there are many positive aspects updating to win 11 but if it concerns your working machine or business machine you might want to wait a little further. Allot of printer drivers do not work, a known win 11 issue ! so you better check ahead if all features of your printer are supported. Especially if there connected via USB. the next thing is if you run the Standard Home version you will not be able to have a local account this only works in pro. Upgrading to pro costs about 20$ . In pro you might have to expect some unwanted notifications for your local accounts. It is planed to enable the local accounts in home later on. New releases always have little there little bugs and it takes a while until there all corrected, see in the sample of Poser 12 after a year it is still in prerelease. So to stay on the safe side with your main computer it might be to wait a little and use a second one you have to test and get used to.

primorge posted at 3:59 PM Tue, 19 October 2021 - #4429116

randym77 posted at 7:09 PM Sat, 16 October 2021 - #4428997

Ugh, I had no idea Ken's scripts had that requirement. I haven't bought any yet, because I'm still mostly using Poser 11. Checking in once in awhile is bad enough, continuous really sucks.

FWIW, English Bob timed it, and found that for Poser 11, it's nine days. That's how long Poser can go without phoning home before it stops working. I assume it's the same for Poser 12.

That's interesting. I had a problem with my laptop's fan, it had Poser 11 on it. It was off, battery drained, and disconnected from the internet for at least 2 weeks. Might have been closer to a month. Anyway, the machine was under warranty. Sent it in and had it repaired, did not wipe the drive. Got it back and turned it on and started Poser, did not require reactivation, started right up.

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You should call em up and ask what Patch they used LOL.  Might be an app like "Lucky Patcher" that is used for Android to remove these annoying Adds and popups on the installed Play Store apps that can cause your Android to overheat. Such patcher sure can find and fix allot of stuff that is eating up your resources. 

Renderosity extended the Feature from SM you now need to be at least once in a week logged to keep poser running ! Offline activation has been removed, Permanent Licence has also been removed, Note: Allot of Poser Python addons sold in the store also need to be connected to the Internet constantly to work. 

That is what I call a great Job !  One of the best Animation I'v seen so far that was made using Poser .....

JoEtzold posted at 12:57 PM Sat, 2 October 2021 - #4428428

I'm so sorry but the settings in poser and shown by phtoshop from Igohigh some posts back and the arguments from Cyogeem just above are completely rubbish. As long as you set a 640 x 480 pixels render area its completely equal what DPI you set. You get everytime a 640 x 480 pixels output. DPI first comes into play if you want to output these pixels to paper or what else which is measured in inches or cm or else.

You seems to simple to understand that DPI or PPI is nothing absolute or ownstanding. It is only the bridge or relation between square pixels on one hand and a in real values measured paper or something else. Nothing more and nothing less.

If you want to understand that truely I suggest that you search in photographing forums for DPI and you find lots like you but also real professionell photographers which are declaring what is declared here around in several aspects.

#igohigh: I'm truely astonished about what you have written abaout printer people opposite computer people. You should remember that your beloved printers are able to do high quality output first since those computer people gave them a lot of electronic life. And I'm truely mostly astonished about your discussion cause I was absolutely in the opinion that a printing instructor should knows all about these above stuff to be good in his profession. Ok, sometime I can lay wrong ... I see. So be happy with your opinions further on ... if correct or not ...

But just for some others may be interested and not such simple as you: I'm since 40 years in that hobby business first with photografics and then also with rendering since their first moments. And that all with poster sizes as also with small handhelds on monitors, simple papers, photographic papers and seeing throug materials. So never again come around with your personel completely unproofen assumptions ...

No Rubbish ! If you read correctly we are talking about Printing and not about DPI that could be seen on a monitor as the monitor is in first hand is set to 72-96 Dpi but this has ben mentioned several times ( It has nothing to do with web design ) The Dpi output is what you need to get a sharp Print output . but sure you can go ahead and render your Images and start printing them in high quality using 72 dpi as long as you just do the Newspaper flyers for the Naber Hood.

Why does in here always things end up with excuses that there not necessary if they fail in Poser ?  Guess it makes one feel better with some errors being able to live with them. But this way Poser will never be Final !

so what happens in your tests is just that you have a Monitor that will limit your works to 72 - 96 dpi and clearly not capable to show what would be if it were 300 dpi or higher on a Print by reducing again your 300 dpi image to 72-96 dpi as your Monitor is limited to these resolution but not the Paper or the film.

It is a real time scan simulation to show what will happen if your Images are used for Professional works the render above have been made just by changing the Pix/In amount in Poser nothing else . Then a Print scan simulation as it is clear your screen of your standard Monitor will only display 72 or 96 Dpi but a Image for Print for example needs at least 300 dpi. every saved Image in Poser 12 if used for Printing needs to be adapted manually this is fact. 

But sure you can take a Mathematical Template  to recalculate the effective dimensions for your Print that will have again an outcome of 72 dpi  then using Gimp or Photoshop to change your DPI in your work. If you get a assignment for a work that gets Payed for Printing purposes you sure need to deliver what has been requested so either you recalculate or just have a working dpi setting in the app you are working with not just one that lets you think that you have it .

I Agree that it is complicated if you are not using your renders for Printing assignments or for a Gallery expo and because of this it might be easier if the Poser staff just removes this setting in Poser 12 just like in Blender that is limited to  72 - 96 dpi , ok Poser will be limited to 72 dpi . and then just recalculate what you need for Printing!

