Poser 6 includes several new features:
3D Figure Design
Poser 6 brings the art of figure design and posing right to your desktop,
with an innovative User Interface (UI) to make working with the human
form easily accessible. Human and animal models come ready for you to
start designing and posing immediately. Artists can click-and-drag to
interactively sculpt faces, pose body parts, or create ethnic variations. For
those who require finer control, full body morphs, facial expression
morphs, and bone rigging are easily accessible for any figure. Poser 6
integrates with Shade so you can easily create new figures and
accessories. All features and models are provided in a 3D environment for
realistic depth, lighting and shadowing on any figure in any pose.
3D Animation
Bring your 3D scenes to life by animating figures, props, cameras, lights,
and even materials. Poser offers tools to eliminate much of the repetitive
work involved in animating figures. Animators can use the Walk Designer,
Keyframes, and Interpolation to design and smoothly incorporate motion
cycles into their animations without having to manually set and adjust
each pose frame by frame. Inverse Kinematic (IK) chains included on
pre-rigged 3D characters facilitate natural human motion when posing
and animating figures.
Dynamic Hair & Cloth
Poser 6 comes with all the features and content you need to complete
any figure, from hair to the shoes. Powerful dynamic hair and cloth
finishes any figure for breathtaking effects. With dynamic hair, you
can grow and style hair, beards, fur, or even create a field of grass.
Add dynamic cloth and it will drape, flow and move with any motion
just like natural cloth. You can also import your photographs to create
faces that look like you or anyone you know.
Rendering for any Media
Poser can render any figure or scene in different styles including
photorealism, cartoon, sketch, Flash, wireframe, silhouette and more.
New features such as Ambient Occlusion for soft shadows, Image Based
Lighting, Toon Outlines, and improved Flash color support enhance the
rendering of photorealistic and stylized imagery. Rendered content can be
composited into your favorite image editing or motion graphics software;
The new Shadow Catcher and Shadow Only features make post production
easier in Poser 6. The same scene and style can also be rendered
from multiple angles by using the camera tool.
Content
- New 3D male, female and children models featuring photorealistic textures
- New Hundreds of full body and facial expression morph targets
- New Figure poses
- New Fully articulated left and right hand models
- New Dynamic and prop-based hair models
- New Swappable 3D clothes, including shirts, pants, shoes, socks, hats, dresses, skirts, formal wear, and casual wear
- Over 80 fully textured 3D figure models
- Over 60 props, including clothing, jewelry, cartoon, and primitives
- Over 100 materials, including brick, image maps for figures, glass, metal, stone, surreal, and wood
- 3D articulated animal models including angelfish, cat, dog, dolphin, frog, horse, lion, raptor, snake, and wolf.
- New Redesigned Content Paradise to fulfill all your content needs
Figure Design
- New Customizable Auto Balancing makes Posing even easier
- Over 100 facial morph targets, including morphs for Nose, Eye, Eyebrows, Mouth, Tongue, Wrinkle, Lipsync, and Full Expression Morphs
- Multiple display modes for viewing figures
- Visually sculpt body parts and facial expressions
- Editing tools rotate, twist, translate, scale, and taper your figure
- Pose your figure by clicking and dragging a body part
- Direct Manipulation tool
- Object-level Collision Detection
- Natural human motion with Inverse Kinematics
- New External Morph Targets to reduce file sizes
Figure Setup
- Quickly create new poseable custom figures from any 3D object
- Import existing skeletons or create your own
- Step-by-step guide makes figures easy to rig
Animation
- Automatic key frame creation
- Automatically animates your figure between poses
- Animate hands and facial expressions
- Sync sound files to animated facial expressions
- Animate lights, cameras, props, figures, body parts, morph targets and materials
- Animate dynamic hair and cloth with physics controls
- Spline, Linear, Constant and Break Interpolation key frames
