Thank you guys for putting so much into researching this!

Thank you!! That helps!

I haven't invested in Poser 12 yet because I need those two things badly for projects I'm working on, and I've come to rely very badly upon the library of scripts I've gotten over the years for everything else. Without having -at least- selective item/layer render passes, magnet toy, morph imp, and GS2/3/8 imports (as well as heaven knows how many mini-pythons included with other products), I'd essentially be paying for a downgrade as far as my personal workflow goes. :( I'm especially concerned, and looking forward to hearing more, about cross-compatibility with these older scripts or surrogate support for those python utilities originating from content creators that have retired from the 3D marketplace.

Is there any news on whether Semidieu's scripts (esp Advanced Render Settings 2) or the DSON importer will work in Poser 12? (So glad to hear Netherworks is on the job!)

Darn. Thanks for the reply, though, awesome seeing you about!!

https://www.renderosity.com/3-things-to-know-about-posers-development-cms-21664

I almost completely missed it since my email natively blocks images. :(

Modo does this and I -love- it. We can select favorites for each "room" and then choose to show all tabs or simply favorites. Makes life so much easier. Having this in Poser would be a huge plus.

Afrodite-Ohki posted at 1:23PM Wed, 14 August 2019 - #4359349

Honestly? It should be just a matter of going into Preferences and ticking room tabs on and off.

It's really annoying to me when I accidentaly click Face Room or Hair room when I'm trying to get into the others cause I never use those two... but I don't think it should be removed from the program. Make it user-friendly, give us an option "show Face Room" "Show Hair Room". And all the others too, because some people simply don't do content creation at all and all they need is the Pose room.

That's a blessing, at least. With software changing hands, it's always hard to tell what sort of changes there will be! (We need a way to upvote posts!)

Uhm. Wow. Ok. This thread is a bit scary. I mainly skimmed and my eyes still hurt. LOL!

Is there anywhere we can sign up for newsletter notices on updates as we move forward with new progress in the Poserverse? Such as a development blog? I do subscribe to Renderosity's newsletters but I'm in particular interested in the tech side of Poser development. (I saw the link with the news article that has informative comments, thank you for posting that Deecy!, but was looking for something to subscribe to for the future, too.)

Also, could we have some sort of Meet&Greet for the current Poser team, when they are better settled from all of the ongoing turmoil, and if they feel comfortable to do so? I admit I am a bit out of touch with who works with what anymore, and hope to see some familiar faces.

A couple of things from me, if it's ok?

• Fix the smoothing blow-up bug.
• Fix geometry breaking. When I rig a fresh OBJ and try to save it back to the library, it re-saves a broken obj. If it's not going to reference the original OBJ I would prefer it just re-save the old one over again.
• Simulate cloth in background. I know there are some problems with doing -anything- with the cloth system, but if there was just some way to move it to a background process it would make life so much easier.
• Break down Visible in Raytracing to Raytraced Reflection/Refraction/Shadows. This would speed up rendering for me so much.
• Any integration of the existing 3rd party Poser plugins would be fabulous. Netherworks, Nerd3D, Semidieu, PhilC, D3D, EvilInnocence, anything that puts it all in one place is a blessing. This includes things like Poser File Editor, PMD Editor, Morphing Cloth, Content Mirror, EasyPose Underground, etc. I have -so- many utils, many of which are not available anymore, and I know that there are a lot of new/current users of Poser that don't have them that would love the capabilities inherent in them. I realize there are a lot of problems with this request but it's still a dear wish to my heart.
• Automation of common tasks. I really, really, REALLY LOVE that you can hand edit Poser files to accomplish a thousand tasks, but the more that we can accomplish inside Poser without having to break out the text editor, the better.
• In QM I would love to be able to just clear the whole Queue of finished entries at once, and to be able to select entries from a paused Queue in order to change the rendering options/dimension/output name without having to track down and load the relevant file and do it manually. Also being able to see the file dimensions in the QM would be helpful for those of us that use it for mass thumbnailing.
• To be able to control the number of processors that the QM uses without having to load Task Manager and constantly set it manually.

Also my vote is with Davo, please don't remove the Firefly or NPR features. There is a place for them. Actually all of their suggestions were really good ones.

Oh, gawd, Teyon.

"So yeah, you get a few extra polys to compensate for the unknown. It's not like those polys are going to snuff your children in their sleep or anything. They're there for folks who need them. If you don't need them, don't use 'em."

You almost made rootbeer come out of my nose!

Netherworks brings up a VERY good point, too.  Poser comes with sculpting tools these days that lets you change the shape however you want it, without even spending a dime on another piece of software.  As long as the mesh is dense enough to support it, there's absolutely no reason why a shape can't be adjusted to suit whatever purpose or project you're working on.

Speaking as someone who has modeled her share of low-poly figures and worked steadily with high-poly figures:  I love Michelle's topology.  She saves fast, she runs fast, I can load several of her in a scene to one V4 (especially when clothing comes into play), yet she's got enough polys and loops so that I can adjust her shape to suit whatever I need, and she's already got one major morph expansion on top of the already generous out-of-the-box morph selection.  In time, we'll see only more fantastic expansions.  Would that -more- figures were like her!  She's so much more useful and versatile than anything I could've made, that's for sure!

Don't forget to vote on the cover competition, too!!! :D

OMG!  Thank you guys!!! 

I'm so glad you liked "It Will Work!"  It was one of the first images I really started to delve into Depth of Field with, and I spent a long, long time on getting it to look even halfway good.  Seeing y'all liked it is such a relief.  It makes it seem like I'm actually learning something, which is an awesome feeling to have!  Thank you!

You could've knocked me over with a feather once I read the sitemail telling me my images had been featured in the Poser forums!  Thank you guys so much!!!  Y'all rock beyond belief, you know that, right?

Wow, thank you very much!!  Congrats to all the other random drawing winners, too!!!

Congratulations to all of the winners!  There were so many fine entries! :D