i haven't seen much here for P7 users lately.  

I feel myself drifting away.

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We're still here.  It's just our problems ain't new so we are not talking about them as much ;^).

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I still use Poser 6.  Though since I beta test, I really should upgrade to at least Poser 7,  LOL

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I have abandoned P7 for PoserPro and P8 although my principle characters are still located in it's runtime.

What was your favorite P7 tip you learned here?

For me, it was to change my render options from Box to Sync. 
I still don't understand how come, but the sync results look better.

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Still on P7

Still here. Keep the tips coming. I learn something from this place every day!!

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You may feel alone, but you may well be still in the majority. Of course P8 gets all the attention, but I'm pretty sure the P7 users still outnumber the P8 users by far.

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P7 here

I have 8 but I'm still using 7 because Vue sees that one, it doesn't see 8 yet and I do all my rendering in Vue!

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 P8's getting all the attention 'cuz it's new.  There are still threads about 6 & 7 ;)

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Still using 6, too, although, like Acadia, I test and will have to upgrade as well.

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still using Poser 7 and P5. Dint see a need to upgrade cause I have not reached the pinnacle of what P5 can do :)  I have P7 only because I collaberated on a conforming figure figure and wanted to be able to fully test it .

I have no need for anything above 7.  All my renders are done outside Poser anyway so the features of 8 would be wasted

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Still on P6 here and in no hurry to upgrade till it dies on me.   ; )

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I went from Poser 5 directly to Poser 8 and the difference there in the way of face and body morphs-well between night and day.  The IDL (Indirect Lighting) in Poser 8 really add a new dimension-if done right).  My question to the users of 6 and 7 what are the head and body morphing capabilities - Those of P8 are very similiar to the V3 head and body morph pack (you do not have to buy them separately).  All eight characters have them. 

I'm trying to get folks interested in "Making Alyson Unique"  located in the sticky area so I can see what  other folks can do, mine are the only ones there, sniffle.  -plan on putting a morph of Izumi (one of the P8 characters) there shortly.  Jan

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Not enough $$$ to make the leap to version 8. Thinking I may wait for another service release as well.

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Another one who can't afford to upgrade to 8...plus I'm leery of all the problems I've seen so, though I'd love to upgrade, it might never happen for me.

I still use P7, I haven't yet upgraded to 8.

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but I use C4D with theIPP plugin that reads and loads content directly from my runtimes in to cinema  so upgrading my actual poser application has long been moot for me.

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Still on 7 here. hoping Santa can arrange a p8 delivery.

to those of you who beta test, isn't it good to test on multiple systems? don't you want to keep 5 or 6 too?

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Still on Poser 7 here, won't touch 'Pro', way too many bugs in it when I was playing around with it.
I'll wait for 8 thank ya much.( I know it's out, but I'll wait to get it.)

Heck, I'm still on Poser 5!...;) Doesn't look like there's still an upgrade to 6 or 7, so I'd have to have a heap o' foldin' money to get to 8...;)

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Close, I'm using Poser Pro (P7+) but as soon as Poser Pro 2 (P8+) comes out I'll switch over.

I love P8 but I can't live without Pro's 64-bit renderer.

I'm using 7 and I'm on the fence when it comes to deciding whether I'm going to get P8 or wait until P9 before upgrading.

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(using Poser Pro 2014 SR3, on 64 bit Win 7, poser units are inches.)

Poser Pro too.  Not in any hurry to upgrade unless SM pulls off a huge Christmas deal...

I still have Poser 7 installed and I still use it.

( Also have Poser 8 )

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Still with P7

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I'm still on 7

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I am on Poser 8.I havn't deleted P7 yet to be on the save side.Until now I havn't used P7 again,because P8 became closer to that what I want  Poser to be.New UI ,full body morph brush and dependend parameters are the features I never want to miss.After solving some start up problems with the librarie manager ,P8 runs like a charm.Well : Poser 8 rules - forget all previous.

For the folks that have previous Posers, if you use V3 or V4 (really don't need them for P8).  Do not remove those Posers.  Rationale, eg DAZ's V3 head and morph paks .exe files recognize P5, V4's  .exe files recognize P6, maybe P7, but you will run into problems locating P8.  However,  I can import any V3 models that I have made into P8 with all the dials intact, (another good thing that P8 does is remove those empty channels that do nothing). 

