Talk:Poser (software)

message: User:Clemmy 17:34, 4 May 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: There's a link to poser in Wikitionary. It shouldn't be in the article, as Wikipedia is not a dictionary. Wiktionary is. See What Wikipedia is not PirateMonkey 23:52, 21 February 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: There should be a wikipedia article about poseurs and there should be a link at the top of this page saying something like poser is also an alternate spelling for poseur. The definition of poseur isn't good enough. A wikipedia article would most likely end up very long with an even longer discussion page. There are many apects that  should be included in the article, like notable differences between a poseur and someone more "hardcore" about something, how insecure people often will use the term against others, or people being prejudice against others and assuming others are poseurs before questioning them. 24.154.173.50 02:41, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Feel free to create such an article and link it appropriately once done. --Pmkpmk 06:06, 8 June 2006 (UTC)

text: What is your definition of a modeling program then? --Pmkpmk 16:48, 8 March 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Poser release3 is a human anatomy modelling application, because it render humans. It does not only render static humans yet with its intuitive interface with large buttons wiht small pictograms easy accesible you can perform some actions:
*move cameras and create a path;
*insert different colour lights and different types;
*add multiple type of humanoids including male, female and kid;
*humanoid can move different joints and user can track its movement to a time scale;
*assign the humanoid to run, make exercise with arms, relax feet, relax specific arm, duck, walk, rise arms, tip-toe
*zoom steddy to human, auto tracking, and do close-ups
According to my knowledge any kid with one arm can use it because it has not implemented nor does render' 'blood and thus "not rated" public release. (N Nuri 21:17, 15 February 2006 (UTC)

text: Poser is neither a modeling application nor is it a rendering application, despite the built in renderer. Poser is primarily used for character rigging.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 173.81.211.2 (talk) 00:58, 8 December 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: asap

message: These last changes I'm pretty happy with -- kudos to ya.  Finding a good balance giventhe disparate uses and areas of this program (inclusive of the rabid views for for and against it within the larger 3D community) is hard.
I'm now curious if we should run a stub for the DAZ|Studio entry, given its history and the mainline linkage one can establish for it.
Edit: I've gone ahead and started a stub for the poserverse while I contact a few individuals to verify some details.
THis will allow us to eventually move the community aspect there, where it can be explored in greater detail, and reduce the potential for abuse of this page.
Also, perhaps we should go into some of the theories behind certain functins (such as the method of animation, the style of rigging, and the surface versus worldspace model of lighting and texturing, or the RIB compliant Renderer and its origin in Pixels3D).
Thoughts?Ynsaen 23:17, 26 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I doubt that an article on Poserverse is necessary. Technicalities might be better in one of the general 3D articles, unless they are special to Poser. Go ahead - be bold! --Pmkpmk 20:48, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further Directions and expansions 

message: Deleted "Carolina Guzman from CALS Early College High School is a poser" from the overview section... --Vaughnstull 05:00, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: What does G2 mean? Nothing on the G2 page seems to fit. Some explanation is required. --Zundark 11:24, 23 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It means Generation 2. --Carioca 03:17, 30 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It is a writting error for the group of most developped industric countries in the US. If I recall well it may be also a music band. Search google for britain got tallent and lookup charts for bands starting with g-letter188.25.104.152 (talk) 20:20, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  G2 

message: This is a text book example of system bias I guess. Poser is a social or anthropological phenomenon (whatever, you get what I mean) and it definitely is not some graphics processing program. But guess that's irrelevant since there isn't even an article for the anthropological phenomenon. asdf 00:02, 29 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: You're looking for poseur.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 209.131.62.113 (talk) 20:57, 10 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  poser is *not* a piece of software. 

message: OK. I've checked out the site, but one thing in the description fails me.  What exactly is Poser good for?  Can I use it in Second Life?  Or do I get and image and say "Wow, look at what I've got"  I can't get any answers.
cbritt84 07:12, 13 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Roughly 90% of all illustrations which contain human figures (in advertising, book covers, magazine covers, Popular Mechanics article illustrations, etc.) are created using Poser or DAZ Studio.  DAZ Studio is currently free so if you are curious about Poser figures, download DAZ Studio and give it a try.  Robert Elliott 05:08, 20 July 2007 (UTC)

