aeilkema opened this issue on Apr 01, 2011 · 29 posts
aeilkema posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 2:24 AM
Attached Link: Shocking news........
I'm not sure if any of you are following the Smith Micro blog, but they've released some shocking news...... the development of Poser 9 has been cancelled.
They do give a number of reasons, you can read all of it on their blog, but let me give you to highlites..... The main reason they mention are the disappointing sales figures for Poser 8, Pro 2010 and now Debut. Debut was released as the ultimate endeavour to force some breakthroughs, but has been a huge let down for Smith Micro. Second reason, amongst others, are problems with some of the external parties Poser depends upon. There are a number of technical, but also personal issue, resulting in some of the external parties withdrawing their support.
Anyway, read the full story at their blog.
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http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722
Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(
Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk
SamTherapy posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 2:40 AM
PhilC posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 3:31 AM
Hardy har hah :)
saibabameuk posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 4:01 AM
Ok what have you all been doing to lovely Smith Micro!
I suppose Poser will become a White Elephant sitting in the proverbial room of my charity money expenses.
Should have gone for another programme (my tech friends said so)!
Investment is the only way forward.
Apart from Daz what should I go for now? the idea is to make educational animation movies.
Any ideas?
R_Hatch posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 4:19 AM
Quote - And today's date is?
March 32, 2011. What?
saibabameuk posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 4:30 AM
Hook line and sinker, never mind has anybody got a better animation programme not Daz?
rokket posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 4:56 AM
I am working on getting Blender to do what I want it to. I am still using Poser 8 and still learning it. I guess there is just so much to the program that I haven't even touched yet, that I won't be upgrading even if I could...
If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.
NanetteTredoux posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 6:03 AM
I believed it too.
And my fallback plan is also Blender.
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RobynsVeil posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 7:45 AM
Quote - I believed it too. And my fallback plan is also Blender.
Even if it isn't true, I'm a bit over the Poser thing... I'm sort of going the route of using Poser as a pose tool only, and doing everything else everywhere else. Poser 9 is going to have to be pretty crash-hot to entice me.
Thank goodness for Pose2Lux for giving me that push. 
Monterey/Mint21.x/Win10 - Blender3.x - PP11.3(cm) - Musescore3.6.2
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[it is clear that humans have contempt for that which they do not understand]
MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 7:56 AM
i fell for it. :tongue1:
do they have an official survey asking for opinions on what we would like to see for future Poser?
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aeilkema posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 8:10 AM
Quote - i fell for it. :tongue1:
do they have an official survey asking for opinions on what we would like to see for future Poser?
Haven't seen the survey yet, but usually they do have one. If I recall somewhere in the summer.
Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722
Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(
Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk
WandW posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 8:25 AM
The post at SM is gone-must have caused too much angst.
I almost bought this Linux announcement...
"We are pleased to announce the birth of the Canterbury distribution. Canterbury is a merge of the efforts of the community distributions formerly known as Debian, Gentoo, Grml, openSUSE and Arch Linux.
The target is to produce a really unified effort and be able to stand up in a combined effort against proprietary operating systems, to show off that the Free Software community is actually able to work together for a common goal instead of creating more diversity."
http://www.opensuse.org/
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adh3d posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 8:38 AM
Well, I am reading their blog
http://blog.smithmicro.com/category/poser-3d/
and I don't find that post, can you tell me where you see it...
MagnusGreel posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 8:58 AM
it's not cancelled.. check the date.....
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Acadia posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 9:00 AM
"It is good to see ourselves as
others see us. Try as we may, we are never
able to know ourselves fully as we
are, especially the evil side of us.
This we can do only if we are not
angry with our critics but will take in good
heart whatever they might have to
say." - Ghandi
KimberlyC posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 9:18 AM
:blink:
good one aeikema. lol
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adh3d posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 10:35 AM
grichter posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 11:19 AM
There is one floating around the net this morning about Nokia telling MS to go pound sand as they have merged with Google and the combination will now be called Nookle. As the days goes on I am sure we iwll see some crazy stuff.
Daz has got two good ones
Read the details and click on the thumb nails.
V5 is going to come with a 64 bit flux capactor or so it says :)
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/victoria-5-preview?item=12368&_m=d
and
http://www.daz3d.com/i/3d-models/-/unflatable-pony-iii?item=12367&_m=d
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
efstarlet posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 11:33 AM
Ha! Good one Benjamin! We (Smith Micro and CP) didn't post anything today, and if development has been canceled, someone should probably tell those engineers I saw with their heads down as I was leaving the building yesterday. ;-) The web team did talk a lot about what kind of light hearted joke we could play, but I don't think we'd ever be brave enough to do something that would stir the pot THAT much. hehe! No joke from us this year, but we're enjoying all the other clever ideas around the web!
grichter posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 12:18 PM
So is Poser 9 going to include Google Motion
http://mail.google.com/mail/help/motion.html
This is major cool. Only request I have is that when I give my monitor the finger after I get frustratated with my lights, material nodes and shadows that the Make Art function is envoked.
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
grichter posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 12:24 PM
Then there is google translate for animals. You record an animals noise and it translates it back so you undertstand what the animal is trying to tell you
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9fbT0S15p7k&NR=1
Gary
"Those who lose themselves in a passion lose less than those who lose their passion"
Cage posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 12:36 PM
Oh, man. It's April 1 again, isn't it? :scared:
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aeilkema posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 1:08 PM
Yep it's April 1..... normally I'm the one falling for all the jokes, but this time I was quick enough to make one myself. It's kind of fun for once not being fooled, but to fool others.....
My kids got to me this mourning though.... they got 2 fake spiders, that looked way to real and did hang them outside my bedroom door. I hate spiders, you can imagine how shocked I was running into them when opening the door..... yuk.
Artwork and 3DToons items, create the perfect place for you toon and other figures!
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/bcs/index.php?vendor=23722
Due to the childish TOS changes, I'm not allowed to link to my other products outside of Rendo anymore :(
Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk
MistyLaraCarrara posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 1:39 PM
this announcement made me make it all the way to the sm page to see how much the upgrade to 8 is, never went so far before lol
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Nance posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 3:54 PM
Actually, I wasn't aware of the S/M Poser blog site, so thanks for that link.
adh3d posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 5:18 PM
The problem for people , like me, that live in other country is that this day is not the april 1st , for example, in my country , a day like today is 28th December.
Dave-So posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 5:40 PM
OK ..now who's coming over here to clean the brown off my floor.
Humankind has not
woven the web of life. We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves. All things are bound
together.
All things connect......Chief Seattle,
1854
SteveJax posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 7:02 PM
I guess this was a case of the Early Birds got eaten by the Worm!
TheOwl posted Fri, 01 April 2011 at 10:17 PM
Attached Link: http://sadtrombone.com/
Hey!Passion is anger and love combined. So if it looks
angry, give it some love!