A 36 month (three year) cycle I could get comfortable with... On a better renderer - call me one of the people who could care less. If you could save memory on the overall app by giving it a lower quality renderer I wouldn't be bothered. I render in other apps. Bryce, Vue, Carrara, etc... Ever since about 99 I've just looked at Poser as a 'figure building' app for my work in other tools. Obviously many are not in that camp with me, especially newer users. But sometimes I feel newer users need to learn composition, posing, texturing, and lighting a lot more before they start flooding the gallery with renders anyway... :) Of course, wanting them to learn lighting would mean I would want them to have a good renderer... but for my other concerns, I think in a question of priorities between getting them to learn those other skills in as easy a way as possible and giving them a better renderer, I choose the former.

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