Quote - I guess I need to find out more about the upgrades, since I unfortunately missed out on the P5 offer. Does 6 and seven work in a similar way, and have you got a good amount of control over textures, without rsorting to buying loads of 'nearly right' stuff. In P4 I used the ability to make my own textures in photoshop, extensively, to get exactly the right feel. Hopefully this will still work in the later versions, and would hope they should be much better. Presumably the rendering engine is more sophisticated with regard to how it deals with light, texture, reflection,  diffuse and specular properties.

How does hair work with these, it is one thing I had the most difficulty with before.

P5 and up (I don't know about P4PP, have an expanded Material Room, where you can do more with textures than in P4, and each version has additional little features. It does however take time to get comfortable with (P6 and P7 offer a P4 style Material Room setup though), but allows vastly more useful effects than P4 could.

The Firefly render engine is more powerful, and capable of things such as reflections, but incurs an increase in render times. I prefer it, but others seem like they consider it a plague upon humanity, so YMMV.

All content that worked in P4 will, in almost all situations, work approximately the same in the newer versions, and the file structure for content is exactly the same. You can still create textures in photoshop and apply them in Poser, only you've got a bit more control of the end result from within Poser now.

But the suggestion of checking out a demo is a very good one, as would making sure your computer meets the minimum recommended requirements for that version of Poser (P7 requries a DVD drive and works best with at least 2 Gb of RAM and a hyperthreading processor).

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