Hey Scarab, you forgot to mention, which it has SOME of the rendering options of higher end software, and a few of the animation abilities, it has no real material editor like most high end software does, NO modeling methods, that has to be done outside of Poser, and all changes made through characters come though morphs and props and externally made textures. Weirdowe -> Before listening to all this propaganda, take a look at somethings. One, is the version you have legal? If so, you should have the instruction manual. You can figure most of Poser's worth from there. A couple things to look at: Is it comperable to high end software? Not really. Does it have plenty of options and great community support? Definitely. Is it useful? Depends on what you want to use it for... Modeling? No, only as templates. Making kick ass pictures? Yeah, it's good at that. Turning my drawings into 3D? If you've got the skills, Poser can probably handle it. Poser has a lot of potential.. Infinite? Uhm... no, not until Curious Labs makes it fully integratible with custom made Plugins. For me, Poser was a toy, but after getting it down, and increasing my skills, it became a LOT more than that. Poser should not be a program you overlook, and you should really give it a chance, especially if you have either had no experience in 3D, or you are coming down from a higher end software (me). It's easy to overlook. Just remember, if you have a version, make sure it's the legal one, we've had a bad outcropping of warez biot-cheese around here.