"If you value your time, even as a hobbyist, then it may be worth the price to go to a "big app" if you can get away from the enormous waste of time it can be to try to integrate Poser, a higher-quality renderer, dynamic cloth, hair, modeling, texturing in 3d, yadda yadda (it has been for me)."

Agreed which is essentially my point with the comic strip
there is NOTHING wrong with wanting to use poser figures in other apps.
the problem is that too many want their personal exotic program and character
"feature" of poser shoe horned into these other apps that were not designed
to implement POSER'S version of these "features"

and if those heartlocked  features dont quite come over to the big app
the whole effort is considered a failure or a big lie on the part of the company
claiming to support poser content in their other app.

and if I may  be even more Frank about it
the prevailing standard that many user seem to be using to determine
wether Such &such  program truly support poser format is
undeniably the **DAZ bloatware abombination/bug that I refer to as
ubiquitous  "V"CHICK!!   4.(whatever)
**
One can only wonder what percentage  the posts complaining about the new Carrara 6 pro
are about: M3,The G2 Male Figs, P7 Sydney,Apollo Max V2,V3 etc Hiro David,M2
Stonemasons awesome sci fi Sets  etc..

I would guess Not many.

But if  "V "Chick Dont  work right in this equation, work its a wash, a failure, a rip off.
 
***"V chick s butt is crumpled" "V"Chicks eyes wont move" "V" chicks skin shaders didnt come over"
***

I remember once someone complained to Kuryome (sp?),the maker of interposer pro,
that there was a "bug" in his plugin when using V4.

Kuryome replied rather frankly yes**" V4 IS the BUG".**

I remember my early days of exporting posette and dork as Obj files and
manually applying textures in bryce 2 to render in "another app"

today we have MANY reasonable  options to get poser figs into other apps to render
(DAZ Coladda/fbx,interposer, carrara pro, VUE even the $90 low cost vue easel 6 imports complete poser animation now.)

with all these options  its truly a shame that Some user are allowing themselves to be  limited
and held hostage in poser by one over hyped idolized figure.

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