Looking at the customers that use Poser, I don't think that CL will force OpenGL upon us at all. Why, sinply because most of the user do not use high end machines. One avarage pc (AMD/Intel 2.00 - 2.8Ghz, 512Mb RAM and a GeForce 4 / Radeon 9600/9800) OpenGL tends to be very very slow when using a bit larger scenes. I'm not talking about one poser figure only, with that OpenGL will be running very well. The problem comes when one get's a little more creative and use more figures and some other items. That's when OpenGL tends to be very slow, it's too demanding for the system. I do simply switch it off when creating larger scenes in Vue 5, TrueSpace 6.6 or whatever application I may be using that can handle OpenGL. That's not stated that OpenGL doesn't work on my system, it works fine, but it's way to slow. To really take advatage of OpenGL, I would need a high end gfx card and I just can't afford that one. An avarage person just can't afford those and most people using Poser do just use average machines with it. I know their are some exceptions, a number of people do use high end machines and they are begging for OpenGL, but they aren't the majority. I cannot afford a system that can handle OpenGL comfortably when it comes to creating larger scenes, so that't why I would pass on a OpenGL only application, but I don't think that CL is going to create Poser like that, they will give us an option. By the way I'm not talking about rendering in OpenGL either, but about previewing and the workspace being OpenGL. That already is a nigthmare for me, and I can't image how terrible rendering OpenGL would be. I've seen it in DAZ Studio and DAZ was so proud of it when they announced it. I just looked at it and wondered why they get so excited about it anyway, the OpenGL rendering didn't come close to the software rendering at all.

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Food for thought.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pYZw0dfLmLk