hello all i was think about buying poser 6 ce, I have poser 5 but i think its time to upgrade. Just need $79 dollars more to buy it. But i have some questions before I buy. Is it ez to change my poser 5 runtime to poser 6 i would hate to install all my models and stuff again. Is the lighting better then poser 5. Do you think its a big upgrade? Also does it work well carrara 5. Well thanks for your time.

Kainxxx2000

I bought it last year as a pre order and it was worth the money, it does work well with Carrara 5.
Great tool to have.

Over the months I've seen the odd post about a feature in Poser 6 that I felt I would like to have access to, but it wasn't enough to get me to spend more money on the same program for a few more bells and whistles that weren't really a necessity IMHO.

In December that changed. I saw a post about using the Morphing Fantasy Dress in the cloth room. I tried to do that using Poser 5 but it wasn't working. Someone suggested editing a file prior to rendering, again that didn't work. I really love dynamic clothing, but I also love the MFD but have always hated the way the skirt always looked "posed". The fact that the Poser 6 cloth room would allow me to have the best of both worlds sold me and I upgraded at the end of December.

The cons:

• most premade light sets that I grew comfortable using in Poser 5, previewed nearly black in Poser 6. Apparently if there are more than 8 lights in a scene Poser 6 doesn't like that and won't preview them, but the light will render fine.

The Pros:

• IBL Lighting. I love being able to take any image and use it to light my scene.
• You need less lights to light a scene which speeds up render time
• Area render (can check what something looks like without having to render the whold scene)
• No need to edit an .xml file to increase number of thumbnails viewed
• Cache of previous renders
• Gather Node that allows you to do some really cool neon glowing effects. See these links:

http://www.renderosity.com/messages.ez?Form.ShowMessage=2217752

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2505946

http://market.renderosity.com/mod/forumpro/showthread.php?thread_id=2222447

• Being able to save render option presets.
• Being able to take the Morphing Fantasy Dress into the material room and make the skirt part dynamic (this is what really sold me on Poser 6)

I'm sure I've missed some pluses. But I see very few cons and would recommend upgrading if you can afford to.

How much memory do you have? 

Quote - Is it ez to change my poser 5 runtime to poser 6 i would hate to install all my models and stuff again.

You don't need to reinstall any content.  You can simply configure the Poser 6 library to access your existing P5 runtime.

i bought poser 6 toolbox version at e-frontier ... that come with shade 8 ,vue 5E and manga studio..

Its more money but for me much more value ... vue 5 can import poser files and scene's and i great shade 8 ..well if you ever wanna make something your self Bingo! manga studio is fun but not used yet by me..

Anyway there are more package deals around...

Chris 

thanks for all you input guys and gals main reason i like to get poser 6 ce is because of the miki model but iam going to check out the toolbox version also because i like to get vue 5 also

Bar-code manga studio look very cool but low on the cash lol .

wow nm iam getting the toolbox version!!! all that software for $329 iam there just need one more pay check to get it lol

Could someone please post a link to the toolbox version on e-frontier's site.  I'm having trouble finding it.

Thanks!

Attached Link: e frontier ToolBox

In case deep linking into EF's site store doesn't work, here's the navigation path.
[Top menu, mouse over] Purchase
[Top menu, click item] Web Store
[Left menu, click item] Poser
[Page body, click tab] Poser 6 (View Products)
The item you want is the second one on the list.

**nruddock,

Thanks for the detailed instructions and the link.  Now I just have to decide which one to buy!

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