I think since 1998 or 99. I had just gotten on the net and was actually searching for book companies and their requirements for submitting manuscripts. Must have been destiny because somehow my search oddly turned up some art site that had these incredible landscapes. I kept clicking links and looking and was in awe and kept seeing the word Bryce......hmmm, did a search, Bryce 4 had just come out so the price on 3 plummeted. I got it for $72 bucks. So I went searching for freestuff even before it arrived. I happened onto this site by Thrallord. I liked his work and emailed him. He mistook what I said about Bryce, and welcomed me instead to the Poser community. I had to email him and say it was Bryce that I had coming and that though I'd heard of Poser, I couldn't afford it. The man mailed me his copy of Poser3 because he'd just gotten Poser4. Oh, yes, I enjoyed Bryce, but Poser, well, I became addicted to that right quick. Upgraded to Poser4 after I saw a Koz render from P4 that I could have sworn was a photograph. Took a while to warm up to P5, but it gives me access to some Bryce like functions. I still have P4 on the laptop tho and will use it for composing a scene and then go to P5 for the Mats, Raytracing and render. Now P6 is on the horizon. Oh yeah, and P4&5 take something like 20 gigs of hard drive space. grin

"A lonely climber walks a tightrope to where dreams are born and never die!" - Billy Thorpe, song: Edge of Madness, album: East of Eden's Gate

Weapons of choice:

Poser Pro 2012, SR2, Paintshop Pro 8