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Subject: Compatibility between versions of Poser: what's changed?

Cyberwoman opened this issue on Oct 03, 2010 · 7 posts
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Cyberwoman ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 1:20 PM · edited Tue, 30 July 2024 at 3:34 AM

Does anyone have any idea how Poser 7 content runs in earlier versions of Poser? (I'm assuming that it runs just fine in Poser 8/Pro 2010.) I've heard that dynamic hair and cloth don't work in versions of Poser earlier than 5, and a lot of things I've seen seem to indicate that content for Poser 7 and 6 is virtually interchangeble--is that true? I've looked online for some sort of compatibility chart, but I haven't been able to find one.

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Miss Nancy ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 1:54 PM · edited Sun, 03 October 2010 at 2:07 PM

it's true that poser 4 and poser pro-pak didn't have dyn. hair/cloth, nor could they use any
procedurals (shader trees/mt5).  poser 4 had "hair" cmd, but rarely used, like GIRender in poser 7.


hborre ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 2:10 PM

Currently, many content vendors are not offering compatibility below P7. 

Cyberwoman ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 2:34 PM

Quote - Currently, many content vendors are not offering compatibility below P7. 

That's what I'm thinking I might do. Except that it really frustrates me when content is for Poser 8/Pro 2010 only (haven't upgraded because Poser 7 does everything I need it to do), and I hate to cause the same frustration for people still using older versions. Then again, does anyone use anything older than Poser 7 now? I haven't seen anyone mention Poser 6 in a long time, except in tutorials. Hmm...

~*I've made it my mission to build Cyberworld, one polygon at a time*~

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LaurieA ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 4:09 PM

Believe it or not, there are still quite a few Poser 6 users. When I do freebies, I don't go below version 6 though.

Laurie


Cyberwoman ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 5:35 PM

Quote - Believe it or not, there are still quite a few Poser 6 users.

I can absolutely believe there's lots of Poser 6 users. (Hey, I'm still on Adobe Photoshop Elements 2... and the last time I checked the industry was on PSE 8 or something like that.) I'd like to make my content compatible with Poser 6 as well as Poser 7+, does anyone know things that changed between Poser 6 and 7 that might make my content not work?

~*I've made it my mission to build Cyberworld, one polygon at a time*~

Watch it happen at my technology blog, Building Cyberworld.

icprncss2 ( ) posted Sun, 03 October 2010 at 6:28 PM

Content compatability may only become an issue now that P8 has alternate rigging.  I haven't tried using any P8 content in a lower version so I don't know if this is a problem.

Python is the biggest compatability problem.  There was a minor change that lead to some mimor issues with some compiled Python scripts between P6 and P7.  There has been a major change between P7 and P8.  Many compiled scripts written for P7 will not work in P8. 

 

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