jerr3d opened this issue on Nov 30, 2002 ยท 9 posts
wolf359 posted Tue, 03 December 2002 at 6:34 PM
Actually its not Apples "arrogance" thats holding up poser 5 for the mac. its a lack of financial ability by some developers to let go of the the past (old legacy code from Kai/metacreations) no hardware acceleration etc. And Apple does give "special help" to programmers that are writing OSX versions of higher end 3d apps that APPLE wants to see running on APPLE hardware in the hallowed halls of ILM (industrial light and magic )and other film effects houses. that is why we see Stable OSX versions Of Lightwave3D 7.5, MAYA 4.5 even Cinema4dxl. and discreet, combustion2 and Shake ,all for OSX and delivered at the same time as their PC counter parts. and its virtually inevitable that we will see a MAC OSX version of 3D studio MAX. and maybe even Softimage 3D someday ;-). Poser is a neat character program but it will never get the full support of the pro community until it embraces MODERN OS interface standards and hardware acceleration. Apple has deserted the graphic design/prepress market in favor of the $$lucrative$$ hollywood 3D/Cg Film effects market. and really has no time for software companies who want to remain in the 1990's. DAZ on the other hand has obviously embraced apples vision of the future by writing a modern program with modern standards for a modern MAC OS ,,,OSX. GO DAZ !!!!!