. 

james

Quote - I'm going to wait to see the other 6 of the 7 reasons to get P7.  For starters, I'm suspect that they've not mentioned either duo-core or 64-bit support.  Forget bells & whistles, I want to see some hard-core improvements (a firely upgrade?  better cloth room?  material room?)  I still have Miki and TY2 laying around, so new figures aren't enough a draw...

Hey now...they haven't released the feature list yet. 

Sigh...here we go.  At least I know now that I won't be buying bryce...gotta buy poser7.  I like early adopting.