Yes, Poser 6 definitely gives you quite a good deal for the cost.  The fact that they shoe-horned in IBL and AO along with Pixels3D Shader nodes, Dynamic Hair and Cloth for $250 is still amazing.  Just wish that it could have been done without so much hassle to the user.   For Hair and Cloth, they should have made some simpler setting modes (like in P6 Materials Room) and optimized the wahooka out of them so that a supercomputer wasn't a necessity. :)

As for shelling out the bucks, yeah, it is a choice of your needs and resources.  In my case, six hours over six weeks was a need for doing production and the investment paid for itself.

C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it harder, but when you do, you blow your whole leg off.

 -- Bjarne Stroustrup

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