Poser Pro 2014

Quickly & Easily Design with 3D Figures!

Poser Pro 2014 is the fully featured choice for creating new poser content
and adding 3D characters to Max, Maya, Lightwave and C4D projects.

Poser Pro 2014 provides the fastest way for professionals to create content
and render 3D character images and animations from Poser scenes. COLLADA
support enables Poser content integration with game engines and other
2D/3D tools. Fully 64-bit native and optimised for multi-core systems, Poser
Pro 2014 saves time by efficiently using system memory and processing
resources.

This is the ideal 3D program for the professional artist and 3D production
teams.

RRP: £299.99
Product Code: AVQ-SPP14-DVD
Barcode: 5 016488 126854
Poser Pro 2014 Uses:-

• Supports pro-production workflow – ideal for motion graphics on TV

• Medical/forensic reconstruction – crime scene animation

• Architectural design – 3D building animation/concept design work

• Computer game character design/ flash design for online games

• Car/engineering concept construction

• Can be used as a standalone or plug-in to other pro graphics packages

Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive New Features:-

New Fitting Room

Interactively fit clothing and props to any Poser figure and
create conforming clothing using five intelligent modes that
automatically loosen, tighten, smooth and preserve soft and
rigid features. Paint maps on the mesh to control the exact
areas that you want to modify. Use pre-fit tools to direct the
mesh around the goal figure’s shape. With a single button
generate a new conforming item using the goal figure’s rig,
complete with full morph transfer.

New Powerful Parameter Controls

Hidden parameters can be displayed so they can be modified
automatically, allowing Poser content developers greater
power. Drag-and-drop parameters to change channel and
parameter order calculation for control on how operations
such as physics, simulations, morphs, bends and deformers
interact.
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New User Interface

Poser’s new clean and easy user interface presents all the
tools you will need in a concise layout that takes full
advantage of various screen resolutions. The interface layout
provides a clean work environment so you the artist can focus
on the project in hand. All controls are contained in floating
palettes that can be docked for consistency, session to
session, or floated to free up space.

New Pixar Subdivision Surfaces

We've integrated Pixar's OpenSubdiv library to provide Pixar
Subdivision Surfaces, with user definable subdivision levels
per prop, figure or even individual body part. Subdivision
improves bending fidelity, smooths polygonal surfaces and
improves performance by enabling lighter poly-count content.
Poser includes a new Unimesh skinning method to support
subdivision on figures with compliant geometry.
Rendering Speed Improvements
The Firefly render engine has been optimised for faster
performance when Raytracing.
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New Bullet Physics

Bullet Physics simulates Rigid Body dynamics, Soft Body
dynamics, and dynamic strand based hair. Create rigid
simulations with constraints to build complex mechanical
interactions. Paint softbody constraint weights to animate.
Add jiggle and bounce to any prop or character. Use the Live
Simulation mode to preview dynamics in real-time, or
calculate simulations to include in rendered animations.

New Comic Book Preview Mode

Use Poser's exciting new Colour and B&W Comic Book
Preview for static or animated toon imagery. This feature will
enable you to create comic art with fantastic line control and
colour, or clean black and white outlines with persistent
shading even when rotating or animating your point of view.

Material Compound Nodes

Create and distribute complicated materials in a simpler
fashion with Compound Nodes. Select any group of individual
material nodes and combine them into a single block. Users
can expand Compound Nodes to edit the individual nodes, or
leave them collapsed.
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OpenGL Scene Preview

With Poser OpenGL improvements, you'll see accurate, real-
time previews of Spot, Point, Infinite and IBL (Image Based
Lights) Lights, Soft Shadows, with Ambient Occlusion, Normal
Maps and Back Facing Polygons in a Gamma Corrected scene.
The Light Properties control allows you to toggle specific lights
to preview in the scene, with accumulated brightness for each
selected light. MIP Map support improves performance when
previewing large textures. Our OpenGL hardware
improvements preview textures more efficiently, with reliable
onscreen display of lights, shadows and colour, for smarter
interactive scene creation.

OpenGL Speed Optimisation

OpenGL has been optimised for on screen performance so
you can create and preview scenes changes and lights faster
than ever

Gamma Correction
Now in both Poser 10 and Pro 2014, gamma controlled
content can be developed and delivered to every Poser user,
supporting uniform materials across versions.
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New 9 New Human & Cartoon Figures

Also included are two new humans utilising magnets with
weight maps and polygonal detailing optimised for SubD.
Seven new 3D cartoon figures with incredible facial
expressions and personality, worthy of an on-screen cameo in
Hollywood, are also part of the included content.

