Quote - perhaps it means that "poser 8 standard edition" will still allow default users to render giant-boobed zombies with nostril-glow.

-and a slightly cross-eyed stare ;) I'm curious as to why there wasn't a 64-bit render engine for us Mac-heads back in P6 (The G5's can certainly do it...) > Quote - I'm looking forward to this one. Who knows? Perhaps Poser will even get some respect..........

I wouldn't bet the farm on it. Abandon joints for rigging, chuck out that slow-as-molasses dynamic cloth thingy, and put in some faster collision detection (you can do it near-real-time in OpenGL), fix the eternally busted wind-effects thingy on both dynamic cloth and hair, and fix the materials so that they export worth a damn... ...then we'll talk about respect among the pro crowd. ;) > Quote - People don't generally stick with Poser because it's a great renderer, they use it because it's a cheap alternative and there's a lot of easy-to-use cheap content.

If I may correct, they use it because it (was) a cheap [i]compositor[/i] with a lot of cheap content. But otherwise I agree with you perfectly. Meh - I'll see what comes of it. I still haven't bothered w/ getting Poser 7 yet... haven't seen any need to. /P