Quote - People don't generally stick with Poser because it's a great renderer,

 

IMO, that's the main -- and the most legitimate -- criticism of Poser.  Poser's renderer definitely has its limitations.  However: the "cheap" aspect of Poser has never bothered me in the way that it seems to bother some.  For whatever reason, there appears to be an attitude floating around which says that "if it didn't cost at least $1000, then it's garbage".  As has already been mentioned -- both ZBrush and Vue aren't super-expensive apps: but they are both excellent apps.

I'm not saying that this reflects your attitude -- I don't really know you.  But the mere fact that something costs less doesn't automatically mean that it's worthless.  Or even that it's necessarily "less than".

Quote - By the way any folks who already own and use P7, you can take it for granted you will be getting low priority support for the next year or two, while the business is focused on delivering and supporting this new Pro version.

 

Well.......I'm not going to make that assumption.  E-frontier has presumably been working on this new version of Poser for some time now.  They've still managed to turn out some SR's for P7 in the meantime.  We might see more of them.  To me, this fact is evidence that P7 users have most definitely not been "abandoned".

And, no -- I don't view the release of a "pro" version of Poser as an indication that e-frontier is abandoning its hobbyist base.  Ya know, I just don't understand why great news is always twisted to make it into bad news..................but that's the way of things in the Poserverse.

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