Poser versions

Animation suite designed for working with 3D and 2D models
May 20, 2022
Nov 22, 2015
Editorial review
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Jun 1, 2013
Review
Sep 24, 2011
Review
Aug 11, 2009
Review
Mar 1, 2008
Editorial review
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Mar 1, 2008
Jul 25, 2008
Aug 8, 2008
Aug 18, 2008

What's new

v11.0 [Nov 22, 2015]
SuperFly - Physically Based Rendering
Improvements to Realtime Comic Book preview
Actor Selection History
Custom Parameter Palettes
Customizable Keyboard Shortcuts
Smooth Translation of Joints
Adaptive Rigging using Morph Dependent Joint Centers (Creation is PRO)
Animated Orientations
New Female Figure
Caustics
Area Lights
Volumetric Materials
Measurements & Text Props (Creation PRO, Playback STD)
High Density Display Support
Improved Scene Manipulation Performance
Revamped Direct Manipulation Tool
Auto-Save
Master Synchronized Morph Dials
Subdivision-level morph targets (Creating morphs PRO)
Improved Subdivision Surfaces
Vertex Weight Painting Constrained to Material Groups
Figure Symmetry Improvements (Rigging symmetry is PRO)
Control Handles (Creation of control handles is PRO)
Option to Prepend Morph Targets
Value Operator Editor (Value Op tab is PRO)
Make Movie
Layered Materials
Improved Library Search
Absolute Scaling for 3DS, DXF, LWO and OBJ import & export (Same PRO/STD split)
Architectural Improvement! Single Installer for Poser 11 & Poser Pro 11
Architectural Improvement! 3rd Party Component Updates

v9.0.3.26143 [Sep 24, 2011]
Poser 9 is the world’s easiest way to create art and animation using 3D characters. Poser’s simple to learn tools and included characters let you focus on making art, whether you’re a professional artist or dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 3 gigabyte of ready-to-pose, fully textured, human and animal figures, basic accessories such as hair, clothing, pose sets, real world props and 3D scene elements. With Poser 9 you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes. With the Face Room, customize Poser characters using facial photographs. Add dynamic hair and clothing. Build a3D scene on Poser’s virtual stage with props, lights and cameras. Automatically generate walking or running animations and talking characters. Import motion capture files for even more animated realism. Animate lights and cameras, and then render scenes into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.
Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 9 includes an improved user interface to maximize your workspace while providing better workflow, a new search-enabled library so you can find, organize and use your content easier, a dependent parameter tool that lets you teach objects in the scene to interact with each other, cross body morph brushes to smoothly sculpt a figure across every body part, new photorealistic rendering features that more accurately reproduce light and shadows, and improved character rigging for even better character bending. To save time, Poser 9 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today’s multiple processor systems.
Poser 9 includes advanced Weight Map Rig support to generate better performing 3D characters that can be more easily posed with natural joints across the body. Hybrid Rigging supports both traditional Poser Sphere and Capsule zones to be used in combination. Poser 9 also supports both traditional grouped body part figures and single mesh figures. Weight Map Support for third party figures is delivered within our native poser file format, the PZ3, an open, well documented format that has been at the heart of the creative Poser community for over 15 years.
Poser 9’s improved Firefly render engine now supports Indirect Lighting with Irradiance Caching for Global Illumination effects and even supports rendering with Ambient Occlusion. New Shader nodes enable SubSurface Scattering for luminescent skin tones, FastScattering for bioluminescent effects and a Tri-specular Hair Shader for more appealing trans-mapped hair highlights. Poser’s physically correct light fall-off produces more photo-real final renderings. Even share final content via Facebook with our direct upload to your Poser gallery.
Other new features include multi-select drag and drop from Poser’s Library, Expanded Context Menus for better workflow, new camera modes to focus on your selected area, pressure sensitive tablet support in the Morph Brush, improved Content Management system with drag and drop, auto conforming, search, meta data support, zone strength display for figure rigging, parameter change indicator and the Recent Render palette.

v8.0.3.11793 [Aug 11, 2009]
- 8 new fully rigged, fully-posable, photorealistic human characters
- 1.X GB all new content
- New User Interface with improved workflow
- Dependent Parameters editor enables teaching of interaction links
- Search-enabled Content Management system in the Poser 8 Library
- Cross Body Part Morph Tool
- Indirect Illumination for Global Illumination effects
- Improved rigging system for better bending characters
- Improved OpenGL real time scene preview displays up to 8 lights more realistic lighting
- Physically correct light attenuation for more accurate light falloff
- Tone mapping and Exposure control for more accurate brightness and luminance
- Normal Mapping support at render time
- Performance optimizations for posing and rendering improvements on multi-processor systems
- Wardrobe Wizard to fit existing clothing items onto new figures
- wxPython support provides 3rd party add-on developers more control and extensibility

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