After a long break – about two years – I decided not to just throw away all those years of Poser. Since I've been a Linux user for many years and Poser 13 no longer ran on my old installation (even after days of trying), I didn't even attempt to revive Poser until yesterday. Blender and Stable Diffusion (mostly SD rather than Blender lately) took up all my free time. But I kept checking the forum and noticed that Poser was suffering from a significant loss of users. I also noticed that many of the remaining users were not happy with Poser 14.

Long story short: @odf mentioned in a post that he has Poser running on Linux (Ubuntu). Since I know that Windows graphics applications don't necessarily run equally well on every Linux installation, I didn't have much hope. At first, the expected failure occurred. Poser started, but then crashed immediately. This piqued my ambition and took me almost a whole day to finally get it working (the reason was actually simple, you just have to figure it out). 

I've now spent a few hours playing around with Poser14 and I have to say: it's good! I was never a fan of the “Cloth Room” because I found it too cumbersome and imprecise. I always made model adjustments in Blender (previously Cinema4D). That's why the lack of Cloth Room isn't an issue for me (and I think for some others too, because they do it differently anyway or only use purchased stuff).

I really like the adaptation to Cycles! The render quality has improved significantly, not to mention the speed. 
Background: I installed Poser14 on a “mini PC” without a powerful graphics card (AMD Ryzen 7 7735HS with built-in Radeon 680M, 32 GB DDR5, built in 2024). Poser recognizes the processor and graphics and seems to use them. I can let Poser render in the background and do other things in the foreground.

I stumbled a bit when I loaded old models (pz3). Anything that used HDR images as the environment (almost everything for me) didn't work. A while later, I found the reason: no more complicated fiddling around, just follow the (UNFORTUNATELY NOT CLEARLY DESCRIBED) path now provided for this. Then you can also see the HDRI in the preview window. 

My opinion: Documentation is urgently needed! For newcomers as well as for those switching over. This is more important than a Cloth Room, which very few people actually use successfully anyway.

My opinion: Documentation is urgently needed! For newcomers as well as for those switching to the new version. This is more important than a Cloth Room, which very few people actually use successfully anyway.

I'm going to wait a few days to see if any unexpected problems arise. If not, I'll buy Poser 14.

Or in short: I'm back. Let's see how much I've forgotten about Poser Python :)

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