Timberwolf, now that you have P8, make some Alyson, Maria, etc morphs and place some in the sticky "Making Alyson Unique".  Lets show the folks what P8 can do.  JenX thought it was a good enough idea to make it a sticky.  She was going to put something there too-----hopefully SOON!!!!!!  Jan

P7 is the end of the line for me. Mostly used for anatomical refererence. I find myself trying to use Maya viewport manipulation keystrokes in P7.

You have to make a difference between the app and the content.To me P7 G2 figures and Miki2 are the best Poser figures ever.P8 figures are a completly mess.Not because they cannot be morphed well,but because of their Bodypartlengths.Those arms and legs are way to short  and not easy to fix.Of course you could use the scale dials but this will  give distortions while posing.If I praise Poser 8 as the best Poser ever ,I only mean the app itself.

I went back to Poser Pro from 8 cuz it just buggered up everything.

P6 user here! just starting building models - using P6 to "Poserize" them.
Go look at my "Uncle Mugsey's Gripe Time" thread - you'll get a lot of inspiration, lol.

Im still using Poser5.....the free version that we got from cp!

Still using P7, because I can't afford to upgrade right now. Just getting back on my feet from nearly a full year of unemployment.

I'm looking forward to eventually testing it out within the next year or so.

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Quote - I still use Poser 6.

Yup

I upgraded to Poser 8 but since I do so much in the material room, I really don't like what P8 does in terms of rearranging the order of V4's materials. Is that just me? Is there a way to keep P8 from doing that? Wanna slap whoever thought THAT might be a good idea! I spend MORE time looking for my 1_SkinFace material, and it's all higgledy-piggledy doesn't make sense at all.
So, I'm doing the bulk of my work in P7 (99.99999%) and occasionally tiptoe into P8 to try a render or something, but then save that PZ3 as something else so it doesn't stuff things up for P7.

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I still use P7, there aren't enough changes in P8 to justify upgrading. Plus the new library system (I like the old library, I have my content well organized), & the many bugs put me off.

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Still with Poser 5 (free version) and 7. I won't upgrade to v8 cause there is no more printed manual.
I'm waiting for the next version of Daz Studio; may be I'll switch...
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 Stil with P7, because I need a new PC, and got NO money to do anything with. It seems that fixed the IDL vrs AO problem with Sr1, so that's good. If I get money, I might wait until Sr2. Seems Poser releases always work best after the Sr2 is released. :laugh:  I was on P6 forever, and couldn't ger P7 to work like I needed until Sr2. Waiting and having no money goes hand and hand this time. :lol:

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Unfortunately, the days of the printed manual is over UNLESS you pay between $40 and  $50 or take the time to print out the .pdf, or print out the section that you are working on, eg hair room, material room etc and slowly build up your two manuals, the reference and the tutorial ones.  I'm getting used to the .pdf manual (of course a 24" flat screen helps). 

Now if you compare the cost of P8 vs V4, and M4 plus packages (character enhancements, clothing, hair), add them all up and the group price of  the P8 for $179 or less, you get four different female figures, four different male figures (all with a lot of head and body morphs), a string of P5-P7 legacy hair, clothing, prop suppliments, alien figure, Creech (a cuddly monster from the black lagoon morphable face morphs),  Squeeky, a morpable rat, bunny rabbit and more.  Plus room construction materials, premade walls, doors, etc. 

Maybe I can convience Ted to join Steve in making scenes in the sticky "Making Alyson Unique".  All girl figures so far, however, if some of ladies out there want to get male figures there--thats great, really great too.   Jan 

I'm still using Poser 7 even though I upgraded to 8.  I like the new interface with P8, but the work space is too small with the library taking up almost half my screen.  I still think the scroll bar for the library should be on the left and not the right because if you shrink the library width the scroll bar disappears and you have to scroll back and forth to see it.

The Poser 8 Library still has issues such as items seem to disappear and reappear under the wrong folder so it is hard to find things.  This is with the SR1 update so I use P7 mostly except it's slow and crashes often (my computer is old), but P8 doesn't crash and is faster.

I like and dislike the new Library for reasons stated above.  I like not having to get out of one runtime to go into another, but I don't like that it mixes up my library items so I can't find them even though they are still where they've always been.  I'm sticking with Poser 7 for a little while longer.

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 Just trying P8 but having problems not the least of which is the new library interface which seems unsuited for managing multiple runtimes. P7 (Mac) is stable as a rock for me.

P6 here :) ...but I only use it to set up scenes I guess. Render elsewhere.

I still think the best included Poser characters are P5 Don and Judy. The topology could have been a lot better and the eyes didn't fit in the head very well but they still had a lot going for them.

