When I made my purchase, I got an email titled "Order confirmation" along with an ID number.    In the email, you have a link that will take you to Renderosity to see your order.  In the summary, there's the title of the product you bought e.g. "Poser 11 for Windows and MAC" and right underneath it for me, was the license number that I then used to log in and get my download of Poser 11.

I hope that helps.

Quick update: I just made my purchase and wanted again to thank the community for their help, including those that emailed me directly.  And now to start some "posering" in version 11...  just gotta find that "Make Art" button in the user interface... (kidding)

Small update: I just made my purchase and wanted again to thank the community for their help, including those that emailed me directly.  And now to start some "posering" in version 11...  just gotta find that "Make Art" button in the user interface... (kidding)

Thanks for the replies everyone.  @Rhia474 - thanks for pointing out the Poser 11 official technical forum, I just posted my question over there and am hoping for a reply soon before the sale ends.

@Richards60, that's also a good idea, I may try that next and see if Poser 12 would run on Win7 too.  I could've sworn that there was a service release where the notes said that after the patch, that Poser 12 would definitely only run on Win10, so it has been something that I just assumed would not run on an older OS.   Poser 11 is the only one that I would want anyway, given that the GameDev features were removed from Poser 12 (for reasons that I still don't understand... decimation is a very much needed feature if I want to fill a scene with a few M4s and V4s).

@Cascade777: thank you, are you running Poser 11 with all of the latest service releases applied?

The problem is that there's no way to trial test it on Win7 before I spend the money, and no one from the company bothered to even answer my message so far. 

Their webpage has the download for Poser12 with the ability to test it out for 21 days. No such download exists for Poser 11 from what I could find.

At this point, I may as well continue my slow transition to Blender... the Poser folks don't seem to want my money (grumble, grumble)

I know the system requirements say that Win10 is required, but has anyone tried to install and run it under an older OS (Win7 is what I'm still using). Sometimes when a software vendor says Win10, they really mean that it isn't supported under older operating systems but can still run on them.

I contacted the customer support to ask this, but it's been a week and no reply.  I would otherwise look at buying Poser11 but not unless I know it'll run first (if there's a trial version of Poser 11 for download, I'd like to at least try that).

I was going to take advantage of this sale until I saw that the system requirements for Poser 11 was now Windows 10 (ugghhhhhh).   I know Poser 11 used to run on Windows 7.  I'm assuming that one of the later service release patches must have updated the binary to a Win10 only requirement. 

Is there any way to revert to an earlier version of Poser 11 which still worked under the older operating systems?    I'd love to use those GameDev features (poly reduction, etc)

RedPhantom posted at 10:21PM Fri, 13 August 2021 - #4425223

Removal of combine figure, find unseen polygons and reduce poligons, Path Palette from figure menu

What?!? They removed Combine Figure and Reduce Polygons? Why? Those features would be the only reason I would ever upgrade (I certainly would never use Poser 12 now knowing this, maybe Poser 11 if that's the last version that will support these features).

I'm surprised that Karina still has items hosted on sharecg. I could've sworn that he once said something about how sharecg removed one of his freebies (I think it was a female genitals addon?) and this soured him on hosting Sasha on sharecg. I could be mis-remembering it though.

I've moved on from Poser but I still like to keep an eye on the Poser community for any new developments that might lure me back. I'm slowly learning Blender3D since I've been more impressed with the features and constant evolution of the program. It has fluid sim, upcoming NPR shaders and comic book-ink renders, geometry nodes, support for Mixamo, dynamic cloth brush, an upcoming way to store figure poses, etc. all for free. It's hard to say no to that. Poser needs some revolutionary features (mostly in how it handles clothing, a hybrid of conforming and dynamic) to make it worth the price, IMO.

Yes, same here. Anytime someone online disappears for a long time period, I worry that COVID got them. I hope that isn't the case, Karina made a great contribution to the Poser community but has experienced some bad luck with his health.

Gerald, I think I have mentioned this before, but is there a way you could license your VWD technology to Bondware so that they can incorporate it into future versions of Poser 12 and higher? Perhaps they can then pay you a royalty for every copy that they sell?

Gerald, since I am mostly a Poser user (I only use a very old version of Daz Studio sometimes) and I'm still on Poser10/PPro2012, does this mean that if you do create these products for Poser that they will only work on Poser 11 and higher?

Agree with what everyone is saying about Face Room... the moment I heard it had no V4 or M4 support, it was DOA useless.

Other candidates: Hair Room, Setup Room.

I'd prefer it if Hair Room could be used to make the more simpler, faster-to-render, less memory-consuming, transmap hairstyles quite frankly. Or it should come with a ton of presets for popular hairstyles that you can load in, and then only have to tweak to get a more customized look.

And by this stage in Poser's lifecycle, there should be an Auto-Rigging feature built in to quickly rig up biped figures at the very least.

Hi Gerald, both the new tools sound very good. I'll be happy to test them (I think you already have my email but if not, I can email you again directly so that you have it).

I also support the idea of making VWD into smaller and more focused utilities that are cheaper in price. I already mentioned to Dan many months ago that I was having too many problems understanding VWD because it was too hard to learn and I had to go back to use Poser's old Cloth Room. Having more specific VWD utliities that focus on a certain task where the user interface is also less generic, is a great idea.

Akuei2 mentioned doing breast jiggle with VWD and my first thought was "Yes, how many Poser users would pay $10 just to get automatic breast jiggle for their V4 or LaFemme animations?" I only do static renders, but even I have had problems getting the breasts of V4 to look natural when I pose her lying on her back, or tilted backward at an angle. "VWD for breasts" would be your best-selling product I think, lol.

Hi Gerald, I think maybe there is no quick response to your idea from Jun 12th only because there has not been much news on this forum, so many people are not checking the thread very often. I checked the forum today for the first time in 2 weeks so I suspect you will get more responses as more followers come here over time.

I am always interested in creating hair (or a better way to create hair that does not take a long time!) and if you have a way to make clothes that is easier than Marvelous Designer, I would be happy to help beta test any of your ideas.