SuperFly render engine updated to Cycles 2. Includes improved performance with Adaptive Sampling (CPU and GPU rendering) and OptiX rendering with supported hardware. See SuperFly Render Settings.
Addition of PostFX operations on renders and animation. Operations include denoising, exposure, and saturation. See Applying Post Effects to Renders. Renders sent to the Queue Manager can also have PostFX applied.
Auxiliary Render options are now included for SuperFly renderer. You can output Normal, Z-Depth, or Texture Coordinates to PSD files from SuperFly. See Rendering Layered PSD Files.
New Render Presets added for CPU and GPU Adaptive Sampling. Overall changes to defaults and presets to improve usability. See SuperFly Render Settings.
SuperFly render settings now allow user to select multiple GPUs for hardware render. See SuperFly Render Settings.
Materials
Material Room Simple palette replaced with new Material Assignment palette. See Assign View. The Advanced view has been renamed to Edit view.
The Cycles image node outputs the Alpha channel of an image. This allows you to use PNGs with alpha channels as material masks. For an example, see the Alpha section of Using the PrincipledBsdf Node.
Improved Cycles Math and VectorMath nodes with some new optional inputs.
A ball object has replaced the head object in the Material Room node previews.
Library
Icons in library content appear in upper right corner of thumbnail to represent type of content being used. See The Poser Library.
Added ability in to search store for products/assets in Content Library. See Searching the Library.
Added Purchases Tab to Content Library to easily download/sync included content and content purchased in store. See Purchases Tab.
Added the ability to remove missing runtimes. Missing runtimes appear grayed in the remove runtimes menu. See Removing Libraries.
Now includes scale data in Expression, hand and Poses saved to the library enabling custom characters and expressions. See Adding Items to the Library.
Option added to dialog to preserve existing geometry when saving a figure to library (for content creators). See Adding Items to the Library.
Content Creation
The Split Morph command now retains labels entered in the Split Morph dialog. The limits set in the original morph are now carried over to the right and left split versions. See Split_Morph
Grouping tool allows you to undo Delete Group.
User Interface
Poser detects Operating System language settings and launches in same language when possible. UI language can also be selected between English, German, or Japanese in the Interface Preferences dialog.
Poser 12 user preferences and application data are now located in a Poser application folder. See Poser_Default_File_Locations.
The dot that appears beside a parameter dial that has been changed now displays in a more easily visible color.
Grouping a figure or object now displays in hierarchy choosers.
UI dots now incorporate splitter data.
Documentation
Documentation converted to searchable HTML, and linked in Poser Help menu.
Help manuals are language-specific.
Content
La Femme now loads in default scenes.
L'Homme standalone version also provided in Poser 12 content.