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I have to say it's turning into a pretty good hobby for me.

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Wizard, designer tools, a face room, and special effects features, and you can down load more. You can create your own faces using photographs that you have. There is a lot there to help you create 3D characters and to turn them into animations/movies. I should say that to make neat 3D animations you should really use Poser in conjunction with tools that are better for creating scenery and backgrounds like Vue and Lightwave. I should also point out that Poser is in general not good enough for the movie industry (contrary to what is claimed). Lightwave is more commonly used by the movie industry. The first thing I noticed was the unusual way you control the scene. I mean what is wrong with the standard thumb wheels from Open Inventor/Open GL or panning/moving the figure with the mouse. The next thing I did was to go through the tutorial. So I launched the tutorial but nothing came up. In fact three of the Help Menu items were missing including the tutorial. Eventually I found the tutorial on my disk. Unfortunately it was a struggle for me to go through the tutorial because: 1. There were several actions which could not be completed because the tutorial referred to non-existing or redesigned items. For example, it tells you to click "Tracking Mode icons", however, there are no such icons. There is a small menu with no popup box that controls the tracking mode. At another point in the tutorial it tells you to save features by following steps that cannot be followed, because the interface you use for this is different from the interface in the tutorial. 2. A decent tutorial needs to provide a number of screen shots in which the different palettes, menus and tools are pointed out to you so that you know where they are located. This is not the case with this tutorial. They repeatedly ask you to use tools they have not explained or told you where they are located, so you have to guess. 3. At one point in the tutorial you had to set everything back to the settings at the end of the previous chapter before you could continue, but they did not tell you that. OK I am going on about the tutorial because; unless you take a class, or have used previous versions, the tutorial is basically all you have if you want to learn how to use it. Other complaints I have is, I also found it exceedingly difficult to find and select the invisible circle that turns white/red when you find it and to select the correct body parts. I clicked and dragged, clicked and dragged, and nothing happened or the wrong part moved. OK I am not particularly good at this but the other 3D tools I've used were easy to use in this regard. I also could not find anywhere, where the current parent of an object is indicated. That is pretty important to know. When I created new libraries I always got this error message about a runtime folder. I guess I am a little frustrated, but the tools I've used (or created) for creating 3D simulations of conveyor belts, robots, and shop floors were a lot more intuitive and easy to use, and I don't even have a good tutorial to help me.

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Poser 8

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Wizard, designer tools, a face room, and special effects features, and you can down load more. You can create your own faces using photographs that you have. There is a lot there to help you create 3D characters and to turn them into animations/movies. I should say that to make neat 3D animations you should really use Poser in conjunction with tools that are better for creating scenery and backgrounds like Vue and Lightwave. I should also point out that Poser is in general not good enough for the movie industry (contrary to what is claimed). Lightwave is more commonly used by the movie industry. The first thing I noticed was the unusual way you control the scene. I mean what is wrong with the standard thumb wheels from Open Inventor/Open GL or panning/moving the figure with the mouse. The next thing I did was to go through the tutorial. So I launched the tutorial but nothing came up. In fact three of the Help Menu items were missing including the tutorial. Eventually I found the tutorial on my disk. Unfortunately it was a struggle for me to go through the tutorial because: 1. There were several actions which could not be completed because the tutorial referred to non-existing or redesigned items. For example, it tells you to click "Tracking Mode icons", however, there are no such icons. There is a small menu with no popup box that controls the tracking mode. At another point in the tutorial it tells you to save features by following steps that cannot be followed, because the interface you use for this is different from the interface in the tutorial. 2. A decent tutorial needs to provide a number of screen shots in which the different palettes, menus and tools are pointed out to you so that you know where they are located. This is not the case with this tutorial. They repeatedly ask you to use tools they have not explained or told you where they are located, so you have to guess. 3. At one point in the tutorial you had to set everything back to the settings at the end of the previous chapter before you could continue, but they did not tell you that. OK I am going on about the tutorial because; unless you take a class, or have used previous versions, the tutorial is basically all you have if you want to learn how to use it. Other complaints I have is, I also found it exceedingly difficult to find and select the invisible circle that turns white/red when you find it and to select the correct body parts. I clicked and dragged, clicked and dragged, and nothing happened or the wrong part moved. OK I am not particularly good at this but the other 3D tools I've used were easy to use in this regard. I also could not find anywhere, where the current parent of an object is indicated. That is pretty important to know. When I created new libraries I always got this error message about a runtime folder. I guess I am a little frustrated, but the tools I've used (or created) for creating 3D simulations of conveyor belts, robots, and shop floors were a lot more intuitive and easy to use, and I don't even have a good tutorial to help me.

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includes some great new tools: *Dependent Parameters Tool (DPT) - this tool, though not yet as powerful as the interaction tools of Maya and Lightwave, greatly increases the linking of independent objects so that they will interact better than previous versions of Poser. *Physically Correct Light Falloff - a much improved control of light angle and direction for more realistically rendered scenes *Wardrobe Wizard - a tool that helps you reuse clothing designs between projects. *wxPython Scripting language support - This will allow for more advanced third party plug-in development. Though Poser will not be the end all application for advanced animation studios, it is the perfect single tool for those getting started with 3-D animation as well as designers who want to create 3-D elements for their illustrations and design work. For more advanced users, Poser is a key component of a larger of set of tools, and Poser 8 is a welcome upgrade that will greatly enhance any 3-D animation workflow!

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includes some great new tools: *Dependent Parameters Tool (DPT) - this tool, though not yet as powerful as the interaction tools of Maya and Lightwave, greatly increases the linking of independent objects so that they will interact better than previous versions of Poser. *Physically Correct Light Falloff - a much improved control of light angle and direction for more realistically rendered scenes *Wardrobe Wizard - a tool that helps you reuse clothing designs between projects. *wxPython Scripting language support - This will allow for more advanced third party plug-in development. Though Poser will not be the end all application for advanced animation studios, it is the perfect single tool for those getting started with 3-D animation as well as designers who want to create 3-D elements for their illustrations and design work. For more advanced users, Poser is a key component of a larger of set of tools, and Poser 8 is a welcome upgrade that will greatly enhance any 3-D animation workflow!