Forum: Poser 13


Subject: Future of Poser

cappy3 opened this issue on Aug 21, 2024 ยท 87 posts


Shadow^Mist posted Mon, 23 September 2024 at 4:55 PM

Further to Rhia474's observation, the latest edition of the Poser 13 manual appears out-of-date. Recently I searched for insight on the Subsurface Skin's ScatterScale function/settings and found nothing using the manual's search function. Clicking around didn't help.

As for content development, I've held off posting this because I don't know how many users this affects. But at least for me, new figures that only have dynamic clothes are non-starters and will not replace the SASH2019 version of V4.2+ I use. I may be the only one, but I get dynamic clothes to drape correctly less than 10% of the time. In fact, I bought an item that included two versions of the same thing plus a simulation and instructions. One draped as it should have. The other didn't even come close, leaving me to wonder whether the vendors even understood this process. And for those who actually figured out the dynamics, it seems dynamic clothes may work well for single character pin-up renders. But for those of us who create scenes that include, for example, three characters on a sidewalk, buildings in the background, and a motion-blurred car driving down the street, dynamic clothing completely hoses up the render. I realize that may be simply due to my lack of knowledge, but as Rhia474 noted, a little information may cause some of us to finally understand the dynamic morass and buy new products. As it is now, I'm sticking with conforming clothes that I can adjust/alter with the morph and grouping tools. I would very-much like an up-to-date tutorial on how to convert dynamic clothing to conforming and how to actually make conforming clothing conform. But if LF2.0 and Dawn2.0 are dynamic clothing only figures, SASHA 2019 will remain my figure of choice.

As always, just my contribution to the marketplace of ideas.