Now, if I can just figure out how to write a Poser addon that reads my Studio content db….

Which I’ve now done…

I do have to say that Poser 8 is a HUGE improvement, both in the UI and stability. The new content library is a bit… meh, but if like me you’re happy with your existing content it certainly makes the choice between Poser and Studio a lot more difficult. The only real thing I miss in P8 is my nice organised content database from Studio, but the favorites tab helps out there. Now, if I can just figure out how to write a Poser addon that reads my Studio content db….

In Poser my work usually goes something like this:

1. Start Poser
2. Load figure
3. Angle camera
4. Go make sandwich while waiting for camera to decide what it’s looking at
5. Restart after crash
6. Load figure
7. Dress figure
8. Restart after crash
9. Steps 1-7
10. Cloth room
11. Restart after crash

You see what I mean.

The ONLY strength Poser has over DAZ is it’s render engine, which unfortunately, good enough for me to keep trying with the program.

On the WordPerfect argument, I know people who say vi is by far the best option for editing text files. That may be true for the 1% of people who edit text files that actually *know* vi, but for the other 99% of us the best option is something that has menus and doesn’t require us to know what the keyboard shortcuts are

Yes, I’m heavily biased towards DAZ Studio. It lets me do what I want to do as one of the majority who are still learning about this stuff. I just see that as a counter to the heavily-biased longtime Poser users who keep telling everyone the answer to their problem is to jump ship. Personally I’ll choose the new, experimental, unfinished option over the slow, clunky proven one and wait for the designers to fill in the missing parts by the time I need them. Obviously that isn’t the answer for people who are already using those advanced features in Poser.

Currently, the only thing I’m unhappy with in DAZ Studio is the lighting, and that’s more a problem of me having to learn how to do it properly. In the future, my next hurdle will be the lack of an assembly room, but I reckon the Figure Setup Tools should tide me over. I’d like to be able to pin limbs in position in global space too, but I think I’m close to having a handle on that by the time it becomes more than a minor irritation.

Oh, and sorry, but when Poser 7 can’t keep up with what I’m doing when I manipulate a single figure with no props on a three-month old quad core machine with 4GB of RAM I figure it isn’t my PC thats the problem. It looks like the programmers were more concerned with drawing a pretty custom UI than a fast, usable one.

For Poser vs. DAZ. Your post is not correct in describing what it will cost to get a Poser-like feature set with DS. You’ll pay more. On the other had there are AniMate and other ideas I can’t get with Poser today.

So, you can’t compare the basic DS with Poser. That’s not fair. And I can’t recognize that the rendering result are better because they have an industry standard compatible (how many percent?) renderer. All the images I have seen so far were not better than with Poser, but a lot were much worser (maybe because of the limited functions of the basic DS).

I’m looking at every release of DS, but I’m still waiting for the functionality that beats what Poser delivers. Then I also would accept to use this ugly user interface. Did you have a look at Poser 7? The interface is fast, the rendering is fast. Ok you need the right hardware, maybe that’s the problem with your biased comparison here.