MikeJ opened this issue on Dec 08, 2007 ยท 63 posts
MikeJ posted Sat, 08 December 2007 at 9:38 PM
I read the FAQ about the upcoming Poser Pro version coming soon, and read what their new features are going to be but I was wondering if anyone had any insights into whether or not one of those new features is going to be a better workflow.
You know, like Pros would like to have.
For example:
It would be good to be able to assign our own shortcut keys.
It would be better to be able to select body parts on a figure with shortcut keys instead of having to scroll through a long list.
It would be good if body parts ten miles away and behind what I wanted to select didn't offer themselves up instead of the foreground part my mouse is clearly over.
It would be good if Poser didn't have to "think" after a render and spend 20 seconds doing whatever the hell it's doing before going back into preview mode.
It would be good if the lights in the render actually rendered out more or less the way they look in the preview.
It would be good if there were an interactive previewer such as real Pro apps such as 3ds max, LightWave, maya and so on have.
It would be good if there were a way to center the camera to revolve around a selection. "Point at" works that way, but has to be changed every time you want to point at something else. Pro apps don't have such limitations.
I'm sure I could think of lots of other things, but the real question is will this actually be a "Pro" app, or is that just a catchy name? The pricetag isn't very Pro, and has me a bit concerned whether this will be a real Pro program, or just an Advanced Hobbyist application.
I'm not concerned about the cost - it would actually make me feel better if they were charging more, but if it's going to be just the same ol' same ol' Poser with a higher version number and a little more hoopla, it's going to be mighty disappointing.