**Installed 7 this morning and been playing all day. So far I'm overjoyed at the render times, I'm getting about double the speed of 6. Once you get used to playing with the lights the render has been better than expected, rather than far dang worse than expected in 6 more times than not. Shadows are better too....

Sydney is great to work with, did you not notice all the head morphs on the parameter dials hoppersan2000... ?... I made Sydney smile, frown, blink, the lot, far more natural than Vicktoria3 can. But she really does need some extra time spent on lights with her though. 

Also had to use the material room to dull down the inside of her mouth, to stop that 'flashlight in the mouth' look, and dull her dazzling white teeth a bit... same old, same old... but at least her tongue looked wet. Not keen on going all the way over to the material room to change some MAT files though... :( .... quicker and easier just going to Pose.

Only played with Sydney, the funny robot cat thing, and the Anatomy bits so far. But I'm more than pleased with what I've made so far. Looks like a lot less postwork is needed too! If you get the lighting right and all the right boxes ticked for render settings, Poser 7 makes a far better render than 6, and with less effort getting things tweaked too.

Keep playing with 7

BTW, I see a few around the forums who are having some problems with Poser 7, it's behaving extremely well for me, like a dream. So if any one is getting hang-ups, or long render times etc, try looking at the specks of your PC. (Graphics card, memory, hard drive size/free space etc) It may not be up to the job. 

A fully dressed Sydney only took 20 minutes to render at printing regulations (300 DPI, 3,000 pixel), shadows, the full works to get the best quality. This would have taken Poser 6 fifty minutes to an hour for the same amount of items. A huge extra time posering bonus for me, LOL.

Have fun

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