Poser Artist is what used to be known as Poser 4. It's a great package with a huge user base and tons of content. Very well supported and pretty much well known by the technical gurus, which means any problems you are likely to encounter can be solved.

The downsides are a pretty crappy rendering engine, limited material options, no raytracing and primitive (ie piss poor) bump functions.

P5 is a whole nother thing. More or less the same interface upfront but massively different materials handling, a hugely better rendering engine and greatly improved content library handling.

Downsides are, it's somewhat slower than
Poser Artist and really needs a hefty machine to get the best from it. You can run it on 512 MB but 1 GB or more is much better. Oh yeah, the new, improved renderer (Firefly) can take forever, but compared to Bryce it's greased lightning. Oh, and it has some peculiarities all of its own, too. It also has a lot of import options for other model formats and suports Python scripting, which is immensely useful.

My honest opinion is, Buy P5 if you can afford it. It's miles better than Artist.

Message edited on: 11/16/2004 20:22

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