khai i am with the others. The only reason we have lauched this thread is because we DO have solid information.

Now...someone asked..."what does 64-bit render engine actually get me" and that indeed is unknown. That indeed is ONE THING we don't know...what the performance of that thing will be over the current engine.

Roberta, it looks like this IS a sidebar around any of us that simply like Poser and don't want to go anywhere else. There are a few things, though: We MAY have a cool and fast render engine; we might get suprised by the content, it might be excellent; you will be able to render on three computers (you won't want the "ProPro" package, just the base, so your cost to upgrade should be small, I hope.). You can (apparently) turn your scenes into .hdr and.exr files, which could be sold or given out.

Yep, just those few things. I would bet, with your new computer, the upgrade to ProBase if inexpensive will be worth it to you just for the 64-bit render engine.

Then, look over the horizon to Poser8

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