E frontier has introduced Poser Pro, a new product for designers, animators and others working with 3D body forms. The software will be released in the fall of 2007. Pricing was not announced.
Poser Pro adds hosting plug-ins for 3ds Max and Maya, Cinema 4D and Lightwave from Newtek. It also supports the “Collada” exchange format, used for content exchane for production, pre-visualization, gaming and film production.
Also new in this release is “Quidam for Poser,” based on N-Sided’s character creation software. You can import and export character files that will be bundled exclusively with Poser Pro.
Poser Pro will also incorporate a 64-bit render engine, network rendering queue, background rendering, and HDRI export.