Something else to consider.. learning to make your own stuff takes a LOT of time.. and then there are always some tools you will end up buying to assist you, and save time, but at the end of the day, a lot comes down to what you actually want to do with poser. If you hve a scene you want to render, in many cases, you can use V2,or 3 Michael2,or 3, and some of the clothin gor prop items out ther, and do the scene in a night. Modeling the clothes, and props, conforming/smart propping them, doing uv mapping, and then doing the textures, you might spend a few months working on that same scene! A lot comes down to what is YOUR TIME worth to you? I KNOW I don't have 2 months to spend developeing items for a single render. And the reason I'm not found of characters like eternal judy, Her n such, is there is a HUGE difference in the number of things out there for them. HUGE. like 5000:20 huge. Will they save you money, yep! Will they then eat up all your free time trying to make things for them? Yep. The biggest attraction to Poser: NOT having to build every single thing you want in a render by yourself. Freebies help. clubs like the platinum club help, but it is JUST like a DVD player, or a VCR.. you have the base program now.. you can make your own content, or enhance your use of what you have by buying media. I COULD author every dvd I own.. I COULD make videotapes of every show I want to own... but I buy them because I don't have the time or expertice to do them, and and because in the long run, buying things saves me time and my time IS worth quite a bit to me.

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.