Poser 8 coming up!

[sbrowne]

Smith Micro has taken a full-page ad in the latest issue of 3D World magazine; all it says is "POSER 8" and, in a small logo, "SIGGRAPH 2009". The SIGGRAPH Conference will be held August 3rd-7th in New Orleans, and I take it that S-M will unveil Poser 8 there.

If they call it "Poser 8" at least it will allay some confusion. Presently we have Poser 7 and Poser Pro, which actually seems to be Poser v7.0.3 if you can unearth the version #. I can find nothing about "Poser 8" on the Smith Micro Website.

[redones]

interesting!!!
I can't wait :) Hope in big features enhanced!

[Bu_es]

Yes it is interesting ... and has to have major news .. Dazstudio because the is a competition .... and some things to overcome with the latest version

[jmdgn]

They really need to keep improving Poser, but I worry that it is being done without the support and input of the user base and by a company who may not be totally focused on making a great 3D app even better. Time will tell I guess.

[past_tense]

Poser 8 sounds awesome. Hopefully they will improve upon a lot, mainly the figures. Hopefully the new figures ( the next victoria or something) will be less symetrical, and have more realistic details, like skin,hair etc.Also the joints needs a lot of improvement. But i'm pysched about this.

[kingjeremy02]

The most frustrating aspect of Poser for me has been the file structure and inconsistencies between characters in that structure. It would probably be too much to hope for a streamlined re-working of that aspect. But ya never know, right? Here's hoping for a better 8!

[royo]

Before the 'real' thing - get ready for a load of rubbish being posted all over the net pertaining to be 8.
Then a lot of phoney cracks and S/n's.
Be patient.

[Lustypooh]

I am already psyched for Poser 9 after hearing this. When is that coming out? :) :)

Mr. Impatient

[Atrushan]

I've seen lots of people thinking Poser Pro is actually Poser 8. This could end in some confusion one the "real" Poser 8 is out.

By the way, has anybody ever made/seen anything for the two human figures that came with Poser Pro? Not Simon/Sydney, those ugly other two (does they even have a name?).

[jordan0210]

its going to be awesome. i love working with poser

[Jennyver]

I can only hope this version is better as the poser 7 Pro.

[ralfetas]

What i dream in poser (and never will be true)
Muscle structure - Like maya, c4d, 3dmax and any other character app. So the character could finally bend and move like any other living person and not like barbie.
Smart Clothes - DAZ improve a lot on this with morphfollowover
Soft Body Dynamics - So if you drop a ball on the character belly for example they will react to this, or if you make a shake hands for example.

All this is not impossible task, is just need a complete new software... So i think we could expect the same old poser and his bugs...

I believe daz have better chances of making a good software tham smithmicro.

[jharney]

Was on Runtime DNA yesterday and they had a full page about the new features of Poser 8. It has massive improvements however it still has a couple of things like the render engine that needs work. All in all I found it very impressive!:)

[userdude]

Hopefully ,it will be an improvement for memory management, as well as rendering time...

Win Xp 64, Quadcore 2.66 ,4 gb ddr2, and boy , it,s slowwwww.....

[Fly By Night]

Poser 8 sounds awesome. Hopefully they will improve upon a lot, mainly the figures. Hopefully the new figures ( the next victoria or something) will be less symetrical, and have more realistic details, like skin,hair etc.Also the joints needs a lot of improvement. But i'm pysched about this.
You can easily make a model assymetric by adjusting the parameters, especially of the face, assymetrically.
Also I usually set the blink on the eyes to about 40% since the models are usually staring otherwise.
Sub-surface-scattering on skin makes it a lot more realistic. There are SSS shaders with some DAZ models, e.g. Valeria.
But i'm still a newbie, of about 5 years standing, since I only dabble in 3d.

[bacacar]

Did anyone notice, whenever they make a new Poser how they change the name of the company???? Strange, ha!?

[GlamoReloaded]

I can only hope this version is better as the poser 7 Pro.
There was never a 'Poser 7 Pro'.

Did anyone notice, whenever they make a new Poser how they change the name of the company????
Every SECOND new Poser...:D

Poser history see here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poser

[tammy]

I hope this poser is better as poser 7

[kostasthegreat]

poser 8 is already in the download area :-)

[sweetikins]

oh my Poser 8 lol im still trying to learn Poser 6 hehe

[damianday]

Is it worth upgrading from poser 7? seems like they always releasing new versions