"has anyone noticed that the freebie stuff lately seems to have overtaken a lot of the marketplace stuff in quality and artistic development lately?"

No, I haven't noticed that. Seriously, all the best stuff I have is either paid for or created by me for me.

The Real Skin Shader script
Some of Daz's stuff
Realistic and well done textures
Lo Res V3
Poserworld Subscription
BVH library of motion files
EJ and anything by 3Dream

This is all purchased stuff, and nothing I found for free compares to their usefulness (for me).

"the quality of the models in the marketplace are not even close to what they used to be and Poser is once again becoming the "joke" that 3DS people and Lightwave users always said it was."

I'm not sure how the perceived quality of available models for purchase makes the application itself a joke, since the majority of 3ds and Lightwave users (including me) model most of their own stuff anyway.

"This used to be a community but it now has become a "business""

It's still a community. You cant expect something to keep growing larger forever without someone wanting or needing to make some money to keep it going. It's the law of survival. Do some people take advantage of opportunities like this? Of course. Who doesn't want to make more money, or at least try to make a decent living doing something they enjoy when the opportunity is there to do it? Most fail, but there are some folks lucky enough to succeed. Message edited on: 02/13/2005 02:06

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Tools :  3dsmax 2015, Daz Studio 4.6, PoserPro 2012, Blender v2.74

System: Pentium QuadCore i7, under Win 8, GeForce GTX 780 / 2GB GPU.