Poser Pro
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Released April 2008 - Poser Pro
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Actual Updates (SR1 - July 2008)
Smith Micro Software, Inc. and the Poser team are pleased to announce that the Poser Pro Service Release 1 (SR1) is now available for both Macintosh and Windows. SR1 will update Poser Pro Full and Poser Pro Base to the latest versions. SR1 offers several enhancements and addresses known issues present in the following areas:
- General performance and stability updates and improvements
- FireFly and Preview Rendering
- PoserPython updates and improvements
- Material Room, Face Room, Hair Room, Cloth Room and Setup Room updates and improvements
- Improved & more compatible COLLADA export
- Improved & more robust PoserFusion hosting plugins
- Parameter/Properties, Talk Designer and Animation palettes
- Queue Manager improvements
In order to download Poser Pro SR1 or receive technical support for the product, you must have registered your Poser Pro application serial number. If you have not yet done so, please register now.
With your registered your Poser Pro serial number, you can access and download SR1 for Windows or Macintosh.
In closing – we are making significant progress on the Lightwave PoserFusion hosting plugin. This plugin will be made available free of charge to registered Poser Pro Full version users as soon as development is complete.
Overview
Professional 3D Figure Design & Animation
Geared towards a multitude of production environments, Poser Pro offers professional-level application integration as well as a 64-Bit render engine and network rendering support. The Poser Pro bottom line - reduce design and production time and access thousands of rigged and textured models.
Better Integration with Professional Environments
Realize the added benefit of quickly animating with Poser Pro's pre-rigged characters inside of host applications such as Autodesk's 3ds Max and Maya, and Maxon's CINEMA 4D.
Maximum Flexibility
The industry standard COLLADA™ data exchange format combined with content built specifically for Poser Pro greatly enhances the versatility of the already 30,000 plus 3D models available through Content Paradise.
Key Features
- 64-Bit Render Engine
Poser Pro users will benefit from the network rendering and render queue capabilities, including background rendering, built on a 64-Bit render engine for incredible speed and quality!
- HDRI Export
Poser Pro creates even more realistic images with High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) support for Image-Based-Lighting and textures.
- Normal Map Support
Poser Pro allows you to add high resolution 3D detail to any mesh through the use of normal mapping, producing better images, even with low to medium poly models.
- Hosting with PoserFusion™
Realize the added benefit of using Poser Pro's pre-rigged characters inside of host applications such as Autodesk's 3ds Max and Maya®, and Maxon's CINEMA 4D®.
- Network Rendering
Get the most out of your hardware and leverage your network to render massive scenes using the network render queue.
- Professional Animation
Create lifelike animations by combining multiple strands of action into one fluid animation using layers. Keyframes automate between poses.
More Information
New in Poser Pro:
3D Character Design
Generating 3D character content is easy with Poser Pro. Use pre-rigged characters or create your own from imported geometries. Poser Pro’s list of standard features include inverse kinematics, morph targets, morphing brushes, deformers, facial expressions, face room photo-matching technology, automatic lip-syncing, dynamic cloth and hair, layered animation with multiple interpolation methods, production environment character rigging system and bending technology, normal mapping, and a hybrid REYES rendering engine with real-time OpenGL interactive previews.
Create and combine morph targets
Integrating Poser Scenes
Poser Pro is a character animation solution for 3ds Max, Maya and CINEMA 4D or any 3D application with COLLADA support. COLLADA I/O and included PoserFusion plug-ins allow you to open and host Poser scene files and 3D content within production environment applications. Integrate static or animated Poser Pro scenes with these powerful 3D tools for increased productivity and instant access to the vast libraries and marketplace of pre-built, pre-rigged, and textured Poser character content.
Rendering Enhancements
Poser Pro introduces the Network Render Queue and Queue Manager, with time saving background rendering. The hybrid Firefly Render Engine is a multi-thread 64-Bit REYES renderer with raytracing for production quality photorealism with image based lighting and ambient occlusion. The material editing system allows users to automatically create complicated node-based Materials with one touch wacros, or manually connect math, lighting, variable, 2D texture and 3D texture nodes for limitless potential.
Pose in 3D space with multiple cameras
Included Content
Poser Pro unveils an innovative concept providing four new human characters that can be modified and re-distributed. In addition, content libraries are also stocked with over a hundred items, all ready to drop into your scene, including the legacy content from both Poser 6 and Poser 7.
Enhanced Image Control
Gamma Correction lets you specify gamma and apply those values to textures and exported images for linear rendering with increased luminance accuracy. This means, what you see on-screen is what you’ll get in your final output. For vivid, life-like images with the full range of brightness detail and shadow depth Poser Pro optimizes renders for High Dynamic Range (HDR) output. HDR images can be exported in Radiance (.hdr) or OpenEXR (.exr) format for full control over the luminosity, opacity and reflectance range of your work. HDR output supports precision and flexibility in post production.
