Can I gripe for a minute?  I just today bought a few interiors from the Rosity marketplace, which is unusual for me.  I decided to test one right away.

So I loaded the room into a scene with one Antonia and clothing, and a few props.  I set up one IBL light and three point lights, only one of them with shadows.  And I began to render, starting my latest adventure with Poser.

Poser would not render more than half of the image.  It kept stopping, so I altered the render settings.  Then Poser suggested some more refined settings the next time it stopped rendering.  I made the changes and tried again, and got a series of the old "You are out of memory!" warnings.  Poser finally crashed.

So I opened a RAM monitor and tried again.  My CPU was going at 100% during the full render (as much of it as would run, anyway) and the free RAM steadily dropped until it was below 30%, when Poser threw a rod again.

So I reduced all of the tileable textures for my new interior to 256x256 and tried again.  Now the textures looked pretty crappy, actually, but Poser at least cooperated enough to render the scene.  Very slowly.  :lol:  The CPU was at 100% the whole time and the free RAM dropped below 25% and all of the fans were going full tilt.  I wasn't very impressed by this.  "Maybe I need to stick to Naked Antonia against a blank background", I thought.

But we Poser users must be persistent.  We must love it when Poser gives us a hard time.  Which is maybe 80% of the time, in my ten years of experience.  :lol:

So I opened this same scene in Poser 7 and rendered it.  The render was faster, the free RAM never dropped below 51%, the CPU usage was high but only rarely spiking to 100%, and the fans didn't work as hard.

Which is rather interesting.  So it seems I can still get better results by using Poser 7.  Poser 8 has had three service releases, has been out well over a year, and is finally stable.  It seems likely to have reached the point where it won't be patched up any more.  And yet.

I shall yell right away.  Are you prepared for me to yell?

 

POSER 8 ISN'T DONE YET!!!

 

Okay.  I feel better now.  At least until I try it again with Poser 8.  Seriously, what is the deal?  I mean, I am asking myself why I bother with Poser.  I know the deal with that: I'm a bit slow, really.  But what is the deal, SM guys?  Seriously.  Fix the thing.  Make it work.  Fix the bugs.  Stop making me hate you so much.

That's all.

 

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Cage can be an opinionated jerk who posts without thinking.  He apologizes for this.  He's honestly not trying to be a turkeyhead.

Cage had some freebies, compatible with Poser 11 and below.  His Python scripts were saved at archive.org, along with the rest of the Morphography site, where they were hosted.