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Poser 8 is the world's most complete solution for creating art and animation using 3D characters. With Poser, it's easy to make 3D art, whether you're an experienced artist or you're dabbling in graphics for the very first time. Poser includes over 2.5 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 so you can start creating 3D character art and animation in minutes.

Generate new characters from your facial photographs.
Add hair and clothing.
Dress Poser's virtual stage with props, lights and cameras to construct 3D scenes.
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 your scene into photorealistic images and video for web, print, and film projects.
Export 3D figures to add characters to other 3D applications.

Along with 8 brand new 3D humans, Poser 8 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 dependant 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 8 has been performance optimized so you can pose your characters and render them faster on today's multiple processor systems.

If you're a serious artist, illustrator or animator or simply dream of playing with 3D characters, you'll love getting creative with Poser 8!

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WHAT'S NEW

Version 8.0.1:

General

Face Room: Improved stability.
Face Room: Locking shape variations does not require modifier key (Mac OS X).
Animation: Improved stability when loading figure that was saved with animation layers applied.
Talk Designer: Improved stability upon applying animation to base layer after switching from deleted to new figure.
Material Room: Improved stability and speed performance.
Improved scrolling in Hierarchy palettes.
Updated Help window documentation.
Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable Package installs properly.
Fall-off zone side to side symmetry copying improved.
Deformer zone symmetry display improved.
Minimizing Poser 8 improved.
Normal Maps are enabled.
Wardrobe Wizard functionality improved.
Walk Paths saved correctly.
Texture path naming issues resolved.
Poser.ini Temp Path writing issue resolved.
Selecting materials with depth cue enable improved.
Toon Shader node corruption addressed. Note: appearance may vary from Poser 7 results.
Geometry Import/Export plug-in instabilities resolved.
Set-up Room: Improved stability.
Content path naming improved.
Origin on props displayed correctly.
Tab selectability improved.

Lighting

Improved raytrace shadow control.
User definable Shadow Samples enabled in Light Properties

Rendering

Improved quality of indirect lighting renders.
Improved IDL rendering speed.
Improved rendering of transparent surfaces in IDL.
Improved IDL results at lower quality settings.
Fixed outer border artifact in rendered images.
Indirect Light Quality setting now persistent when saving render settings.
Artifacts in raytraced shadow improved.
Adjusted sampling pattern to improve quality of raytraced shadows.
Ambient Occlusion material node includes a checkbox to select if it should be active in IDL renders.

Content Library

Favorite thumbnail visibility now persistent between sessions.
Improved robustness of FlashPlayerTrust handling. Poser app location now remains trusted even after moving installation folder.
Improved drag and drop.
Improved scrolling.
Enabled support for upper case file extensions.
More accurate category-specific filtering of search results.
Improved display of large number of items in a folder.
Added new controls for setting preview icon size, tool tip delay, path tool tip display, tree indentation, folder thumbnails and item/folder count.
Search under Vista improved.
Vanishing library issues resolved
Texture location issues related to runtime naming resolved.
Deletion of item from Favorites preserves item in Runtime.

Recommended workarounds for known issues:

To improve rendering performance: Single-thread renders are less efficient than multiple threaded renderings. To reduce render times, enable multiple threaded rendering. Reduce bucket size to decrease render times.

REQUIREMENTS

Mac OS X 10.4 or later
700 MHz G4 processor (Intel Core Duo or 1GHz G4 or faster recommended)
512 MB system RAM (1GB or more recommended)
OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)