Hi everyone!

We're doing a little housekeeping in the Poser Official forum and would love your feedback.

The current Poser FAQs have been around for quite a while and much of the information is now outdated. Before we decide what to do with them, we'd like to hear from the community.

What do you think?

• Should we remove the old FAQs?
• Would you prefer that we update them instead?
• Are there any FAQ topics you still find useful or refer to regularly?
• Are there any new FAQs you'd like to see added?

We don't want to remove something that the community still finds valuable, so your input will help us decide the best path forward.

Please share your thoughts below. Thanks for helping us keep the forum useful for everyone!

Hmm, I assume you admins can probably see how often the FAQs are actually viewed? I have to admit, I think I just read them for the very first time.

What I keep looking for as a user, and what I regularly lose somewhere in the forum, are the pages explaining the different nodes in the Material Room.

I think it would be really cool to have some kind of basic guide, similar to this one:
https://www.renderosity.com/forums/threads/2954649/principled-bsdf-some-examples

Or maybe some examples of what a good basic skin material should look like, similar to ODF's materials, with explanations of what each setting does and what can be adjusted.

It would also be great to have guides focused on Poser's native figures... for example, how to adapt clothing made for other figures, or other common workflows.

Basically, all the things that are currently scattered across years of forum posts, where you have to hope the forum search is in a good mood if you don't already know the exact term you're looking for. 😄

So, in short, I think it would be great to expand the documentation with something like a community wiki that collects all this information in one place for the rest of us wandering users. 😊

If the info is out of date, it does make sense to prune the forum but I think there may be bits and pieces which might work in a how-to summary. 

Update where you can, and keep the older faqs that still apply. 

Un j'utilise encore des vieux Poser, deux sur les sujets techniques obsolètes, la démarche de travail est utile, en résumé, ne toucher pas les sujets techniques. après, il faudra que je me dépêche de récupérer les magnifiques dessins d'anciens qui ne sont plus là ou qu'ils n'ont jamais exposés dans leurs galeries me montrant la richesse de POSER 

First, I still use older versions of Poser; second, regarding obsolete technical topics, the workflow itself remains useful—In summary, keep the technical topics.. That said, I need to hurry and retrieve the magnificent drawings by long-gone users—or works they never actually displayed in their galleries—that showcase the true richness of Poser. 

If you ask me, I would put those information in an archive, separated by the Poser versions it concerns.
Just keep the FAQ's of Poser 2014 and above inside the official section.

I'd say archive most of the older FAQs so that members can pull them up when needed in the future. 

Since Bondware only supports Poser's 11 up and most of the information applies to Poser's 4 and 5 it is of very little help to someone who is just starting out I would remove most of it and start over.  Since it is basically meant for new people starting there is NO reason to send them to DAZ to pick up a 20+ year figure when there are plenty of good figures here or in the included content.  I would link to the Poser Tutorials on Posersoftware.com created by Kalypso along with the Tutorials here on Renderosity.  There are a lot of people here that do not know about Kalypso's work on PoserSoftware.com

Since there is so much Data in the FAQ, It needs to be either dropped or redone by someone that knows Poser at lest from PP2014\ How frequently are you asked about the difference betwen Poser and Poser Artist?

I would rather the company spent the money on developing vendors of character content.

I think Poser is a very good program, but it can not compete with free and that is a problem

Bill

I would first see if a good AI can do the job of updating, before you junk the FAQs. Perhaps, if the AI were fed the older and latest manuals / documentation / forum queries & answers, and asked to "find outdated FAQ entries, and suggest how to update those entries" then the process could be done automatically?

I would first see if a good AI can do the job of updating, before you junk the FAQs. Perhaps, if the AI were fed the older and latest manuals / documentation / forum queries & answers, and asked to "find outdated FAQ entries, and suggest how to update those entries" then the process could be done automatically?

A lot of the information that is in the FAQ used to be in the Poser manual and that has been removed in the last several versions.  While I could see removing it if it was being printed to save cost since it is now digital the cost is almost non-existent.

You desperately need an FAQ for the new versions whole those who still use old ones could retain access to new ones. AI was made for exactly this type of version comparison/ analysis/ suggestion work to spare braincells and manual extraction. Try Gemini or similar.

( sensible use of AI helps us, not shackles us)