Closely Guarded Secret

[KageRyu]

Again, not my point.

 

[KageRyu]

@Doug Hunter for some reason when I first came to this thread I only saw the notes about the Poser 13 newsletter and not the first few posts about your Super-Hero families for Dawn 2. I just became aware of those. Those look fantastic. I apologize for what I now see was thread-jacking to respond to news of Poser 13, as I had thought that was what the closely Guarded secret was about. I will refrain from adding further.

I do hope you continue to develop your Super-Hero outfits for Dusk and Dawn. Have you considered making more "Generic" costume pieces and kits for Dusk and Dawn to market as products? Those would be welcome I am sure.

 

[unreal]

Poser is probably the only software I would consider having on subscription as, even when real life gets in the way, I doubt there is a month that goes by without me using Poser at some point. I did have a subscription with Vue way back but it's use was secondary to Poser and I felt guilty each month I paid the subscription but did not use it as it seemed such a waste.

I have updated Poser 12 on a regular basis as I run a fair few of the scripts from Ken 1171 designs and most need the latest version to work. The scripts are important to me as I lost so many scripts with the move to Poser 12 thanks to the use of python 3.

If they went subscription, it would be over for me. I don't subscribe.

 

[Hornet3d]

If they went subscription, it would be over for me. I don't subscribe.

I can understand that, Poser would be the exception for me as I use it so much, other than that I have three other subscriptions, Game Pass for my X Box and Prime membership both on Amazon and Renderosity. I did have a subscription for Vue but could not justify it for the amount I used it. I do not subscribe to any streaming service, other than Amazon Prime but that is an add on as I mainly pay for it for the free next day delivery.

The ideal for me would be the option for both all out purchase and subscription as, long as there was a monthly subscription available, as that allows users who could not find the initial lump sum to buy into the software.

 

[unreal]

"With Poser 13, you can now set up your own start-up scene, complete with your favorite figures, props, and settings."
Yeah, not a new feature, this has been available since Poser 7.

"We've added support for more remote rendering services including GPU-based remote render nodes."
But now Queue manager seats count against your license and if you want more than two render nodes you need to buy more seats.

I hardly call reorganized content a "Feature". Still no Micro-poly support in Superfly so still useless to me.

I am very disappointed in this long hyped upgrade. I will not be upgrading to 13 even if I get my computer issues resolved and get back to 3D.

But it does include a port of CyclesX, no?

My wishlist is complete cycles node support. And the "spike in the endzone" is the ability to at least *use* materials made for Blender CyclesX.

It would also be nice if their Metal support (for rendering) was as good as Blender. Which isn't awesome. But is coming along.

How cool would it be that Poser actually outputs render files that Blender Cycles could also render. That would be ginormous!

Also, superhero costumes are fab. The aquapeople is especially eye catching!

 

[MEC4D]

Just bookmarking ..

 

[Doug Hunter]

@Doug Hunter for some reason when I first came to this thread I only saw the notes about the Poser 13 newsletter and not the first few posts about your Super-Hero families for Dawn 2. I just became aware of those. Those look fantastic. I apologize for what I now see was thread-jacking to respond to news of Poser 13, as I had thought that was what the closely Guarded secret was about. I will refrain from adding further.

I do hope you continue to develop your Super-Hero outfits for Dusk and Dawn. Have you considered making more "Generic" costume pieces and kits for Dusk and Dawn to market as products? Those would be welcome I am sure.

Hmm, something weird with the opening of this thread.
I didn’t start this thread.

Those Superhero outfits for Dawn 2.0, Dusk and Baby Luna were posted to my “Hunter 3D's Upcoming Products (featuring Dawn 2.0)” page.
I don’t even think that renders of Dawn 2.0 would be allowed here.

Alisa will have to attend to this

 

[Doug Hunter]

I just saw this about the pricing: "Upgrade to Poser 13 later for $99 and keep both licenses"

 

[Nod]

If they went subscription, it would be over for me. I don't subscribe.

Same here. As I said elsewhere. I buy software, I don't rent it. And that's all subscriptions are.

 

[Nod]

I can understand that, Poser would be the exception for me as I use it so much, other than that I have three other subscriptions, Game Pass for my X Box and Prime membership both on Amazon and Renderosity. I did have a subscription for Vue but could not justify it for the amount I used it. I do not subscribe to any streaming service, other than Amazon Prime but that is an add on as I mainly pay for it for the free next day delivery.

The ideal for me would be the option for both all out purchase and subscription as, long as there was a monthly subscription available, as that allows users who could not find the initial lump sum to buy into the software.

Xbox* and Amazon Prime are entirely different things to software, though.
I also had Vue. I had the midrange version of Vue 10 with some of the plugins, which I paid for outright. But I uninstalled it as my machine at the time was starting to show its age. When I went to reinstall it recently, I found out that it wouldn't even install, as it had been disabled! So e-on software basically robbed me of over £300!
Other than that, not everyone has the money to rent their software in the first place, it could be a gift. With a full copy, at least they can use the software without having to worry about finding the money for the subscription every month. They'd only have to worry about an upgrade, and even then, only if they wanted one.



*Do you ever go on No Man's Sky?

 

[Hornet3d]

Xbox* and Amazon Prime are entirely different things to software, though.
I also had Vue. I had the midrange version of Vue 10 with some of the plugins, which I paid for outright. But I uninstalled it as my machine at the time was starting to show its age. When I went to reinstall it recently, I found out that it wouldn't even install, as it had been disabled! So e-on software basically robbed me of over £300!
Other than that, not everyone has the money to rent their software in the first place, it could be a gift. With a full copy, at least they can use the software without having to worry about finding the money for the subscription every month. They'd only have to worry about an upgrade, and even then, only if they wanted one.



*Do you ever go on No Man's Sky?

Don't get me wrong, I do not like the idea of subscription and would normally stay well clear of subscriptions for anything, Poser would be an exception though I would still go down the outright purchase route if it were an option.

When not in the Poser world I can often be found stumbling around No Man's Sky.