Some additional news yesterday, about possible directions for further improvements to the Poser software. The news in a new Renderosity blog post “Poser has a new home: What can we expect?”.
“the next steps for the software may include render engine and Cloth Room improvements, and also performance improvements. They are also planning improvements in other areas, like scripting, vendor tools, fitting tools, etc.”
* Render engines: Yes, I can see that it would make sense to robustly integrate Reality, now that it’s open source. And perhaps give Reality a tab on the Render Settings, rather than hide it away. It probably wouldn’t be viable to then keep on chasing changes in the underlying Lux renderer, but one could presumable stick with a single stable version of that.
* “Cloth Room improvements” / “fitting tools”: I never use those, but I imagine they’re important for content makers.
* “performance improvements” / “scripting”. Always welcome. Adding the equivalent of Photoshop’s recordable ‘Actions’ would be a kind of speed improvement, enabling the recording and automatic re-playing of tedious steps in a workflow.
There’s also reassurance that there will be a 64-bit Mac version. Apple seems to have thrown 32-bit software overboard with its new OS, and the Mac version of Poser was still 32-bit.