It doesn't matter to me if they move toward high end apps. What I'd like is less nitch programing. That would go for everyone supporting poser content. In other words make the functions easier to adapt a variety of content into it comfortably-easy.

There are a lot of directions to go. Interface is one possibility (hmmm), posing is another. I don't want to appear to take sides and I'm not on anybodies side per say accept the user in general. It would be easy to accuse most any software maker of designing functions that are specialty applications for the content specifically designed/made for use in their program alone. One industry standard is a fence too.

You have to make a choice and build for a specific buyer. PPro is a move toward high enders and not the general user or hobbyist market. People who use high end apps can generally model their own content (think about that for a second merchants) and import it into Poser too. There could have been a move toward other feilds of opertunity. The Poser program could have been made to allow plugins rather than seperate it into a whole new feild and making it Poser Pro. If I want to use Poser with Maya for instance, then why do I need the plugin for Lightwave which is just baggage I don't need or want? My idea would have been to keep Poser under one roof so to speak like Lightwave for instance is and just make it expandable in the direction of the user's prefrences and pocket book allowances...and please don't call that modular, it's not modular per say as a plugin base. Looking at this it seems I have to buy a bunch of capability I myself may never use. What if I don't have Maya? It comes with it anyways right? Now I just bought Poser 7 why couldn't the next update have been free but a modification to make it allow plugins for high end apps and other room for more technical stuff? Also keep in mind I just bought Poser 7 a few months ago and if I buy PPro isn't the Poser in it a lot like P7. Nothin' like buying the same thing twice so to speak and when they come out with 8 am I going to have to buy PPro 8 too. It seems like to me it would have been more practical to just make Poser expandable via plugins rather than selling it as a package deal with features the user may never use and pays for anyways. Does that make sense to anyone else? Why buy programing I don't need?

Now if they would have trimed the extra fat off of it, it might have been cheaper.