drages posted at 7:54 AM Thu, 27 November 2025 - #4501707

Nevertrumper posted at 7:02 AM Thu, 27 November 2025 - #4501706

drages posted at 6:40 AM Thu, 27 November 2025 - #4501705

skybluerob posted at 6:08 AM Thu, 27 November 2025 - #4501701

From what I can gather, the main features are an improved HDRI implementation, adding a simplified option to materials and removing the cloth room.

It doesn't feel like much of a new version (it even has less than Poser 13 now that the cloth room has gone) but am I missing something?

I have a lot of nostalgia for Poser, but it's becoming hard to justify the upgrade cost each time, especially when they are removing features and Daz Studio is free. 

At this point and way back, the only hope to have a crazy old rich guy takes Poser from Renderocity and resurrect it. Poser is a zombie for years, yeah you think it's alive from far away, but when you get close, you see it's dead.

Daz3D is not a replacement for Poser even after a decade because of the Poser's animation and morphing abilities. The mind-blowing part is that the Poser should be different because of its animating part, but there is no update about animating for 15 years, 15 fcking years...

DAZ is clearly NOT for animators.
If you want advanced animation, invest in Character Creator 5.
It is actually quite expensive, but you get all the stuff, that Poser should have achieved all through the years...
or "just" learn Blender.

I got my very specific reasons to use Poser right now, and I use Poser 11, pre-renderocity version. It works for it and I am using it for about 20 years, and even I am probably the youngest of the Poser Cult, I am still old and changing stuff is painful. Still that day will come. 

I am in the adult animation industry, and I can still earn some income from what I do with Poser. I probably can do it for a few more years. So I got my unique reason to use Poser, but why do other people still use this, I don't have an idea. I know somehow that some very old people do some stuff at their retirement basement, we don't hear or see and this weirds me out for real. I am not using the word "cult" for joking. 

I think your comments are a bit harsh and disrespectful if I'm honest.  Poser has been around a long time, and some of us enjoy things like Poser for their fun and ease of use, We're not professionals, some have full time jobs (like me), so don't have the time or the inclination to learn a full 3D program from model to render.  Poser and DS makes it easy with an extensive and reasonably priced set of content of which we've built a large library. 

I'm sure Character Creator is great, but it's expensive and something else to learn.  I don't know much about it, but I would suspect it would make all the Poser/DS content redundant.  

Some of us just like to fire up Poser or DS, load in a few assets and start having fun creating scenes and adding a bit of animation.  It doesn't make us creepy or weird.  Without being disrespectful, if that's how you think about Poser and it's users, I'm not really sure why you're on these forums.