text: Anonymous above can disagree all he/she wants. This demonstrates quite well the weird prejudice that non-Poser 3D animators feel towards Poser animators and artists. A significant portion of the Poser community DOES create original works... and then we sell them at DAZ, Rendo, RDNA, our own stores, and whatever.  We've built a whole friggin economy focused on the creation and sale of add-ons for one anothers work. It's a collaborative environment with the exchange of money as a driving force. It's, in a sense, a perfect microcosm of capitalism functioning. We even have the whole micro-example of a megacorporation in the form of DAZ, and the good (e.g. further economic stumulation) and bad (e.g. imposition of nonsensical rules on how things must be constructed because D|S doesn't always read Poser content correctly -- just like a 3D analogue of IE) that comes with that. Perhaps some mention of the odd hatred non-Poser snobs direct toward the Poser community should be mentioned in the article.Dodger (talk) 06:33, 12 December 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Don't buy me an action figure and tell me you sculpted it by hand yourself. --69.108.137.221 (talk) 00:45, 1 April 2011 (UTC)
replies: text:  Nobody did. Nobody rendering pictures with M4 in it claims to have made Michael 4 (except DAZ3D). They're taking "photographs" of a model, who happens to be a CGI construct rather than hired from an agency. Nobody thinks a portrait painter "made" the subject of his painting (who probably hired the painter), or a photographer of having "made" his human model (who he hired from an agency for $150/hr). Traditional media can separate the artwork from the subject of the artwork, and so can CGI. 208.124.250.122 (talk) 16:23, 29 June 2011 (UTC)

text: I don`t understand why you allow such questions? Try download a shareware version and let us know too, dough  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.25.104.152 (talk) 20:23, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  What is Poser used for? 

message: A page for Poser Figures has been started.  Robert Elliott 06:03, 20 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Just wonderring... wouldn`t it be more intuitive a poserable project user-list?Paul  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 188.25.104.152 (talk) 20:27, 23 July 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Poser Figures]] 

message: There are many Poser made webcomics out there.  Why only show a new one, which has only 6 issues?  Three of those are in the screenshot provided.  Clicking on the image, I don't see any legitimate rationale for it being there.  Also, the guy who runs that webcomic is the contributor of that screenshot.  Thus, it counts as spam, so I removed it.  Dream Focus 18:07, 27 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Poser webcomic is spam 

message: I feel the previous reference in the opening paragraph to just "comics" is misleading. It is, I suggest, the ability to easily produce an image which one of the keys to the program's popularity. I've also added a mention of the wide range of third-party models which are available, which I think is significant.
There are programs meant to make comics easier, but that's not what Poser does. It's about making images. For comics you have all the extra hassle of devising and telling a story.
I know some of the poor pictures that Poser users create, and some of the poor pictures seen on comic-book covers. The connection is that they're poor pictures, not that beginning Poser users are tempted to create comics.
Zhochaka (talk) 09:18, 29 June 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Range of uses. 

message: Re "On the other hand, Poser can export to any other 3D program with no problem at all."
This is ONLY true for STATIC MODELS.  Or if you purchase high end version, and use one of their plug-ins, which limits you to packages for which they have a plug-in.
Having worked with Poser data for years, and very recently written a Poser import to other 3D software, I will say that the essential nature of Poser is lost otherwise. Not even talking about features such as dynamic clothing, which have no standard representation, so would not expect to move to another 3D package.  What makes Poser models powerful is their two forms of animation: bone-hierarchy animations, and morphs. Even Poser Pro 2010's .DAE (Collada) export is horrendously incomplete in its representation of those.
A great disappointment to me.  (If you are wondering what I did about it:  Instead of exporting from Poser, loaded into DAZ Studio, and used DAZ Studio's non-standard DAE option, that includes extra information.  Wrote a custom parser to read that DAZ data.) ToolmakerSteve (talk) 09:49, 10 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Limitations to Poser export (morphs and animations) 

message: I removed the notability question. It's hard to argue that something with 17 million Google search hits ("poser 3d") is not notable enough to merit inclusion on Wikipedia. There is also this page, which puts Poser in top-three of 3D animation software:
The best 5 animation software. Amerias (talk) 11:23, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: Then add this and otehr third party references to the article. GDallimore (Talk) 15:00, 28 August 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Notability 

message: Accordingly; there is a legal issue concerning the new Bondware / Renderosity acquisition of Poser's intellectual properties from SmithMicro. As a note, the forums of both Renderosity and Poser software download site have filled with complaints and tech support tickets concerning the rollout of a supposed September 19th 2019 update to PoserPro 11.0 (Poser 11.02).
No mention of any successful users of those applications have been reported on the forums and tech support refuses to answer any of the user's tickets complaining about the rollout's corruption of user's licensing and runtime libraries. No official statements have been made concerning the program's current roadmap or its stance on fixing the rollout.
More established users of the application have considered buying out Bondware to help mitigate the issue, with potential maintainers such as Adobe, Autodesk, Hasbro, or Electronic Arts, as well as IT firms such as Intel and Sony being considered for negotiation and intellectual oversight of the issue.
Habatchii (talk) 09:19, 24 September 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  The Bondware Rollout 

message: :The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion. 
The result of the move request was: Moved. (non-admin closure) Natg 19 (talk) 01:13, 25 September 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: Poser →  – Not a clear primary topic over Poseur, Posers, and the recently released film Poser (film). Elli (talk | contribs) 22:33, 17 September 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 17 September 2021