Forum: Poser 14


Subject: I Am So NOT Impressed!

anupaum opened this issue on Dec 08, 2025 ยท 69 posts


anupaum posted Mon, 08 December 2025 at 3:11 PM

Ugh! This program is vexing!

P14 appears to have broken a lot of things that were working well in P13. Among them, there is no ambient occlusion in Superfly. Also, Superfly no longer handles the hair shaders for blonde hair that worked in earlier versions.

This image looked really nice with just Brenna, but the moment I added Garrick, his hair created all manner of problems. It rendered as brown and quite ugly. I tried fiddling with the shader, disconnecting all the Snarly's EZ-Skin shader nodes that had broken lines (which on Aether Hair, the prop that I use for Garrick, has about ten different materials). The program crashed frequently when I did this.

Crashing is frequent, and usually related to messing around in the Materials Room, or heavy use of the Morph Brush -- which is necessary, now that we no longer have a cloth room

To fix the problem, I reverted to the "stock" Aether Hair shader and turned the Blinn reflectivity down to about 20% to get the look you see here.
Not having ambient occlusion means that Brenna's cleavage will glow. I had to paint in a shadow by hand in Photoshop.

Oh, and the "easy background" they'd been touting looks like the third image I'm posting here. I can't make it work. The first two images have a transparent background, with the final image layered beneath in Photoshop. The last one is what it looks like "straight out of the box." Please note the "glowing cleavage." This is a feature even with "light emitter" on the torso turned off. I can fix this by adjusting the Blinn settings for the torso, but then it doesn't match the rest of her skin.

Ugh!

So I can't say I'm happy with the upgrade.