Actually it is simple Dpi is probably the digital simulation of a film. Like the quality of negative on how many light dots it will have, in combination with the shutter opening that throws light dots it could be compared with your Pixel size. the smaller the shutter the sharper your Image ( Negative ) the more small dots good for depth focus if you have something right in front of your camera. Shutter open will only keep your focus sharp and background blurry equals large light dots. So in a way all this is to be able to digitalize mechanic shots! The Function of Printing is similar , Obviously !  Just that you need these Digital settings to get the right amounts of sharp dots for your Printing if you want a good quality Picture. If you google you will see what amount of  DPI it will need to have a negative that can be enlarged to a poster without any loss. 

Ever been in a Movie theater ? you need to imagine a little square image that has such a high compression that the image projected on the huge screen remains totally sharp.

I do not believe that Dpi has been developed just as a fun setting that keeps your Images always the same no matter how high you set it up :)  and that just because Poser 12 can't handle it anymore that all the descriptions in the net about dpi are false statements . 

RedPhantom posted at 11:36 AM Fri, 1 October 2021 - #4428356

You might want to check your render setting in poser 12. I just rendered these. One was Poser 12 set at 600dpi. It saved as 72. One is switching that image to 600 dpi and setting for the print size that it should have come out as. And one is rendered in Poser 11 and saved as 600dpi. I realize the texture isn't the highest quality to start with, but I can't see any change. Can you?

These are the original renders, first is at 72 dpi second is 600 dpi original size render settings remain the same on both except the dpi settings I guess if your textures have 72 dpi it might not work but if you are using high quality textures it might affect if they get reduced , other method would be to print and then scan at this point you sure will see the difference, so even if one gets no difference like in your case  it should not be an excuse not to fix the issues in Poser 12 , else they shall just remove the option this way there will not be any questions about it if they can't fix the problem.

I am not sure if it still works after uploading the images but if it does you can save them and see by your self what happens when you scale them next to each other.

Edit: Nop uploading the Images changed the DPI to 96 so again a quality loss 

Sampler

It comes to it that you will not be able to just change the dpi in Photoshop expecting to keep the same size increasing the dpi as the dpi is produced while rendering and can't be faked expecting to achieve a better quality in a Image application, so this would not make a better quality of your Image. true dpi are generated when rendering, the higher the dpi the smaller your render square will be.

Yes they are , you will note the differences when zooming in the Image. 72 dpi will get useless when scaling 200 % 300 dpi up can be scaled up with ease 200% 300% without any quality loss.

same reason why 72 dpi is of no use for printing on paper as it is already a sort of zoom in, in most cases you will zoom your Image to fit the Paper. but you will note the same result on your screen when zooming. 72 dpi is for sure not ideal to enlarge a section of the Image, fact is also that when making a professional work you usually render a larger angle so that you later can cut out a section for a better presentation but still want to have a good quality if you need to scale up the Image to fit your preference after the cut. 

so again yes the dpi is important as soon as you wish having some professional results and not just 72dpi renders for a quick web show on Instagram or Facebook. It is also to consider that some  need a good dpi  if they sell there works for prints . Artwork is not just a quick sample render that you place on the web to get a little attention in allot of cases it also needs a certain Image quality.

I always render at a minimum of 300 dpi up then I load the render in a Photo Program to adapt it, if I need it for web presentation I then reduce it to 92 or even 72 dpi but the original will always have a major quality that sure can be seen.

Seems that poser 12 is clearly broken compared to all the previous versions when it comes to DPI. all previous versions work well and clearly render at the DPI setting not reducing it . You will note this when reducing an image rendered at 300-600 dpi in Poser 11 and reducing it for Web at 72 Dpi that it will loose quiet allot of quality and not be as sharp. Actually it is not the Idea having such an Option in Poser 12 expecting it to work and having to calculate a Increased size to achieve the effective DPI you want to end up with.

Seems Poser 12 will remain for some more years in Pre Release not even the Poser 11.1 SM to Bondware's 11.3 version has ever been finished before the support stopped it just has been dropped with a broken Python engine that needs to be run with a 3rd party fix ! Not a very serious marketing strategy. 

First of all when you create a Figure through the Hierarchy editor  like in your case 2 props you need to make sure that both have the correct name, In the Grouping Tool and the Hierarchy. Both need to have the same names for a correct workflow, no additional group names for individual parts. 

Best way is to assemble by using spawn Props to have the correct position before you even think of creating the figure in the Hierarchy editor. After you have the correct parts ( Props ) assembled you hit create new figure ! now your figure will be saved in the New Figure Standard folder . The next important step is to load your new Figure and save it again as it has integrated geometry, this needs to be separated it will not work to manipulate the Joints correctly until the geometry is extracted. Do not forget turning off " Bend " on every bodypart properties ! The props often load with a _1 at the end remove the _1 on the names to have the corresponding name with the one in the Groups. 

After these steps you should be able to manipulate either the rotation or the axis position using the Joint editor in your new figure . 

If you have further issues you can send me a PM , and if you wish your model so that I can fix it for you. Do not need any credit , in any case it would be a solution to figure out what is going wrong with your props.   

Y-Phil posted at 6:42AM Wed, 15 September 2021 - #4427474

I'm getting more and more confused with all this. For me, a pixel is a pixel, and the DPI are related to the "device" that is going to show/print" it. If someone needs more details, depending on the "final device", then increase the number of pixels of the rendered picture.

you can't Increase the DPI expecting it to be of better quality keeping the actual dimensions of the Image. The Image Dimension will shrink into a tumb nail in a extreme case to keep the quality but the print quality will not get better on your A4 it will just not fill out the paper, or digitally fill your screen without having to Zoom in the high res Render, having again a quality loss.