Smith Micro Software - Sales Text
Poser Pro, the 3D character animation and content solution for professional artists and production environments, offers integration of fully rigged, textured and animated Poser characters into 3ds Max, Maya and CINEMA 4D. With COLLADA import/export, create Poser Content to use in production pipelines and graphics tools. Poser Pro offers 64 bit support and a Network Rendering Queue, to save design time and production resources. By providing access to a market of hundreds of ready to use, studio quality, pre-rigged and textured figures plus thousands of diverse props, Poser Pro is a critical tool for adding character content to any production project.
Feature Descriptions:
Network Render Queue
Save time and cut production costs by using networked computers to render complex scenes and lengthy animations. The Network Render Queue allows you to set-up a rendering network, distribute rendering jobs across that network, and manage those rendering jobs to suit your schedule. With the Queue Manager, distributed renderings can be paused and resumed, or fully rendered on slave machines so you can keep working in Poser Pro on your master machine. The Network Render Queue distributes rendering jobs across as many networked machines as permitted by your license.
Background Rendering
Increase personal productivity with background rendering in Poser Pro. Work on Poser scenes in the foreground, while rendering time consuming still frame images with the Firefly render engine in the background. When rendering in the background, Poser Pro allows you to open and close other scene files, save your project, and continue working to fully utilize your production time.
64-bit Render Engine
Poser Pro lets you take advantage of high performance 64-Bit Operating Systems and hardware with the new 64-Bit Firefly Render Engine. The 64-Bit render engine efficiently uses all available system memory to render even the most complex scene files in the shortest possible time. Distribute 64-bit rendering jobs via the Network Render Queue for even greater time savings at render time.
High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Export
Create vivid, life-like images with HDRI output. HDRI images accurately represent a full range of intensity levels as found in real world scenes, ranging from the brightest sunlight to deepest shadows. Poser Pro rendered images can be exported in Radiance (.hdr) or OpenEXR (.exr) format giving you greater control over the luminosity, opacity and reflectance range of your work. With HDRI optimized output, you can take advantage of the extra precision, flexibility and physically correct image operations in post production that standard image formats don’t support.
PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins
Use Poser Pro as a character animation solution in 3ds Max, Maya and Cinema 4D. Poser Pro includes robust plug-ins, allowing you to open and host Poser scene files and 3D content within production environment applications. Integrate static or animated Poser Pro scenes with these powerful 3D tools for increased productivity and instant access to the vast libraries and marketplace of pre-built, pre-rigged, and textured Poser character content.
COLLADA Import/Export
Poser Pro offers Data Exchange with the industry-standard COLLADA format. Gain maximum flexibility by transporting Poser Content to a large list of applications that support COLLADA such as Softimage XSI, NVIDIA FXComposer or Adobe Photoshop CS Extended. Experience the added benefit of creating and exporting animated character content with Poser Pro’s pre-rigged characters. Save 3D objects created in modeler programs as COLLADA files and import them into Poser Pro, for props or as the basis for creating new figures.
Import:
Geometry, Textures, Cameras, and Lights
Export:
Geometry, Textures, Cameras, Lights, Morph Targets, Bones, Animation Data
Gamma Correction/Linear Rendering
With Poser Pro Gamma Correction you can specify gamma and apply the values to textures, as well as specifying the gamma values that will be applied to exported images. This allows you to perform linear rendering for increased luminance accuracy. Poser Pro Gamma Correction gives you the confidence that what you see is what you’ll get because input and output data will comply with your selected gamma values.
Poser Pro Gamma Correction on the Texture Manager allows you to specify gamma values per texture, giving you the ability to exclude certain textures from scene-wide gamma correction for maximum flexibility when dealing with displacement or normal maps.
Normal Mapping
Poser Pro’s Normal Mapping is a resource-efficient technique to add the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects. It can transform object surfaces, making them appear more intricate than they actually are, without the added overhead of polygonal detail. This saves designers valuable time and offers increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more light-weight computation of rendered results.
Requirements
Windows
- Windows XP or Vista (64-bit OS required for 64-bit rendering)
- 700MHz Pentium class or compatible (1GHz or faster recommended, 64-bit CPU required for 64-bit rendering)
- 512MB system RAM (1GB or more recommended)
- OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
- 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
- 1GB free hard disk space (4GB recommended)
- Internet connection required for PoserPro.net and Content Paradise
- DVD-ROM drive
- Hosting plugins require a valid installation of their respective host application: Maxon CINEMA 4D R9.6-10.5 (32-bit), Autodesk 3ds Max 9-2008 (32-bit), Autodesk Maya 8.5-2008 (32-bit)
Macintosh
- Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5 (10.5 required for 64-bit rendering)
- 700MHz G4 processor (Intel Core Duo or 1GHz G4 or faster recommended, 64-bit CPU required for 64-bit rendering)
- 512MB system RAM (1GB or more recommended)
- OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
- 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
- 1GB free hard disk space (4GB recommended)
- Internet connection required for PoserPro.net and Content Paradise
- DVD-ROM drive
- Hosting plugins require a valid installation of their respective host application: Maxon CINEMA 4D R9.6-10.5 (32-bit), Autodesk Maya 8.5-2008 (32-bit)
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