https://www.posetteforever.com/viewtopic.php?f=34&t=3893&p=44782#p44782
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Chromium
Thursday, 03 March 2016, 08:26 PM

Re: Long Time No See...
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Hi Nik,

Nice to see you (hugs).

I've had a spell away from Poser myself, usually take a month or so off each year, though I got carried away this time.

With regards to comparing Poser 11 to the old, I'd say look here:
http://www.stellareco.com/Poser/Jack%27sPoserManual.pdf

It was a surprise to me to return, and see G3, and Poser 11, and Daz3d+RDNA merging.

My understanding is Poser 11 has the Blender type cycles render engine called SuperFly, as opposed to FireFly.

So the Poser 11, is a breakaway from the traditional renders of previous Poser versions, though a badly done render will look no better than a good one in Poser 5.

I'm holding off from Poser 11, only because it needs to be activated online, and I think every 6 months thereafter (online). For which there is a method for an offline machine to save a file to USB, to be transferred to an online machine, for the USB to then be re-transferred to the offline machine, for the Poser 11 to be authenticated. As I would use it offline, I'm inclined not to buy it in case SM left the arena, or if Poser was bought out by a company that had no interest in continuing with it. If I buy it I want to keep it. I bought Poser Pro 2014 Game Dev, and discovered it required activation online. Apparently it's so only one licensed copy is running on a machine at a time, you would need to deactivate the install from one machine prior to installing and activating on another. That's fine in its' self, I just want to know ahead of purchase so I can decide if I want to play along.

See manual below for information on Poser 11:
https://bw-1651cf0d2f737d7adeab84d339dbabd3-bwcore.s3.amazonaws.com/photos/File9985.pdf

(Sorry if my typing is broken and rushed, because I am).

Getting back to Poser 7, that is probably the best version to "keep", as it's not reliant on a browser to view the content library (or browser/OS restricted like Poser 8 for example). Also it's pretty stable from my experience.

For some reason the later versions of Windows (and Windows updates), and the IE built in have given issues to Poser versions above Poser 8. There are always "work arounds" that fix these issues that catch the unweary.

If you install Poser 11, also install Poser 7 (as your safety net). There are plenty of people who will install the latest Poser, and still keep Poser 7.

I'm using Poser 6 (it's my comfort zone), would I benefit from Poser 7/8/9/10/11, yes I would. Posette, would look much better in Poser 11, if I learned it.

You can compare Poser features here:
http://my.smithmicro.com/docs/poser/PPGameDev-P10-PP2014-P10-Debut-Feature-Comparison-Matrix.pdf

Of course those are in built features as we know with python we can add more features, and for example Poser 9, can also perform subdivision on a figure. Which is one of the reasons I like my Poser 6 set up, as I have added features.