LOL. You certainly don't pull punches, Wolf. ;-P I wouldn't say Shade 7LE sux (there's definitely some people out there doing cool stuff with it), but it's not something I personally enjoyed using. I just couldn't get comfortable with it's tools/UI at all. For the record, I have lots of experience with 3dsmax v5-7, as well as Poser 5/6, but Shade had me 'stumped' on several occasions. I thought my experience with 3ds would make working with Shade a breeze, but that just wasn't the case. Totally different workflow there. ;-)

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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.