Quote - As a side note -- I find it fascinating that so much useful information concerning various highend applications can be gleaned in the Poser forum.  By no means is that a negative thing: I think that it's very, very positive.  I just find it amusing........"highend" wasn't supposed to happen anywhere near something called Poser.     Yet "highend" seems to be happening in here more and more often.

With the advent of Poser Pro -- that state of affairs might become more and more the norm.  Good?  Bad?  IMO, it's all good.

There remains plenty for the hobbyist.  They might even find themselves........getting interested in doing more.

The difference with some of us is that we have no intentions of abandoning Poser as we travel elsewhere.  In fact: we'll plan on taking Poser along with us on the trip.

I got tuned into the Poser thing after a friend of mine suggested that making models to sell to Poser users might be a decent way to make extra cash.  I haven't decided yet if I'm going to take that advice, because so far I don't see evidence that it is.  Especially judging from the reactions in this thread, it seems anything priced according to the work someone puts into a model is too much.  There seems to be a strong reverse bias towards modellers here, in that modelling isn't viewed as an artform, but rather just something like being in the business of making 'supplies' for an artist.  This is contradictory to almost every other highend forum I've been too, by the way.  I'm not really interested in putting my heart and soul into a model only to have to sell it for $5.

Plus, I'm not sure Poser makes the best use of models in the way it requires them to be rigged.  The tri-axis falloff zone skinning Poser uses seems to play hell on the overall appearance of an otherwise good model.  That's why I'm interested in this Pro thing.  Maybe it will incorporate more industry-standard weight mapping technology, which I believe would be much better.