Last week we announced that a patch would be made available on the 30th of September to fix a variety of bugs and content issues in Poser 5. Unfortunately, due to some development issues we need to postpone this patch until this Thursday, October 3rd. The extra three days will enable us to incorporate a few last critical fixes and conduct further tests of the updater.
For reference, we have prepared a list of the fixes which will be incorporated in this upcoming Poser 5 service release. Here is the inventory of updates:
On behalf of Curious Labs, I apologize for the delay and thank you for your patience.
Sincerely,
Steve Cooper
Curious Labs
APPLICATION ISSUES ADDRESSED BY POSER 5 SR-1
This section lists the known issues addressed by installing Poser 5 SR-1.
POSE Room
- Parameter dials auto-scroll when dragging/rearranging parameter dials.
- Added UNDO functionality when adjusting Parameter dials (either directly or by entering values).
- Other minor UI enhancements to the Parameters palette.
- The Parameters/Properties palette no longer appears when canceling FILE>OPEN or FILE>SAVE functions.
- Fixed a problem where the Graph and Animation palette improperly switched focus when both windows are open.
- Text in the Graph palette no longer appears truncated.
- Previously, creating new props could create improper scale channels. This issue has been fixed.
- The Hidden Line display mode no longer crashes when displaying polygons with more than 32 vertices.
- The Hidden Line display mode no longer crashes when moving the camera.
- The ground plane no longer turns off unexpectedly when moving cameras.
- Moving a camera following a render now correctly redraws the Document window.
- The Library palette does not update its display when first launching Poser 5. This speeds up launch by several seconds.
- Changes to Library folders are now detected, with Library palette pop-up menus refreshing "on the fly" as necessary.
- Clicking a Library category palette no longer inadvertently selects an item "underneath" the category listing.
- Some overlapping windows may not refresh correctly. This has been fixed.
- Switching figures with the Properties palette open generated a message that the figure name was already being used and changed the figure name to BODY 1. This no longer occurs.
- Clicking a slider groove in a scrollbar now performs a page up/page down function instead of jumping to a totally new location.
- The Walk Designer now compensates more accurately for differences in figures' zero pose states.
- The Walk Designer has been enhanced for faster launch when opened.
- The Direct Manipulation tool displays correctly when using orthogonal Camera views (Left, Right, Top, Bottom, Front, Rear)
- The Direct Manipulation tool axis display in the Document window has been enhanced for greater usability.
- Collision Detection is now enabled when adjusting Parameter dials.
- Poser's real world units have been re-scaled for greater accuracy by changing the scaling factor to 8 from 8.6.
- The default figure when launching Poser 5 is now correctly designated as Figure 1.
- Making a wind force field invisible now hides the lines showing its area of influence.
- The FIND FILES dialog no long appears behind other UI elements.
- BVH import no longer no longer causes issues with the feet.
- Attempting to locate a texture no longer causes repeated identical dialog boxes to appear.
MATERIAL Room
- Addressed potential redrawing issues when connecting shader nodes.
- Added UNDO functionality when entering node values.
- Cutting and pasting shader nodes now functions correctly.
FACE Room
- Reduced memory footprint when working in the Face room.
- When using the photo lineup feature to create custom heads, any errors in the lineup process will now appear as lines.
- Selecting FILE>NEW resets the Face room.
- Added UNDO functionality when adjusting Face room parameter dials or entering values directly.
- Enhanced texture processing when changing a head from male to female.
- Spawning a morph target now correctly includes the eyes.
- Extended use of the Face Shaping tool no longer causes a partial switch to the Pose room and a crash.
- Applying a head to a Poser 5 figure, saving, and re-entering the Face room no longer causes the figure type warning dialog to appear.
- Moving the camera no longer expands collapsed MorphPutty morphs.
HAIR Room
- Resized dial backgrounds for greater usability.
- Scaling a hair object's parent prop now functions correctly.
- Dynamic hair animations now play correctly when the Document window is set to FAST tracking.
- Fixed dynamic hair redraw errors that occurred after clearing dynamics.
- Dynamic hair rendered as sequenced images correctly populates hair and shadows in the first frame.
- Using parameter dials or moving body parts on a figure with dynamic hair in BOX and FAST tracking modes no longer causes the hair to fly off the figure.
