I have tried really hard to like P6 but some of the features (or lack of them) just plain annoy me. One such feature was the ability to scroll around your render (when it was larger than the preview window) while the rendering was still taking place. This allowed you to at least see if the render was still happening or if Poser had just crashed.
In P6 they removed this feature and all rendering is done in the preview window (no matter how large). You can only scroll round it once the render is complete. I am rendering a complicated scene at the minute with lots of reflections. The render has been going for 9 hrs and the progress bar is just stting 3/4 finished. If it was Poser 5 I could see where the last piece of screen that Poser had rendered to and see if it rendered past that point to check if it was hung.
With P6 all I can see is the part of the image in the Preview window. Why oh Why CL did you have to remove this ability. As P6 renders an order of magnitude slower than P5 this would have been one feature you really should have left in.
Does anyone know how to tell if Poser is hung or not. Really don't want to stop this render if possible since its been going so long

Message edited on: 04/03/2005 13:01