I don't think it is a lack of "user friendly" efforts so much as their inapplicability to this particular genre. Sure, someone out there could come up with a scripting system and make a wizard with step creation for scenery props, but then 9 of every 10 users is going to want it to work differently because they all have different objectives. The reason it isn't done (effectively) is the same reason you don't have Photoshop popping up a wizard for "Paint a Seascape," because art cannot be contained in something so formulaic. ;) I can picture a NVIATWAS wizard! Poser is a wonderful tool for what it was intended to do. It was designed specifically to let 3D artists create and pose multi-part figures with a (relatively) Very small amount of effort. Unfortunately, CLabs lost sight of this with P5, and focussed it more on materials and rendering capability, at the cost of a huge chunk of downward compatability and the alienation of newcommers to the market. Just ask a 3D-newbie who starts out with P5 how frustrating it is. .. compared to how simple it was for those who started with 2, 3 or 4, it is no wonder 5 is so hated. (besides of course, the major bugs, design flaws, and lack of import for P4 materials) So, you are right on the mark in reference to P5, but 3D software as a whole has been improving as well as can be expected from software that is intended to be used to express individual artististry.