Poser 11.2 -- The NEW Poser :(

[Fafnir]

rendo  poser  meh  just a new way to make  monies for them and make us  shell out for their benefit  not  good

[Aelin]

Thank you Mary! As soon as I'll be able, I'll go on the Poser comp and check that. I liked so much work with P10, even if I like also P11. Be able to keep it would allow me to check my packs on a version before P11 and the superfly.

Guys, (and I know Ray and Dreamer talked on that before in Coffee Shop) each time we had an update on a version of Poser we owned, we had the update for free. I saw nowhere Rendo saying it won't be free for owners of P11.
I'm fine with updates specially if we have something new in content.

Don't you believe if Rendo would make that update paying for owners of P11 it would be like shooting a bullet in their foot? They bought Poser, they have no reason to act badly - otherwise they know well they'll lose a large part of the Poser community. I'm sure they don't want that.

The fact is the update was talked since months on the Smith Micro forum, even before Poser was sold to Rendo. It was in boxes. Rendo is just making the last adjustments to do well the update.

So I'll wait quietly to see what will happen 

[sidherose]

I don't know what happened in the Coffee Shop except a lot of erroneous conclusions were jumped to and I'm not even sure how.

[CardinalBiggles]

as far as PoserPro 14 is concerned, I was able to use it having turned off the internet, so hoping that needing some online password isn't needed.

[sidherose]

rendo  poser  meh  just a new way to make  monies for them and make us  shell out for their benefit  not  good

May I reiterate, this is free just like any other SR on any other version of Poser. PP2014 had I think 7 SRs. They were all free. You don't pay for SR's (Service Releases).

What this is partially going to do, is like on your Splash Screen when you open up Poser and you're used to seeing it saying it's from Smith-Micro, it's going to say now it's from Bondware. Little things like that that 're-brand' the software to Bondware. Anywhere S-M was listed will now be Bondware. There are also bug fixes they've corrected in order to get other things to work right.

[sidherose]

as far as PoserPro 14 is concerned, I was able to use it having turned off the internet, so hoping that needing some online password isn't needed.

It would be checking your License Key on the Smith-Micro servers for PP2014, which probably no longer exist as they were.

Hopefully your solution will work but we just have to try it and see hon.

[CardinalBiggles]

I will get the service update if I have to but to be honest, I don't like Poser 11 as much as PP2014.  I bought it and found it disappointing - it's less intuitive to use and I am definitely unimpressed by superfly

[Aelin]

Superfly results, like Iray in DS4, depend for a part of material we own I guess. If you haven't a machine able to work with it, you'll have problems - like "noise" on pictures.
And I never used it myself because I can't, but I suppose Superfly depends also from skills for lights we have.

Waiting, I saw on Poser site another article where people like Bagginsbill help with advices for the update.

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EDIT:
https://www.posersoftware.com/article/416/an-update-about-the-poser-transition

[Aelin]

Also, another article from the middle of the month
https://www.posersoftware.com/article/421/3-things-to-know-about-posers-development

Specially that sentence can help everyone to see better the things
After purchasing a new version or upgrading your old Poser, you will receive a serial number for your software and instructions for downloading the installer.

For me clearly no money is asked for people who own already Poser.

[CardinalBiggles]

Yes, I did find out that lighting makes a lot of difference, I have a secondhand gaming machine with a good NvIDIA graphics card and 16 gb ram for it, and it goes like a bat out of hell but I wasn't impressed with the way it handled skin and it doesn't like SSS at all.  If it had made a real difference on armour and on vehicles, I might have been more impressed but  as it was, meh.