First off, if this is OT then I apologize. I'm curious as to whether or not Poser 4 or 5 will utilize CPU resources from other computers on the same network as it's "home" computer. By this I mean, when Poser does a large render or an animation export, can it pull resources from another computer on the same network in order to speed things up a little? If so, can someone direct me to an idiot's-guide on networking? I've found a lot of info on the web for this but, not an answer to the question in the thread title. As always, any help would be greatly appreciated. CyberscapE

No dual-processor or network capabilities AFAIK.

Poser 4 pro pack and poser 5 need a update for a support about velocity of 3D/2D graphic cards on PC and MACINTOSH computers with Windows XP/NT Mac OS 9/X just a update ;-)

No - Poser won't even make use of a second CPU in the same PC (although Win2K or later would likely use the second PC, allowing you to do "other stuff" even when rendering). Cheers, Cliff

Unlike Bryce 5.0. Poser does NOT do network rendering. Period.

If you're serious about networked rendering of your Poser scenes, you might want to consider investing in Vue d'Esprit and its Mover add-on.

Stewer was working on getting network rendering out of Poser 5 - but I've lost his homepage momentarily :( Cliff

Darn it! You guys were supposed to say "HELL YEA, GOFER IT!!" That was going to be my cheap fix until I can get a superbeast computer. But anyway... If I'm reading correctly, a network of two computers can similate(?) a dual processor. Right? If so, then being able to render and do something in photoshop at the same time(using WinXP) would kick major ass! No more waiting for the render to finish before doing something else. Am I right on this or is it just a pipe dream? Thanx for the help!

Quote: "Am I right on this or is it just a pipe dream?" OT... I just saw the movie "Pipe Dream" few days ago. Was rather enjoyable.

Not only a pipe dream, but a pipe dream with a curiously langorious pale smoke...

Because, you see, two computers do not emulate one computer with 2 CPUs but the other way around. Multiple CPUs allows a computer to emulate - to a degree - multiple computers.

Provided you have 2 monitors etc. or a KVM switch you could use photoshop (or any other program you install on the one PC) while your other PC renders in Poser. If you network then you get the additinal benefit that you can probably use some kind of remote-control software (perhaps VNC) to "manage" one PC from the other without actually pressing the KVM switch (so a little bit more like having 1 PC with 2 CPUs - a bit).

Cheers,

Cliff

2 computers can act as a multiCPU computer under Linux/Unix using "clustering"; microsoft clustering is different. However, Poser only supports one CPU. As a little project about a year ago, I wrote a Poser network rendering application for animations; it divided the PZ3 frames up by the number of computers specified, started the renders on the dif computers, then merged the resulting video. worked surprisingly well, but requires a mirror copy of Poser with seperate license on each computer to be used; I used PoserPro and Poser 5. I think you can have your libraries in a network share, which would speed up that aspect of things, but you would still need different licenses.

1. give to poser 4 PP and 5 a support for graphic cards processor (software update) 2) give a support for multiprocessor (software update) 3) give a support for render on a render-farm (on 2 or more PC or MAC cpu) a good way is developed a standalone software for Poser

Attached Link: http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/poserman.html

Check out: http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/index.html in general, but: http://www.keindesign.de/stefan/poser/poserman.html specifically. From the site: "What it is: PoserMan is a Python script to export Poser 5 animations as RenderMan RIB files and render them in an external renderer like 3Delight. This export supports amongst others Poser 5's advanced features like ray traced shadows, dynamic clothing and dynamic hair." But be careful to check for limitations - it's being done in spare time as one of his interests, so it might currently have aspects which you consider serious shortcomings. Very promising, though :) Cheers, Cliff

Hey Cliff, you really know yer stuff. This just opened another door of things for me to learn. Thanks! I guess until I get a better grasp of the networking stuff, I might just use my second computer as a "light" version of Poser (P4 and ProPack - don't have P5 yet). The only thing is I need to get more RAM for it - 96mb at present). Has anyone else noticed how expensive SDRAM is now? 256mb = approx $70. I bought two sticks about 2yrs ago for under $50 together! Guess I shoulda bought four. Anyway, thanks again and who knows Andygraph, maybe CL will actually do those upgrades... we can always hope! CyberscapE

That's one of the wonderful thing about 3D graphics - it's continually moving, always new stuff to find out :) Oh - and new ways for the computer industry to lever our wallets open! Cheers, Cliff

Instead of using dual CPUs or networking, my system engineer had helped me to design a workstation having the raid 0 structure using two harddisks. The result does suppot a very stable speed up to about 105,000 to 120,000 kb/s using one P4 3.06G HT processor and 1G of ram. Besides, seems to me this method is less expensive when compared to dual CPU system (especially if poser 5 does not take advantage of the second CPU...) ^_^ TK

another update is about fix Squished morphs : it won't work on the Mac Version of ProPack. It's a bug CL never fixed. Eric VanDycke have wrote to me about it. please CL fix this problem.