Kludgey. Being forty years old I am from the old days of computing. I started with key punch jobs. In those days efficiency was a virtue simply because it was considered elegant, demonstrating intellectual clarity or finesse, austere, virtuoso, it was less buggy... I still have a library of old apps running under 500Kb that kick butt on some 80Mb bloat wear of today meant to do the same work... all the same features as far as I can tell but a hell of a lot more stable. I still think that someone with good design sense could make a great 20K figure with judicious mesh distribution given render smoothing. I still think there should be new posing proxies and geometry switching so that you could use nice mesh in the mid ground without maxing out your resources. But I think some people get a charge out of ineconomy for its own sake. I'll buy a good bottle of scotch for $150 bucks but there is no way I pay $1.50 for a can of coke. It is a kind of old fashioned attitude I guess. I can run Miki fine but every time I do I think of all the folks I know from Renderosity who live in places where a machine that can just isn't feasible, that includes some people in the USA. I can't think of them as jerks just because they can't afford a two thousand dollar computer every two years. Yeah a vendor doesn't owe the pensioner in Romania top of the line content but he also doesn't need to denigrate the guy. Funny thing is the best vendors like Batlab have excellent mesh efficiency and even better prices than these guys selling poorly textured mesh bloated crap for three times the price and making me feel bad about not having their idea of money. This is a hobby software, me and what like two dozen other people ever made money doing commercial work with it? Bloat serves the interest of the lazy designer and the software/hardware corporate establishment but it doesn't impress a pitiful old user like me... if you want to justify bloat to me it needs to be by demonstrated performance not a statement of principal... I could be driving a Hummer that got 9 miles to the gallon but that wouldn't make me feel I was a better person than somebody driving a car that got thirty miles to the gallon.

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