cobalt posted at 4:46AM Mon, 05 August 2019 - #4358742

Animation layers have never been fully utilized within Poser. It's nice that you can create them, but it would be far better if you could create animation sequences on layers and set them to loop, or drag them around the timeline like clips in after effects.

Poser desperately needs a glow/lightbloom effect, too. This falls once again under the heading of "Why can Source FilmMaker do this but Poser can't?"

Additionally, I would like to see the following controls added to the image and movie texture shader components: Flip Horizontal, Flip Vertical, Invert, Rotate (by degrees)

Seriously, this needs to stop. It's okay to wish that certain features existed in Poser that aren't there now, but we've got to stop wishing that Poser can do everything any other app can do. The answer is quite simple. If you need something done that Poser doesn't do, make that app a part of your tool workflow. Otherwise, Poser will become prohibitively expensive. I remember when I first got into Poser, there were other apps that were more feature robust, like Maya, Lightwave, and 3DS Max. Lightwave, the most popular, was also the most expensive. A thousand dollars, if IRC. Even today, Maya is basically a subscription service. $195 a year, or 4 years for $4000 dollars.

Here's a video I found on Youtube about what happened to Lightwave. I think there's lesson in there somewhere. What Killed Lightwave?