- Full graph display of all channels and sounds
- Create walk and run cycles instantly using Poser's automatic Walk Designer
- Pre-set walk animations
- Import/Export Biovision (BVH) motion capture data
- Animateable deformers, including Magnet, Wave, Turbulence, and Wind
User Interface
- New software & OpenGL hardware accelerated previews
- Intuitive and easy-to-master
- Productive, Room-based environment
- Fully customizable User Interface layout
- Rollover text describes features as you work
- Save favorite layouts with Memory dots
- New Render Wipe to compare two rendered images
- New Save & easily access as many rendered images as you wish
- New Redesigned Render Settings dialog
- New Customize the Content Library's size and position
Lights
- New Ambient Occlusion
- New Image Based Lighting
- New Point Lights
- Infinite and spot lights
- Time saving Point At control
- Spherical controls for positioning lights
- Toggle individual lights and shadows on/off
- Animate light position, brightness, color, and Point At controls
- Apply materials to lights
Cameras
- Independent cameras to view your scene
- Position cameras using a Trackball control
- Animate focal length, scale and position
- Hand and Face cameras
Face Room
- Instantly create custom facial features using two photographs
- Create caricatures with a button click
- Visually sculpt custom faces using the Face Shaping tool
- Texture maps for gender, age, and ethnicity
- Create custom head textures
Hair Room
- Grow dynamic Strand-based Hair on any figure or object
- Over 60 dynamic and prop-based hair models
- Hair growth controls
- Visually style hair with the Hair Style tool
- Add animated dynamic behavior to hair
Dynamic Cloth
- Instantly create Dynamic Cloth
- Drape cloth on any object in the scene to make tablecloths, curtains, flags or clothes
- Make cloth deform and collide against any object
- Animate cloth with intuitive dynamic controls
Rendering
- New Area Render
- New Ambient Occlusion
- New Image Based Lighting
- Raytrace reflection & refraction
- Displacement mapping
- 3D motion blur
- Depth of field
- New Fast Subsurface Scattering of light effects
- New Shadow Catcher
- New Shadow Only render
- New Reuse shadow & texture maps for faster rendering times
- New Set crease angles from smooth to sharp
- Render-time polygon smoothing
- New Render Wipe to compare two rendered images
- New User defined Flash export colors
- Sketch Designer renderer produces artistic images and animations using customizable brush settings
- Make Movie settings
- Easy access to render settings
Materials
- New Simple & Advanced material views
- New 1-Click access to advanced material shaders
- New Easy to access Material Collections
- Node-based shader material trees
- Create complex materials with over 40 types of node-based shaders
- Create fractals, patterns, marble, or wood
- Shaders can include any image or animation
- Visually organize and link your node-based shaders
- Real-time on-screen previews of materials
- Over 100 materials included, with brick, image maps, glass, metal, stone, surreal, wood and more
Import
- Import
3DMF, 3DS, AIFF (Mac only), AVI (Win only), BMP, BVH Motion, DXF, JPG, Lightwave 5, OBJ, PCT, PNG, QuickTime (Mac only), TIFF, WAV
- Export
3DMF, 3DS, AVI (Win only), BMP, BVH Motion, DXF, Flash-SWF, JPG, Lightwave 5, OBJ, PCT, PNG, QuickTime (Mac only), RIB, TIFF, Viewpoint VET
Poser 6 System Requirements
Windows 2000 or XP
- 500 MHz Pentium class or compatible (700 MHz or faster recommended)
- 256 MB system RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
- 500 MB free hard disk space (2 GB recommended)
- 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
- OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce or ATI Radeon preferred)
- Internet connection required for Content Paradise
- CD-ROM drive
Mac OS X 10.2 or later
- 500 MHz G3 processor (700 MHz G4 or faster recommended)
- 256 MB system RAM (512 MB or more recommended)
- 500 MB free hard disk space (2 GB recommended)
- 24-bit color display, 1024 x 768 resolution
- OpenGL enabled graphics card or chipset recommended (recent NVIDIA GeForce and ATI Radeon preferred)
- Internet connection required for Content Paradise
- CD-ROM Drive
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