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I have 11.1 and 11.2 both running on my computer right now. I have confirmed 11.1 "calls home"...11.2 does not. At some time or other, 11.1 should stop running. I'll keep it going as long as it will run...hopefully until the bugs get worked out in 11.2.

What are those bugs, you ask? From what I've seen, they're mostly related to python scripts. If your favorite scripts have a little age on them, they probably won't work. But then again, maybe they will. My number one script, D3D's XL Library, no longer works. EZSkin 2 doesn't work simply because it doesn't like Poser's new version number. EZSkin 3 is fine, but it's not as comprehensive as version 2.  Reality won't even load. Phil Cook's stuff seems ok. The rest of D3D's scripts work fine. 

I think 11.2 is a tad slower rendering sub-surface scattering, but I'm not sure. 

The main thing for me is XL Library. There's no way I want to go back to using Poser's default library after all these years. 

I'll keep picking the thing apart over the next few days and let those who want to/have to update know what I find.

Originally Posted by: drafter69

"They make clothes for V4? Why??"

I hope the management is not expecting Poser to live in the past with M4 and V4.... If they ignore the genesis quality figures then I will ignore the program. The Gen figures are too high quality to ignore.

I do not think they have a choice in ignoring the genesis figures the formats for the most just cant comply with each other and in the beginning I might have said it could,  but the DSON converter that was to assiist with the V5 M5 figures were a start,  but DAZ did not include DSON items in everything product the released 

I purchased the V5 M5 bundles with DSOn and was about to employ them into Poser pro 2010 or 12 and then I heard some of the horror stories from other poser artist and just did not bother adding them to my runtime.

Poser vendors are fading from the landscape and and this site has but a handful of artist creating Poser items. Not sure what I'd do if DAVO gave up on Poser..   I'm not int the mood nor am I at an age where I wantto switch formats and lay out a ton of money for DAZ..  I gave them more than enough during the V-1 to V-4 era 

I make due with Poser for and give thanks for the Vendors who create non DAZ items

I have a Huge runtime Library that is surpassed by only a handful of  Artist who do Poser related renders and I ocassionaly add to it if I feel the item is right for my projects and I did download the P-11.2 upgrade for free and I am looking into the chance that Le Femme could be usedull in a few of my projects

Regards  Shado

My current Poser runtime Library is just under 300 GB  but that does not include the runtimes for all the stuff that covered V1 / M1 to V3 /M3 amd stephie and Aiko  so one could add about 50-75 GB for that stuff  It also does not include the old Transmap hair for those figures

I still have all that stuff but when daz put the lo rez figures and the last two sets of figures included with Poser.  I felt I did not need the V3 M3 lo rex figures as they were a bitch to pose

Shado

Originally Posted by: Zaavaleta

Originally Posted by: revbayes

Got me curious as to the size of my present runtime. 888 GB...and the only reason it's not larger is that a while ago I decided to reduce the size of every single texture in my textures folder by 50% and in addition optimize my jpg compression. The result is no loss in quality of my renders, and a reduction of about 75% in the amount of space used for textures in my runtime. If I didn't do that, the runtime probably would be over 2.5 TB. 

What program did you use to reduce the texture sizes? Just wondering.

Fotosizer. Standard addition. Shareware. Does batches and puts them in a clone of the folder they came from. You can then overwrite your current folder with the clone. No issues with it. Simply resizing the width and height to 50%. Winds up saving up to 80% in hard drive space.