Attached Link: http://www.sparkchaser.net/blather/penglatest.html

I don't think it's so much an urge to bitch and moan, as much as it is a chance to air some past concerns, now, while the P6 codebase (or at least the idea thereof) is still very fluid and easy to change. Personally, if P6 is just a patched-up P5 with some bells and whistles attached, P6 will get surpassed by someone else - D|S, or perhaps a yet-unknown challenger that may pop up between now and then. The P5 codebase is just a re-vamped P4 codebase, which was just are-vamped P3 codebase, etc... IMHO, there's going to have to be a lot of optimization and upgrade in the very inner workings of Poser if CL wants to actually sell Poser 6 in any meaningful quantity. Now would be a great time to get in there and re-write the engine and codebase to take advantage of machinery and OSes that are out today, not top-of-the-line stuff from 2000. That way, by the time it releases, the codebase will be recent enough to work well in modern equipment, but still have enough legacy behind it to be useful to the majority of the market. /P