Still using Poser 7, have P8 just waiting for a couple of updates then may try it again.

I wish they would backpedal and do a 7.5 version, with improvements to the hair and cloth dynamics.  And add water dynamics.  How cool would dynamic fluids be!  They're half way there with the wind utility.

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 there's something wrong with Poser 7 ? :p

I still have P5..I tried to upgrade to 7 but ran into problems with Smith Micro's download link, so I downloaded Daz Studio and bought a bunch of plugins instead....I plan on upgrading to 8 in February or March next year.....firefly is strarting to resemble Vray in a lot of ways and the indirect lighting is looking awesome. Ive seen renders from P8 that look as good as imports in MODO.

Looks like I'll be sticking with Poser 7 for a while longer.

I thought I'd be able to use their mystery Friday the 13th coupon with the upgrade to Poser 8, but the coupon isn't good on P8 or upgrade.

But they are having a $50 off full P8 for new users.

CP/SM just don't like former Poser users, it seems.

What little money I have, then, can and will be spent on content not at CP.

-- Jeff

Question, does Poser 7 have IBL lighting and how morphable are the head and body morphs how do they compare with the head and body morphs for V3?  Jan

If Poser 7 does not have IBL or IDL, when you upgrade to Poser 8, you are in for quite a pleasant surprise.  Since I have the head and body morphs for V3,  Poser 8 is on at least an equal level to V3.  Since Poser 5 can't handle V4, I don't know about that character. 

 IBL lighting has been around since Poser 6. I use IBL lighting in Poser 7 very extensively and there are some very good IBL light sets by SaintFox, Blackhearted and others. 

For female characters in Poser, you will find far more character products for V4 than all the others combined, and that is largely on account of the V4 morphs++ package.  And because V4 is so widely used, there are vastly more clothing and hair products for her. Yes, these can be converted to other figures with Wardrobe Wizard but these conversions rarely fit as well as on the original.

Still on Poser 6 & 7. The way Poser 8's coded I can't use it. To many dependencies now. I've learned from past experience that those things change and cause problems. Add to that I run past versions Poser on Ubuntu and Wine. With Poser 8 having to interact with a proprietary browser, adobe flash and VC++2008 it's all to much for Wine to handle so I'm stuck with Poser 6 & 7 forever now.

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I tried Poser 7 in Ubuntu (WINE) but the way the interface worked was very awkward... did that get fixed? I would have dialogues coming up behind the main work window and the preview pane turn black and other weird stuff happen until I finally gave up and went back to Windows.

At this point, about all I run in Windows IS Poser (and rarely Vue). All my internet stuff and email and everything else I do in Ubuntu. People see how it runs and the lack of dramas with it (except of course running Windows-based apps) and they're instant converts. Couldn't tell you how many installs I've done. And tech support? Virtually nil.

We are talking Ubuntu Linux, 9.04.

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Quote - I tried Poser 7 in Ubuntu (WINE) but the way the interface worked was very awkward... did that get fixed? I would have dialogues coming up behind the main work window and the preview pane turn black and other weird stuff happen until I finally gave up and went back to Windows.

At this point, about all I run in Windows IS Poser (and rarely Vue). All my internet stuff and email and everything else I do in Ubuntu. People see how it runs and the lack of dramas with it (except of course running Windows-based apps) and they're instant converts. Couldn't tell you how many installs I've done. And tech support? Virtually nil.

We are talking Ubuntu Linux, 9.04.

Yeah. I've found a bunch of late Wine versions broke poser compatibility while I was trying Ubuntu Studio 9.04 but I found one that worked at the time. Maybe I shouldn't have recently installed the regular Ubuntu 9.04 over it...sorry I don't remember which Wine that was. I haven't had much time and haven't loaded Wine yet this time because I was thinking about trying Mint(another flavor of Ubuntu) Maybe I should have stuck with what I had. LOL. :unsure:

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@ Plutom Ubuntu is a version of Linux made for regular human beings. More plug & play than other versions plus more universally accepted than most Linux versions now. It's an open source Linux backed by a company called Canonical Ltd.

http://www.ubuntu.com/

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Quote - What type of Operating System is Ubuntu and Wine?????? Jan

Ubuntu is a Linux distribution, and Wine is a program that lets you run Windows programs on Linux computers.

