Let's say, that Poser is the best programm ever. It still doesn't have one single good figure - yet. But there is hope. Looking foreward to christmas.

ssgbryan posted at 7:12AM Thu, 23 November 2017 - #4318558

3anson posted at 6:12PM Wed, 22 November 2017 - #4318552

'Geo-grafting is simply parenting another object/prop to a character. We've been able to do that since at least Poser 5, that I am personally aware of. It does have a fancier name though.'

Actually it is far more, a geograft becomes part of the mesh, not a parented prop in any way.

And how does that become an advantage?

the advantage is, that it becomes "part of the mesh". No gap between the conformed figure and the host figure. No transparency map for the edges needed. Poser needs something like that. Agree to RorrKonn. Poser will finally have a Queen. I'd say: the first real Queen. Xmas will be special this year. :-)

so what does BOGO mean?

Thanks Ero for the update. Perfect timing, haha. My graphic novel is allmost done, so I will have plenty of time to play with the new girl on the block. - e-x-c-i-t-e-d -

moogal posted at 11:17AM Sun, 24 September 2017 - #4314718

-Timberwolf- posted at 6:39PM Sat, 23 September 2017 - #4310516

Two of the real good things put into Poser were the morph brush and the dependency editor, for mostly that reason. Quick fix of poke throughs and add those to a master parameter.

But when you think of how well known and longstanding the poke through issue is, it always seemed strange to see it persist version after version. I don't know why it isn't fixed at render time, because then the meshes themselves would not need be adjusted manually. It seems like a z-sort could be used to check if polygons of a mesh that is mostly behind another item are intersecting and then those areas just would not be visible. I mean clothing goes over the figure, and it should be easy to determine where the clothing ends. Then the program could force the z order of poly rendering so that skin was never rendered in front of the clothing.
I suggested a type of hybrid clothing several versions ago. I can't recall the specifics, but it was similar to conforming clothing in that it was still a rigged figure, but similar to dynamic clothing in that the distance from the figure was maintained per frame. But these are the types of longstanding issues that led to my skipping the last release. I know the problems I have with Poser for years running, and instead of seeing them fixed/addressed, even if in novel ways, there are always a few new bullet points that add to the program's complexity yet the old problems still persist. Why can't they make a T-shape cage to project the soft body map onto existing figures for example? Why is it so hard to reuse texture maps/weighting etc. across different topologies but which do have similar shapes?

I just tried to be constructive and positive here. I am for sure not the right person to to be that Poser-defender. ;-)

Crossing fingers. All the best. She will rock the Poserverse.

for Vue and for most 3D apps, this question is easy to answer: Get the biggest render-beast, you can get for your money. CPU,GPU, Ram ect, ect. The more, the better. Maybe better stay with Intel and Nvidea to make sure your hardware is most supported.

This feedback button suck like hell. It popes up just like that on my I pad and won't go away untill I restart the rendo website. Put this button away. It is irritating and annoying. I hate it. Is this feedback enough?

The advantage of 7zip is, that you can click your way through the file hirachy. Once you are at the "runtime" folder, click the menue and select the path to unzip. I used to have issues with other unzippers, because People sometimes have different hirachy orders. The Sasha16.rar unzips like this: ... aaaand 7zip is free. :-)

Folks, realy. Get 7zip and there won't be any problems with the zipping file format.

It would be useful to have a FF to SF shader converter. This should be possible by having shader presets like "skin", "metal", "rocks", liquids or "glass" ect. So it should work like the Reality plug-in converts Poser shaders for the Lux renderer, this converter converts to Superfly. Somebody should make a script.

Look for Sasha-16 on the sharecg web page. It is a weight mapped v4, that bends way better. Karina did an amaizing job.

shedofjoy posted at 12:41PM Tue, 01 August 2017 - #4311117

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.

OMG: how stubborn can a company be? Is that realy their opinion? If yes, SM realy needs to wake up.

I bet, some V4 fans will freak out about, what Karina uploaded on a famous share cg website. Look out for Sasha-16.

Poser users hate DAZ compares, but there will allways be DAZ compares as long as DAZ's figure technology is in the front. So in order to silence DAZ compares, Poser has to become the leading software again by having better figures. What I miss desperatley on Poser figures are a geo graft feature like DS has, which means, conforming seamlessley meshes to a parent mesh. Stop that "break mesh into pieces when grouping" crazyness. And to continiousley repeat myself: Better joint bending and more effort in a good JCM system. @AmbientShade: Poser11 SR7 , now copies all morphs with the Menue->Figure->Copy Morphs from... command, including the hidden morphs. :-)