New Magnet & Deformer Weight Map Support

Poser's Magnets and Deformers have always been a powerful
tool for modifying and animating figures and props. Now with
Weight Maps, deformers are even more useful with
extraordinary vertex level precision.

New Magnet & Deformer Weight Map Painting Tools

Control the power of Poser's new Magnet and Deformer
Weight Maps with painting tools that enable vertex by vertex
editing. With the added precision of Weight Maps, deformers
can be subtly edited to create brilliant content.

And so much more...

Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

Queue Manager/Network Render Queue

Save time and cut production costs by using additional
computers to render complex scenes and lengthy animations.
The standalone Queue Manager allows you to set-up and
manage a Network Render Queue, 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 you
master machine.

Background Rendering
Increase personal productivity with background rendering in
Poser Pro 2014. Work on 3D scenes in the foreground, while
rendering images with the Firefly render engine in the
background. When rendering in the background you can open
or close other scene files, save your project and continue
working without interrupting the background render.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

64-Bit Firefly Render Engine

Poser Pro 2014 lets you take advantage of high performance
64-bit Mac & Windows 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 Queue Manager
for even greater time savings at render time.

High Dynamic Range Image (HDRI) Export

Create vivid, life-like images with HDRI output. HDRI
accurately represents a full range of intensity levels in real-
world scenes, ranging from the brightest sunshine to the
deepest shadows. High Dynamic Range 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 optimised output
you can take advantage of extra precision, flexibility and
physically correct image operations in post-production that
standard image formats don’t support.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

PoserFusion Hosting Plug-ins

PoserFusion lets you use Poser Pro 2014 as a character
animation solution for 3ds Max, Maya, Cinema 4D and
LightWave. The included PoserFusion plug-ins allow you to open
and host Poser scene files and 3D content within these
powerful 3D production applications. Integrate static or
animated Poser scenes to add pre-built and rigged 3D Poser
characters into your projects.

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Over 5GB of Poser Content

Poser includes a complete collection of well organised, easy to
find content supplied by talented third-party content artists, as
well as created by the Smith Micro team of 3D artists. Fully
articulated human skeletons that match the male and female
figures body topology are included along with artist manikins,
animals, dinosaurs, a dragon, robots, vehicles and toy & cartoon
characters; over 140 ready-to-pose figures in total. Various new
poses, animations, light sets, props and accessories top help
you get started are included in the Poser content installers.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

Content Management Library

Poser’s library makes accessing content easy and accurate,
presenting all content by category with expanding previews and
providing additional data for each content item. The keyword
search function makes finding content fast and category lists
can be scrolled through with cursor keys for convenience.
Content items can be loaded into a scene using the traditional
Poser UI controls or can be dragged directly from the library
into the scene.

Full Scene Category In Library

Add your perfect scene environment with settings, lights,
cameras, props, dependencies and render settings into the
library. From there your new scenes can be dragged directly
from the library into the Poser workspace.

Multi-select Drag-and-Drop From Library

Select several items of clothing from the library and drag them
right onto a figure and auto-conform them in one step. You can
even multi-select a hairstyle, several clothing items and a pose
all at once, then click and drag them right onto your target
figure.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

Expanded Context Menus

Poser’s expanded Context Menus will vastly improve interaction
and scene creation, and changes the way you work with Poser
forever. Six unique Context Menus have been developed for
Figures, Actors, Objects, Lights, Cameras and Backgrounds to
provide quick access to the lost useful menu operations.

Grouping Objects
Need a way to move, scale or hide a bunch of objects in a Poser
scene, at the same time? Now you can simply add any number
of scene elements, from figures and props to lights, into a
Grouping Object. They can be moved, rotated, scaled and
animated or even hidden and revealed. Create multiple
Grouping Objects to hold different areas of a scene, or related
props and figures. Adding selected scene elements into any
Grouping Object is easy using our powerful new Context Menu
controls. This significant new feature will change how you
manage your scenes, providing you plenty of control over whole
groups of objects in that scene.
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Constraint Channels & Constraint Objects

For our animators that have been looking for a way to animate a ball
being throw or caught, we've introduced Constraint Channels and
Objects. Basically, the Constraint is an animatable handle for an
object that will allow you to parent it to a figure's hand as it winds up
for the throw, and then have the object leave the hand and fly
through the air as if it's being thrown. Constraints are a simple to use
feature that will permit all kinds of cool animation effects.

