在八月份，Smith Micro宣布了"Iron Render Master Championship"，邀请全世界的3D迷投票选出他们喜欢的Poser Pro 2012包装盒封面图片。Poser插图画家和Runtime DNA所有者Syyd Raven以及Poser技术专家和Runtime DNA广告宣传总监Traveler赢得了压倒性的投票，成为了首批同时为Poser和Poser Pro包装盒设计外观的艺术家。Raven表示："我们很荣幸自己的作品得到了非常优秀的Poser社区的认可。我们一直被Poser在设计过程中给予我们的能力、控制力和灵活性所深深折服。"
Smith Micro Software, Inc.生产力和图形部高级产品经理Steve Cooper表示："Poser拥有众多热心的爱好者和艺术家，已成为了全球数字动画片制作人、插图画家、设计师和3D内容开发者必不可少的工具。预售计划的结果证明Poser即使在诞生16年后仍然备受欢迎。此次发布真正地提高了3D角色动画产品功能的标准，使Poser的用户可以创建出能与当今最优秀的3D工具相媲美的最终渲染图形和动画。"
Poser的老用户、Tirade Studios知名的3D撰稿人、导演和动画片制作人Gabe Sabloff表示："Poser多年来一直是我首选的解决方案。它快捷但不昂贵，但设计效果会让您觉得自己花了几百万似的。"
Poser Pro 2012售价为499.99美元。在9月30日前，Poser Pro 2012新用户购买软件可以节省20%的费用，Poser老用户可凭序列号花199.99美元转换到Poser Pro 2012，Poser Pro当前用户可以花159.99美元升级至Poser Pro 2012。
关于Smith Micro Software, Inc.
Smith Micro Software, Inc.总部位于加利福尼亚州的Aliso Viejo，并在美国各地以及欧洲和亚洲设有办事处。公司的生产力部和图形部为Windows?和Macintosh?开发和发布屡获殊荣的软件解决方案，增强了信息访问、压缩、3D图形和动画领域用户的能力。
新功能： 核心功能：
– 次表面散射
– 简单、直观的用户界面
– 渲染性能得到改善
– 70个现成图形
– 支持顶点权重贴图配置
– 超过3GB的Poser内容
– 64位应用程序和FireFly渲染引擎*
– 创作3D动画和插图
– 顶点权重贴图编辑工具套件*
– 更新的PoserFusion插件和对COLLADA的支持*
*Poser Pro 2012独有的功能。如需了解所有Poser功能和优点，请访问：www.smithmicro.com/poser/features。
Poser Pro 2012 is the fastest way for professional artists and production teams to add pre-rigged and fully textured 3D characters to their projects. With over 3GB of included content libraries and richly varied third party Poser content, Poser Pro 2012 is the perfect link between professional production tools and ready to use 3D character assets, saving development time and resources.
Poser Pro 2012 includes intuitive posing, animation, and rigging tools all designed to make working with 3D character content as easy as possible. Poser Pro 2012 provides a node-based material system, dynamic hair, dynamic cloth, morph creation brushes and facial photo matching tools Automatic tools lipsync phonemes with imported sound files and create walk and run animation cycles. Poser Pro renders video or still images in photo-real or sketch styles. Included are an updated set of PoserFusion hosting plug-ins to integrate posed or animated Poser characters and scenes into 3ds Max, Maya, and Cinema 4D and Lightwave. Import/Export COLLADA content for 3D figure interchange between game engines and other 2d and 3D tools such as Photoshop, Softimage and SketchUp
Poser Pro 2012 is optimized for 32/64 Bit and multi-core systems, better utilizing system memory and multiple threads to improve overall performance and reduce rendering times, with background rendering so you can continue working on other projects. Poser Pro’s OpenGL Support takes advantage of graphics cad hardware to provide realistic lighting, shadows and color. Poser Pro 2012’s Queue Manager lets you distribute and manage renderings across a Network Render Queue of cross platform systems.
Poser Pro 2012 supports HDRI output to produce images with full range of shadow, color, contrast and highlight intensities. With Gamma Correction, specify gamma values for textures and exported images for linear rendering with increased luminance accuracy. Poser Pro 2012’s improved Firefly render engine now supports Indirect Lighting with Irradiance Caching for Global Illumination effects and even supports rendering with Ambient Occlusion. New Shader nodes enable SubSurface Scattering for luminescent skin tones, FastScattering for bioluminescent effects and a Tri-specular Hair Shader for more appealing trans-mapped hair highlights. Poser’s physically correct light fall-off produces more photo-real final renderings. Normal Mapping adds the appearance of complexity and surface detail to 3D objects without increasing geometry. Render out PSD layers for improved compositing, share final content via Facebook.
Poser Pro 2012 includes advanced Weight Map Rig support enabling vertex by vertex fine painting of joint bends and bulges, to generate better performing 3D characters that can be more easily posed with natural joints across the body. Hybrid Rigging supports both traditional Poser Sphere and Capsule zones to be used in combination. Poser Pro also supports both traditional grouped body part figures and single mesh figures. Weight Map Support for third party figures is delivered within our native poser file format, the PZ3, an open, well documented format that has been at the heart of the creative Poser community for over 15 years.
Poser Pro 2012 is designed with Poser Character Creators in mind and includes a suite of Weight Map editing tools including Weight Auto-transfer to permit the creation of new weight mapped figures from an existing rig, generation of new Weight Maps from existing Poser Zones, pressure sensitive painting of Weight Maps and interactive color display of affected vertices. Another advance in Poser is the ability set-up both traditional zones and weight maps to affect body parts beyond the parent or child of the selected actor, enabling complex figures such as winged figures that need to interact with multiple bodyparts simultaneously. Once you’ve created Weight Mapped figures using Poser Pro, they can be fully integrated into Poser 9 or any of the third hosting apps supported by PoserFusion.
Other new features include multi-select drag and drop from Poser’s Library, Expanded Context Menus for better workflow, new camera modes to focus on your selected area, pressure sensitive tablet support in the Morph Brush and Weight Map Painting tools, . Improved Content Management system with drag and drop, auto conforming, search, meta data support, zone strength display for figure rigging, parameter change indicator and the Recent Render palette.
Whether used a standalone character animation system, or as a critical tool in your existing production pipeline, Poser Pro 2012 is the most efficient way for game designers, 3D artists, professional illustrators, animators and graphics production teams to add 3D character animation content to any project.
System Requirements
Windows
Windows XP, Vista or 7 (64-bit OS required for 64-bit installation)
1.3 GHz Pentium 4 or newer, Athlon 64 or newer (1.65 GHz multicore or faster recommended)
1 GB system RAM (2 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 color display, 1024 x 768 minimum resolution
3 GB free hard disk space (5 GB recommended)
DVD-ROM drive (physical product only)
Internet connection required for Content Paradise
Windows® Internet Explorer® 7 or newer
Adobe® Flash® Player 9 or newer (Flash® Player 11 required for 64-bit embedded library)
Adobe® AIR® (external library)
Hosting plugins require a valid English language installation of their respective host application: Maxon CINEMA 4D R10-13 (64 & 32-bit)
Autodesk 3ds Max 2010-2012 (64 & 32-bit), Autodesk Maya 2010-2012 (64 & 32-bit), and NewTek LightWave 3D 9.6-10.1 (64 & 32-bit).
软件版本详细介绍：2012