CLOTH Room
- Resized dial backgrounds for greater usability.
- The Clothify dialog has been enhanced for greater usability.
- If an animation is longer than a cloth simulation, the cloth will remain in the position it was in at the last frame of the simulation. This corrects an issue where the cloth object snapped back to its pre-simulation state.
- Clicking the CANCEL button no longer selects the item underneath the button.
- Cloth self-collision now functions properly.
SETUP Room
- An error sometimes occurred where the Room tab did not update correctly when exiting the Setup room. This issue has been addressed.
- Selecting the SETUP room tab with no figure or prop selected properly accesses the Setup room.
- Fixed an issue where changing a body part's name to be the same as another part caused an infinitely looping dialog.
CONTENT Room
- Curious Labs continues to make progress on readying Content Paradise for launch as soon as possible. Please check the Content room regularly for updates!
Rendering/Miscellaneous
- The RENDER TO NEW WINDOW function now works correctly. The new render window now appears on top of other UI elements.
- When doing multiple renders to new windows, the new windows no longer contain artifacts from previous renders.
- Fixed an issue where exporting image files inserted an inverted alpha channel.
- Fixed 2D motion blur when exporting image and movie files.
- The in-room HTML Help window closes when the current Poser document (scene) is closed.
- The range of motion limits on the Poser 5 figures' right shins caused problems when Inverse Kinematics (IK) was enabled. This no longer occurs.
- The Library palette's last category/subcategory is now preserved when switching rooms.
- Several issues with conforming (figure-based) clothing have been addressed.
- Rendering using the Poser 4 renderer no longer causes a crash when a walk path is present.
- Rendering using the Poser 4 renderer no longer crashes when multiple pane views are enabled.
- Added numerous minor enhancements when exporting Viewpoint files to reduce file size.
- Modal dialogs have been modified to be truly modal.
- Poser 5 now supports mouse wheels when scrolling.
- Poser 5 now ignores clicking in the Parameter palette and other locations while rendering.
- FIxed a crash when the ground and/or figure was made invisible using the Hierarchy Editor prior to rendering.
Fixed potential crashes when reactivating Poser from the background during a render.
- The status bar updates more regularly when rendering using the Poser 4 renderer.
- Content names with ampersands (&) no longer caused "Badly formed" XML errors.
- Ray-traced shadows have been improved.
- Ray-traced reflection and refraction have been improved.
- There is a new option in both the RENDER TO NEW WINDOW and MOVIE settings: Constrain Aspect Ratio. When enabled, this function allows you to resize one value (height or width) and have Poser automatically calculate the other value. This option remains enabled when toggling between the Poser 4/FireFly rendering engines.
- Make Movie settings are no longer tied to the Document window size.
- The RENDER TO NEW WINDOW settings are no longer tied to the Document window.
- Erroneous "Insufficient disk space to render current image" error messages fixed.
- Fixed figure face morphs to have names that properly match DAZ Mimic output for greater compatibility with Mimic.
- Fixed a shutter open/shutter close issue to make these values valid across all animation frames when using the FireFly renderer.
- Motion Blur is now properly displayed in single-frame renderings.
- The Sketch Designer Preset window appears in front of the Sketch Designer window, and the CANCEL and OK buttons are active.
CONTENT FIXES/ENHANCEMENTS
Poser 5 Service Release 1 contains the following content fixes and enhancements:
- Full body morphs are now enabled on all iterations of the Poser 5 Nude Female (Judy) figure.
- Added Left Collar morphs to enable full body morphs on all iterations of the Poser 5 Male (Don) figures.
- Added a new "Ear Morph parameter dial group with morph targets to all iterations of the Poser 5 Male (Don) figures.
- Added X,Y, and Z Translate channels for eye geometry in the Poser 5 Nude Female (Judy) figures and in the Poser 5 Child (Will/Penny) figures.
- The Preview material color is now white for all figures and attached hair props.
- The Walk Designer now includes a set of updated files for improved performance.
- Conforming clothing functions properly after a render.
- The "Penny Casual" figure's inner elbows have been fixed.
- When Inverse Kinematics (IK) is disabled, rotating the figure 180 degrees no longer "breaks" conformed clothing.
- The ankle geometry on the Poser 5 figures no longer deforms when the USE LIMITS option is enabled.
