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Sale at Graphixly – Poser 12 and Clip Studio Ex for $49

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CLIP STUDIO PAINT EX Ver. 1 & POSER 12 Bundle for $49.

EX is the multi-page version, but this is a very early v1 version (now at 4.x, I think?) that I wouldn’t wish on anybody. Know that the official Poser to Clip Studio export script stopped working in Poser 12, due to the Python upgrade. Also note that Graphixly have Poser 12 for $29 separately, and then you can spend the rest on the vastly easier comics production software called Comic Life.

Release: DAZ Studio 2025 alpha

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The DAZ Studio 2025 is now available in an “alpha” version. Includes among others things…

* Faster asset loading (approx. 3x), with noticeable improvements when working with Genesis 9 content.

* Completely rebuilt viewport architecture that utilizes modern graphics libraries – OpenGL 4.1 minimum on Windows, Metal 1.2 minimum on macOS.

– Completely rebuilt DrawStyles that offer better out-of-the-box visuals.

– Support for NVIDIA 50XX series graphics cards and new driver requirements for them.

– New scripting engine that expands the capabilities of the scripts you can write in DAZ Studio.

Release: Framepack

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Relatively easy ‘video diffusion’ AI is here, and working on relatively low-end PCs. Framepack is fully open source and can be run locally. Feed it a source image and a simple instructional prompt, and generate up to a minute of video at 30FPS. With reasonable speed, and without needing a stupid amount of VRAM. Impressive. It’s from lllyasviel, the guy who made the SD Controlnets, Fooocus and WebUI Forge.

Animated PNG demo, 4Mb.

There is now a one-click Windows installer for Windows 10 (though I guess it might be hacked to use CUDA 11.x + an earlier compatible Pytorch, for Windows 7 users). Note that, once installed, it then fetches 40+Gb of models and controlnets etc. (Models are here for separate download). So you’re likely to need 50Gb+ of space for a local install. There’s no standalone .torrent at present.

It can do widescreen as well as square and phone-screen format. Appears to be limited to about 640px in generation size, so upscaling would be needed. No pristine 4k footage, then. Since it works from any pre-made image, the potential for animating Poser and DAZ renders seems obvious. No whining about ‘piracy’ either, that way.

And the fact that it’s free and can speedily generate somewhat lengthy clips means it has potential for generating lots of possible clips and then stitching a YouTube movie together from the best (though of course there’s no lip-sync).

ShareCG Download Project

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The ‘Poser and DAZ Studio Free Resources Wiki’ has launched a new ShareCG Download Project page, listing ‘who has saved what’. This is in addition to the mega .torrent on Archive.org, which also includes the accompanying Web pages for the freebies (often vital for install and/or use instructions).

Sadly, ShareCG is now closed…

Looks like Blender Nation is also gone and deleted.

ShareCG is closing

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ShareCG is closing, which is very sad. “Important Announcement from Internet Business Systems, Inc.” (28th March 2025).

My Poser 11 scripts and Poser 12 scripts links-pages have both been updated today, and former ShareCG links now point to new Archive.org backups (not Wayback, the actual Archive.org).

I am in the process of creating a larger backup destined for Archive.org, but ShareCG is vast and this will necessarily be selective.

ShareCG removes ‘for sale’ items

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ShareCG: Team ShareCG Closure of ShareCG store.

February 28th, 2025

Effective March 1st [2025], we will remove the option to sell uploads through ShareCG.

No huge loss, as the ability to sell at this long-running freebies site was a fairly new feature, and nearly all items were also available for purchase elsewhere.

One hopes they will be continuing the original free downloads side of the store (it seems they are, at 7th March). But it may be a good idea to go and get any freebie you haven’t yet downloaded, and also save the freebie’s page alongside it as an encapsulated .MHTML file.

Small Poser update to 13.3.1009

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A new Poser 13 update, to 13.3.1009. Mostly small bug fixes, but note…

“Added translucence to the physical root node”.

Three seats for a Poser licence, so you can run two or more instances simultaneously (e.g. on a laptop for the Library + desktop for the work + a server rendering in the garage).

Also, the “Mac OS broke OpenGL”, so the developers of Poser have “Disabled shadow for OpenGL preview of point lights”.

Due in May, your $10,000 AI virtual movie-studio?

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Available in May 2025, the new Digits off-the-shelf AI box direct from NVIDIA, starting at $3,000.

Inside will be a special AI-tuned Linux system, NVIDIA’s special GB10 processor and 128GB of memory, and it should easily run local AI models of “up to 200B” in size. 70B would usually be the maximum for a local PC, so this is effectively a doubling of that capability, plus some overhead left over to run other software. Such as audio voice recognition/synthesis, potentially meaning that models such as an advanced human-ish roleplaying LLM could have real-time fluid voice conversations with a human.

The box can run as a standalone, or be plugged into a normal PC. Two can be placed side-by-side to make an ‘AI super-processor’ capable of running the largest and (arguably) the most powerful AIs. Two boxes should come in at under $10,000, thus superpowered AI becomes affordable for many small businesses. Provided they can afford the electricity — I’ve heard nothing about power consumption as yet.

It would be very interesting to see what creative hackers and tweakers can do with a $10,000 setup and the ability to run multiple AIs and other software, and have the AIs control the software (e.g. Poser, which ‘talks Python’ just as the AIs do) and talk to each other. A complete virtual movie-studio, with voice-actors, in your garage?

Risen, arisen…

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I’m pleased to see that 2024 brought a new unified patch for one of my favourite videogames, the first Risen (2009) on the PC. The ‘Elusively Patched’ uni-patch (May 2024) can be downloaded at ModDB. No sign-up required. It bundles all previous patches and community patches, and adds even more fixes. However, note that it does require a standard ‘original release’ older GOG Risen install. Or perhaps an old DVD had from eBay, or an extrication from the dustiest shelf of your old games collection. It won’t work with the newer buffed-a-bit 64-bit version now on Steam and GOG. But since that new version doesn’t support mods, it’s no loss.

Poser 13.3.864, but 11 vanishes…

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Poser is newly at Poser 13.3.864 as of 16th October 2024. Includes a September release which…

“Fixed issue where number of cores used for CPU renders was limited to 4”.

Ouch. Yes, rather useful for those with 12 or more! Check the big list of previous fixes, since it may be you still have an older version of 13 and thus are missing out on a huge amount of polish and hard-work by the dev team. Also fixed is a “memory leak” for SuperFly renders of more than 2048px.

Note also that Poser 11 has now regrettably vanished from the “Downloads Purchased” option on the official downloads page. Which seems a pity for late-comers, since 11 can happily co-exist with later versions, and a Poser 11 runtime is looked for by E-on Vue when you integrate the two softwares. Vue is now free, and I assume E-on didn’t remove the Poser SDK from their final release — but I can’t download the newly free Vue to check if 11 is still looked for / required. Since there’s region-blocking on the download and no .torrent for it.

Update: The final Vue works fine with Poser 11, in terms of importing Poser scene files.