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I was typing my question at the same time that RobynsVeil was telling something about it and MyLemonBlue thanks for the definition.  Since we who have PC's don't follow Mac OS stuff too much (least I don't, learning the nixs of Vista is plenty-you should see the six inch thick manual on Vista-the one I thumb through at Books-a Million, get a quesy feeling in my stomach accompanied by a swirling feeling in my head--same feeling I got while attempting to learn Calculus, the key word was attempting.  Jan  

Wheatpenny, thanks for the added info.---Jan

Me too ;-)
I bought a lot of scripts for Poser7 and from my point of view it´s perfect. I planed an upgrade to Poser8 on x-mas, but I always read about bugs and strange things, that I´m still not certain if I really want this upgrade in the moment.
I always have been among the first buyers with Poser6 and 7, and at all Poser 7 was nearly a full year "death on my harddrive"  before it was ready to use with SR3.

Using Poser 7, and like many others may get P8 'til all the bugs are ironed out. 

Ah...  Decisions, decisions.

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I have been going back and forth from P7 to P8.  P8 is really nice & my use of P7 is diminishing rapidly.

In using Poser 8, most of my errors have been Operator Errors.  Poser 8 does have its quirks.  However after getting to know the software, you know how to head most of them off.  An example would be render hanging-that quirk can be handled by powering down the computer and bringing it back on line (re booting).  When the RAM fills up that happens--and it does it with every RAM heavy software.  Its like learning the quirks of Vista after finally learning XP.  Poser 8 is heads and shoulders above any of the previous Posers----IMVHO.  Jan 

What?!  Rebooting when a program runs out of memory is typical?  I don't think so.  I can put Cinema 4D at the "Out of Memory" limit on 32-bit Windows and simply close Cinema 4D and continue with whatever - including restarting Cinema 4D.  What that indicates is that Poser's memory handling is sod-off with dangling memory (memory that was never freed) which then must be reclaimed slowly by the OS.  This means that the more you do this, the less available memory off of the heap each time.  If this is actually a quirk of Vista then praise Jupiter that I never upgraded.  Hope it doesn't persist in Windows 7.

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Yeah, it works and works extremely well when just rebooting the software doesn't work.  Jan 

I'll still work in Poser 7 but just yesterday started having a real play in Poser 8. I think I'm starting to get the hang of what I can do. Navigating runtimes is a lot faster!! And so are renders (using lights I'm used to in P7... haven't tried the new stuff yet), so yeah, it's all good.

Nice work, all those involved. Give me enough time and I'm quick...

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I finally fixed my Poser7 problem with the library taking up too much space by upgrading my computer and getting a wider monitor.  This also meant having to move over completely to Poser 8.  Runs much faster than my seven-year-old computer did.

I understand Poser 7 isn't compatible with Windows 7 64-bit.  I had no problems running Poser 8 and it seems to be compatible.  I didn't try installing Poser 7 using WinXP capatibility because I don't want to screw up my system.  Windows 7 is very picky about everything and I've already have to do two system restores because of issues.  I wish I'd gotten the 32-bit version instead.  Remembering the conversion from 16-bit to 32 it seemed like years before the software companies came out with compatible software.

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"I understand Poser 7 isn't compatible with Windows 7 64-bit."

erm, it works fine on it. I'm using it right now.... I did'nt install to the Program Folders, but to a separate Poser Programs folder and it's blindingly fast..

The Windows Compatibility website said it doesn't, but indicates they are working with the company.  I've found some wrong information on the Microsoft compatibility website such as drivers for other software being available when they're not.

I would like to try Poser 7 on my system to see how much faster it is.  On my old computer is locked up constantly and took forever to save files.

I thought 32-bit software had to go into the x86 Program folder.

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just install it to say C:posersPoser 7 and it'll work just fine. (I've heard that Vista and Win7 don't like things being written to Program Files ad hoc as a security measure. I've seen some evidence of this, and since poser does not have to go in Program Files at all... (infact very very few things have to be installed in the program files...))

I've run Poser's 5 6 7 and Pro just fine on Windows 7 64 here. I just uninstalled 5/6/7 to stick with Pro actually...

the only software I've had problems with are Mechcommander and Mechwarrior 3... but thats only due to them being ancient.

everything else I've thrown at Win7's worked fine.

 That is actually the best news I've heard all year. Thanks LOADS for the tip, Kai!

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useing poser 7 because poser 8 is buggy and it it's pain in the neck loading the libraries.

Still on 7 here.  Let's see I could spend out $99 to go to P8 and $199 to update Vue and have two products that don't communicate properly or stay where I am.  Don't have the $$$ anyways.
I want to wait until the major bug shakedown is done on P8 before getting into it.  From what I've seen they've gone through 2 service releases in about as many months so there are still problems.