Poser 7/Pro and 3d layers in PS Cs3 extended - better understanding needed?

[mixedupmacandpc]

Hi all, just got a strange email from e-frontier, saying they were bought out by SmithMicro, and that they have a new version of poser, PoserPro coming out this "winter" and it has better support for CS3 extended. I am getting ready to do a large Poser project in January, and now a bit confused. It looks like there won't be a free upgrade to Pro for older Poser 7 users, but some of the functionality seems to be offered as an add-on to Poser 7 now (export to PS 3d layers). All of this is baffling to me. Anyway, I tried some of the content on the site (where they exported the poser characters for ya) and imported that into a 3d PS layer and the results are the same as with the current version of Poser that I have (7.02): 3d models with very jaggy edges. See below. So my big question is how to fix this...as I get better results exporting tiffs or whatnot from Poser and importing those into PS, but it would be nice to preserve the 3d characteristics of the model inside PS, only if it looked as good. Thanks for any help understanding all of this.

Ps. SmithMicro? Don't they do fax software:)


http://www.extreme-nepal.com/forumboards/e-frontier_Penguin.jpg

:cheers

[kiwicolin]

What I don't understand is how smithMicro got efrontier for $6 million. Last year efrontier's revenue was $7 million. Someone got a bargin!

[mixedupmacandpc]

and just what is poser pro, it's not an update to poser 7 is it? another product was mentioned that was transformed into this new one. sounds like bad news to me and another confusing product line. i mean it seems like it was just yesterday we shelled out for poser 7 upgrade and before we get to even use it, there is a new one out. any idea why 3d models look like poop in photoshop?