Well I would have soon if it were to be released with a version for 9.2. Yes I understand that OS X is the future but it aint the present. I dont HATE OS X but if CL released Poser 5 for just 9 and let the X men wait, since some Windows users system or not dont even have the hardware to run it, this will turn into a bit more cash sooner. Also I might tell some people how I do the animated textures, please excuse the reference to the rug in that avi.

I'm excited about poser5 but putting things like that in the subject line is only going to get you turned to a crispy critter. Let flaming commence :) Rob

Damn you are such a loser. I already knew it was fake, but still I clicked.

That animgif is a killer... WOW!

L'ultima fòrza è nella morte.

Is she in the new version of "Teletubbies"? If so I`m going to watch!!

Yup! Really cool animation. There've been so many "poser 5" subject lines, when the true announcement come out, no one will notice or believe it. :)

You don't have animated textures, it lookl like you have made an animation with a color set to transparent and put an avi below - you can hardly call that an animated texture. It is clear to see that the movie does not texture her pants, it is flat like a wall. No deformations at all. Not too impressive, if you ask me.

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how cute.

Well, if they did go ahead and make a version for 9.2 then at least the OS X users could still use the program in classic format. But with such a small market share, it's probably best to stick with the current standard and just make one version of the software, rather then two.

I came, I rendered, I'm still broke.

Yes they can all use the application in classic mode like us normal people. Its likely that its only OS X that is giving CL difficulty. That or their waiting to see what hardware Apple are bringing out, and that conference in on the 9th of September.

Id never have thought of that transparency thing. Thats not how I did it and I dont know how the other one on the T-shirt, which I admit is hard to see on the under-200k version, could have been done that way. Theres no post work and only Poser 4.0.3 was used. Above is the figure without the texture.

Sorry but OS-X is AWESOME! Get with the times!

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OS-X may be AWESOME but I just think it's holding up the MAC version of Poser 5.

Will the OS 9 version be out before the OS X one?

OS 10.1.5 is the present... OS 10.2 is the future! Anyone telling you OS X is still in the "future" needs a serious reality check. OS X was released March 2001 (over a year ago) and it's shipping on all new macs. OS9 reached the end of the line at version 9.2.2. It's no longer being developed. I bet that the majority of people with macs here are switching back to OS 9 only to use Poser. -Adam

I'm also assuming Curious Labs is making Poser 5 "carbonized", so it will be native to X but still run on OS 9.2.2. That way, they can put all their efforts into making it run right in X and not have OS 9 development slowing them down.

What is slowing down the developement of Poser 5 is the lack of co operation from Apple. That is just my opinion, (incidentaly, last time there was NEAR this much silence, I think it was before the Dual 550s)

I don't agree that Apple is at fault for the delay, which is to say I don't buy the "apple not returning calls" excuse. As any programmer worth their salt will tell you, contacting the OS or compiler manufacturer is a last resort effort. You are first expected to exhaust all other developer resources, such as newsgroups, apple developer network technotes, mactech articles, peers, etc... I would not expect kupa's team to get quick fixes from Apple, it just doesn't work like that. Case in point: Poser is the last piece of software I'm using that has not been upgraded to run on OS X. Even my favorite lowly shareware apps are carbonized, and you can bet those programmers get NO attention from Apple. As an Apple/Mac programmer of 15 years, I've had to call Apple and Metrowerks 2 or 3 times each IIRC for a tech support issue, and only when I was sure there was a bug in the OS and compiler respectively. You're never going to get as timely a response as from a fellow programmer (or group thereof). -Adam

All right, I'm a sucker for workarounds. How did you accomplish the "animated" texture in Poser 4 alone? Manually load a new texture for each frame of the animation? Please tell.

Video clip (MPEG format, 265KB)
I managed this "animated" texture by rendering the same animation twice, once with the human textures, and once with the wolfie textures. Then I loaded both videos into Premiere and did a simple dissolve from one to the other.

Attached Link: http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,431382,00.asp

Apple has just announced that the next round of OS X after 10.2 will prevent users from being able to boot into OS 9. In addition, the next batch of new macs will not even support OS 9. The reason they give is that they want developers to move to X and stop writing OS 9 software. If that's not proof enough that OS 9 is dead, I don't know what is. -Adam

Yes Ive heard that one too. A relevant point terminusnord contacting the OS or compiler manufacturer as a last resort but its been developing and wish-listing for two years, and it can happen that they could get some trouble. No, youre right Apples being screwed again, the world is coming to an end and Steve Jobs is a vampire. Nice clip Little_Dragon, but Im amazed that no-one has worked it out yet. Doozy has worked out an alternative method which he has in freestuff, but his cant go round corners like mine, at least they couldnt last time I looked. But quess what? He uses a MAC as well! and were the ones not getting Poser 5!

anyone ever tried using a windows emulator??

Didn't work for mimic

I'm running VirtualPC 5 on my home mac. It's slow, but it lets me use the occasional PC utility, and i can use it to unpack things that are .exe autoextracting archives. you can't use it to run windows versions of 3d software, it's not that good. -Adam

oh well, it was just a thought. guess ill just stick to using my poor mac as a standby

The larger GIF that would not fit under the 200kb limit for threads is now in the gallery.

Which is now fixed!! ... with the looping turned back on