Introduction • Features • File Formats • System Requirements • Poser 5 and The Pro Pack • Unlocking Poser 5
Poser 5 Features
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Introduction • Features • File Formats • System Requirements • Poser 5 and The Pro Pack • Unlocking Poser 5 Poser 5 Features |
| FireFly™ Renderer Poser 5 includes the completely new and powerful FireFly renderer. FireFly is a hybrid micro-polygon and Ray Trace render engine with subdivision surface rendering of polygons, to give you: * Render-time polygon smoothing * Displacement mapping * 3D motion blur * Depth of field * Procedural textures * Shader trees with material nodes * Ray Traced refraction and reflection |
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| With FireFly, you control the rendering process, including creating powerful node-based shaders. This powerful combination produces breathtaking images and movies. In addition, the Poser4 renderer is included along with new Draft or Production render modes. Together these allow you to save time while creating, yet output realistic final renders. | |
| Materials Room Poser 5’s new Material Room lets you create amazing materials using powerful node-based shaders. Build a shader tree using one or more shader nodes, each one of which controls an aspect of the final material. Combine procedurals, image maps, animations, fractal, and math nodes to create virtually any material you can imagine. Save you work and apply it any time in any scene you like with Poser 5’s new Materials Library. |
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Photo-based Facial Mapping Want to create a virtual you? Friend? Import facial-photos to easily model new characters and create texture maps. Poser 5’s new Face Room allows you to create lifelike results by mapping any face onto a 3D head. Use Morph Putty™ to interactively sculpt facial expressions. Generate new faces with a button click, or create caricatures for wild characters! Ethnic, age and gender parameter controls round out this powerful set of facial tools. |
| Dynamic Hair Grow strand-based hair on figures and props in your Poser 5 scene using the new Hair Room! Growth controls allow you to control aspects such as length and thickness. Styling controls allow you to shape your hair – make it thick or thin, straight or curly. Apply dynamics such as gravity to your hair to create realistic effects during animation. |
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| Dynamic Cloth Clothify your prop to transform it into realistic dynamic cloth complete with physics. Assign collision objects to make the cloth flow and drape around any object in your scene. Add the new Wind Force prop to create realistic wind effects for your animations. Collision Detection |
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| Hierarchical Parameters Palette The updated Parameters palette allows you to arrange morph, transformation and dynamic parameter dials into groups and sub-groups, and to expand/collapse these groups as needed. Organizing parameter dials the way you want speeds up your scene creation. |
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Hierarchical Libraries Easily manage your in-product content with new Hierarchical Libraries. Add and remove folders directly within Poser to organize your content and how it’s displayed the way you want. Content Paradise™ Poser 5’s Content Room hosts Content Paradise, your portal to the vast virtual world of Poser add-on content. Content Paradise lets you easily search, purchase, and download third-party content from the Web without ever leaving Poser! A simple and intuitive user interface makes the process efficient and easy. And Poser 5’s Download Manager can automatically detect and install many types of content! |
| New In-product Content Poser 5 includes new male, female and children figures. All are highly accurate 3D human figures featuring fully articulated hands and feet, photo-realistic texture maps and facial morphs. Poser 5 also includes a diverse collection of new clothes and props. Other New Features * Setup Room - create new, fully poseable Poser figures from any 3D object in a few easy steps. * Multiple Camera View Panes - displays up to four views simultaneously * Properties Palette - centralizes the object properties in one easily accessible location * Real World Units - support for inches, feet, millimeters, centimeters and meters * Compressed File Support - figures, props and scenes can be compressed using Zlib to save space * Direct Manipulation Tool – directly adjust an object’s position, orientation and scale * View Magnifier - zoom in and out of your scene without moving your camera * New Content CD – includes a host of extras including props and textures |
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| Additional Features Available in Poser 5: * Sketch Designer: A rendering option that creates a scene using a series of brush strokes. The result is a hand-drawn quality that defies the traditional 3D rendered look. * Conforming Clothing: Articles of conforming clothing have been created as if they were a Poser figure. These attach themselves to the underlying figure, and as the figure moves so do the conforming clothes. * Lighting Controls: Poser includes infinite, global and spot light sources. With the Point-at function a light can track a figure or prop’s motion. Animate any light’s position, brightness, color and Point-at controls. * Camera Controls: Poser includes 3 independent cameras for viewing your scenes, including Back, Bottom and Auxiliary. All are easily controls with the intuitive Trackball control. Animate any camera’s focal length, scale and position. Save camera settings using the Memory Dots. * Animation: Easily animate figures, hands, faces, lights, cameras, props, morph targets and materials with Poser’s intuitive Animation Palette. Apply Spline, Linear, Constant and Break Interpolation to key frames. Use the Graph Palette for precise control of any scene element or parameter.. * Animated Deformers: Use a Magnet Deformer to sculpt Poser figures, a Wave Deformer to animate ripples on surface, or a Turbulence Deformer to create an elaborate special effect such as a splash or explosive blast. Deformers can be animated and used to create custom morph targets. * Custom Figure Creation Tools: Poser includes polygon and vertex picking and grouping, as well as hierarchical selection tools. These allow you to import 3D geometry, break it into body parts and generate new Poser figures. You can even create Inverse Kinematics (IK) chains. * Python Script Support: The customized PoserPhyton object-oriented scripting language lets you perform and automate advanced Poser functions. Manipulate scene objects and export data for your own use. * In-product Content: Poser includes a diverse collection of ready-to-use figures, animals, poses, facial expressions, fully articulated hands, props, clothes, hair, light sets, camera sets and materials. * Web Enabled: Use Viewpoint Experience Technology to export Web-deployable characters and animated 3D content for your Web pages. Export 2D Macromedia's Flash® Web animations directly from Poser scenes. * Innovative User Interface: Poser 5’s unique user interface is very powerful, yet intuitive and easy to use. It unlocks the mysteries of 3D-character animation and figure design. Customize the user interface to suit your needs and save your preferences using Memory Dots. |
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