Frame Object Camera

In complex scenes it can be a little challenging to keep your camera
focused on an area that you're working on using Poser's original
camera controls. To help out, we've introduced the Frame Object
Camera. With the click of a button, your current camera will zoom in
on the selected object, allowing you to take a closer look exactly
where you're working. This will make it easier to navigate in and out
of your deep scenes and help you save time when creating them.
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Rotate Object Mode

A companion feature to the new Frame Object Camera, Poser
also includes a new Rotate Object mode. Simply toggle on the
Rotate Object mode and your current camera will rotate around
the centre point of the currently selected object. This makes it
even to focus on a selected element, and view it from every
direction by spinning Camera trackball.

Normal Mapping
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 will save designers valuable time and
offers increased creative flexibility by allowing faster and more
light-weight computation of rendered detail.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

Weight Map Rigging

High-end professional 3D applications like Max and Maya
have set the standard for Weight Map Rigging, and now Poser
provides the most open vertex Weight Mapping support
available to Poser users today. Weight Map Rigging offers
several benefits including smoother bending folds and bulges
with vertex by vertex control over every bend or bulge.
Weight Maps can be added to any joint bend, to twist and
scaling channels and can be used to control bulges. Plus,
Poser takes the standard of Weight Map Rigging several steps
further with support for Hybrid Joint Rigging (combining
traditional Poser Sphere/Capsule Zones with Weight Maps),
using either single mesh geometry or traditionally grouped
geometry, and enables Weight Maps or zones to affect any
number of body parts beyond the current joint. Poser's new
Weight Map Rigging provides a platform that will support
third party figures that use Weight Mapping, by expanding
the open, well documented and easily editable Poser PZ3 file
format, to encourage creativity and user driven
enhancements to Poser figures.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

Subsurface Scattering
Skin, wax and marble are just some of the materials that are
translucent when struck by light. To recreate this subtle yet
crucial effect when rendering these materials in Poser, we've
incorporated a set of easy to configure SubSurface Scattering
Material Nodes. New Nodes include SubSurface Skin, Fast
Scatter, and basic Scatter. The Scatter Node includes a number
of optimised pre-sets for Skin, Marble, Milk, Fruit and
Vegetables. With Poser's new SubSurface Materials, you'll
transform your scenes into rendered masterpieces with lifelike
translucent surfaces.

Morph Tool Tablet Support

Poser now comes with Wacom tablet support into the Morph
Tool so you can have much finer control when creating morphs.
This has made the Morph Tool even more powerful and precise.

Python 2.7 Support

Poser now supports Python 2.7 to help take advantage of
improvements to the scripting language.
Poser Pro 2014 Exclusive Key Features:-

Cross Body Part Morph Creation

With Poser comes a significant improvement in the current
Morphing Tool. Now you can dial in a Morph Brush and paint
morphs across body parts. Save that set of individual body part
morphs as a single Full Body Morph channel in the figure's
Parameters. Easily create effects such as muscle bulges, scales,
bumps, horns, veins or wounds; it's only limited by the
imagination of the artist.

System Requirements:-
Windows: Windows® 8, 7, Vista™ or XP® (64-bit OS required for 64-bit installation); 1.3 GHz Pentium 4 or newer,
Athlon 64 or newer (1.65 GHz or faster recommended); Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 or newer; Hosting plugins
require a valid English language installation of their respective host application: Maxon CINEMA 4D R10-14 (64 & 32-
bit), Autodesk 3ds Max 2010-2014 (64 & 32-bit), Autodesk Maya 2010-2014 (64 & 32-bit), Newtek Light Wave 3D*;
Mac: Mac OS® X 10.6, 10.7 or 10.8; 1.5 GHz Intel Core processor (Core 2 Duo or faster recommended, 64-bit CPU
required for 64-bit support); Hosting plugins require a valid English language installation of their respective host
application: Maxon CINEMA 4D R10-14 (64 & 32-bit); Autodesk Maya 2010-2014 (64 & 32-bit), Newtek Lightwave 3D*;
Common System Requirements:1 GB system RAM (4 GB or more recommended); OpenGL enabled graphics card or
chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon required for advanced real-time preview features); 24-
bit colour display, 1440 x 900 minimum resolution; 3 GB free hard disk space (6 GB recommended); DVD-ROM drive;
Internet connection required for Content Paradise | Adobe® Flash® Player 11 or newer | Adobe® AIR® (external
library).