I've been saying this for a long time...Poser users NEED to be able to "turn off" certrain aspects of the program. If I'm not using dynamic cloth in a scene...then why do I need to eat up valuable system resources by having it running all the time? The same thing goes for dynamic hair...and even the face room should be a seperate application that comes with Poser...not a built in resource eating elephant that never works as well as it should.

It's hard for me to say anything about Poser7. I will not be buying it. I've used Poser since the beginning, but I do not like the direction that it has been going in since version 5 (though I did buy P5 and P6 hoping for the best). It's a sad commentary on any program that I need to have Propack, P5, and P6 all loaded onto my computer to support the varying needs of rendering. Most of the time I still use Propack because the rendering speeds are about 1/3 that of P6. Granted, that's only using the P4 rendering engine...but my point still remains: All of these dynamic bells and whistles are great...and even neccessary to be competitive in the 3d market...but to have them all running at the same time without the option of turning them off is just silly. And adding things that most people already have like a talk-designer (AKA Mimic) seems much more like a jab at the competition at the cost of it's users' resources than the addition of a useful tool.
these things make the program run like a slug, and it ruins the usefulness of an otherwise exquisite tool.

Don't get me wrong here. Poser IS COOL. And in the right hands, there is no reason why it can't be a professional tool. I've both seen and done enough work with it to know...but EF has to do a better job with understanding system resource management before it will ever transcend the boundaries of being a toy program and take it's place as an incredibly useful tool for hobbyist and professional alike. Until then, I'm afraid it won't make any difference if you have a system with dual multi-core processors and 8 gigs of ram. The next version of Poser will just find a way to eat that up uselessly too.

My apologies for jumping in to vent here. It's just been a very frustrating slide from P4 to P6...and now to see that the issue of system resource management continues with P7 makes me very sad.

Anyway, onto happier things...